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Dear Vaidya,

 

I just wanted to update on my wife's birth experience here in USA.

 

My wife delivered a baby girl last week and the baby was born about

3 weeks prior to its due date. Labor had to be induced as there were

no contractions after the membranes were ruptured. She wanted to

have a normal delivery and so did not take any pain medication such

as Epidural or Anaesthesia. With labor being induced by artificial

means ( Pitocin is generally used to induce labor) contraction

pains are very intense and not easily bearable. After tweleve long

hours of labour her cervix was dilated about 10 cm and she could

push to get the baby out. My wife had developed high fever during

labor and as a precaution both the mother and baby were given

antibiotics. The baby's blood cultures turned out to be negative and

we could take the baby home after 48 hours of observation at the

newborn ICU.

 

 

Finally my wife's blood sugar levels have come back to normal and

even the baby's blood sugar levels are fine.

 

Now we have other issues to look at.

 

1)The baby is kind of considered pre-term as it was born at 37.4

weeks instead of 40 weeks. The baby does not latch on to the breasts

easily and just falls asleep. The pediatrician says its because of

the warmth the mother gives to the baby. So unfortunately my

daughter is fed an infant formula. We have tried several methods to

try making the baby latch to the mother but were unsuccessful.Also

her breasts have become heavy and painful. The baby is also a slow

eater when it comes to eating infant formula. It takes about 30 mins

to finish 30-35 ml of formula and the pediatrician is a little

concerned about the slow eating. So would any Vaidya have any

suggestions on how to get the baby latched for a long time and

stimulate the mom so that baby can get fed ?

 

2) My mother-in-law who came from India is taking care of all the

kitchen activities and taking care of the new mom. The diet she is

currently on is kind of soupy ( like diluted toor dal with sauted

garlic and cummin )and supposedly easily digestible mashed food . My

wife is not allowed to go out in the air and wearing a scarf all the

time. She is also been given coriander/cummin/fenugreek/ajwan tea.

My mother-in-law is not an Ayurvedic expert and has following just

the " old Indian tradition " . So I'm not sure how effective is the

diet. She was saying after the 11th day she is going to give a lehya

( jam ) called " Saubhagya Shunti " . Its a pretty popular lehya in

Bangalore. Any comments on the diet ? Any changes required ?

 

 

If any Vaidya is willing to take up our case we can take it offline.

Please provide me your contact information and we can go from there.

 

Thanks,

DT