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Why Should You Avoid Eating Licorice Root during Pregnancy?
When you are pregnant, your grannies and mother will send a horde of suggestions of food to eat, exercises and home remedies to deal with your pregnancy! Out of the many foods they ask you not to eat, licorice will be one.
For your health, you would need to avoid alcohol, smoking and even your morning coffee during pregnancy. It’s the same case with licorice as well. Licorice, similar to that found in Twizzlers and other candies, consist of a natural component that is highly dangerous during your pregnancy.
Let’s find out if licorice root is safe during pregnancy.
What is Licorice?
Licorice, a natural ingredient, is the root of a plant known as Glycyrrhiza Glabra. It has a unique sweet flavour and is also known to have compounds that can act as an anti-depressant. It can help with calming nervousness by regulating your stress hormones.
When consumed in controlled amounts, it is an excellent natural remedy for several health conditions including heartburn, asthma, fungal and viral infections. It also has therapeutic benefits for treating ulcers, cough, arthritis, yeast infections and more.
Can Pregnant Women Eat Licorice?
Doctors and scientists have strongly advised expectant and lactating mommies to avoid consuming licorice. This is done in order to protect your little one from potential health issues. Licorice tea while pregnant may come under herbal teas that you can have, but you mustn’t consume it for the safety of your baby.
According to many studies, licorice must be avoided by expecting mothers at all cost possible. While it may offer multiple medicinal benefits, the root contains a compound known as ‘Glycyrrhizin’. High consumption of the root can cause many health problems to pregnant women like headaches, high blood pressure, water retention, fatigue, or even a heart attack. When consumed in smaller quantity, the side effects that can be noticed are a pain in the limbs and numbness.
Negative Effects of Having Licorice while Pregnant
With high consumption of licorice root, there is a high-risk chance of miscarriage or preterm delivery, which means a shorter gestation period. Premature birth in itself has it’s drawbacks to the baby.
Consuming licorice root during your pregnancy can lead to the impairing of the placenta. The compound found in licorice, Glycyrrhizin, could increase the chances of your glucocorticoids or stress hormones to reach the baby in the uterus. This leads to an adverse effect on the foetus’s brain development, lowering the intelligence levels and increasing the behavioural problems in the child as they grow up.
Chances of your child’s low cognitive skill development can also be a side effect of high licorice root consumption. It is likely that your child may be prone to develop conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
Licorice root has an oestrogen-like effect, which could possibly cause severe foetal development complications if used in high quantities during your pregnancy. A male foetus when exposed to these high levels of oestrogen, the chances of him developing testicular abnormalities are high. This will eventually lead to infertility later in life. Meanwhile, a female foetus when exposed to too much oestrogen during the growing period may develop reproductive tract issues.
If you love licorice, just be mindful and alert of the potential threat to you and your baby’s life with the consumption of licorice root. As with most pregnancy advice, practice moderation. Just remember that when you’re expecting, you should avoid licorice root as much as possible, despite its many medicinal benefits.
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Risks of Inducing Labour - Things to Know Before You Are Induced
Nature and your body’s requirements mostly control the timing of getting labour pain, but sometimes your doctor takes a call to induce labour based on your and your baby’s health conditions. The stimulation of uterine contractions to prepare for the delivery of the baby during pregnancy- even before the labour begins naturally- to deliver the baby vaginally is known as labour induction. The reasons to induce labour during your pregnancy could be many - you are two weeks beyond your due date and still your labour has not started naturally, or your labour has not started even after your water break. There are other reasons, like if your baby’s growth is not as per the required pace, or if you have contracted an infection in the uterus. But the process of inducing labour artificially has a few risks associated with it. This article gives you a detailed look at the side effects of inducing labour artificially.
What Are Labour Inducing Risks?
Inducing labour depends on the health condition of the baby and the mother. You can consider inducing labour if you are only a few days due, or if the baby is a week late than the due date. In these cases, there is no complication or risk to the infant or to yourself. However, if the baby is distressed or if you face certain health conditions, your doctor may consider inducing labour artificially. However, it comes with a few risks. Let us look at some of the risks that an artificially induced labour can bring along with it.
1. Causes an Elevated Heart Rate in the Infant
The natural process prepares the baby to survive out of the womb automatically. Inducing labour means that you are actually artificially trying to get the baby delivered even before he is ready to take birth. This puts a lot of pressure on the baby, and it can cause fetal distress in them. Also, in an artificially induced induction, the contractions tend to be much more painful and longer than the ones that occur naturally. This might lead your baby to stay in a position that can make your labour longer and more painful.
