The baby is gaining lots of weight right now. Women are quick to ask "Do you have enough milk?" Yes; the credit might not be due any certain food, but the advice went that way. The first miracle food was millet porridge; it is simple, good, and eaten in great quantity. Then one day I found sesame seeds - about two kg of raw sesame seeds - washed and drying in the sun. What were we going to do with all those sesame seeds? Eat them, of course! By the handful if we want to. I've also enjoyed them on yogurt or fruit.
As far as prohibited items, I was told not to drink cold water, although that is a guideline I haven't followed. Peanuts and beans make sense to avoid... but we were advised that mangoes also cause stomach aches for the baby, and that's when I got really sad. We're right in mango season! I still want to test that one, cause I'm not sure that it's true.
People like to offer one thing for baby gifts: soap. Soap is the thing; bars of soap in quantity. On Sunday, women came after church to offer us ten bars of soap. That afternoon, Adama's mother called to say that her coworker gave ten bars of soap. Added to what the neighbors and the pastor's wife gave, we now have 41 bars of soap. Well, babies do make a lot of laundry and baths!
The weather is cooling down, which helps us sleep well in the morning (especially when the baby has been wide awake for the first half of the night.) We had rain last night, and this is the first day I would say has been pleasantly cool. Now we'll be dealing with mud rather than dust. And Adama said that now people will use less perfume - ha ha! The rainy season is here!
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