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The five sensorial stimulation is the best to help the baby learn. Sound perception is the first to be active. Good mucis and Vedic chanting helps to coordination of the both the brain hemispheres. The rituals done help in all these sensorial learning.
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Breast Milk
Mother is the symbol of Selfless service or Love and that is the revolutionary act in our evolutionary process. The mammals evolved as a result of their selfless act of giving their body to the young one's in the form of milk having the color of white or charity. The physical science says colored appearance of objects owe to their inherent property of what to keep with them in contrast to what they give out. Plant leaves appear green because they absorb all colors but emit green color. So is the case with any colored object and the least honored is black because it absorbs all color and emits nothing. white is opposite to black because white absorbs nothing but emits everything.
Stress of the mother affects both the physical and mental health of the infant.
After birth also mother has to eat healthily to provide nourishment to the infant through breast milk.
Importance of Breast Milk
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1. Only human milk is less in fat and easy to digest. This is the nature's
beauty because of the following points,
(a) The child can be fed often and the child's head often stays close to
mother's heart.
(b) The sense of touch increases and the child realizes her/his mother a lot.
(c) The closeness between the mother and the child develops.
(d) The stress in the child gets reduced because of the mother's touch.
(e) Increases mother's awareness about the child's feelings.
2. The first time nursing of the child is very important. The first breast milk
after child's birth has all the ingredients to develop the child's immune
system.
Human milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it’s also medicine, says the research in this link - Critically Ill Infants Benefit from Human Milk
Antioxidative Protection https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836022/pdf/antioxidants-07-00032.pdf
Phytochemicals in Human Milk and Their Potential Antioxidative Protection
Phytochemicals in breast milk and their benefits for infants
Polyphenol Enriched Diet Administration During Pregnancy and Lactation Prevents Dysbiosis in Ulcerative Colitis Predisposed Littermates
Human milk has a higher antioxidant capacity than infant formulas.
BREAST -MILK
A child should always be breast fed because when compared to the mother's milk, cow's milk contains four to five times as much calcium and phosphorus and two to three times as much casein in the form of protein. The kidneys in infancy are less efficient in excreting concentrated urine and fail to get rid of certain body metabolites if the plasma concentration becomes too high. It is noted that phosphorus excretion is particularly inefficient in infants.
However if the mother does not have enough milk, then diluted organic cow's milk can be given initially and then slowly un-diluted milk can be given.
Breast nipples cracks and pain: Sandal wood paste in milk cream can be applied on the breast to heal cracks. Unrefined coconut oil or unrefined sesame-oil application is also recommended.
Application of Sesame seeds paste in milk on breast will remove cracks and pain too.
Increase breast milk: Depends on the hormes of the mother. Doing after delviery care and taking proper steps during pregnancy will help in avopiding this problem.
For Insufficient mother's or breast milk, soak one table spoonful of organically grown Fenugreek seeds in water over night. Next day, boil the whole with cow's milk. In the empty stomach if the mother drinks for a couple of days, breast milk production increases a lot almost immediately. This is a proven ancient folk-home remedy for insufficient breast milk in lactating mothers.
COW'S MILK
However for certain reasons if the child needs cow's milk, then give organic cow's whole milk which is free from hormones and other chemicals. Dilute cow's milk to 50% (half volume milk and half volume water) and boil the milk well and then feed the child.
Next to human milk, fresh cow's milk is the most ideal food for infants and children. Do not give concentrated cow's milk, dilute and boil and then feed.
Increasing Breast Milk
Metformin, a popular drug for diabetes, was originally developed from goat’s rue. It is used in treating Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
The herb is available as liquid extracts or capsules. My pick for breast-feeding mothers would be goat’s rue tea. Add one teaspoon of dried goat’s rue leaves to a cup of hot water and allowed to sit for 10 minutes. Filter, drink. It is that simple!
Fenugreek, which belong to the same family (Fabaceae) is given as a galactagogue in Kerala Ayurvedic tradition. While galactagogues in Europe seem to be more from random discoveries, in Ayurveda, it has been systematically documented by Charaka, thousands of years ago. Charaka has given a list of 10 herbs each for augmenting milk supply and for cleansing and detoxifying breast milk.
