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Jeremy- Nine months later
It has been nine months since Jeremy showed up. Sally Ng’ang’a shares interesting highlights. The first few days my hands were overflowing because I had a Caesarian section (CS) wound to nurse. But my husband was handy enough to keep the stress at bay. He bathed, diaper- changed, burped Jeremy after feeding, and soothed him…
The abc of baby language
By speaking to the child and imitating the child’s sounds, a parent not only teaches the child sound patterns, but encourages taking turns, a process necessary for conversation. Studies have shown that babies whose parents spoke to them more often know many more words by age two. Children who are unable to communicate effectively through…
Say Aah…Baby’s oral hygiene
The baby’s mouth hardly calls for our attention until we spot something out of the ordinary in it. Dr. Livingstone Wanyama, a dentist at Aga Khan University Hospital, told Rebecca Njoki that should not be the case. He went ahead and answered common oral/dental questions that stream into Baby Love. When exactly should the oral…
Weaning your baby -The right way
It is recommended that a baby exclusively breastfeeds for the first six months of his life. After that, or even earlier, alternative foods are introduced to his diet, a process called weaning. Weaning is best started from end of 3 months to 6 months depending on maternal, infant, socio economic and cultural factors. Until then,…
Available options to secure your child’s future
When Cathy Karen was born, her father was optimistic he would buy her an insurance cover that would guarantee her good education. However, while Karen’s cover ended smoothly in 2010 after 25 years, her father feels itchy about advising anyone going for a similar product. Peter Odongo, the father, says when he bought the cover, not…
Gentle Unfolding Chapter two
May 13th 2000 5.40pm I finally enter the doctor’s room with Tony. I assure him that Tony is the father and can stay. He asks about our relationship, which I find uncomfortable. He wants to know whether we are married, how long we have known each other…the nitty gritties… I think he is intruding my…
Chapter 4: Gentle unfolding…
Continued from Issue 36 The Final Chapter Tony proposes to me again at my mother’s house before his parents, my mum, our best friends. It is unbelievable! At the clinic the doctor introduced me to, I get tested again, and my CD4 count and viral load are done before I start the medication. Taking regular…
Mumps/swollen glands-prevention is better
Where my ancestors came from, when a child got mumps, they would be advised or led to a certain tree and urged to sing certain songs and dance around the tree to cast away the mumps. After which the child will be required to walk back to their home without looking back. It was believed…
PrematureBirth: Hints for Survival PART 1
We always await our EDD with hope and anticipation. Marking down the nine months day by day, on our calendars. However, as is the stuff of life, certain outcomes and constilations are out of our hands. This is especially the case when it comes to completing our full term gestation periods. Different outcomes could prevail, one of them being an unexpected premature delivery.
Omega 3 – A lifetime of good health
What is Omega-3? These are groups of fatty acids characterised by the presence of double-bonds in the alpha carbon chains. The two important groups are the Omega- 3 and Omega-6, due to the location of the double- bonds in the molecule. They then constitute the polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufa) Source They are not synthesised and…
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