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The 8-Month Sleep Regression: Why Your Settled Baby Stopped Sleeping
This one is different from the four-month regression. At four months, you were still in the thick of new parenthood where the sleepless nights were brutal but they felt like part of the territory you had signed up for, the chaos of those early weeks when everything was still unknown. You had not yet had…
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Feeling Overwhelmed After Having a Baby — Is This Normal?
You spent months imagining this. The birth. The first cuddle. The moment they placed baby on your chest and everything you had been waiting for finally arrived. Everyone told you it would be the best moment of your life, and in some ways it was, you felt something you had no word for, something so…
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20 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, the Anatomy Scan, and the Halfway Point
You are halfway there. Twenty weeks. Five months. The exact midpoint of a forty-week pregnancy, and one of the weeks that most mothers look back on as the one where something shifted, where the pregnancy stopped feeling like something that was happening to them and started feeling like something they were genuinely, consciously living. There…
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Newborn Sleep Schedule by Age: What to Expect From Week 1 to Month 12
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Reddit Nobody warned me about the exhaustion before the exhaustion. I knew newborns were tiring. Every person I had ever met who had a baby told me to sleep while I could, which is advice that is both accurate and completely useless to anyone who has not yet experienced what newborn sleep…
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13 Weeks Pregnant: The End of the First Trimester
Take a breath. You have been pregnant for three months. Twelve weeks of nausea and exhaustion and anxiety and a hundred small fears you could not say out loud to most of the people around you. Twelve weeks of keeping a secret that changed the entire texture of your daily life. Twelve weeks of first…
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Signs Your Baby Is Getting Enough Milk — Breastfed and Formula Fed
It is 11pm. Your baby has just fed for thirty-five minutes, came off the breast, seemed settled, and is now awake and rooting again forty minutes later. Your breasts feel completely empty. Baby fed for most of the afternoon. Baby is crying and you have nothing left to give and the question that has been…
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4 Weeks Pregnant: What Is Happening and What to Do Next
You are staring at the test. Maybe you have stared at it for five minutes, picked it up and put it down three times, held it under the light to check that you are reading it correctly. Maybe you took a second one just to be sure. Maybe you are sitting on the bathroom floor.…
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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…