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Pourquoi seulement 1 maman mauricienne sur 5 allaite 6 mois
À Maurice, seules 20 % des mères allaitent exclusivement leur bébé pendant les six premiers mois recommandés par l’OMS, qui vise 50 % d’ici 2027. Ce chiffre, confirmé par le ministère de la Santé lors d’un symposium national en août 2026, n’a rien d’une fatalité culturelle. Il raconte surtout un manque de soutien structurel et…
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What Does a Lactation Consultant Actually Do?
I didn’t know what a lactation consultant was until I badly needed one and didn’t know where to find one. That gap, between needing help and knowing what kind of help exists, is one of the reasons Nutura exists at all. So before we talk about anything else, let’s close that gap. The short answer…
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When Your Milk Comes In: The First Breastfeed, Skin-to-Skin & Your First 48 Hours | Nutura
Nobody fully prepares you for the first 48 hours of breastfeeding. Not because the information is not available. There is plenty of information. But most of it is delivered before the birth, when you are still pregnant, when the baby is still abstract, when your capacity to absorb and retain what you are being told…
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Pumping at Work: Your Rights and a Realistic Schedule (Mauritius)
Sixteen weeks. That’s what most mothers in Mauritius get before returning to work, and if you’re breastfeeding, it lands at exactly the point where the relationship is settling into its rhythm, not before it, not after it, right in the middle. I’m not going to pretend that’s an easy handoff, because it isn’t. But it…
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Mastitis: Recognise It Early and Treat It Right
It came on in about four hours, the first time. Fine at lunch, and by mid-afternoon I was shivering under a blanket in thirty-degree heat, a hard, hot, red patch on the side of my left breast, feeling like I had the flu out of nowhere. I remember thinking, genuinely, that I’d caught some kind…
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What to Eat While Breastfeeding: 4 Nutrients Moms Miss
Breastfeeding is one of the most physically demanding things your body will ever do and it runs on fuel you have to actively replace. If you’ve been wondering what to eat while breastfeeding beyond “just eat healthy,” you’re not alone. Most new moms hear a lot about how much to eat, and very little about…
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Increasing Milk Supply Naturally: What Works and What’s Myth
Every mother I know who has breastfed has, at some point, googled “how to increase milk supply” at two in the morning, phone brightness turned all the way down, baby fussing at a breast that suddenly feels inadequate. I did it too. And what I found was a wall of advice, some of it excellent,…
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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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Moringa and Breastfeeding: What Brèdes Mouroum Actually Does for Your Milk Supply
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Somewhere in the first week after your baby was born, someone told you to drink moringa. Maybe it was your mother, who drank it after every birth and insists it is the reason she breastfed without difficulty. Maybe it was a neighbour who dropped off a bag of powder at the clinic.…