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Cluster Feeding: Why Your Baby Won’t Stop Feeding — and Why That’s Actually a Good Sign
It is 6pm. Your baby fed at 5pm. Then again at 6:15pm. Now, twenty minutes later, baby is rooting against your chest, fists at their mouth, working themselves up toward the cry that means they want to feed again. You look down at your baby, then at your partner, and you say the thing that…
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How to Get a Deep Latch: Step-by-Step (Mauritius Edition)
I remember the exact moment someone finally showed me, instead of telling me. Six weeks in, nipples cracked and bleeding, the lactation consultant I hired looked at how my daughter was attached, and said, quietly, “Pé fer li tini zis boute la. Vinn mo montrer ou.” She’s only taking the tip. Let me show you.…
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9 Weeks Pregnant: Fingers, Toes, and the Week You Are Just Surviving
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If you are reading this on your phone from the bathroom at work because the smell of someone’s lunch has sent you in here, or from your bed at two in the afternoon because the fatigue hit like a wall, or from wherever you happen to be that is not where you…
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Early Pregnancy Symptoms: What Is Normal, What Helps, and When to Call Your Doctor
Nobody tells you how strange the first few weeks of pregnancy actually feel. Not because it is unspeakable, but because it is so specific, the particular combination of symptoms, the particular quality of the exhaustion, the particular way your body becomes unfamiliar to you overnight, that it is genuinely difficult to prepare for in advance.…