For Increasing Breast Milk
• Virana (Vetiveria zizanioides Nash.)
• Shali rice (Oryza sativa Linn.)
• Shastika rice (Oryza sativa Linn.)
• Ikhsuvalika (Asteracantha longifolia Nees)
• Darbha (Desmostachya bipinnata Staff.)
• Kusha (Desmostachya bipinnata)
• Kasha (Saccharum spontaneum Linn.)
• Gundra (Saccharum sara)
• Itkata (Sesbania bispinosa)
• Katruna (Cymbopogon schoenanthus Spreng.)
For Cleansing and Detoxifying Breast Milk
• Patha (Cissampelos pareira Linn.)
• Mahausadha-ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.)
• Suradaru (Cedrus deodara)
• Musta (Cyperus rotundus)
• Murva (Clematis triloba B. Heyne ex Roth.)
• Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia Miers.)
• Fruit of Vatsaka (Holarrhena antidysenterica Wall.)
• Kiratatikta (Swetia chirata Buch-Ham.)
• Katurohini (Picrorhiza kurroa)
• Sariva, Indian Sarsaparilla (Hemidesmus indicus)
Charaka in his Samhita has addressed this issue at least 2,000 years ago. In this, he has given a list of herbs that help increase breast milk. I would like you to take a guess as to what these herbs are. They are, quite rationally, the same food that we give our cows. It consists of various grasses, darbha (Desmostachya bipinnata) and kusha (Saccharum spontaneum), cotton seed and other herbs. There are two main preparations called stanyajanana kashayam and stanyajanana rasayanam. The ingredients of stanyajanana kashayam, which was first enumerated in Charaka Samhita, have been reiterated in Ashtanga Sangraham. Ashtanga Hridayam gives the recipe for stanyajanana rasayanam, which has a jam-like consistency. Both these preparations help to greatly increase breast milk.
Baby Diet
A lot of mothers ask us whether they can give baby foods that are available in the market.
Read the following ingredients........
Potassium Citrate; Calcium Phosphate; Calcium Carbonate; Ascorbic Acid; Potassium Chloride; Magnesium Chloride; Choline Chloride; Ferrous Sulfate; Sodium Chloride; Zinc Sulfate etc.......
You might think that the above might be the ingredients of fertilizer pack that you got for your home garden. You are mistaken .....it is the ingredients of a baby food pack.
| Understand that the minerals and vitamins found baby food is in a very crude form. This crude of minerals are very harmful for the body. Your baby's body is not the plants or trees. The plants and tress can assimilate the crude form of minerals and nutrients to assimilable form. The tender baby's body can only use the assimilable form. The crude form of nutrients might cause oxidative damage body.
One might see fast growth in kids. Many parents have the notion that plump fast growth means healthy. No. A Kid at the age of 2 might look like a four year old. It looks great. But seldom the parents think that the faster the kid grows, the faster it ages. This fast growing kid at the age of 18 would look like aged 30. The same parents who felt great would then feel miserable. More than the parents the kid would feel miserable being over aged and with mover weight.
A review of 24 studies published online by the British Medical Journal on Friday showed that size early in life has a life-long impact.
"In the majority of studies the infants who were heaviest or those with the highest body mass index (BMI), and those who gained weight more rapidly in the first two years of life were more at risk of obesity," Dr Janis Baird, of the University of Southampton, in southern England, told Reuters.
"This was true for obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood."
Rates of obesity around the globe have been rising at an astounding rate. An estimated 155 million school-age children worldwide are overweight and about 35-40 million of that figure are obese, according to the International Obesity Task Force
If kid's are growing at a slow pace but are healthy falling less sick , it is a good sign. All that is quick and easy done is not always good. Mothers may feel less work by using pre-prepared baby foods. But have you ever thought would you eat foods that were cooked and packed with an expiry date of a year?. How can then we feed tender babies with old food?
The care you take for the baby is not for one generation. If the baby's body is damaged then it not suffer from poor health but would pass damaged genes to the next generation. No wonder now there is increased genetic diseases than ever before in the history of mankind. We would discuss this fact elsewhere.
If you care for your baby and your future generation's health, then your every second of your time and energy is valued.
Honey good or bad for babies?
