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Folate-Rich Lentil, Spinach and Pumpkin Curry for Preconception Nutrition
When you begin trying to conceive, it can suddenly feel as though every meal needs to be perfect. You may find yourself questioning the rice you usually eat, the curry you have cooked for years or the dhal that has always been part of your family table. But preparing your body nutritionally does not require…
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Gagging vs Choking in Babies: What Every Mauritius Parent Needs to Know
The first time my daughter gagged on food, I moved so fast I knocked the bowl off the highchair tray. She was seven and a half months old. I had given her a small piece of very ripe papaya, soft, impossibly soft, the kind of soft that seemed like it could not possibly cause any…
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Baby’s First Red Lentils Purée: Iron-Rich First Food for Mauritius Babies
The first time I gave my daughter something other than milk, I stood at the kitchen counter for a solid five minutes trying to decide what it should be. I had read about baby rice. I had seen sweet potato everywhere on Instagram. And then I looked at my own pantry, at the bag of…
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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.…
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3 Weeks Pregnant: Fertilisation, Implantation, and the Wait
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp This is the week where you might be pregnant and have absolutely no way of knowing it yet. If you are trying to conceive, week three is its own particular kind of difficult, quieter than the disappointment of a negative test, less dramatic than the hope of a positive one, but in…
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The Best TTC Decision We Made Before Getting Pregnant: Why We Saw Our Gynaecologist Before We Even Started Trying
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp When my husband and I decided we were ready to try for a baby, our plan was about as simple and as common as plans get. Stop the contraception. See what happens. That was the entire strategy. Looking back now, I find it a little funny how unprepared we were for something…
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24 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Viability, and the Halfway Feeling
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp There is a word that comes up at 24 weeks that does not come up at any other point in the pregnancy with quite the same weight. Viability. Most pregnancy apps mention it matter-of-factly, almost in passing “congratulations, your baby is now considered viable” and then move on to the fruit comparison…
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Is This Labour? 12 Signs Labour Is Starting — and When to Go to the Clinic
Facebook Pinterest Threads WhatsApp You are in your third trimester, and you have been here for a while now, the weeks where every cramp, every tightening, every unusual sensation in your lower back sends a jolt of adrenaline through you before you remember to breathe and ask the question you have been asking approximately forty…
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The 12-Month Sleep Regression: Walking, Words, and Why Sleep Changed Again
Baby just turned one. There is a particular weight to that milestone, the candle, the cake baby mostly threw on the floor, the photographs, the slightly disbelieving feeling that an entire year has passed since the night you met this tiny human being. And underneath the celebration, if you are honest, there was probably also…
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36 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Your Body, and the Final Stretch
Four weeks. Give or take. Probably less, possibly a little more. But roughly 4 weeks, 30 days, the same amount of time that separated you from each of the big milestones of this pregnancy, except that this time what is waiting on the other side is not a scan or a test or an appointment.…