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Start with light food 12 hours after child-birth. Give when the mother is hungry after delivery.

1. Gruel of Rice with or without brown sugar (jaggery) and Milk
Gruel of rice & brown sugar (jaggery) in milk is strengthening, heating, gives immediate calories to the mother.

Ingredients:

Rice - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup

Preparation:

Cook rice to soft and then add milk and boil. Add brown sugar (jaggery) before serving.Just plain rice gruel without milk and brown sugar (jaggery) is also good if the person does not like milk. Chopped onions and ginger can be add if milk is not used.

Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes.

2. Broken wheat with or without brown sugar (jaggery) and Milk
This is also strengthening and heating.

Ingredients:

Broken wheat - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup

Preparation:

Cook wheat to soft and then add milk and boil. Add brown sugar (jaggery) before serving. Just plain wheat gruel without milk and brown sugar (jaggery) is also good if the person does not like milk. Chopped onions and ginger can be add if milk is not used.

Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes.

3. Corn with or without brown sugar (jaggery) and Milk
This is also strengthening and heating.

Ingredients:

Corn - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup

Preparation:

Cook corn to soft and then add milk and boil. Add brown sugar (brown sugar (jaggery)) before serving. Just plain corn gruel without milk and brown sugar (jaggery) is also good if the person does not like milk. Chopped onions and ginger can be add if milk is not used.

Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes.

4. Puffed Rice With banana

Ingredients:

1 cup of puffed rice
One banana
one tablespoonful of freshly grated coconuts
palm brown sugar (jaggery) or raw sugar one tablespoon

Preparation:

To puffed rice sprinkle water (or milk) and mix to make it soft then add other ingredients and serve.

Adding sliced banana or apple is also good.

5. Lassi (Sweet ground wheat roasted in ghee and brown sugar (jaggery))

Ingredients:

Broken wheat - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Ghee - 1 or 2 table spoon

Preparation:

Cook wheat to soft and then add milk and boil. Add brown sugar (jaggery) and ghee before serving.

Preparation Time: 15 to 30 minutes.

6. Amaranth Halwa

Ingredients:

Amaranth flour - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Palm brown sugar (jaggery)/Raw sugar - 25 gm
Butter or ghee - one teaspoon (optional)

Preparation:

Add butter or ghee in pan and briefly fry the flour in it ( 1 to 2 minutes) and then add water. If a semi solid consistency required add one cup of water, if a more liquid consistency desired add 2 to 3 cups of water.

Frying in ghee or butter is optional. Directly flour can be added in water.

Cook in medium flame and continuously stir to prevent charring of the halwa. Add brown sugar (jaggery) after the flour is cooked and stir for few more minutes.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes.

7. Bishop weed (Ajowan) Halwa

Ingredients:

Ajowan - 1/4 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Palm brown sugar (jaggery)/Raw sugar - 25 gm
Butter or ghee - one teaspoon (optional)
Coriander seeds - one teaspoon
Rice flour - 1/2 cup

Preparation:

Add butter or ghee in pan and briefly fry the rice flour, ajowan seeds in it ( 1 to 2 minutes) and then add water. If a semi solid consistency required add one cup of water, if a more liquid consistency desired add 2 to 3 cups of water.

Frying in ghee or butter is optional. Directly flour can be added in water.

Cook in medium flame and continuously stir to prevent charring of the halwa. Add brown sugar (jaggery) after the flour is cooked and stir for few more minutes.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes.

Gruel of tuvar and wheat flour, brown sugar (jaggery) dry coconut & dates

8. Lentils Halwa

Ingredients:

Toor dal or mung dal - 1/4 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Palm brown sugar (jaggery)/Raw sugar - for sweetness
Butter or ghee - one teaspoon (optional)
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Dry coconut - Three tablespoons
Dates - one cup

Preparation:

Add butter or ghee in pan and briefly fry the lentils and wheat flour, coconut ( 1 to 2 minutes) and then add water. If a semi solid consistency required add one cup of water, if a more liquid consistency desired add 2 to 3 cups of water.

