Other than my hubby and I are the most concerned persons when it comes to our baby, my mother is also. Perhaps among us in the house, she is the most concerned after all. I know that she takes care of our baby like her own, that she wants our baby to be beautiful and as much as possible be flawless when he grows up. Like, it was she who initiated the wearing of socks of all time so that our baby's feet wouldn't be calloused and most of all to have his feet be good-as-newborn-like. These are one of those of my mother's care gestures. With this I'm very lucky and forever grateful to her.
What she's most concerned of is our baby's constipation. It's undeniable that she's the forefront witness of our baby's agony whenever he disposes his wastes. It's my mother who's now the direct caretaker of our baby almost all the time. She spends eight to nine hours a day six days a week with our baby. So somehow her suggestions does matter regarding our baby's welfare most and if not some of the time. We already had our baby regularly take Lactulose lilac as laxative to help ease his constipation. Though our baby can dispose but he still passes a clay-like mixture - still not a soft stool. Out of desperation, my mother suggested that we try rice porridge since it alleviated (per our neighbor but I doubt it)our neighbor's baby's constipation. Since we always want the best for our baby, per my research, brown rice porridge is better than white rice porridge. So I asked my hubby to buy the brown.
I believe that department store groceries won't sell for just a one-fourth kilo, so my hubby bought two kilos for a price almost two times higher than the ordinary rice. I was excited for the outcome of our baby's waste and I believe my mother is much more excited. However, we were just disappointed because our baby didn't eat the porridge. Even though my mother mixed it with Gerber exotic fruit mixtures (our baby's favorite) but still our baby didn't eat it. Actually, after cooking it to make it into a creamy, yummy porridge, we crushed it further in the blender to make a better smoothie. Yet, our baby didn't like it. I can just imagine how disappointed my mother was. But you really can't force an already-hungry-whining baby. Hence, my mother ended up letting him eat his favorite Cerelac. Personally, I didn't think that the rice porridge would ease our baby's constipation but it is what my mother suggested so I gave in after all there's no harm in trying and I think that it's high time also for our baby to be exposed to different kinds of food.
With the failure rice porridge, my mother later suggested to change our baby's milk which my hubby and I had been considering also. So we sort of made a decision in unison last week to buy another brand of milk. However, we were in for a much disappointment (it has been featured here). I feel it's a much disappointment because the costly-brand new milk (though Similac is costlier) is just put to waste. However, my cost-conscious mother thought of finding ways to let our baby consume it though it'll be a very slow consumption. Well, I guess it's really part of the cost of having a baby. Anyways, the papa/my hubby was just no-comment and didn't have any disturbing reaction of what had just unfolded. It's that how he loves so much our baby - anything for our baby!!
My hubby also bought ripe papayas when he bought the brown rice. He was hoping to have it mixed with the brown rice porridge but my mother wasn't able to do it because the papayas weren't that over ripe to mix. Somehow, it was a good thing it wasn't included in the waste brown rice porridge. When the papayas were that in good ripeness, my mother little by little introduced the fruit to our baby. Still my baby doesn't like it. I noticed that whenever any of us eat something like a bread, chicos or tambis our baby would grab the food for a bite. He would try to swallow it with delight and with a happy-feeling-part-of-the-group face. He isn't choosy then. So I came into realization that maybe somebody has to eat the papaya so that our baby would also be delighted to eat it. So that was what we did and our baby did eat. However, he won't eat it when it's being spoon-feed to him. I think it's all in his mind. He has this notion that when it's a spoon-feed he expects a food to be that tasty like his favorite Cerelac but is just disappointed to learn that it's a papaya. So he won't eat the papaya then. But lately, my mother forced him to take the papaya and my mother was able to let him eat five teaspoonful of pure ripe papaya.
A probable breakthrough because our baby disposed a just-enough-softness waste. My mother was sure it's because of the papaya because she said she can smell the papaya in our baby's waste. Take note my mother has a sinusitis so she can't smell that easily. So the smell of the papaya in our baby's waste must've been that significant for her to recognize it.
We already know that papaya should have been the cure from the start but our baby won't really eat it. I guess it was the confidence of having him take the laxative drug and the hope that maybe his constipation would ease up when he'll come of age. However, now that he's already ten months old and the situation hasn't lighten up, we believe that we need to do more. And this is when my mother said she has to forced our baby to eat at least five teaspoonfuls of ripe papayas. Our baby is also battling his taste buds to swallow the fruit. There'll be lots of coercion but this will be my mama's formula in battling our baby's constipation- could this now be our breakthrough? Let's see!!!! fingers crossed!!!
