Diary of a Whacky Girl

Dearest Bul, I'm going to use the most clichéd sentence every mom ever does - " Can't believe it's been" 6 months since your birth already. Though the first few months moved in snail's pace, the last couple of months have gone by in a jiffy.  From a teeny tiny goeey flowing body, with Karasev  type hands and legs, you've grown to become a bubbly ball and the thought of gobbling you up is irresistible. (I know, I sound like a cannibal, but the cuteness is too much to handle) It's a joy seeing you grow. How even the minutest and the lamest of the things excite you. Like, the sound of calling bell, the slow movement of ribbons / curtains because of the blowing fan, stainless steel cups & plates, the revolving fan, the neighbor's digital clock, the sound you make with the Thandai when we lay down on floor or try to make you sit in a chair.  True to the fact that you're growing, one biggest find of this month is to constantly wave your hands or...

Ever since we knew we were gonna have a baby, me and V were really conscious in ensuring that we avoid Huggies / Pampers and try cloth diapering. We had begun our search for the available alternatives a couple of months before delivery and had shortlisted on products - Superbottoms and Bumpadum. These two were vouched for by a couple of our friends who were already using them and one of them actually added V onto the Superbottoms Facebook group. Once Athiboy was born, we started using old Veshtis and Pampers for the first couple of days at the hospital. The little one was so sensitive that he started developing rashes on the fourth day of using Pampers. So we had to give up on using Pampers for a while. As we were thinking of how to manage it, there came my cousin with a set of cloth nappies. It was the first time I saw these and I instantly liked them. They were just cloth in the form of diapers with ties to wrap them around the waist. Thanks to him, I started hoarding those and devel...