If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of the painful and scariest thing after giving birth is to pass motion. Bowel movement will cause some pain to the stitching as we need to exert and it will slightly hurts the episiotomy. Therefore, it is very […]
Tumeric or kunyit is a herb much favoured for its healing properties. Tumeric is recognised as one of the ingredients in many health supplements. Therefore, those of us who live in the Asia continent is lucky that we can get fresh tumeric or kunyit easily. Otherwise, there are powder tumeric which is […]
Chinese confinement practices are one of those things that our moms and grandmas force it down our throats. I am the rebellious one who often argued with my mom because I hate all the restrictions. Things include :
1) No bathing for 12 days after birth
2) No exposing ourselves and we must wrapped ourselves including wear […]
Many parents are led to to believe that routine iron supplementation is required for breastfed babies once they reach 6 months of age. Some studies, however, advocate that iron supplementation is unnecessary, unless signs of iron-deficiency anemia are present.
Iron plays an important role in the development of a baby’s brain and a lack of iron […]
Sometimes, our Chinese older folks make like the post natal period is a very complicated issue and causes a lot of new mothers to worry unnecessary. Although there are many basis for the do’s and don’ts, being the educated, modern moms, one should not just believe without some common sense.
Sometimes, what they suggested are […]
A few of our Malay and Indian members said that white radish/lobak putih is one of the vegetable their old folks recommend for an increase in milk quantity. Here is one Chinese recipe for white radish soup. Shown in the picture is the radish, some red dates and dried cuttlefish. Here’s the complete recipe:1 white […]
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