Vihaan's favorite Videos

As V is growing up it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep him happily engrossed in any single activity. Unlike a couple of months before when he would play with his numerous rattles for hours, now he plays with them for maybe 15- 20 mins before moving on to do something else.

One of the things that we do is see different videos, of nursery rhymes or cartoons. I had some Noddy Cds at home, but he doesn't find them very interesting yet. Probably he will like to watch them when he is a little older.  

I came across these videos when I was looking for nursery rhymes. The name "Giggle Bellies" itself makes you laugh. V usually freaks out at certain animated videos, some are of really poor quality, and the animation looks scary rather than cute.. but he loved the Giggle Bellies rhymes since the first time he saw them. His most favorite is Twinkle twinkle, followed by Old MacDonald's Farm.

The songs are very catchy and the animation is funny. However, I would have preferred the colours to be a little less bright. But V loves the colours, so who am I to judge!! Now to just see where in India is it available :)

I would love some suggestions about more videos for babies.

9th month update

Yaaayyyy tenth month has already begun.....
Here is an update on what V has been up to in the ninth month.

A lot of V's mile stones were due to be completed, babies take their own time exploring and trying out new things. You cant really hurry them. And this was the "catching up on the milestone" month :)

V learnt to turn over a little late (almost in the end of the sixth month). And even then he would turn only from his left side. I think that was because I have always slept on that side. Now in the ninth month, he can turnover from both sides and also go from tummy to back position.

He has just started going from the tummy position to sitting position, though it is yet to be perfected.

V can crawl, but doesn't really like it. He started of with crawling in a butterfly stroke style. It was more like dragging, hehehe. But now he can properly crawl and go a ahead a few step at a time. He crawls on the bed, but hates crawling on the floor probably cos its too cold.

He would walk if he could, but its a little too early for that. He loves standing up with the support of my hands and roaming about in the house, but this was giving me a back ache :P So I have bought a simple walker for him. He loves zooming about in the house and I get a little break :)

V still likes pureed food more than chunky foods. He prefers the home made rice cereal to Dal chawal. And at the moment he loves soups. I am in a fix though about breakfast. He doesn't like suji kheer or Dalia and I cannot keep giving soups to him all day long :P So I still have to explore on that front.

I changed V's pediatrician after the recent experience and am pretty happy with her at the moment. She has prescribed vitamin, iron and calcium drops for the next three months to help build his immunity. Will be starting those from today.

So that's about it.. looking forward to the next month  :)

Damn you Mumbai Weather!!

The weather in mumbai has been fluctuating like crazy... one day its really cold and the next day so hot that u have to turn on the air conditioner.Vihaan caught his first ever viral infection and it took two whole weeks for him to recover, which is why I wasn't posting new blogs.

V's infection started out as simple cold and cough, but the cough then became worse. We had to take him for a chest x-ray first. The x-ray ruled out the possibility of any major problem but showed a very congested chest. A blood test further confirmed a viral infection. I hate needles and tend to burst out in tears at the sight of any, so seeing V being injected was the worse experience possible.

Treatment was a three day course of nebulization and 7 day course of antibiotics. During Nebulization, medicine is converted into vapour form with a device called the nebuliser and the child is made to inhale these vapours through an oxygen mask. It looks worse than it is though, because of the mask on the baby. But it is the fastest and most effective way for medicine to reach a baby's chest. So it provided instant relief (at least for a while).

Almost every other child is suffering from the same problem because of the extreme weather change. So there were always 2-3 kids waiting in line for the nebulisation. V hated it (he doesn't let me touch his face even during a bath) and his crying scared the other kids in the room :P When he was not screaming he tried to lick the inside of the mask (i have no idea why) So it was a good thing that we bought a separate mask for him.

For now the meds are done, and he is doing well. We will be going for a follow up visit to the doc today, so I have my fingers crossed :)