2. Increased Risk of the Baby Being Admitted in the NICU
A baby born out of artificially induced labour is clearly not physically developed to survive on its own. They are more likely to have trouble eating, breathing or even maintaining a steady and normal body temperature. In such cases, they would need additional support and would need to be kept in the NICU. This restricts his contacts with his parents or other caregivers which is very much needed for a newborn infant. It also delays and makes it to tougher to start him on breastfeeding.
3. Chances of C-section
The amniotic sac protects the baby from infections. Once the amniotic sac or the water breaks, the delivery should happen immediately. If the baby is not in a favourable position to be delivered vaginally, or the doctor detects fetal distress in the baby, he will have to perform a Cesarean section to get the baby delivered. This will increase your duration of stay at the hospital. A C-section also has a longer recovery period than a normal vaginal delivery.
4. Increased Chances of Getting Jaundice
Jaundice in newborn babies is common. Jaundice is the inability of the liver to break down red blood cells. Babies born before they are ready for delivery usually tend to have an immature liver. This increases their chances of getting jaundice. Jaundice is absolutely treatable and fully cured, but this also means that the infant has to stay in the hospital for a longer duration for the treatment.
5. Increased Need for Pain Medication
Inducing labour artificially can cause your contractions to become stronger and more painful than they would naturally be. You might need to take epidurals to manage and reduce your pain.
6. Low Heart Rate
The primary medications that are used to induce labour, prostaglandin or oxytocin, may cause excessive contractions that can reduce the availability of oxygen to your baby, leading to a lower heart rate.
The decision to induce labour or not to induce labour artificially depends on the risk of developing complications during childbirth. It is entirely based on individual health requirements. The risk is assessed based on how long you are overdue in your pregnancy, your age, and how big the baby is. An artificial induction of labour should only be considered when there is more risk for the baby to stay in the womb than outside. Go for regular check-ups and always consult your doctor to know what is best for you and your baby. Have a happy pregnancy!
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Mealtimes Should Be Fun
Nowadays, babies don't eat their food if we don't turn on television for them or play some animated video in our smartphone. I believe meal time is the most precious time for everyone and that includes infants as well. The time when we eat food should be happy and peaceful. As we take care of our children's physical health by making sure that they eat all the nutritious food, we need to take care of their mental and emotional health too. For this we should try to make our children eat in a peaceful environment. You will have to be a little strict with your child, but that's okay. You must not allow them to watch television while eating. Some tips which I follow for my child:
1. If a child is hungry then he will throw less tantrums and we won't need a television or mobiles to distract them. If your child throws tantrums, you can make some funny faces and feed her.
2. While feeding I always sing rhymes/bhajans or mantras to my child to distract her. She is easily distracted and opens her mouth to eat. Singing mantras or any religious songs to children helps in their emotional development.
3. I always keep looking for new and innovative ways to get my child to eat because singing songs every day or making faces don't work. I pretend to talk to the chair, her toys, wall clock, and any thing around me at that time. I usually say, 'khalo chair! khalo chair! My baby is sharing her food with chair" and then she takes it from my hand.
4. A child's father should also help. My husband also distracts our child while she is eating. At dinner time, my husband jumps, does yoga poses, or runs slowly to get her interested. He does anything and everything possible to make sure she eats her food without watching television.
5. My baby will turn 11 months old. Up until now, I haven't made her watch videos in mobile phones at her meal times. But I give my phone to her for about 10-15 minutes every day so as to make her learn poems.
6. Last but not the least, I read story books to my child. We also play with her so that she can learn the value of playing outdoors and physical health.
Using mobiles can be very dangerous for a child's mental health. It can hamper their physical growth too. Gift your child real happiness. Don't let them get intoxicated by digital world. Try your 200% to feed your child without turning on the television. My husband and I switch off our mobile phones too before going to bed and keep them far away when our little girl is awake or playing. I hope all the babies stay healthy and happy.
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Kadhai Paneer Wrap
Most kids love paneer. So, if you want to make them something special for lunch, pack in some paneer dish. Here is a new way of serving them paneer with chapatis – make wraps out of it. For these Kadhai paneer wraps, we have cooked a delicious Kadhai paneer curry and have wrapped it inside a chapati, along with some sliced onions. There will be no leftovers in your kid’s lunch box - we can assure you of that.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
3 People
15-20 Minutes
15-20 Minutes
Ingrediants
6 whole-wheat flour chapatti
200 g paneer block, cut into ½“cubes
1 onion cut in square chunks
1 small capsicum, chopped in square chunks
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 green chili, minced
½ tsp red chili powder
2 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1” ginger piece, julienned
½ tsp garam masala
1 tbsp dried fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi)
Handful of chopped coriander leaves
2 tbsp oil
To Assemble
1 onion, thinly sliced
3 tbsp ketchup
3-4 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
Method
Step 1
Heat a pan and dry roast coriander seeds and cumin seeds. Take them off heat and make a coarse powder of it in a pestle and mortar
Step 2
In the same pan, add oil. Add the ginger garlic paste, minced green chili and chopped onion. Sauté for a couple of minutes. Add the chopped capsicum and tomatoes and cook for 4-5 minutes. Add the roasted spice powder, salt, red chili powder and stir. Add ¼ cup of water and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Step 3
Now add the paneer pieces and cook it till the paneer pieces are coated with the gravy. Add dried fenugreek leaves, garam masala and coriander leaves. Stir. Top it up with the julienned ginger.
