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Shocking X-ray Of Grape Stuck In Child’s Throat

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Grape Stuck In Child’s Throat Mom Shares Shocking X-ray Image Of Grape Stuck In Child’s Throat Australian mom Angela Henderson, shared an X-ray image of a grape lodged in a child’s throat to remind parents about the choking risk posed by the fruit. In the caption of a Facebook photo (pictured below), she wrote: “Attention Parents! Do you know what this x-ray is of? A grape....

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Get Breastfeeding Off To A Good Start: Skin-to-Skin Contact

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Get Breastfeeding Off To A Good Start: Helping To Get Breastfeeding Off To A Good Start: Skin-to-Skin Contact, By Rita Brhel, Hastings, Nebraska (La Leche League USA) After years of supporting mothers at all stages of breastfeeding, I’ve learned that there are four key areas to focus on to help mothers get breastfeeding off to a good start: milk supply, latch, frequent access to the breast,...

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Get Breastfeeding Off To A Good Start: Frequent Access

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Frequent Access Helping To Get Breastfeeding Off To A Good Start: Frequent Access, By Rita Brhel, Hastings, Nebraska (La Laeche League USA) After years of supporting mothers at all stages of breastfeeding, I’ve learned that there are four key areas to focus on to help mothers get breastfeeding off to a good start: milk supply, latch, frequent access to the breast, and skin-to-skin contact. In this...

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Courgette Fritters – Healthy Cooking

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Courgette Fritters Courgette Fritters served with tomatoes, mushrooms, radishes, and a fried egg. Ingredients 1 medium courgette, grated 1 egg 1/4 cup ground almonds 1 tbsp sesame seeds 1tsp chilli flakes. 1tsp salt Method Place the grated courgette in a sieve and add a pinch of salt mixing it though. Leave for 10mins before squeezing out any liquid. Place the courgette in a bowl and...

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Breastfeeding Mom Lost Her Son to Starvation

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Breastfeeding Mom Lost Her Son Breastfeeding Mom Who Lost Her Son to Starvation Defends Bottlefeeding. Jillian Johnson in a blog post publicly opens up for the first time about the death of her son, Landon whose death occurred, as a result, accidental starvation at 19 days old. “If I had given him just one bottle, he would still be alive,” Johnson writes. Sharing a story that...

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Mom Shares Her Experience With Pre-Eclampsia

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Experience With Pre-Eclampsia Mom Shares Her Experience With Pre-Eclampsia. Kehinde Adeyemi had an easy pregnancy – If there is such a thing as the perfect pregnancy I experienced it. She said, “I had a wonderful, no-morning sickness/vomiting /spitting first trimester with so much energy and also no cravings”. She shares the story of her experience with pre-eclampsia. A medical condition that is characterized by an abnormally...

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Heartbroken Dad Warns About The Dangers of Button Batteries

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Dangers of Button Batteries A heartbroken father has shared the story of how his two-year-old daughter lost her life; to warn parents about the dangers of button batteries. George Asan’s two-year-old daughter Francesca died of a massive internal hemorrhage. After she swallowed a 2cm lithium battery. Commonly found in toys and gadgets. The toddler endured days of agony as the battery burned through her esophagus into...

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Mom Bullied on Instagram – Bump was “Too Black”

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Mom Bullied on Instagram Mom Bullied on Instagram Because Her Baby Bump was “Too Black”. Porsche Thomas, the daughter of Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Peter Thomas Instagrammed a bikini photo of herself. Wearing a bikini when she was nine months pregnant with twin boys. Getting down to the wire … Crazy excited and totally nervous. What a way to start #2017,” she captioned the photo. While...

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Maternity Belt – Pregnancy Support

Woman Gives Birth Instead of Kidney Stones

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Woman Gives Birth Woman Gives Birth Instead of Kidney Stones Treatment. Stephanie Jaegers was down with abdominal pain so she headed to the hospital with her husband, Micheal to have it checked. Thinking perhaps she had kidney stones, however, doctors quickly realized Stephanie’s pain was not the result of any kidney stone. She was about to give birth. A few hours later, at 3:50 a.m., Stephanie...

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