Frying in ghee or butter is optional. Directly flour can be added in water.

Cook in medium flame and continuously stir to prevent charring of the halwa. Add dates and brown sugar (jaggery) for extra sweetness after the flour is cooked and stir for few more minutes.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes.

9. Garlic Halwa

Ingredients:

Garlic - 1 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Palm brown sugar (jaggery)/Raw sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter or ghee - one teaspoon (optional)
Fresh coconut milk - one cup

Preparation:

Grind garlic in a blender with water and cook it well. Then add coconut milk and rest of the ingredients and cook

Cook in medium flame and continuously stir to prevent charring of the halwa.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes.

10. Carrot Halwa

Ingredients:

carrot - 1 cup
Water - 1 to 2 cups
Brown sugar (jaggery) - 1/2 cup
Butter or ghee - one teaspoon (optional)
Fresh coconut milk - one cup

Preparation:

Grind carrot in a blender with water and cook it well. Then add coconut milk and rest of the ingredients and cook

Cook in medium flame and continuously stir to prevent charring of the halwa.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes.

Juices after delivery

Drink every hour or two fresh fruit juices with honey.

For snacks keep munching dates, dried figs, prunes, raisins which would cure weakness.

This diet is good to be followed for two to three months.

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Baby Medicines

Baby Herbal mix: .Take a handful of following herbs - Phyllanthus Niruri leaves, Eclipta Alba, dried ginger powder, tender neem leaves, 10 black pepper and fry in 100 ml to 200 ml of castor oil and then grind to a paste with rice starch water and round up to small pea-nut size shape and dry in sun. Every week adults can eat one capsules after good. Babies, wet with water again and make to a fine paste and give to babies after 3 months. Dose, one fourth of a tablet and after one year old make to half size dose and then after 3 years to one size.

Benefits: Improves immunity against diseases.

This recipes was given by Mrs. Shantheeshwari, from Thiruvoor, Chennai

Vacha (Acorus calamus)- Improves memory, corrects stammering naturally

Vasambu, Vayambu new born baby

http://rajaramvarier.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-born-vayambu-administration_07.html

Ora marunthu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLn_QIVpo8

http://homemaderemedy.blogspot.com/2009/02/baby-after-bath-medicene-ura-marundu.html

For child fever, cough, cold, vomoting, infections-home remedies.

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/7148/1/IJTK%209%281%29%209-17.pdf

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/7183/1/IJTK%209%281%29%20203-208.pdf

How to improve immunity?

http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/health/2017/jul/22/building-up-infants-immunity-1631385.html

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Baby Travel

Baby is taken out after the rituals are done. Modern babies are also given additional vaccine rituals before they are taken out doors.

It is always good to let the baby know before doing any action concerned with the baby. Example, the parent can tell that the baby is going to be given a bath, given food and travel.

Travel long distance or even outside for shopping is bothering with babies. We found that when parent(S) talk to baby before the travel, the babies seems to understand and be less cranky.

We have observed this since 2001 and recommended to many friends who were first thought it did not make any sense. But in their experience they do see a difference, when babies are told when and where and why they are travelling.

Sure in future some research studies will prove this aspect is right.

In our experience babies do understand the conversations they hear. They do not reply or respond because of their inability to pronounce and use vocalbulary words.

This is why we suggest mothers to talk in mother tongue right from pregnancy so that the child hears the sounds and do connect with itself.

Here is a discussion and testimonials about this approach.

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Baby Bath

Often the question arises about oil bath given for babies. Bathing is not only a cleanliness ritual but also relaxes and gives freshness to the baby.

Oil Bath and massage

Oil for baby

Application of coconut oil or sesame oil prevents body-heat and bad exposure to cold winds to infants. Oil keeps the skin free from dryness and scabies. Oil is traditionally used in Asian cultures for centuries for preventing infections and skin texture in children. But sadly modern women out of fancy have switched over to the use of mineral or petroleum based baby oils. Unrefined vegetables oils have innumerable effects on babies. Click here to read an interesting discovery by recent scientific study on the use of sunflower oil on decreasing infections in premature babies.

