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Postpartum Depression in Mauritius: What Nobody Talks About
You were told this would be the happiest time of your life. And maybe parts of it are. The way your baby fits against your chest. The smell of their head. The fierce, surprising love that arrived the moment you saw them, or perhaps did not arrive then at all, and arrived instead weeks later,…
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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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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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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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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,…