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The Best (and Worst) Middle Names for Your Baby
Few things warm my heart like my daughter’s middle name. It’s Elizabeth, just like mine, as you can see. My dad chose that name for me...
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10 Tips for Breastfeeding Multiples
You’d always planned to breastfeed, but then you got the news: you’re having twins. Or maybe triplets or higher-order multiples. Is breastfeeding still possible? Yes! And even if you also need to...
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10 Tips for Breastfeeding in Public
Breastfeeding mothers and their babies shouldn’t feel they have to stay home – hey, they want to enjoy the same activities as anyone else! Current recommendations are to breastfeed exclusively for six...
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10 Tips for Breastfeeding After Returning to Work
Most Canadian mothers are eligible for about a year at home with our babies while our jobs are held for us. For some, though, finances or personal...
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13 Tips for Nursing During Pregnancy and Beyond
Congratulations! The pregnancy test confirms what you suspected — a new baby is on the way. You’re excited but can’t help...
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Backpacking with a Baby, Part One
Although we were desperately excited to start our family, my husband and I both feared that we might have to forego our vacations of independent travel for more conformist and conventional resort-based holidays...
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Backpacking with a Baby, Part Two
Read about Charlotte's experience backpacking with a baby. Based on our experience, these are the tips that made this trip work for our family: Pack light. We traveled as minimalist as we could to enable...
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Top 10 Ways to Increase Milk Production
A common reason mothers give for weaning their babies from breastfeeding is that they are not making enough milk to meet their babies’ needs. If you’re worried that you may not be producing sufficient...
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Top 10 Ways to Prevent and Treat Sore Nipples
Ouch! Your baby begins to nurse and it hurts! Sore nipples are a frequent complaint for breastfeeding mothers, and some assume it’s an...
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Mommy-and-Me Groups
Canadian moms are lucky to have extended maternity leave, especially when compared to the short reprieve of our southern neighbours. So what's one of the best ways to occupy the time? Spend it with other mommies...
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17 Weird Baby Names
We scoured the Internet to find some of the weirdest names parents have bestowed upon their children. Of course, most of them are celebrity baby names, but there have been some recent doozies in the media too...
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Top 10 Tips to End a Nursing Strike
What’s a nursing strike? Nothing to do with picket lines or protest signs ― it’s when your baby abruptly refuses to breastfeed. Sometimes the cause remains a mystery, but often mothers can trace it...
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10 Tips to Planning Your Babymoon
Just as a newborn may need to be swaddled for comfort, so too new parents need to be wrapped in the protective shelter of their own home where they can spend time resting and bonding with the baby. Coined...
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10 Tips for Toddler Nursing, Part One
In the beginning, when you struggled to figure out latch and milk production and all the initial challenges of breastfeeding, you wondered if you’d make it to six weeks. But you did, and then you kept going...
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10 Pieces of Breastfeeding Advice You Can Ignore
1. Sore nipples are inevitable; you’ll just have to tough it out. Or, you should prepare your nipples during pregnancy to prevent sore...
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