I’ve been wanting to start guest posts for some time now because there are many interesting, wise, brilliant mommies (and daddies) out there with some wonderful insights that we can all benefit from. Yesterday my friend Gau, one of the most gorgeous, intelligent, articulate and empathetic people i know put up an Instagram post that fired…
Category: All about babies
How we say babies are perfect and then roll up our sleeves to make our improvements upon them
I recently read and loved Aditi Mittal’s tweets directed towards the horrible “fairness industry” in this country. It is brilliant to see people wake up and embrace ‘dusky’, ‘wheatish’, ‘biscuit-colored’ and whatever other gorgeous browns God has gifted us with although it is still miles to go before Indians stop giving skin-color any thought at…
From Mission Weight-Gain-Rumi to Mission Just-Chill
It happens to me every time we visit the pediatrician. I become a hawk. I can physically feel the transition happening, from tiny, over-smiley young woman to hawk-woman, watching any child that is plumper than Rumi with cold, calculating eyes and running my tongue over my lips (err… beak – do birds have tongues?) Then…
To buy or not to buy, that is the question!
OMG, the market for little kids these days!! Gone are the days when children would dutifully hold their mom’s hand and follow her into a large everything-under-one-roof -store and stand quietly while she haggled with the salesmen and held up frock after frock till she (and not the child!) found the perfect birthday outfit. I…
Pink babies and the blues: what no one ever tells you about the post-delivery period
Pregnancy is a wonderful, wonderful time. All your relatives dote on you. And by that, I mean everybody: long lost aunts who smirked at your under-performance in school are now cooking your favorite foods, aloof uncles are making polite small talk about the due date, and the grumpiest grandmums smile and offer free advice on…
Two Purple Lines 