Best promotion in life comes with its own set of challenges( in our case lots and lots of it..)- Ridit's first two months
If I would have been writing on the same day things were happening, emotions and words would have been different. whatever be the situation time is big healer and you always forget small details with time.
Was thinking of writing this for long but when things were happening you don't get even time to think leave aside writing something. here I am going into past and remembering Ridit first few months at home.
Lot of doubts were in mind when we brought Ridit home for first time. How we would manage things, would we be able to avoid infection, what precautions to take, how we tell Mom, Dad not to touch him, how we are going to avoid friends at home, how to take him to doctors visit as hospital is very far..
we had heard with great power comes great responsibility, I guess opposite is also true with greater responsibility you get power to fulfill it ..
Daily routine wake up in the morning, prepare milk for Ridit, write down feed quantity in diary, measure temp, write down in diary, plan schedule for medicines for the day, note down whenever medicine was given, note down Potty count, if he vomits, note down that also.. and again feed every few hours. and in between clean bottles, sterlize them
No diff in day and night other than at night sometime I had to feed him as Pratichi was too tired coz of this hectic routine.
Because of fear of infection only wife and me used to hold him and everytime we touch him we used hand sanitizer. It was kind of physic routine we were following .. when i went out of home, had to take bath and change clothes only then used to touch him..
Always changing sleepers going into his room. No fans in room as he was so small and direct air should have been avoided. Now I see that time photographs i realize how small he was and have made hell lot of progress.
No tadka at home to avoid any smells, no one from outside was welcome in his room.. So many restriction and i really cant understand how parents have restrained them to follow all those what we told them to. believe me its not easy.
Days passed by with same routine. He gaining average weight I first month and half. We also started gaining confidence in ourselves.. Pratichi did very well through out. feeding a baby with spoon, bottle and that too such a small baby is not an easy job.. only Mothers can do it..
There were downs also , vomiting, crying for hours continued and sometimes we get so frustrated as were not able to understand whats going on..
The best part of that time was keeping him on my chest for hours when he could not sleep on cot. It was most satisfying as a father and I know it wont be possible in future as he has outgrown now to sleep like that.
we used to surf for hours to understand why is he crying? So many different reasons on net and finally when no answer we name it Colic.
tried so many things to make him stop crying, swaddle, white noises, swing, lullaby. he used to like vacuum clear the most :) soft music made him irritated. sounds and other ppl also made him irritated.
I was dreaming that he would be so many kilos in so and so month.. but didnt realize its not how things work.. By dec end his weight gain started decreasing trend and his Vomiting started increasing. Then we came to know of another term "The Reflex". Next few months we would be studying this and how to deal with it...
Was thinking of writing this for long but when things were happening you don't get even time to think leave aside writing something. here I am going into past and remembering Ridit first few months at home.
Lot of doubts were in mind when we brought Ridit home for first time. How we would manage things, would we be able to avoid infection, what precautions to take, how we tell Mom, Dad not to touch him, how we are going to avoid friends at home, how to take him to doctors visit as hospital is very far..
we had heard with great power comes great responsibility, I guess opposite is also true with greater responsibility you get power to fulfill it ..
Daily routine wake up in the morning, prepare milk for Ridit, write down feed quantity in diary, measure temp, write down in diary, plan schedule for medicines for the day, note down whenever medicine was given, note down Potty count, if he vomits, note down that also.. and again feed every few hours. and in between clean bottles, sterlize them
No diff in day and night other than at night sometime I had to feed him as Pratichi was too tired coz of this hectic routine.
Because of fear of infection only wife and me used to hold him and everytime we touch him we used hand sanitizer. It was kind of physic routine we were following .. when i went out of home, had to take bath and change clothes only then used to touch him..
Always changing sleepers going into his room. No fans in room as he was so small and direct air should have been avoided. Now I see that time photographs i realize how small he was and have made hell lot of progress.
No tadka at home to avoid any smells, no one from outside was welcome in his room.. So many restriction and i really cant understand how parents have restrained them to follow all those what we told them to. believe me its not easy.
Days passed by with same routine. He gaining average weight I first month and half. We also started gaining confidence in ourselves.. Pratichi did very well through out. feeding a baby with spoon, bottle and that too such a small baby is not an easy job.. only Mothers can do it..
There were downs also , vomiting, crying for hours continued and sometimes we get so frustrated as were not able to understand whats going on..
The best part of that time was keeping him on my chest for hours when he could not sleep on cot. It was most satisfying as a father and I know it wont be possible in future as he has outgrown now to sleep like that.
we used to surf for hours to understand why is he crying? So many different reasons on net and finally when no answer we name it Colic.
tried so many things to make him stop crying, swaddle, white noises, swing, lullaby. he used to like vacuum clear the most :) soft music made him irritated. sounds and other ppl also made him irritated.
I was dreaming that he would be so many kilos in so and so month.. but didnt realize its not how things work.. By dec end his weight gain started decreasing trend and his Vomiting started increasing. Then we came to know of another term "The Reflex". Next few months we would be studying this and how to deal with it...
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