Sleep

Aarush started sleeping through the night only after he turned 6 months old. Although there were no feedings at night I still had to wake up to pacify him or sometimes bring him to our bed or just hold, rock him and put him back into his crib. I keep getting a lot of email newsletters from babycenter, WTE, Graco..etc.., on how that is a bad way of establishing sleep routine and how baby should soothe himself back to sleep. Kiran always says for the first baby 'Love overcomes logic' and I comfortably ignored the emails and would continue to wake up in the middle of night to soothe my baby. Off late it's becoming too difficult for me to manage with 5 hrs of interrupted sleep. Just when I thought I shouldn't continue this, I get this email about 'crying it out' method which my doc and colleagues also suggested I should implement. So we started out one weekend and I just couldn't take that crying and would give up and pick him. But last night we stayed strong on our decision and let him cry it out. Poor baby cried for almost 1/2 hour so loud as if the roof was falling down and at one point I thought the neighbors would come in. I almost gave up and was going to pick him, there was silence. He finally went back to sleep in sitting position. We went to his crib after sometime to put him in proper position and cover him in a blanket. Last night was the first and they say it would take 2 more nights for him to learn, God only should give me the strength. This morning I picked him up as soon as I woke up, showered a million kisses and put him on our bed with Kiran and guess what? dad and baby went into a cozy sleep and woke up only at 8:40 AM( Hello it's Friday -still a working day???).
PS: Aarush's crib is in our bedroom and a couple of feet away from our bed , ya all this drama was going on in the same room.

Thank you Highchair!

First off, thank you to whoever invented a wonderful idea called highchair.

Dinner time is usually chaos at our home. Both Kiran and I will be hungry and need food to refuel our energy tanks to play with Aarush. So after all the cutting, cooking and just when we get ready to eat Aarush cannot take the mystery of whatever that is we are eating and comes to us hanging at our feet, standing up, falling and hurting himself. One of us would pick him and put him on our lap, the curious george that he is, will not sit still and want to touch the food on Mom or Dad's plate. He messes with the food and rubs that messy hand all over his face. One time when Kiran had very hot rice on his plate and brave guy decided to touch it and cried. So all in all, it was a chaos and we couldn't eat dinner together,  one of us had to watch and play with him so the other person could eat. This continued until the highchair came into picture. Now we put him in his high chair beside the dining table, strap him, throw some finger-foods, toys and he is one happy man.
Dinner = Family time now:)

The messy part still continues though...

Teething & Congestion are a bad combo!

Okay we've had enough of winter and want no more. Until the last weekend Aarush was never too cranky or fussy and I thought 'oh wow! what a sweetheart of a baby I have'. We were out of town last weekend and Aarush decided to catch cold and fever. Poor guy has been suffering from extreme congestion, fever and on the top of it he's teething. And last night he woke up almost every hour crying in pain. This repeated until almost 6:00 in the morning. I didn't know what else to do, we pumped up his mattress, had a humidifier, used saline drops, massaged his gums. He just had to go through it. Looking him suffer I didn't had the heart to send him to daycare so I stayed home with him. And guess what? his temperature drop down , he was all active playing ,crawling,cooing, eating and sleeping. It was as if I lied to the doctor about his condition 'coz he was so active when I took him to her.