Cruising into 6 months old, baby Jaden now has 2 tiny teeth breaking through his lower gum.
Overall, he is adapting fine to it except constantly droolling excessively. Wiping him to keep him dry seems like a never ending task. We also have to put a bib over him to prevent his shirt from being soaked up.
One of my friends told me that both her sons did not drool because she performed a ritual on the babies when they were 4 months old. This ritual has been practiced on every babies in her family except for her elder brother who married a Caucasian lady. And guess what? only his brother's children drool like nobody's business in her entire family!
I told my mum about this ritual and even she laughed at me for believing such an old wives' tale. My husband and I were skeptical about it too. However, I said no harm trying it just to test if it really works. Without having high hopes, I got my mum to buy a packet of 'pong piah' ( a type of Chinese traditional biscuits with white sugar filling) from Penang during her recent trip to KL.
So, this was what we did.
1) Prepare a piece of 'pong piah' and some red thread.
2. Poke a hole in the middle of 'pong piah' and pull the red thread through it, to form a 'necklace'.
3) Wear the 'necklace' over baby Jaden
4) Wipe the biscuit slightly on his mouth and repeat the following 'mantra' for a few times:
" Baby stop drooling, let his saliva dry up".
I actually said this 'mantra' in Hokkien. So, it sounds like this:
"Baby mai lau nuah, cui nuah cia ta ta".
5) After that, I, as the mother of the baby must eat up the whole biscuit, even though it was already soaked with Jaden's drool (yuck!).
If you were to ask me did this ritual work? The answer is it did. Though Jaden did not stop drooling entirely, but it has dramatically and amazingly reduced!
Believe it or not? Hahahha!
