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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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26 Weeks Pregnant: Baby Is the Size of a Cauliflower
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are almost at the third trimester. Not there yet, that threshold is week 28, still two weeks away but close enough that this week has a particular quality of almost. The second trimester that felt like it stretched indefinitely when you were in the first half of it is now almost…