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How to Trim Baby Nails
When it comes to preventive measures for your baby’s health, the best precaution that a parent can take is cleanliness in their baby. By instilling good hygiene, you can get rid of germs that cause diseases and keep the baby healthy. One of the most overlooked parts of grooming a baby is the clipping and trimming of their finger and toenails. Dust, pollutants and bad bacteria collect under the nails and can be easily ingested into the body when they put their hands or feet in their mouth, or start the habit of thumb-sucking. Clipping your baby’s nails ensures that this can be avoided.
Video: How to Trim Baby's Nails
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About Your Newborn Baby’s Nails
A baby’s fingernails are soft and supple, extremely flexible and fast growing. They cannot be clipped carelessly as you may cut off some skin in the process.
It is best to ensure you keep an eye out for scratch marks as the bad bacteria stuck in the nails can cause infections and illnesses.
How Often Should You Trim Your Baby's Nails and What Shape Should It Be?
Something to keep in mind when clipping and filing a baby’s nails is to understand how short to cut baby nails and what shape they should be. It is best if one cuts the nail along the contours of the finger. A baby’s fingernails grow very fast and may need to be cut every week. However, a newborn’s toenails usually take longer to grow and can be managed if you cut them once a month.
How to Cut Your Baby's Nails without Hurting His Fingertips?
Before cutting your baby’s nails, it is crucial to understand how to do that without hurting the baby. This means understanding the tools you need and the proper technique to clip those nails.
What You Will Need
A pair of baby nail scissors
A pair of baby nail clippers
A disposable trash bag
Nail files
Baby mittens
Socks
Anti-biotic cream
Tips to Remember
Things to note while clipping your child’s nails:
Choose a spot with a good lighting and a time when the baby is calm. Ideally, it would be best if the baby was asleep.
The toenail usually curves to the concourse of the toe. This is normal and is caused due to the flexible nature of a newborn’s nails. They will harden and take shape as the child grows.
Using baby nail scissors is recommended as they are specially designed to ensure that your baby’s skin isn’t cut.
Ensure you dip the child’s fingers and toes in lukewarm water for easier cutting.
Do not bite off the nails of your child as the bacteria from your mouth can cause illnesses to your child.
Clipping the baby’s nails when they sleep can ensure less resistance and a cleaner cut.
File your child’s nails with an emery board as this ensures the nail is shaped well and eliminates any latent bacteria hiding under uncut nail surfaces.
Other Alternatives for Clipping Baby's Nails
If clipping the nails are challenging or if you decide to cut them in another manner, here are a few other alternatives:
File Them - If the nails are short enough, you can try filing the entire nail though this can be an intensive process.
Ask a Doctor - Alternatives to clipping your child’s nails can always be discussed with a medical expert, ideally a paediatrician.
What to Do if You Nip the Skin Accidently?
Even the most careful parent can accidentally nip or cut the skin while clipping or cutting a newborn’s nails. If this happens do not panic.
Clean the wound with cool or room temperature water.
Wipe the wound with a clean and sterile cloth or gauze.
Press down gently till the bleeding stops (this should stop in a few minutes).
Apply antiseptic and antibacterial creams provided by your paediatrician to prevent any infections.
Grooming your newborn begins with cutting their nails. Learning how to do that in a clean and safe manner is important. Remember to discuss any concerns you may have regarding this with your doctor. Try creating a grooming schedule to organize your baby’s grooming needs. It is recommended that initially, you take the assistance of another adult while clipping the newborn’s nails.
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How to Do The Great Indian Money Talk With your Family
Realise the worth of money while you still have it - this is the mantra your child needs a quick lesson in for a wise and stable future. Discussing about money with your family is essential in helping your child differentiate between saving and wasteful spending.
Instilling value and foresight is every parent’s duty towards their child. One such arena is financial planning. But, discussing money is no easy feat with your children; besides, how does one even start such a conversation? Quelling your anxiety are these easy tips that you can employ to start the uneasy 'money' conversation with your kids.
