3 Breastfeeding Stories, 1 Breast Pumping Surrogacy Story, and so much more with Kelila Green Siciliano
Today, I’m interviewing, Kelila Green Siciliano. She is a mom, a surrogate, a pregnancy loss survivor, a speaker, the founder of OursAndYRS, and the host of the podcast, “Pushing Through Loss” where Kelila speaks about her experience with surrogacy, pregnancy loss, and creating a survival toolkit in order to help her audience feel empowered to use their own struggles to work with them and not push against them.
Today, Kelila shares about:
- The challenges of trying to learn how to breastfeed with her first.
- How she used a washcloth to get her first baby on the breast.
- Her experience using a nipple shield and the MyBreastFriend Pillow
- How her nipples chapped even though there was only 6 months in between breastfeeding her first and her second.
- The multiple healing properties of breastmilk
- Weaning her third at 17 months in order to become a surrogate
- Why she hand expressed for the surrogate baby
- The difference between night milk and morning milk
- Nipple flange sizing and how your nipple size changes during breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and pumping in public
- Becoming a doula
- Pregnancy Loss - Kelila lost her second surrogate baby at 16 weeks, 5 days. From this created a pregnancy loss workbook you can find on her website
You can find Kelila at: https://www.instagram.com/oursandyrs/ or https://www.kelilagreenspeaker.com/
Resources:
- Nipple Shield: https://amzn.to/3vm5FZA
- My Breast Friend Nursing Pillow: https://amzn.to/48vgiro
- La Leche League: https://llli.org/
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