Natural organic Honey is excellent for children health. see this work.
Prebiotics and baby food, faeces.
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Baby Remedies
Infant Allergies
For child fever, cough, cold, vomoting, infections-home remedies.
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/7148/1/IJTK%209%281%29%209-17.pdf
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/7183/1/IJTK%209%281%29%20203-208.pdf
Why are many kids suffering from allergies?. More scientific research into this aspect shows that intestinal exposure to "diet" in early days of childhood is one of the prime cause for developing allergies to various dietary and environmental allergens. (See details in the most prestigious journal "Science", 2005 March, Volume 312,page 1922.
Microbes and diseases: With the successful invention of penicillin to kill micro-organisms, modern allopathic medicine made a huge impact in saving lives from bacterial infections. But when this invention went into the pharmaceutical companies and doctors, it was abused stealing the health of many people.
Now modern science is understanding that the bacteria in the human body is needed for the health. Read this link especially Gut flora in human infantswithout fail. This applies to human also.
Due to many modern life stlye changes we have altered the human gut flora which contributes to our health. Traditional health practices indirectly took care of the micro flora in the gut.
With the increased use of anti-biotics not only as medicine but also in food and diary products will cause increase in many diseases. Anti-biotic genes are present in Genetically-modified crops (GMO) and are given to cow feeds liberally to prevent infections. All these anti-biotics then get into our human system and change the bacterial population in the gut leading to various diseases. It is believed that after the introduction of genetically modified Soybean the incidence of allergy increased. The new proteins in the GMO foods could change the gut bacteria of the mother and also the baby that could have an influence on health. It is therefore advisable to use non-GMO (organic) corn, Non-GMO (organic) soy products during and after pregnancy.
Immunity and Eczema: Infant allergies are higher in "hygenically clean" societies. The chances of getting eczema problem are higher in C-section (cesearian) babies compared to vagina delivered babies. The reason is that the millions and billions of bacterias, viruses and other micro-organisms in the vagina will enter the baby's mouth, nose and ears when the baby passes through the vagina during the few hours of deliver time. This is the first time that the baby's body encounters bacteria. Immediately the "immune learning"system of the baby is activated. Through this immune learning the immune system learns to differentiate the body's own parts from foreign bodies like bacteria, virus and other micro-organisms.
In C-section babies, since the child's body is not exposed to micro-organisms and but only is exposed to food proteins that the mother eats and comes to the baby through baby's milk and the environmental pollens and food particles. Now the immune system thinks that these are foreign and start to attack the food or environmental proteins that the baby get exposed.
Tropical countries like India , where the environment is less hygenic (not to mention hospitals), C-section babies are exposed immediately to bacteria after birth from the environment and so less allergies are seen. Many Indians living in USA, UK and European countries would notice that their siblings or cousins living in India would have less frequency of having babies with eczema and allergy problems.
Toxins in Mother's body: On top of that if the mother's body is full of toxins then the immunity is weakened leading to poor immunity and or hyper-active abnormal immune response, the allergies. Mothers who had less nausea and vomiting had children with more incidence of allergies than mothers who had nausea and vomiting. Vomiting is a natural mechanism for the body to throw out the toxins. This is why we recommend to do cleansing to remove toxins before planning pregnancy.
Simple remedy: A traditional Indian practice is to give castor oil drops with breast milk. One drop of castor oil is mixed with one teaspoon of breast milk and given to the new born baby everyday in the first week. Two drops of castor oil is mixed with one teaspoon of breast milk and given to the new born baby everyday in the second week. Three drops of castor oil is mixed with one teaspoon of breast milk and given to the new born baby everyday in the fourth week. This is done for six weeks and then there after six drops of oil is given once a week for next two months and then the same dosage is given for once a month till age of one year.
The above is an excellent medicine to detoxify the baby and prevent from skin rashes. The mother is also given castor oil once a day, few drops with her food to prevent these health issues in the children. (This year 2008, we witnessed a baby child being given this castor oil (St.louis USA). The child was absolutely healthy without any health problems. Oil to reduce scaly red skin: Apply Kukui oil or Organic Jojoba oil on the baby's skin to reduce scaly and redness. Applying any steroidal creams only suppresses the immune system from reacting. Instead you can apply a natural anti-histamine which can prevent allergic reactions on the skin. Make a paste of Couch grass on the areas with little coconut oil. You can also make a medicated oil by making a paste of the leaves with less water and add to heated coconut oil. Simmer it for few more minutes and then save it in a clean glass bottle. Apply this oil every alternative day with jojoba oil.
