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13 Weeks Pregnant: The End of the First Trimester
Take a breath. You have been pregnant for three months. Twelve weeks of nausea and exhaustion and anxiety and a hundred small fears you could not say out loud to most of the people around you. Twelve weeks of keeping a secret that changed the entire texture of your daily life. Twelve weeks of first…
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Signs Your Baby Is Getting Enough Milk — Breastfed and Formula Fed
It is 11pm. Your baby has just fed for thirty-five minutes, came off the breast, seemed settled, and is now awake and rooting again forty minutes later. Your breasts feel completely empty. Baby fed for most of the afternoon. Baby is crying and you have nothing left to give and the question that has been…
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4 Weeks Pregnant: What Is Happening and What to Do Next
You are staring at the test. Maybe you have stared at it for five minutes, picked it up and put it down three times, held it under the light to check that you are reading it correctly. Maybe you took a second one just to be sure. Maybe you are sitting on the bathroom floor.…
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Breastfeeding: What Nobody Tells You About the First 6 Weeks
Less than 30% of new mothers in Mauritius are breastfeeding. That number comes from the Minister of Health. It means that more than seven out of ten babies born on this island are not receiving the milk their mothers’ bodies were built to provide them. And behind that statistic, behind each individual decision to stop,…
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The 4-Month Sleep Regression: What Is Actually Happening and How to Get Through It
You were just starting to feel like you had figured something out. Not perfect sleep as there is no perfect sleep in the first year, and anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or has a very selective memory. But something. A rough pattern. A stretch of three or four hours that you had…
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Sleep Regressions in the First Year: The Full Timeline and What Each One Means
Last week baby was sleeping reasonably well. Not perfectly as there is no perfectly with a baby in the first year, but reasonably. You had found something approaching a rhythm. Two or three wake-ups a night that you could handle. Naps that happened more or less when you put baby down. A bedtime routine that…
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Car Seat Safety in Mauritius: Rear-Facing, Installation & the Law
The day you bring your baby home from the hospital or clinic, there is one thing that has to happen before you leave the car park. Baby goes in the car seat. Not on someone’s lap. Not in someone’s arms, no matter how securely those arms are holding them. Not nestled into the gap between…
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10 Baby Sleep Tips That Actually Work | Nutura Mauritius
I am going to tell you something that nobody told me before I had a baby and that I wish someone had said very clearly and very early. There is no secret. There is no magic sequence, no perfect product, no single method that will reliably make a baby sleep through the night by six…
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6 Signs Your Baby Is Ready for Solid Foods and What to Ignore
My daughter was five months old when I started getting the questions. From my mother. From my mother-in-law. From well-meaning neighbours and aunties at family gatherings who would look at her, look at me, and say some version of the same thing: li bizin koumans manze. She needs to start food. She is big. She…
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Preparing for Labour in Mauritius: What to Expect and How to Feel Ready
There is a specific kind of fear that arrives in the third trimester. It is not constant, and it is not always loud. It lives somewhere in the background of ordinary days while you are at work, while you are trying to sleep, while you are watching someone else’s birth story on YouTube at midnight…