Dear All,

My baby boy is 5 mths old & normally is a very cheerful .. always smiling child who doesnt cry much.

For past 1 week, my husband & I (staying alone in Kenya) have noticed that he has becum very quiet, he doesnt play or laugh aloud anymore, his always-ready smiles are also absent.
He had a mild cold & cough & we are giving him medicines for that but in the past even if he had a cough he was still cheerful .

I am very worried abt his sudden behaviour chnage. His solid eating too has undergone change. He is no longer eating his 3 solid meals a day happily & sometimes cries at evenings, exerts pressure on his feet & tries to move.

PLS ADVISE as to what can the matter be with him & what i can do to help. The qlty of peds here is terrible so no point of visiting docs.

Any one experienced something like this?

Thanks

Nidhi
Sujatha replied. Hi Nidhi,
Don't worry about your boy. He is just growing and learning new things. This is very normal especially after being sick. Just take him around and show him different things so that he can explore. It is just that they are developing different moods. My girl used to giggle like anything before but it takes a lot of different ways to make her giggle that way.

May be you have to bring out the smile by you being silly.
Let me know how he is now.
Good luck.