Fermented rice: For children more than three to six months, few drops of fermented rice water or rice with water can be given to give healthy microbial flora in the gut. This way they may overcome the allergy problems. Give in small doses for a while and see if the child accepts it and continue for few weeks or months. Click this link for information about Fermented Rice. However for a very young baby of three months to six month old , one should give only the fermented rice water and be careful that the child should not develop diarhoea or dysentry. The fermented rice has millions of healthy bacteria that when grows in the gut of the baby might help to prevent allergy and eczema.
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Weaning Foods
There are many healthy recipes to wean a child from breast milk.
Here are some
Bottled or Canned foods: Anything that is fresh has nutrients and has subtlest energy in it. When cooked food is kept longer it loses that. We adults cannot eat such food then how can we except babies to eat food that has been cooked and bottled and kept for several months. Just for our convenience and just because babies cannot know these facts we feed them these junk good. It could be organically grown foods and bottled , still it is not good. Give freshly prepared food to babies.
Millet: Millet the perfect baby food which is rich in nutrients and fiber and is also a great cleanser. It detoxifies the body of the baby and keeps healthy. No known allergic reactions to millet has ever been noted (African millet or Indian ragi is the best form of millet). As we said earlier the body of the infant tries to get rid of the toxins by giving out allergic reactions and pus and itches. The itching sensation occurs so that blood circulation to the skin is increased to remove the toxins. This is why the skin appears red.
Our experience shows that mothers during pregnancy when drink less amounts of water (do not count fluids intake) accumulate toxins in the umbilical fluids and in turn in the body of the kids. After the kid is born the body of the kid tries to get rid of this in the form of eczema. There fore giving water and giving fiber rich foods like millet helps healing the skin problems.
Corn milk: Cut the corn grits as close as to the hard part. Steam it and then put in a blender and filter to get the milk. This can be started as early as six months. After seven months it can be given without filtering in a solid pasty form. It good in nutrients and rich in fiber too.
Rice dal mix: Rice and dal can be steam and mixed in a blender to make a thick soup. Add butter or ghee (clarified butter). Add a little salt if needed.
Legumes and beans: Soak the beans and legumes for overnight and cook them well. You can add a pinch of ginger (not to irritate the stomach). this will enhance digestion and flatulence in kids. Ginger is optional. Soaking and spouting alone will prevent gas formation. If you want your kid to get enough proteins this is the good way.
Brown rice: If soaked for 2 to 4 hours and then cooked is a fiber rich good and supplies all good nutrients.
Vegetables:Avoid frozen vegetables. freshly prepared vegetables are tasty and nutritious. All vegetables are good. Steam cook carrots and other vegetables. Potatoes steamed and mixed with a pinch of salt and little butter is a good food and tasty food for kids older than 6 to 8 months.
Fruits :Give fresh fruits and juices. use blender to make juice. its easy and gives fibers and other nutrients. Juicers will remove fiber and many other nutrients too. Apples and pears can be blended with little water. Instead of sugar raisins and dates could be given. They are natural sweeteners.
Almond milk: Soak almonds and dates overnight and then put in a blender and add water and make a milk like consistency. its a very good drink for kids. Some kids like it less watery consistency.
Cooking bananas: Ripe bananas can be given by gently smashing between the fingers or could be blended in a blender with water (No sweeteners needed). Ripe cooking bananas are available in market. Steam cook them with water, its excellent food for kids and tasty.
Look again how our ancestors were highly intelligent in using banana powder to infants, patients and old people. Children are weaned with this banana powder. Traditionally unripe special banana called "Nenthrampazham" (called as cooking bananas in USA, Mexico) was cut into pieces and sun dried and store in a clean bottle. It could be powdered and stored also for convenience. To prepare, pour one teaspoon of ghee to a pan and add two tablespoons of the powder and just briefly fry for 20 seconds. Add water and stir continuously for 5 minutes to cook without forming lumps. Add sugar or palm jaggery for taste. This is an instant natural safe healthy traditional baby food. This is now scientifically proven that Banana powder isgood because of its high anti-oxidant power and also rich in nutrients.
