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100 Foods to Introduce in the First Year
Here’s what nobody warns you about starting solids. It’s not the gagging. It’s not the mess. It’s not even the googling at midnight to find out if babies can eat mango. It’s the moment you run out of ideas. You’ve done sweet potato. Banana was a hit. Dhal went down well, which, honestly, you could…
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How to Build a Gentle Baby Sleep Routine (Without Sleep Training)
You have probably received at least three completely contradictory pieces of advice about your baby’s sleep since your baby was born. Let them cry. Never let them cry. Baby should be sleeping through the night by now. Sleeping through at this age is not developmentally realistic. Put your baby down awake. Feed your baby to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Car Seat Safety in Mauritius: Rear-Facing, Installation & the Law
The day you bring your baby home from the hospital or clinic, there is one thing that has to happen before you leave the car park. Baby goes in the car seat. Not on someone’s lap. Not in someone’s arms, no matter how securely those arms are holding them. Not nestled into the gap between…