How to be a Pro at Talking With Your Family About Money
Choose The Right Time
Holidays, special occasions and parties aren't the right time to do serious conversations with your kids. To make money talks easy with kids, choose a time when they are ready to listen and understand what you're trying to say. It could be a break between a tennis game you and your child are playing or when you're driving your child back from his aerobics class. You need to look for the right moment to make these conversations fruitful.
Accept The Differences
Every member is an individual with his or her capacity of thinking. So try and accept if there is a difference in opinion on why your family should talk about money when all the ends are being met comfortably. Involve all the members in the conversation and try to keep the conversations on the light note. Be respectful of your child's perspective and be gentle while explaining the logic of your point. ||
Take It One At a Time
Tempted to have the money conversation all at once with your kid? Stop. The key lies in making them understand what you mean to say each day, slowly. So set some time aside at intervals to discuss finances with kids. To make money related talks easy with them, give them live examples and share day-to-day experiences instead of making it an agenda. Discuss the electricity bill and maybe the installments of the car you just bought.
Avoid Hiding The Figures
For your family to understand how money makes life comfortable and how crisis can lead to discomforts, give them a brief idea about the expenses and incomes that comes in and goes out. Teach them how planning is necessary and why savings are also important. Show them how you plan your spendings and savings to give them a real idea.
Involve The Child
One of the best tips for discussing money matters with your family is to involve your child in managing finances up and close. Give your him a budget for his summer holiday and encourage him to draw up a plan of his spending and saving. Analyse it and point out the discrepancies, to your child, if any.
Letting your child plan finances with you is the best way to teach them to plan their money too. Talk to them about earnings, losses, savings, and expenses. Once you make money talks easy, practical and fun, helping them understand the true value of money wouldn't be a task. Read more
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How I Overcame the Anxiety of Becoming a First-Time Mom
A lot of mothers suffer from postpartum depression in some way or the other. The overwhelming feeling of becoming a mother itself and the responsibility of handling your newborn gets you anxious and turns your world upside down.
Ever heard someone tell you that life isn't a bed of roses? Well, that's just the case with your little munchkin. Here, I've listed a few things that helped me deal with my crazy hormones!
1. Being Aware
Yes, it's the most vital aspect of dealing with postpartum depression - knowing and accepting it. Having already read about what I should expect after delivery, both physically and mentally, helped me understand myself better.
2. Accepting it as a Phase
Once I was aware of how my imbalanced hormones could play with my emotions after delivery, it was easy for me to forgive myself for this irrational fear and anxiety that was building in me.
3. Making Your Partner Aware of it
I sent my husband tons of articles about postpartum depression. He always stood at the receiving end of all my breakdowns and irritability. I don't really know how many of them he actually read, but he got the point and tried to comfort me when my emotions surged.
4. Having Your Mother/ A Person You Love and Trust (other than Your Significant Other) Help You with Your Newborn
I can't emphasise on this enough. It is what probably helped me the most. I was on tenterhooks after delivering my baby, such that anything/anyone that questioned my caretaking would make me sob. Let's face it, we Indian women get a truckload of backlash from our in-laws. My mother never questioned me, she only rendered help and that's what I needed.
5. Getting Some 'Me Time'
Having a baby wasn't a one-man thing, so share the responsibility of your tiny tot with your husband, whether it be changing diapers, burping the baby or rocking him/her to sleep. Let your husband take over from you. It helps the father and baby bond and allows you some 'me time', a win-win situation. Go get a haircut, paint your nails, chat with a friend or go for a walk. Make the most of it while they are tiny; when they start sleeping less, you'll be struggling to make time.
6. Eat What You Love
Everyone from your aunt to your neighbour will tell you what to eat and not eat while you are breastfeeding. I did the best I could to eat healthily, but I ate hamburgers and pizzas and indulged in pastries and ice cream when I craved for it. Obviously, smoking and drinking aren't good for both, the mother and baby, and don't fit into this category. But for a person like me who loves food, I took my postnatal vitamins and ordered in at least once a week.
7. Shopping
I am a mother inside a woman and that woman wants to dress well and feel good. So get yourself out of those maternity clothes and into some cute outfits. However, give yourself a good three months. You'll still have a bump until you find your maternity clothes looking unshapely.
