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• My wife and I just brought our second child home yesterday. She is breastfeeding. How do we keep him awake to breastfeed the entire time? He's wet one diaper in the last 12 hours -- is he getting enough to eat?
• I will be traveling over 1000 miles in a car with a 3-year-old. Any ideas on how to make this a fun trip for her?
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