Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Food Schedule for baby with diarrhea

I would love to share the schedule I have been following with Baby Koo as she recovers from her diarrhea-ted tummy.

10:00 AM Breakfast 1: Mashed Banana
11:30 AM Breakfast 2: Buttermilk
12:30 PM Lunch: Curd Rice
2:30 PM: Mashed Banana
4:00 PM: Buttermilk
5:30 PM Curd Rice
7:30 PM Mashed Bananas
9:00 PM Khichri
then onwards till next morning: BM


Food Recipes for Baby Diarrhea

Baby Koo has diarrhea :(. The Ped. says no milk or milk based products except yogurt and of course breastmilk are allowed.
For babies who are just 7 months old, non-milky products are difficult to think of. Here is what I have been feeding Koo:

1. Mashed Bananas: good for me, Koo loves them! (note: they cause threadlike strands in baby poo. no need to worry!)
2. Buttermilk/Watery Yogurt: Mix one part of thick yogurt with two parts water and a pinch of salt/sugar (both optional). Mix water only to make yogurt more digestible as it has some fat content. Yogurt is good for the stomach because of the health bacteria - lacto bascillus.
3. Curd Rice: A classic Tamilian dish. See recipe in the next post!
4. Khichri: Cooked Rice+Lentils. See recipe in another post!

I hope she gets well soon. Lots of love dear lovey!

Cafie.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

and we are back.......!

i start off with an apology. an apology to the little baby Koo for not writing about her and me for so long. It is week 29 and we left the blog at week 7. a lot has transpired over this period. some good some not so good but nothing bad!
i do not know where to start. may be i should let the thoughts flow wild and the brain write aloud. baby and i have come a long way. i can feel her inside me clearly now. it is an amazing feeling......a perfect human life is residing within you. it is out of this world. it is exemplary! she moves she dances, she yawns she gulps (as seen on a sonogram!) and she plays soccer & elbows in her little arena. sometimes i think she tries to swim and there are ripples inside too. as i write she is moving from one side to the other - hehe! perhaps she knows my entire focus right now is her and she is acknowledging it.
having a baby within you is fun. the Big A says he misses the baby throughout the day in the office. he loves to set his ear next to the baby in hope of listening the good old "dad" from a daughter. another one of his favorites is feeling the backhands and forehands with his hands and appreciating the shots!
well well yes, i miss him too. i will miss him more once i leave the town for the final 10 weeks. needless to say, it will be real tough for the B.A. to be here alone.
i am a wee bit tired after all the morning activities that do not even qualify of a mention. i am sort of hungry now, and the heat is exhausting. the sweat is draining energies. i should drink something - something cool and healthy. you know how :H: is the operating word now when it comes to eating/drinking. :)
ahhh and yes - there goes baby Koo with another bangs. let me take it as a signal to end the post, have a drink and possibly resume the writing.

lots of love & a big hug

Monday, January 31, 2011

End of Week 7!!

After the end of 10 apparently disturbing days, today was a sigh of relief. I saw the fetal heart beat!! It was a memorable experience. Although it was not similar to what I had expected but it was more than satisfying. I remember how excited J was, like a baby, more so, he made a video too! I would have posted the video if it did not have the audio and of course Cafie's pretty face ;)!

Now I am more than 100% sure that littly Koo is there somewhere inside and is growing! Grow up healthy baby and grow up soon. We have wanted you for long. Waiting for you....and the wait will continue.

The next scan is 15 days from now. That would be Feb 15.....a day after Valentine's. I am a little depressed because J won't be in town, but we will sail through my little pie. As is now it is never me, it is always Koo and Cafie!

Lots of love to you.......mwaaaaaaaah!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Blog Design

I am using a pre-existing template at the blogger and it is the best I have used so far across the various blogs. The tiny birds flying on the right hand corner of the screen express a lot about the love of writing. It is akin to wings of ideas and a flight of words. So I must, let the posting flow. 

Cafe Middle East!

Cafe Middle East is a conduit of expressing life in Middle East and the life after! Enjoy the literary Middle Eastern Food.

-Kafe