Organize a treasure hunt on Easter Sunday

Gather the children in your neighborhood and create a few fun clues for a treasure hunt in your colony. Hide a few decorated Easter eggs in the nooks and crannies, and watch the children scuttle to claim their prize. Make sure you reward the winners (and the others) with lots of chocolates and cake.

NUTRITIONAL NEEDS & WHAT TO KEEP IN MIND

Eating for two: ‘you should limit your average weight gain during pregnancy to about 10-12 kg. Putting on more weight will increase your chance of hyper tension, cholesterol and having a bigger baby. This also ups your likelihood for having a C- section- or a more difficult, ‘your body doesn’t need more calories to support a developing baby until the second trimester. Even then, you need only 300 more calories a day. Also you should follow a low- carbohydrate and high- protein diet( in India we tend to follow the exert opposite), ‘ some other foods myths you need to dispel are- eating ghee will help the baby slip out( it’s actually bad for the mother’s health); having too many pickles( may cause hypertension) , ‘be careful: over- indulging and bingeing may even put you at risk for gestational diabetes.’

Note-worthy

Blame it on their age, but toddles can be a handful when you take them out for a stroll in the pram. Here’s a simple but effective idea especially for young mothers who find it difficult to keep their child occupied or out of trouble when they are in a park. Just attach an inexpensive plastic music keyboard to the seat’s rim in the front of the pram. And let your budding genius’s fingers create tuneful magic!