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It is one of the key bonding experiences for a mother and child: breastfeeding.
So lesbian partners Heidi and Maryellen Olson wanted to share that with their first-born Sequoia.
Dubbed
‘co-nursing’, the little-known practice requires Maryellen, who didn’t
give birth, to induce lactation and take a natural drug to boost
breastmilk.
According to the new parents, it has changed everything.
‘It
is so worth it for the closeness I feel with Sequoia, and also for the
sanity-saving it provides both of us,’ graduate student Maryellen, 25,
told MailOnline from the family’s home in Santa Cruz, California.
‘We both feel pretty amazed.
‘It’s
amazing to see what our bodies can do, and we felt lucky to have this
additional bonding experience available for both of us.’
The
couple, who married in 2012, discovered the treatment – more common
among adoptive families – in a group for lesbians trying to conceive and
immediately agreed to pursue it.
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