What she's most concerned of is our baby's constipation. It's undeniable that she's the forefront witness of our baby's agony whenever he disposes his wastes. It's my mother who's now the direct caretaker of our baby almost all the time. She spends eight to nine hours a day six days a week with our baby. So somehow her suggestions does matter regarding our baby's welfare most and if not some of the time. We already had our baby regularly take Lactulose lilac as laxative to help ease his constipation. Though our baby can dispose but he still passes a clay-like mixture - still not a soft stool. Out of desperation, my mother suggested that we try rice porridge since it alleviated (per our neighbor but I doubt it)our neighbor's baby's constipation. Since we always want the best for our baby, per my research, brown rice porridge is better than white rice porridge. So I asked my hubby to buy the brown.
I believe that department store groceries won't sell for just a one-fourth kilo, so my hubby bought two kilos for a price almost two times higher than the ordinary rice. I was excited for the outcome of our baby's waste and I believe my mother is much more excited. However, we were just disappointed because our baby didn't eat the porridge. Even though my mother mixed it with Gerber exotic fruit mixtures (our baby's favorite) but still our baby didn't eat it. Actually, after cooking it to make it into a creamy, yummy porridge, we crushed it further in the blender to make a better smoothie. Yet, our baby didn't like it. I can just imagine how disappointed my mother was. But you really can't force an already-hungry-whining baby. Hence, my mother ended up letting him eat his favorite Cerelac. Personally, I didn't think that the rice porridge would ease our baby's constipation but it is what my mother suggested so I gave in after all there's no harm in trying and I think that it's high time also for our baby to be exposed to different kinds of food.
With the failure rice porridge, my mother later suggested to change our baby's milk which my hubby and I had been considering also. So we sort of made a decision in unison last week to buy another brand of milk. However, we were in for a much disappointment (it has been featured here). I feel it's a much disappointment because the costly-brand new milk (though Similac is costlier) is just put to waste. However, my cost-conscious mother thought of finding ways to let our baby consume it though it'll be a very slow consumption. Well, I guess it's really part of the cost of having a baby. Anyways, the papa/my hubby was just no-comment and didn't have any disturbing reaction of what had just unfolded. It's that how he loves so much our baby - anything for our baby!!
My hubby also bought ripe papayas when he bought the brown rice. He was hoping to have it mixed with the brown rice porridge but my mother wasn't able to do it because the papayas weren't that over ripe to mix. Somehow, it was a good thing it wasn't included in the waste brown rice porridge. When the papayas were that in good ripeness, my mother little by little introduced the fruit to our baby. Still my baby doesn't like it. I noticed that whenever any of us eat something like a bread, chicos or tambis our baby would grab the food for a bite. He would try to swallow it with delight and with a happy-feeling-part-of-the-group face. He isn't choosy then. So I came into realization that maybe somebody has to eat the papaya so that our baby would also be delighted to eat it. So that was what we did and our baby did eat. However, he won't eat it when it's being spoon-feed to him. I think it's all in his mind. He has this notion that when it's a spoon-feed he expects a food to be that tasty like his favorite Cerelac but is just disappointed to learn that it's a papaya. So he won't eat the papaya then. But lately, my mother forced him to take the papaya and my mother was able to let him eat five teaspoonful of pure ripe papaya.
A probable breakthrough because our baby disposed a just-enough-softness waste. My mother was sure it's because of the papaya because she said she can smell the papaya in our baby's waste. Take note my mother has a sinusitis so she can't smell that easily. So the smell of the papaya in our baby's waste must've been that significant for her to recognize it.
We already know that papaya should have been the cure from the start but our baby won't really eat it. I guess it was the confidence of having him take the laxative drug and the hope that maybe his constipation would ease up when he'll come of age. However, now that he's already ten months old and the situation hasn't lighten up, we believe that we need to do more. And this is when my mother said she has to forced our baby to eat at least five teaspoonfuls of ripe papayas. Our baby is also battling his taste buds to swallow the fruit. There'll be lots of coercion but this will be my mama's formula in battling our baby's constipation- could this now be our breakthrough? Let's see!!!! fingers crossed!!!
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