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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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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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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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6 Signs Your Baby Is Ready for Solid Foods and What to Ignore
My daughter was five months old when I started getting the questions. From my mother. From my mother-in-law. From well-meaning neighbours and aunties at family gatherings who would look at her, look at me, and say some version of the same thing: li bizin koumans manze. She needs to start food. She is big. She…
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When to Start Your Baby on Solid Foods: The Honest Guide Every Mauritius Mum Needs
I remember the exact moment I realised I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. My daughter was five and a half months old. She had been watching me eat with an intensity that felt slightly unnerving for someone who had spent most of her life asleep. She was sitting upright with support. She…