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Feeding your child-the budget friendly yet nutritious way
Living is becoming expensive with each passing day-and money is scarce. Come a new baby and you have more mouths to feed. This means you have to dig deeper into your pockets. Luckily, the first six months of a baby’s life are entirely recommended for breastfeeding. In this period, a new mother may not be…
To Hire A Nanny Or Stay At Home: A WORKING MUM’S DILEMMA
MANY young mothers have battled with this question as their maternity leave, usually of two months, draws to an end. It may sound like a simple question but if you ask around, you will discover that this is the hardest part about having children – finding a suitable person to care for them. Tina, a…
Drug allergies
How to protect your kids Drug allergy occurs when the immune system reacts to a medication. Though not as common as food or Hay Fever allergies, reaction to medication affects children and adults. According to Dr Magda Attia, a general practitioner, drug allergy accounts for 20 per cent of all allergy patients seen in a month, with the majority being children. Just…
Extra tuition-Reading between the lines
Every parent’s wish is to see her children bring home impressive grades from school. It is therefore only natural for parents to worry when their children perform poorly. Most schools have adopted extra tuition as a way of helping students improve their grades. Unfortunately, tuition has over the years acquired a notorious reputation of overworking…
Your child has measles? Fruits and rest work magic
Most countries, Kenya included, have achieved the United Nations goal of reducing deaths from measles by 90 per cent between 2000 and 2010. The World Health Organization (WHO) attributes this to vigorous vaccination campaigns. However, experts fear that there might be a resurgence in deaths from measles if the vaccination efforts are not sustained, because…
Cutting your child’s hair
Here’s how to do it It was Baby G’s first haircut at the barber’s. Sam, his dad, did not know what to anticipate. Normally, Baby G’s mother had taken the responsibility of cutting his hair. Now that he had turned two years, the parents felt it was about time he got his first official haircut.…
Baby Chat 32
Send your questions to- babylove@integral-advisory.coke answers will be provided jointly by our team of doctors Dr. Blasio Omuga Consultant Obstetrician/Gynecologist Based at Doctors’ Plaza, Clinic No. 18, Kenyatta Hospital Dr. Njoki Fernandes Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist Based at Nairobi Women’s Hospital How often should I burp my baby? All babies are different but in general, they should…
SIDS – When the dark cloud settles over the cot
Sarah edged towards the cot with her heart beating in her mouth. The baby had slept for unusually long. And every step towards the cot seemed to affirm her fears. The baby was so quiet. The covers still-not even a tweak. Her trembling hand slowly exposed the baby’s face. Lord! She is not breathing. She…
The GUEST remains SEATED – Until the ceremony is over
Why am I saying that? Every year, thousands of accidents occur in Kenya. More than half of such incidences happened because the passengers were not properly secured in their seats. While such disasters can be prevented, the use of car-seats to protect children in the event of these misfortunes cannot be over- emphasized. The type of…
Your child’s education. Make it or break it
In My Early Life, the legendary Winston Churchill mourns his education as a ‘menace,’ which attacked his life with painstaking boredom and sought to inform him how he knew nothing. He describes the content taught as ‘that which never engaged my reason, interest and will.’ How Latin and French was forced at the expense of…
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