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December 6, 2024

Breastfeeding releases myriad emotions. It is a period of highs and lows. Celebrating moms and their nurturing spirit on the occasion of Breastfeeding Week. Read these timeless stories of mothers who showed resilience and strength in the tough times of breastf...

My Fairytale Breastfeeding Journey

November 22, 2024

Motherhood is Not a Walk in the Park

November 11, 2024

Rough Start But Don't Want it to Halt

Teaching consent and early empowerment lessons on healthy boundaries

October 29, 2024

My Breastfeeding Journey- rough start, but now I don't want to stop! Read more to learn Neha's breastfeeding story - how she handled her breakdown, latching issues and now wished the precious moments would continue forever.

5 Books to Teach Body Autonomy To Kids

October 9, 2024

Books on child safety and body autonomy should be gentle, suiting to the sensibilities of a child. Here is the list of 5 books which cater to both children and parents and allow a space for these difficult topics to sit comfortably between the two.

A Tale of Love and Resilience

breastfeeding must-haves and pumping care routines

September 19, 2024

Top 10 Breastfeeding Essentials for Working Mothers

August 27, 2024

Breastfeeding is an important postpartum milestone for both babies and mothers. It is also a strenuous affair that gets demanding and challenging in the initial months of childbirth. Resuming work after delivery is another battle altogether. Being mentally re...

I Realised the Hidden Power of Motherhood

Humans of Momly Stories

August 13, 2024

I remember that team lunch very clearly 10 years ago. I was sitting in a fancy restaurant with a proper manicure and pedicure in a beautiful dress and high heels. On the next table was a lady with dishevelled hair, broken nails and messy clothes. We looked at ...

Best Books For Toddlers

Raising the Readers - Toddler Series

August 9, 2024

Books are truly our best friends. Nothing can beat the old-world charm of books. Holding a book, curling up on a sofa with our children and engaging them with an earful of stories is equal to heavenly bliss. In children, they unlock the imagination, transpo...

Is Your Baby Swimming for the First Time?

Must-Know Pool Hacks For First-Time Swimmers

July 4, 2024

Swimming is a life skill that should be learnt early on. Babies are born swimmers. They have hands-on experience in swimming as they have swam their way all through the three trimesters until their birth. However, swimming inside a womb and swimming in a pool ...

Labels Padega India: A Health Revolution in the Making

Are You Reading Food Labels?

June 28, 2024

Labels Padhega India is a health initiative that has taken social media by storm. Revant Himansingka who goes by the social media handle FoodPharmer, has made companies replace the harmful ingredients in some of their famous foods with healthy food substitutes...

Momprenuers Today: Floating Above the Pitfalls

Celebrating Mother’s Day at Momly

June 15, 2024

Women entrepreneurs are on the rise. An uptick in mom entrepreneurs and women-owned start-ups in recent years has become a story of success in business and economic growth in the country. As per the study, the current business landscape with women-owned enterp...

Infant Massage: Significance, Tips and Benefits

AMA session highlights on infant massage routine for new mums

June 15, 2024

Infant Massage is a touch therapy for babies. Also known as massage therapy, it is crucial form of bonding activity in the early childhood that envelops plethora of benefits in its roof for growing babies. Infant Massage is carried out to improve loving touch ...

Momly – Your 2 AM friend

Empowering Moms in their wellness journey

Regardless of whether we are professionally occupied or otherwise, motherhood stress catches up. It transcends career choices and affects mothers from all walks of life. To alleviate the stress and the mental load, it is necessary to be more vocal about your f...

Adoption of love!

When I met Mayank and we started getting serious about marriage, talks about family and kids started coming up, which is when this tiny little thought re appeared and came up in our conversations. It was then I realised that this was not one of the many random...

Women’s health and well-being: A comprehensive insight

Guest post

A Healthy Vision for Baby's Future

When you think being disease free, its like army with loaded arms and cake with ice-cream. Got confused, now u must be wondering what it is? So, in simple words good health is stated as a complete state of physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. It ...

Garbhasanskar and Healthy Pregnancy – What is the correlation?

Do you think Garbhasanskar and your child’s mental growth and development are interrelated? What is the science and theory behind Garbhasanskar? What are the various rituals that come under this holistic approach and the significant benefit of music therapy in...

Healing Pelvic health: Understanding Diastasis Recti

Expert Insights

Encouraging body positivity in new moms

Pregnancy impacts your pelvic floor by loosening the muscles around the pelvic area. It is common occurrence because the weight of the baby puts lot of pressure in the abdominal wall and pelvic region. All pregnancy women have diastasis recti. The pressure ca...

