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The Cake
Indredients:
- Flour- ½ cup
- Milk Powder-1/2 cup
- Melted Butter-1 cup
- Egg-4
- Sugar- 3/4 cup
- Baking Powder- 1 tea spoon
- Lemon Essence- ½ tea spoon
Making Process:
- Grease a 6 inch (radius) baking pan with butter. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a medium bowl, stir the eggs for 2 minutes with an electric
mixer. Add butter and sugar and stir for another 5 minutes. Slowly add
flour and milk powder and keep stirring. Add all other ingredients and
stir for another 2 minutes. Pour the mix in the pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Insert a toothpick into the cake and check if it comes out clean. If not, then bake for another 10 minutes.
Frosting
Indredients:
- Philadelphia Cream Cheese-1/2 of a bar
- Whipped Cream- ½ of a can
- Sugar -1/2 cup
Making Process:
• Stir the ingredients with an electric mixer for 10 minutes.
Finishing
Cool cake completely. Add the frosting and smooth the top, sides and edges with a knife. Decorate with dry fruits.
The Man Booker Prize (1997) winning book The God of Small Things
is Arundhati Roy’s only novel.
The story plots the social circumstances
of South Indian state of Kerala in 1960s. The book is about the
sufferings of twin children Estha and Rahel as a consequence of social
hypocrisy. She pictured how caste system and superstition influenced
social norms and how lives were demolished as a result them. Through the
death of a child Sophie Mol may seem irrelevant to the main course of
story, but through it she pointed out how things can change in a day.
Roy’s story plotting and language fashion is rhythmic, unusually
chronological and majestic. The book ends with a feeling of how things
could actually be!
Raising up a child for working moms is undoubtedly a hard job.
Working mothers not only has to work hard physically but also has to go
though a lot of psychological ebbs and flows. Studies say, kids are more
prone to diseases and illness when their mothers are working. Things
are worse for the ones who are formula fed.
Though it is recommended to breast feed your child exclusively up to 6
months and follow it on with solid foods after that; some mothers
cannot afford it due problems of lactation, child born pre-matured etc.
Many mothers feel guilty for not being able to breast feed their child
and some get extremely depressed of it. Though the percentage of formula
feeding infants is less, it is completely okay to feed your child
formula if you cannot afford to breast feed even after trying your best.
I am also one of those mothers who feeds formula to their child.
After trying hard I failed to breast feed my baby and chose formula.
Initially I was having a felling of guilt but later I tried to study and
practice the right ways of feeding formula as I had no other way than
that.
Here I would like to write some tips for formula feeding working mothers from my experiences:
- First of all, choose a suitable formula for you child. Some babies
are lactose intolerant. So, talk to your pediatrician whether to choose
lactose based, lactose free or soy based formula.
- Boiling a feeding bottle for at least 10 minutes is mandatory before
feeding you child in it. Also, you have to store the feeding bottles in
a sterile way. Here is how I clean and store my baby’s feeding bottles:
I bought 6 feeding bottles for my baby so that I can use them
throughout the day. I wash all the bottles at a time at night with a
feeder washing liquid soap. Then I boil them in a large cooking bowl in
stove for 15 minutes. Before bringing them out from the cooking bowl, I
sterile my hand with a hand sanitizer. I store the feeders in a box in my
refrigerator. When I need to feed my child, I take one bottle out from
refrigerator, feed in it and then put in another box which I keep for
storing used feeders in my refrigerator. When all 6 of the feeders are
used by night, I wash them again and follow the same process. Thus, I
maintain hygiene as storing bottles in refrigerator keeps the feeders
safe from bacteria and does not require cleaning them frequently.
Moreover,
- Choosing right feeding bottle is important. Choose a feeding bottle
that your child is comfortable to be fed from and choose the proper
nipple size for his/her age.
- Change the nipples every 15 days and feeding bottles every 3 months.
- When you take your child to daycare take 5/6 sterilized feeding
bottles with you and ask them to store them in refrigerator as the way
you do at your home.
- After 6 months of age, it is important to make your child habituated
to solid foods. Increase the amount of solid foods gradually and
decrease the amount of formula.
