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This Festive Season Cook To Impress!

Recipes to help you cook up a storm for your celebrations

GUILT-FREE INDULGENCE

Make your festive season indulgence guilt-free, with Naturally Yours’ multi millet noodles, that packs in all the nutrients without the extra calories.

How To Have An Eco-Conscious Diwali With Your Li'l Ones!

This Diwali, take care while having fun...

Decoding low milk supply

Effath Yasmin is India's leading IBCLC, a biodynamic craniosacral therapist from Mumbai, India and founder of Nourish & Nurture. Her special interests lie in infant oral and sucking dysfunction, tongue-tie assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, biomechanics of breastfeeding and treatment of birth trauma, anxiety and depression. Yasmin serves on the national board of Birth India and international advisory board of ICAP (International Consortium of Oral Ankylofrenula Professionals) and GOLD Conferences. She is also the producer and director of an award-winning international documentary film Untying Breastfeeding screened across many countries.

Consciously Living!

A real mum’s account of adapting her baby to a sustainable way of living...

Desi sweets that are actually healthy!

We’re giving you a good reason to enjoy the festive indulgence....

Your Guide to Pain relief in Labour

Pregnancy is a joyful for period for most women, only topped by the birth of your mini-me. It is one of the most life-changing experiences you can have, to bring another life into this world. However, as the name implies, labour at the end of nine months is a painful process. Most mum-to-be’s are concerned about how they would cope with labour pains, and whether they would indeed be able to go through the long hours that labour entails.

The bitter sweet truth

Planning a baby but suffering from diabetes? M&B tells you how you can safeguard your baby through preconception care for diabetes

The Bonding Fix

Maternal instinct doesn’t always magically appear as soon as you see that positive pregnancy test. But don’t stress —arm yourself with strategies to help you connect with your baby

Mithai with a (healthy) twist

Counting calories? Our healthy mithai recipes will come to your rescue this festive season...

Smooth Sailing! (Not Always)

Thirty-one-year-old Noopur Singh talks to M&B about ‘navigating’ through the challenges of her long-distance marriage to her merchant navy officer husband; and being primary caregiver to two-year-old Anaya

Too close for comfort ...

Are you plain protective of your child or do you border on the obsessive? Do you smother him with attention to an extent that can prove unhealthy for him? Do you know how to maintain the balance to let him grow? M&B gives you all the answers...

Think Outside The Books - Putting The Fun Back In Learning

From story-telling and custom-made lesson boxes, to home schooling and classes taught in a quirk manner, there’s a lot to explore, mums...

Life & Kids - Add to Cart

At M&B, we understand that working from home and tending to household chores can get overwhelming.

Worth every shot!

Physically, emotionally and financially daunting, IVF is still not accepted in conservative societies. But it’s nothing short of a boon for aspiring parents. Here’s one heartening story of a mum who did not give up, and finally came out tops, because of her gumption and just a little help from Science...

What's your style?

While you may have your own distinct approach towards bringing up your baby, studies have identified four major categories that parents fall into. Which one is yours?

Two three's are five

Sunita Chand, co-founder, TopCubit, recalls her journey of adoption, to the moment she became mum to her three sons, Samuel, David and Isaac

Two good to be true!

Shilpasri and Lakshmi are mommies to Dishant and Trishika, and even though they are aunts to each other’s child, they’ve played the roles of being their mothers. One fostered her little nephew as she yearned for her own child, and another carried her husband’s niece in her womb, to fulfil that yearning...

Parenting with a twist!

Traditionally, when we think of ‘parents’, we always think of the couple as a man and a woman. Of course, traditionally, there is marriage and the natural methods of conception. But times have changed, and many couples have embraced newer methods of conception which are also very normal. Couples may choose to have a baby because they want to cement their love and build a family together, and this can be under different circumstances which are do not follow ordinary patterns. Couples who are not able to conceive may opt for adoption or surrogacy, and they may face certain unique situations and challenges.

Mum is mum

Mother and Baby Editor Swati Chopra Vikamsey had her baby with the help of surrogacy. How different is that from having a baby any other way?

Just Mum!

As a single heterosexual woman, when politician, entrepreneur and former actor Shrreya Pande chose to have a baby via surrogacy, she raised several eyebrows. But now that she has learned the ropes of being mum to Aador, 2, she opens up about her initial insecurities...

Adoption 101

Here’s your ready-reckoner for everything you’d need to know on the process in India

Coronavirus And Fertility - 7 Things You Should Know

Planning on starting your army of mini-mes soon? Here’s what you should keep in mind

Living With COVID-19

Mum influencer Shradha Mehra Virani aka, The Diaper Drama, recalls her experience looking after the kids and her household, as a COVID-positive patient

The secret life of your unborn baby

The secret life of your unborn baby

Mothering through breastfeeding

Humans are social beings, and develop social life skills to connect, communicate and care during infancy and childhood as these are the formative years. When a woman begins her pregnancy, she steps into the realm of her embodiment of being a woman, capable of mothering a child.

Bonds for Life

Sibling bonding needs to be nurtured and guided to ensure that relationships are forged and last forever

Breastfeeding India from nectar to naysayers

Is it a matter of time before public breastfeeding is completely normalised?