6 Strategies to encourage positive postnatal body image

Types of play, wholesome play ideas to engage 5 senses and community recommended sensory activities

Pregnancy body lingers not only during your pregnancy but also after the childbirth. Pregnant women face lot of body image issues throughout their pregnancy and that does not stop even when the child is born. Rather, it acts as one of the factors that contribu...

Are You Engaging Your Baby's 5 Senses?

Infant solid starts, Insights on Traditional vs BLW approaches and Best BLW Finger Foods

Sensory play is the kind of activities that boost the response of all the senses in babies. It helps babies to be more aware about the world around them. Be it engagement through visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory senses, a 4 – 6 month old ...

Baby led weaning: A Self-Eater in the Making

Once your baby is over 6 months old, they have a natural instinct to support and digest solid and semi-solid foods. 6 months is an ideal period to start off with weaning approaches. While starting with solids for babies, so many questions pop up. The best app...

My baby's heart stopped beating in-utero

Let us celebrate International Women's Day by reading the courageous stories of our community mothers. These women overcame the challenges that the universe threw at them and emerged as a beacon of hope and strength.

My son is the best thing happened to me

Loss at full term and life after

theShaktiwithin Stories

Lost and found: Reinventing myself after motherhood

The Inaudible Hum of You Can Do It

The Bittersweet Hues of Postpartum

Postpartum work challenges mitigated

Everything you want to know about resuming work after delivery: AMA ...

An Expert Guide to Starting Solids to 6 month olds

Ask me anything (AMA ) sessions in Momly Is all about demystifying myths that surround the world of motherhood and parenting, engage in healthy conversations with expert AMA session with our Expert Deepali. Navigating motherhood becomes even more difficult whe...

Starting Solids is an Emotional Journey – AMA session on Infant Solids

Cultivating Positivity in the Birthing Journey

Babies have iron reserves in their bodies. That starts depleting after 6 months. Breastmilk does not have iron. That's why solids are introduced after 6 months. So that they get a continued supply of iron and other essential nutrients. That said, Breastfeeding...

Birthing Bliss: Apprehensive You to Empowered You!

Equipping Women to Tackle Pregnancy Risks

As we celebrate the International mind-body wellness day on 3rd January, lets not forget the importance of body and mind wellness for moms during pregnancy. From adjusting to the pregnancy body to having plethora of conception symptoms and inwardly dreading on...

Watch out for these Pregnancy Risks!

An Expert Guide from Conception to Confirmation

Pregnancy is a beautiful time to be in for women. You are swimming in high most of the times and consciously planning for the road ahead. But do you know the road is layered with bumps too and you need to be watchful if you want to reach the destination safely...

All you must know about Pregnancy tests

An Eternal Tug of War between Self-identity and Motherhood

As soon as you know that you are pregnant, there are barrage of tests that follows after. With advancement in science and medicine, these tests are significant and vital in detecting the risks early on and help the doctors to take adequate measures to avoid th...

From Coupledom to Motherhood: Navigating the Inner Turbulence in Postp...

Overcoming working mom guilt

Motherhood journey is laid with giggles and thunder. There are happy times and there are struggling times. Embracing both of them and wending our way through the harried path is riddled with umpteen challenges, chief among them - dealing with emotions and big ...

My Tryst with Motherhood

Guest post

December 28, 2023

I had always heard parenting puts a lot of stress on one’s marriage and relationships with family & friends. Parenting is an evolution for a couple that might be individually carrying different parenting philosophies, different attachment styles and their own ...

Working mom guilt: Disintegrating internal peace in women

December 28, 2023

We all know how this guilt works. And it is universal for women, whether working or not to feel a certain way of guilt. The commonality that bridges the two in this guilt trip is only a fraction of the guilt, they derive it from their own self and major chunk ...

Weight lifting in pregnancy: Is it safe?

Prenatal fitness sessions

December 28, 2023

Pregnancy is a time when you have to balance exercise and rest to give the fluctuating hormones a befitting reply. Too much exercise can lead to distress in your body and too much rest won’t augur well with your labor and movement of your baby. There are prena...

The Indelible Mark of Body Shaming

Underscoring the Importance of Body Positivity

December 5, 2023

Body image issues are for real. It can have a devastating impact when these issues are thrust/inflicted upon us by our people. These people are the ones we have grown up with – cousins, aunts, uncles, friends and sometimes our parents and siblings, making them...

Colic, spitting up, cluster feeding - Common feeding challenges

What are common feeding challenges, what causes them and how can they be improved?

December 2, 2023

Navigating the feeding journey with a newborn can be filled with challenges for new moms. From latch issues to concerns about milk supply, this guide provides practical solutions. Learn how to overcome common problems like engorgement, nipple pain, and colic. ...

Tummy Tying: Does it help in postpartum wellness

Should you tummy tie or belly bind postpartum?

