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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…
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Implantation Bleeding or Period? How to Tell the Difference
You were not expecting to see anything. You are in the middle of the two-week wait… That suspended, slightly breathless stretch between ovulation and the day your period is either coming or, this time, hopefully not. And then you go to the bathroom and there it is. Something. Not much. But something. And your brain…
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10 Early Signs of Pregnancy Before a Missed Period | Nutura Care
You know that feeling. You are in the two-week wait. That suspended, slightly surreal stretch between ovulation and the day your period is either due to arrive or — hopefully, this time — not arrive. And your body is doing things. Small things. Things you cannot tell if you are imagining because you have been…
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When to Start Your Baby on Solid Foods: The Honest Guide Every Mauritius Mum Needs
I remember the exact moment I realised I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. My daughter was five and a half months old. She had been watching me eat with an intensity that felt slightly unnerving for someone who had spent most of her life asleep. She was sitting upright with support. She…