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New Humans Need Food To Grow, And That Can Be A Lot Of Pressure

Margaret J. Krauss
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90.5 WESA
Andrea Slozna plays with her two children after work while her husband prepares dinner.

Andrea Slozna is a guidance counselor at the Environmental Charter School in Regent Square, as well as a mom to two tiny people. Both her 3-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son required intensive medical attention after their births, but she was able to nurse both of them. It can be a bumpy road, feeding a new person with one’s body, especially when there’s so much pressure in the first few months of a baby’s life to ensure he or she gains weight, Slozna says.

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