December 2, 2023

Tummy tying, also known as belly binding or belly wrapping, traces its roots to diverse cultures across the globe. From Asia to Africa, traditional practices have recognized the benefits of providing gentle support to the abdominal muscles and organs after chi...

Expert Insight- Breastfeeding challenges and Breastmilk Uses

How to overcome breastfeeding challenges?

October 12, 2023

Hello, moms! This week is Breastfeeding Awareness Week. This is an excellent way to raise awareness about breastfeeding and its numerous benefits, as well as to promote breastfeeding in our society. Globally, society is making significant progress in educating...

Exploring Homeschooling: What, how, and why?

A parental guide to home school your kids

October 12, 2023

Homeschooling is schooling or educating your children at home by following the school’s syllabus and format of learning. Here, your children need not go to school but be at home and do their studies. Ideally, an instructor or parents themselves carry out their...

IVF: Sehaj’s success story and takeaways

Expert backed PPD resource

October 7, 2023

After being happily married for 7 years, my Husband and I were more than ready to have a child. But as it happens, the best things in life come with hard work and endurance. After being told that it would be very difficult for me to conceive naturally due to m...

Postpartum Depression and Baby Blues: Know the difference

September 27, 2023

Childbirth is a big event in women’s life. Women who are dreaming to become mothers get a chance to see the dream manifested on their laps. A chubby baby with curious eyes and a cherubic smile is out there for you to hold close to your heart forever. But pregn...

The Ultimate Guide to Read Aloud

Top 5 recommendations from the community

September 25, 2023

Hey moms, Nation celebrated Read-A-Book Day on the 6th of September in quick succession to much-revered Teacher’s Day. Read a Book Day is celebrated to promote books, the age-old asset of humans, and reading habits in individuals. Most specifically targeted to...

Garbhasanskar and Healthy Pregnancy – What is the correlation?

A Healthy Vision for Baby's Future

September 9, 2023

Strengthening Mother-child Connect through Infant Massage

101 of Infant Massage Therapy

September 2, 2023

Infant massage is an important component of postpartum care. Massage for babies has a lot of proven benefits like immunity building, helping in blood circulation, and developing a nurturing bond between mothers and babies. What are the significant aspects of ...

Understanding the Ins and Outs of IVF

Embracing motherhood through IVF

August 7, 2023

Preparing for pregnancy or helping oneself conceive is a lot of work. It takes a toll on physical and mental health. And sometimes even if everything is aligned, there is unexplained infertility that becomes a predicament in conception. Many couples go through...

Manage your kids' screentime with these effective tips

tips and tricks

Every parent sits on a fence whether screentime should be allowed or not to their kids. Even if they decide to go ahead with it, they are not sure on the permissible time duration for screentime. It has become a widely debated topic. Some parents say that they...

Superheroes without capes: The Guiding light of children

Happy Father's Day

A complete guide to the best high chairs for your babies comfort

This Father’s Day, let’s celebrate our superheroes without capes – the other half of parenting fraternity. Here are some of the ideas to plan on a Father’s Day to strengthen the bond between fathers and children.

High Chair Recommendations

Guest post by Archana Goyal

Hello mommies, are you looking for comfortable high chairs for your babies which will keep them in a firm posture during their meal times? Momly discussed with its community of moms and here are the complete details on few best high chairs that we recommend to...

The Highs and Lows of my Bumpy Ride

How to safeguard your kids while sleeping in a bed

Motherhood is the most beautiful journey filled with love, joy, happiness, lots of challenges and growth. From the moment a baby is conceived, a mother’s life changes forever. And later after this little tiny creature comes into the world your days are full of...

Safety in bed for kids and babies

Buy these exciting choices

Bed Rails and Guards When your baby sleeps on a bed, it is always a concern how to keep her safe. To keep babies safe and guard them against falling, we tend to keep pillows on both sides. What if they turn and shift and, in the process, pillows get a nudge a...

Are you planning to buy a crib for your baby?

Hey parents, are you done flipping through online portals and walking in and out of shopping malls to choose a crib for your little ones? Babies need comfort and a safe space to sleep. A small bedstead with a sturdy enclosure and rigid sides are must-have in c...

The Ultimate Self-Care Guide for Moms

Mother's Day Special

Hey, our wonderful moms, Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we can’t keep calm. As our community is majorly led by you moms, we would like to take this opportunity to pamper and shower you with love. On that note, we have put together few self-care ide...

How to dress your baby in winters?

Baby wear in winter

Must have documents for your child in India

Winter is here. Dry winds, sudden nip in the air and cool mornings are a common occurrence now. That brings in a slew of infections and viruses to the fore. Especially children are way more vulnerable to these infections due to their weak immune system. While ...

Important Document For Children