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From sealed lips to screaming for more food

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The war of feeding between me and my little one started when for the first time nurse handed her to me for feeding. She was just not willing to open her mouth (root reflux and mommy instincts jumped out of the window for us), and to make things worse I kept force feeding her.  Since the doctor made it clear that she should not go without  milk for more than three hours, I made it my religious duty to force fed her every three hours.  And what was the outcome? Well she wouldn’t open her mouth, lips tightly sealed,  there used to be a negative energy around as soon as I used to hold the bottle, she would push nipple outside with her tongue, puke , scream, stress out and bottles of milk w wasted every time. Frustrating sight of wasted milk It was a mayhem, I rushed to emergency room several times, visited pediatricians, prayed , googled for all possible diseases, changed formulas , bottles , nipples and what not but nothing worked. Then finally a pediat...

Decision to take my 8 months old to Play School

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💫 let the learning life begin  💫 Aleen's first day at school was one crazy experience. Everyday she wakes up at 7 regardless of the time she sleeps and that day she was fast asleep till 8:15. (Quite a cliche start)  Like everywhere else, we rushed to school.But, once we were there my little sunshine was so comfortable and wanted to crawl all around                                                                     .................... The word SCHOOL is generally synonymous to early mornings, big bags and crying kids pushed inside the school gate.  So when I brought up the idea of ' play school', no one liked it and only focused on 'school' and ignored 'play'. But I knew I wanted aleen to be around other kids in a constructive environment so I ignored all the 'hawww haye' comments a...