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  • Sleep Regressions in the First Year: The Full Timeline and What Each One Means

    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

    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…

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  • 10 Baby Sleep Tips That Actually Work | Nutura Mauritius

    10 Baby Sleep Tips That Actually Work | Nutura Mauritius

    I am going to tell you something that nobody told me before I had a baby and that I wish someone had said very clearly and very early. There is no secret. There is no magic sequence, no perfect product, no single method that will reliably make a baby sleep through the night by six…

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  • 6 Signs Your Baby Is Ready for Solid Foods and What to Ignore

    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

    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…

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