Author: Gauri Kshirsagar
There comes a time in the second year of your child’s life where you are faced with the question of whether or not to send your child to a playschool. Since the standard of playschools or play groups vary in our country from a “one-room” playgroup managed in the backyard of a home to a highly recognized and corporate system playschools, it keeps us thinking that are these playschools recognized? Is there an official body to keep a tab on the safety and working of these playschools? Continue reading “Playgroup(1.5 to 2.5 years): Things to consider before admission”
Growth charts are an important tool for monitoring the growth of children. Growth Monitoring is a screening tool to diagnose nutritional, chronic, systemic and endocrine disease at an early stage. Record of measurements is usually taken during your routine child visits to your pediatrician for vaccination or during sickness. Since the visit to your doctor may be sometimes hurried, it is better that you, yourself have a better understanding of the growth and development of your baby by plotting your own graphs. 
Ultrasonography is a very important tool in pregnancy to check the baby’s growth, development, position and movements. It also gives parents the first glimpse of their baby. It is very important that you understand the terminologies and other factors in the scan by which your pregnancy will be followed up for 9 months. The doctor will also give you an ultrasound report with a printout of your baby’s images. 3D and 4D color scans are becoming very popular because they offer a more life-like image of your baby.
Feeding a single baby is in itself a herculean task no doubt and when it comes to feeding twins, we are at our wits end to find the most practical and easy way to feed them. Not long time back, I had written an article on my blog 
Raising Twins™ 