When your child says she has a stomach ache, she could be suffering from a variety of disorders like gastroenteritis, measles, colic and urinary tract infections. Sometimes, it need not be a stomach disorder per se. It could be any other infection that has begun affecting other parts of her body. She might even complain… [ Continue Reading ]
Feeling kicked that your 20-day-old daughter smiled at you? Actually she did not. Her cheek muscles just happened to move for no reason and you happened to be in her line of vision. Don’t be disappointed, it will be this way till your daughter learns to control her movements. In the first two months of… [ Continue Reading ]
Colic, which is characterised by a pattern of regular, intense, inconsolable screaming due to stomach pains at a particular time every day, usually the late afternoon or evening, is often called three-month or evening colic. The pattern appears at about the end of the first to the third weeks, and continues until 12 or 14… [ Continue Reading ]
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