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SHOPPING With Your Toddler?
How to save yourself trouble—and cash! Emma Odaba recently visited various supermarkets and reports what she saw—from babies in trolleys with foodstuffs, to toddlers wetting the floor! Some toddlers did actually cost their parents both trouble and some cash. No one can deny that going to a supermarket with your infant or toddler is likely…
Weaning Your Baby
Weaning can be a daunting task especially for a first time and busy mum. It may prove quite difficult for the baby to adapt to solid food because for the first four to six months of his life, he has been getting food continuously from one source — the breast. There are a number of…
Making Homemade Baby Food
Making your own baby food gives you the distinct advantage of controlling what goes into your baby’s sensitive tummy. You determine how much, if any, sugar and spices your baby consumes. Homemade baby food is also the most inexpensive way to go instead of buying ready-made baby food in jars. Making baby food is very…
Diaper bag- The best companion
A Baby or diaper bag is like your traveling nursery and should be stocked with everything your baby will need while you are away from home. Baby bags are available in different shapes, sizes and colours and are designed both for mums and dads so both of them can carry them without any inconvenience. Select a…
Expressing BREAST MILK
There are only two ways by which milk can normally be released from your breasts: by expressing or by breastfeeding. The action of squeezing milk from a breast, is known as expressing breast milk. It can either be manual (by hand) or automated (by an electric pump). Expressing breast milk is an art that you need…
Teach your child to Save
From an early age, kids get a fascination about money and its buying power, the ability it possesses to earn them their desires. Though they have not fully realised the concept of owning money, saving and budgeting, as a parent you need to teach your child how to keep a share of the allowance they…
Putting time in your baby’s account
Why is it mandatory? As a single, working mother. Angela* would leave the house before daylight to beat the traffic and return just after dark. She spent two hours in traffic and ten hours at the work place just so to remain the effective provider of the home. Time is money—you know. She had Saturday…
Child gloom and panicky spells—handling them
Depression is a psychological disorder caused by changes in the chemistry of the brain and which negatively affects the overall demeanour of a person. Contrary to past studies where depression was rarely diagnosed in children, recent increase in cases of depression amongst children has prompted those in the medical field to put more thought in…
CONVULSIONS. A PARENT’S MOMENTS OF TERROR!
It is dreaded by most parents, but few understand why it happens and how to prevent it. THE term ‘convulsion’ is commonly used interchangeably with ‘seizure.’ There are many types of seizures, but one particular type relevant to babies is ‘febrile seizure’, which is triggered by a fever. This type of seizure mostly occurs between…
Let him do what he loves-and he’ll fly
I am reminded of the internationally acclaimed musician and the Ambassador of Hope for Burundi – his country of origin, Jean Pierre Nimbona, aka Kidum. He started singing at a tender age of 10. His father discovered Kidum’s passion for music around then and went ahead to support and encourage him; not to only sing…
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