Get Touchy Feely With Plants: Gently Rubbing Them With Your Fingers Can Make Them Less Susceptible to Disease (Uni5: Then imagine the effects of touch on our own children. This is we emphsize on massage after birth)

We suggest to use coconut oil or sesame oil for babies. Olive oil tans the skin and so it is not recommended for brown skin. Unrefined coconut oil is the best for complexion.

Oil bath influences the microbes in skin. Now read how Microbes-of-the-Skin has a link to immunity.

Oil for ears

Add a few drops of unrefined coconut oil or unrefined sesame oil in both the ears. This cleans the dirt and prevents ear infections. But remember to add only clean oil and spoon to add into ears Alternatively , the oil can be boiled for a few minutes and after it is cooled, store in a bottle and use within a few months.

Adding a few drops of unrefined coconut oil or sesame oil to ears often (at-least once a week) is very good for healthy ears of the kid. This will prevent ear infections and keep the ear healthy and will prevent future ear and hearing problems.

Oil massage

For the first three months its good to use coconut oil and then switch to sesame oil for the body and still continuing with coconut oil for the head. After one year, sesame oil can be used for both head and body and still continue with coconut oil for head only.

Oil baths can be given after third day of birth if the kid does not have any other problems.

Gently rub oil over the baby's head and body and after half an hour give baby a hot shower (do not directly use the shower instead use a vessel to pour water on the baby). Applying oil every day and giving bath is healthy for the kids. Massaging with oil has innumerable benefits especially helping the kid grow and washing the toxins form the body.

Read this link for important information on growth and immunity of babies depend on baby massage given after birth.

Pancha Bhoota Baby Massage

Ear infections

Our experience shows that these healthy practices example with oiling ears of two day old baby for three to six months everyday and also massaging the baby's head and body with oil before bath has prevented ear infections and all teething problems regularly children get. The child also is resistant form any infections that are common in children. Since oil prevents bacteria from entering body's surface, it could be that oiling ears fight from the new born days for six months everyday and then doing once a week for life long prevents ear infections.

Soap

Avoid using any sort of cosmetic to the infant. No baby oils, soap shampoo etc. Use mung dal flour. Mung dal flour ( mung dal is type of lentil) is available in Indian stores. This is a good shampoo and can be used to clean the baby's body and hair. Add a litle water and make a paste with the mung dal flour. If needed a pinch of turmeric can be added to the paste to prevent infections. Too much of turmeric will cause coloration of the baby clothes.

Add a pinch of turmeric to the bathing water of the infant for first one or two months to avoid any sort of infection to the baby from water. Turmeric also give some protection to chemicals in the water.

Give head and body bath every day to the baby. This will give the baby good relaxation and hence sound sleep. If the baby has a cold or infection , it is better to avoid head bath. It is good to make bath a practice so that when the baby grows up, bathing becomes a regular life style.

Baby products are harmful. Click here to read about it.

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Baby Exercise

Baby Massing stimulates the lymphatic system which is very important for immunity. Since the baby is most of the time sleeping, not giving good massage reduces the immunity. This results in frequent colds and fever.

Baby Yoga type massaging is the best. Apply oil and give good massage. This increases the lymphatic circulation. As we have discussed in the sakthi web site, there are two types of circulations, the blood and the lymphatic circualtion. Blood is circulated by heart pumping while lymphatic circulation by body movements. Massaging of babies (Abhayanga in Ayurveda) increases immunity through good lymphatic circualtion.

In Soutjh India traditionally hot water bath (turning baby into almost red) was given to increase lymphatic circualtion.

Baby immunity depends on this massage and the mother's diet which has lot of medicinal herbs. These herbs flow through milk into the baby's body giving good immunity. This was the secret behind special post-delivery recipes for the delivered mother.