8. That Baby is Yours!
Lastly, and most importantly, is acknowledging that this baby was nurtured by you for so many months and all it wants is your love. So be a little less harsh on yourself because he/ she doesn't judge you. Motherhood isn't about winning or losing, it's the love that grows with your baby with each passing day.
If given a chance I wouldn't want to change anything about my postpartum experience, as it moulded the mother in me. All you mommies out there, remember to love and trust yourself.
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Sour Cream Pancakes
This is a recipe where you can ask your toddler and her friends to pitch in and make the batter for you to cook. You'll be a popular mom, but prepare to have your kitchen turn into a big mess! If you can bring yourself to, give them the ingredients, tell them what needs to be done and stand aside - just supervise, don’t interfere!
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
10-15 Minutes
10-15 Minutes
Ingredients
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1⁄3 cup flour
1 tbsp (tablespoon) sugar
1⁄2 tsp (teaspoon) baking soda
1⁄4 tsp salt
Method
Step 1
Break the eggs into a medium sized bowl and whisk until well blended. Next, pour in the sour cream. Add all the remaining ingredients and stir just until the dry ingredients become moistened. Make sure that the batter doesn’t get over mixed. This is the step where you can involve your kids.
Step 2
Keep a large non-stick skillet on medium heat, and let it heat up a bit. Take a spoonful of batter and working in batches, drop it onto a skillet for each pancake. Cook for 2 to 3 min on both the sides until they are golden brown.
Step 3
Serve topped with honey, maple syrup or any other syrup of your choice.
Nutritional Information
Calories
282 Kcal
Proteins
7.7 g
Total Fat
14.5
Total Carbohydrates
30.5 g
Cholesterol
107 mg
Sodium
62 mg
Potassium
144 mg
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Without Parents Life is difficult.
How difficult is it for a child to live without a parent? In the story, explains how the problem occurs in life.
This is my life and ending is not what you'd expect yet, you might like it
My father lost his first wife and child in an accident, and was unconscious for 14 days, followed by series of operation, he was determined to get up on his legs(which was quite impossible as he had his hip bone cracked, and thigh bone smashed) yet he did, he got up on his legs and married to this beautiful lady, my mother, the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life. After much of the struggles and 5 long years of complications my parents brought me to this beautiful world, to which I am thankful for, my mother kept fasts, lost 30KG weight to get a daughter, they always wished for, my mother was reluctant to adopt a girl as she wanted her own blood in her daughters vein and so after all the struggle, I am sitting here, she loved me, with all her heart, I was the only thing she couldn't see getting hurt, I grew up fighting with her but she was the one I would hold hands of when I had a bad dream, she was the one who literally did completed my homework waking up late till 1AM even after she had to wake up at 5, she was the one who would make me ice cream and golgappa treats, I was young, I was 11yo girl who never knew her mother's medical conditions, one day out of anguish I yelled at her that I don't want a mother like you, I wish no body would ever get a mother like you, she was paralysed, her left side was paralysed, she had a valve of heart smaller that kept putting pressure on her heart, lung infection, and blood clottings, she cried that day, I made her cry , few months after her birthday, she got a seizure and deceased in hospital when I was downstairs with my father buying medicines for her, I never got a chance to say sorry or good bye, I am a villain of my story, I regret it. But this is not the main thing I want to write here, after since my mother died, my father brought me up with a great difficulty , a teenage girl is afterall not easy to handle, he handled my tantrums, my melodramatic emotions, my anguish, my mistakes, he cooks for me things I could never imagine, I get surprises each morning, he never complained , he takes care of me, my dramas, my career, his office, our food, my needs and never ever complained, its 7 years I lost my mother to that dreadful day , but ever since he never made me feel like I don't have her , he is my mother, when you asked about some loving stories of mother and child I felt it was might be worth mentioning...
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Can someone help me to select the baby girl's name. We would like to choose our baby girl a beautiful name which starts from G, Also it would be a great help if it is created from the parents name.
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A. dear mum, the name of a baby girl starting with the letter G can be Gayatri, for example. you can do a Google search and browse the internet for all the options.
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