The importance of antenatal care is often overdone in most households as the would-be mother is flooded with advice about what is right and what is wrong for her. When should you start? Make your first visit to an antenatal clinic as soon as possible after a missed period. This will ensure that you have professional help whenever you need …

Many of us would waive an article of immunization as irrelevant to us – the educated, fairly affluent members of the world community. And yet, our own personal experience has shown that even educated parents often ignore new vaccines, unaware how critical they can be to their child’s health. In today’s age, when we see a child suffering from polio, …

The primary aim of milk banking is to supply human milk to high risk infants who, for some reason or the other, cannot be directly breast fed. The best way to collect milk for the bank is by manual expression into a clean container. It is less likely to be contaminated than that collected by a hand pump even if …

A few weeks before delivery, the baby’s head settles lower in the pelvis, and so the uterus or womb seems to slip downwards and forwards and the shape of the abdomen changes. This may cause a feeling of pressure in the lower abdomen. You may want to pass urine more often. There may also be a little swelling of the …

One of the best ways to take the stress out of housework is to involve children in it. Chores are a good way to teach children to be responsible and to clean up after they’ve done with playing. Children yearn to be a part of the adult world – they are constantly playing at going to office, dressing up like …

Largely common in tropical climes, hook worm infection is caused by parasites called Ancylostoma Duodenale and Necator Americanus. Hookworms live in the small intestine of an infected person and are excreted in the faeces. The worms can find their way into your body by penetrating the skin, usually through the feet if you are walking bare feet on infected soil …

In today’s competitive, fast-paced world it often happens that you have to juggle a demanding career with a family which demands equal attention. It commonly happens that parents come home late, exhausted from work only to find their child waiting patiently for them to take him out for dinner or a movie. It is then that the painful reality dawns …

“Stay-at-home fathers aggressively pursue recognition by and acceptance from mainstream institutions…,” said study authors Gokcen Coskuner-Balli and Craig J. Thompson, from the Chapman and Wisconsin Universities, respectively. “Accordingly, they vigilantly watch for mass media representations and advertisements that positively acknowledge their collective identity,” they add, reports the Journal of Consumer Research. Men who forgo the traditional breadwinner role to stay …

Newborn babies have a grasp reflex. As soon as anything is put into the palm say your finger, the baby takes a firm grip of it. Gradually, at around three to four months, the baby can hold objects. He will put out his hand and try to hold the object. His coordination is poor initially, but soon he learns to …

Places conducive to relaxation offer better changes for caring relationships to develop, especially if children feel threatened. When you are about to tell a child something difficult, don’t do it in the middle of the playground, the middle of the street, the middle of a classroom, or the middle of a family. If it’s something that’s personal and perhaps difficult, …