This is now scientifically proven that Banana powder is good because of its high anti-oxidant power and also rich in nutrients.
Why Nendran is best weaning food for babies
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13197-015-1927-8
This is an excellent recipe to help kids gain weight. This is not organic but it is sold by an ayurvedic center.
Kannan kaya kuruku/kunnan kaya kuruku for babies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83zkKy33avE
Banana Powder Porridge | Baby Weight Gaining Food 6Month+ | Weight Gaining Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Jr2BQQKo8
Yogurt : Once the child feeds on rice, mix with yogurt and feed the child. The lactic acid organisms in it are suitable for infant feeding.
A good tonic for children is prepared by heating a cup full of fresh drumstick leaf juice and then the clear fluid is filtered.
It is mixed with milk instead of water and the infants and children are fed once a day to help them to grow healthy with strong bones, blood and high resistance against infections and mal-nutrition.
Another site - Swarna prashna http://swarnaprashana.org/tag/arka/
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Protein quality of developed home made weaning foods.
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Home made weaning foods developed from locally available foods like bajra, barley, green gram (Vigna radiata L.), amaranth grain (Amaranthus sp.) and jaggery using household technologies like roasting and malting had a PER ranging from 2.04 to 2.13, BV 79.56 to 80.68, NPU 66.75 to 67.86, NPR 2.13 to 2.76 and PRE 34.18 to 44.18. The values were comparable to that of cerelac--a commercial weaning food.
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Qualities of a good parent
please do not stress the children in any way to undergo transformations based on this article.
Physical needs for the child
Responsbility to privide good food, shelter, clothing, medication and education but not luxury.
Emotional needs for the child
Love with compassion and freedom has to be given without any conditions. We cannot live through them. They are not our social status. they have their own life. They are individuals.
Intellectual needs of the child
Make the child to know that every thing can be atttained only through work and effort.
But need not always preech the child with advices. 1-6 years old children cannot understand such long conversations and philosophy. We can suggest him but not force him.
Do not put off your child’s talents and let own before others. Same time do not say he alone is the best. He is one among the best.
Try to understand the issues of your children. Try to get justice for your child’s rights.
Do not expect – List:
Do not think that your child must know what is struggle. But when the child grows we must try to expose them to reality of situations.
Do not force the child to fulfill your dreams.
Do not expect immediate results from your children.
Do not compare your children with others.
Do not respect your child only just based on academics.
Do not accept all his demands and spoil him with lavish spending and blind love.
Do not expect that they must follow you in all aspects. Do not doubt your own child.
Do not threat them, bribe them.
Do not talk ill about any one especially about his school and tutors.
What the child must know by 5 years – 18 years?
Each child has the own limits and talents.
Your child can be one among the best. He/she cannot be the best for ever.
He/she must be able to accept the healthy competetions and results of any actions.
He/she must be taught to face the reality with acceptance of failure also.
He/she must be confident but not selfboasting and over confident
He/she must be encouraged for his/her talents.
He/she must be very clear about cause-effect theory from very small age.
Marks, ranks and rewards are not life.
Make them to realize that your support will be there at any tough time in life.
This will make them to accept and share their failures and mistakes with you.
They must be well prepared to have alternative choices and solutions.
We cannot put off any other child before our child. Try to understand that for every parents their child is great.
Try to understand his needs will change when he grows.
Self discipline is very important which can be brought without threats.
He/she must be aware about your hard work and sacrifices. He/she must be able to value the money and its importance.
Try to solve his issues with his school and peers.
Try to provide a calm happy family setup. Avoid conflits, violance at home. Try to avoid all unacceptable habits.
TV, net connection, mobile phones can be give at correct age.
Give less choices. oo many choices will confuse the child.
Try to have a chat with them in evenings. Spend special time for them.
We all have an inner child of our self. That child has to be developed first.
We must transform and make others to get transform.
Be firm,but not rude and abuse them any way.
Expose them to good culture, traditions, values, arts and socail skills.
Give importance to social skills.
