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Mar 2024
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Suzanne answers reader/listener emails

SUZANNE VENKER
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Is eight hours per week of work away from my two children too much?

How do my husband and I maintain intimacy? Our relationship has taken a hit since I became a breastfeeding/co-sleeping mother.

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