Step 4
To assemble the wrap, apply the green chutney on the chapati. Place 3 tbsp of the Kadai paneer filling in the centre. Place some thinly sliced onions and chopped coriander leaves over it. Roll the sides into a tight roll.
Step 5
Pack them into aluminum foil and add them into your kid’s lunch box.
Nutritional Information
Calories
451 K cal
Proteins
25.2 g
Fats
10.5 g
Carbohydrates
67.8 g
Cholesterol
8 mg
Sodium
1211 mg
Potassium
634 mg
Tip: Substitute paneer with tofu or mixed vegetables for another variation of these wraps.
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"Funny fight" behind naming my little one and it's resolution 😜
The chapter of naming my little one is a new addition to the few funny incidences of my life which, I think could not have happened if I would have been staying nuclear.
This is a very funny and interesting story behind naming my new born.
Apart from few serious notions of naming a baby i.e it gives identity to the child, it is something which will remain for life long It also has a fun element attached to it.
Starting from the day when the letters for naming a new born comes out from pandiji.
1) There is a flood of name suggestions comes from all the members of the family starting from youngest to eldest.
2) Parents of a new born suddenly becomes a judge for all the suggestions and they forcebly have to keep up with all the suggestions and relations.
3) The next big deal which comes up is "Who shall name the baby"?
a) Is it the bride's family or the groom's family?😂
b) The bua, chachu or maasi, mama, grandfather, grandmother or nanu, nani?
4) Everyone wants to participate and wants to win the race of being selected for naming a baby.
5) sweet fights amongst the members keeps the mood live and happy.
6) Research happens for name suggestions all over for the new and classic names be it on YouTube, Facebook or any other social media.
7) In our case a watsapp grp was created among the family members for the name suggestions by all at any times of the day with a lockin period of 7 days.🤣
8) After the research for the name suggestions the next fight was for the "meanings" of the names suggested.
9)Few family members refered numerology
10)Few refered astrology for the names.
11) Few elders tried to relate the names with their name of their ancestors and very funny suggestions came up🤣
12) Few also recommended for keeping the baby's name from the few letters of parents name.
13) Few members even referred their religious gurus for the names of the baby and what not.
Finally arrived the day for naming a baby and puja and there have been multiple suggestions from everyone in the family and it was a very difficult situation about whose suggestions to choose or reject.
Finally the war broke when Panditji who came for puja of new born asked the grandfather to name the baby and he suggested "yuvaan" which is another name for lord shiva.It was much appreciated by all the members of the family.
This is how the sweet fight for naming our baby was finally cald off by Panditji.
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Q. #asktheexpert hello doctor,
my baby is 2months old. He is passing stool after every feed for the past two days. And the stool has oily content. is that normal??
Dr Ghouse
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A. okay no problem at all g. some baby will be passing very loose motions event 10 to 12 times per day in first 3 to 4 months of age no need to worry if the baby is having proper weight gain passing urine at least 8 to 10 times
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Q. My 3 months is passed after delivery but my belly fat as same as 9 month how i can reduce my belly
Dr Ghouse
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A. ok see. there is no other way other than doing exercises for losing weight please do brisk walking and yoga also take diet less in fat and carbohydrate all types of seasonal fruits and vegetables will help
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Guardian of 0 children
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Q. is 120/70 BP normal during 27weeks pregnancy?
Dr Ghouse
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A. ok normal BP. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Mom of a Newborn child
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Q. When to know that my baby is full
Dr Ghouse
Paediatrician
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A. probably were talking about maturity baby will be mature after completing 39 to 40 weeks. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Guardian of 0 children
12 hours ago
Q. How to/ calculate/check baby weight in the womb is it possible?
Dr Ghouse
Paediatrician
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A. not possible by yourself it can be possible by ultrasound examination ok. if there is no relief it is better you see your doctor for proper examination particularly physical examination if there is need for doing investigations to find out the problem and treatment ok
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Q. Can I put my breastmilk in my babies nose to treat his cold in 5 months old baby.he has cold cough by birth due to which he is unable to sleep nd he gets up every 30 min feed and sleep again wht can be done
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A. no it's not recommended further you can contact with your doctor and you can get the the solution for this by discussing with him he will guide you for more details if required .
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