MommyJoyCorner

On the eve of celebrating a year of parenthood and in particular 'motherhood', I thought of writing this post to share the inside scoop from a mommy's world:) Joys First of all, I don't think people speak enough about the joys of motherhood and the happiness that comes with welcoming a precious little baby in your life. Let me give it a shot. It's out of this world and no other feeling can match it. No seriously, I mean it!:) A baby brings with it these numerous little moments that can have such a huge impact on your day to day life. All you need to enjoy the many little precious moments is to just be in the moment and live it! It gives you a second shot at childhood. Pride and Confidence Whether it is the moment you start to understand your babies little cues for feeding, diaper change, sleep or when you figure out little tricks that help soothe your crying baby or when you manage to make  baby food are all little moments of pride for a new paren...

Some time around or after your baby turns 6 months, you will most likely consider giving solid food to your baby in addition to breast milk or formula. I have heard many doctors suggesting to start rice cereal around 4 months for babies.  Based on my online reading and hearing other mommies opinions, babies get most of their nutrition from breast milk or formula for the first year. Iron like other nutrients such as zinc and vitamin D is present in low concentrations in breast milk. So babies need to be provided with iron rich diet after they turn six months as till six months the iron store built while still in mommy's tummy is sufficient. Any other solid food introduced is mainly to start training your babies taste buds and helping them tune their digestive systems.  I was hesitant on introducing rice cereal to my daughter at 4 months due the supposed arsenic content in rice. So I started with banana and avocado which she absolutely loves till date. I followed...

If you have a job, sooner or later you will have to return to it ending your maternity leave. So it happened to me as well. While I dreaded getting back to work weeks before the actual day by waking up to cry in the middle of the night, it turned out to be not so difficult on the actual day. My husband taking a month off from work right when I was getting back to work was HUGE help in my transition back to work. Plus, the assumption that babies as young as 3-3.5 months do not realize when mommy or daddy are out for the day. So I set off to work on a Wednesday hoping a shorter week will make my transition easy and in fact it did. On getting back home from my first day back at work, my daughter started crying the minute she saw me. I won't deny that it hurt! But on researching online, I found one article saying that is just the way babies show their love and how much they missed you while you were away. I stopped reading or searching further online as that answer assured me the ...