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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…
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25 Weeks Pregnant: Strong Kicks, the GD Test, and the Third Trimester
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Something has shifted in the quality of the movement. It is not the flutter of weeks sixteen and seventeen, not the uncertain sensation that you second-guessed in the quieter moments of the second trimester. The kicks at 25 weeks are something different. They are definite. They are sometimes strong enough to be…
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23 Weeks Pregnant: The Kicks Are Real and the Third Trimester Is Closer Than It Feels | Nutura
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp The middle of the pregnancy has a particular quality that is difficult to describe to anyone who has not been inside it. There is no scan this week. No significant threshold. No appointment on the horizon that is counting down days. Just the pregnancy, doing what the pregnancy does, in the weeks…
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Toddler Recipe Book Coming Soon | Nutura Mauritius
Ready for the Next Stage? Baby Is Growing. Their Meals Are Too. If you’ve been cooking your way through 50 Healthy Baby Recipes (6+ Months), you already know what’s coming next, even if nobody warned you in advance: the baby who ate everything you put in front of them at eight months suddenly, somewhere around…
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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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22 Weeks Pregnant: Real Kicks, Real Bump, and the Sweet Spot of Pregnancy
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If there is a week in the entire pregnancy that earns the description of sweet spot, it is somewhere around here. The first trimester is behind you. The anatomy scan is done. The third trimester has not yet arrived with its particular physical demands. You are past the halfway point, your bump…
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21 Weeks Pregnant: After the Scan, the Kicks, and the Second Half Beginning
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are on the other side of the anatomy scan. If it went the way most anatomy scans go, you are carrying something in your chest that is difficult to name precisely. Not just relief, though there is relief. Something larger than that. The photographs in your phone. The particular image of…
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19 Weeks Pregnant: One Week Before the Anatomy Scan
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If your anatomy scan is scheduled for next week, there is a very specific quality to this particular seven days. You are not anxious exactly, or not only anxious. It is something more complicated than that. Anticipation of the kind that sits in your chest and makes it slightly difficult to concentrate…