• 11 months ago
A woman is so close with her sister she breastfeeds her baby - and says it's not "weird" or "disgusting".

Emily Boazman, 33, says it was natural to nurse her sister Katelyn Urioste's baby girl, Kyan, now six months, when the 36-year-old fell sick a month after giving birth.

She was still nursing her son, Keen, now 18 months, and producing milk and was able to breastfeed Kyan while babysitting or when Katelyn was at the hospital.

Emily - who also has daughters, Crew, eight, and Knox, five - previously nursed Katelyn’s twins, NavyKate and Grey, both six, when her sister struggled with her milk supply.

She believes it is "healthy" for a baby to have breastmilk from two women – saying it provides them with double immunity.

Emily, a stay-at-home mum, from Clovis, New Mexico, US, said: “It’s special. We’re so close.

“It’s not weird to us.

“Somebody feeding your baby a bottle seems weird.

“People will say ‘it’s disgusting’ or that it is ‘creepy as hell’.

“It was the norm hundreds of years ago - we had wet nurses.

“It’s looked at as weird when it was the most natural thing.

“It’s just feeding a baby.”

Katelyn, a stay-at-home mum, said: "I had no doubts about Emily breastfeeding - it feels completely normal to me.

"We’re sisters, we’re close, it’s like she’s breastfeeding her own child, honestly.

"Anyone who has had a baby knows how exhausting postpartum can be.

"To have someone able to step in and feed your baby and give you a little break, it’s very nice.

"Not everyone will ever be on board with any one topic, and this is no different - so comments don’t bother me at all.

"At what point did it become such a taboo subject and why? Breastfeeding is very natural, why is it considered so weird to feed someone else’s baby?"

Emily first breastfed Katelyn's twins when she struggled with her milk supply after their birth in 2017.

She said: “My sister had lost a lot of blood and she really struggled with breastfeeding.

“I nursed her twins once or twice.

“My daughter was 18 months and I was still nursing her.

“My eldest sister had already nursed my eldest daughter.

“It wasn’t weird to us.”

After Katelyn had a traumatic birth on July 4, 2023, and almost lost her life it was a no brainer for Emily to step in a help breastfeeding her daughter.

Emily said: “She nearly died during the birth. Her placenta had gone into her uterus.

“She lost three litres of blood.

“But she was OK. She was producing good. She really wanted to nurse her.”

When Kyan was a month Katelyn developed Clostridium difficile – a gut infection – and she was “exhausted” and often in and out of hospital.

Emily said: “She was exhausted so I nursed her baby a few times then.

“I’d watch the baby and all the kids and if she cried I’d just feed her.

“It easier than worrying about getting a bottle.”

Emily and her husband, Jake, 42, a chief deputy district attorney, are also currently living with her sister and her husband, Mike, 31, an electronic engineer – while they are

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00:00 I'm breastfeeding my sister's baby while she eats and recovers.
00:02 I've already fed her. She's just she loves to nibble. She wants to nurse 24/7 and so
00:09 I'll just pop in and give her a little feed so Kate can get stuff done besides just nursing.
00:14 This is my sister's baby that I was nursing a couple videos back
00:18 and the comment section on that video is just amazing. Like so many people are like oh my gosh
00:26 I would absolutely breastfeed someone's baby in a heartbeat if they needed it and it was just really
00:30 cool because me and my sisters were very close and like we would have we have no issues like
00:34 breastfeeding the other's baby if it needed like it's not weird to us at all but the reason my
00:39 sister's been so sick we just found out she has c-diff which is so frustrating because so she
00:45 when she had her twins she did not have a good breastfeeding experience. She did not make milk.
00:51 It was just awful and I've talked about this in the past. She ended up taking beef liver because
00:56 beef liver helped my milk like come in like crazy and so she took it and then has had a totally
01:02 different experience like she is flooded with milk which is huge for her. She this little lady's
01:08 exclusively breastfeeding. She's over a month. Just been a totally different everything and then
01:14 she freaking gets c-diff and like for the last five days she hasn't even been able to hardly
01:19 open her eyes and breastfeeding has just been so hard. She's dehydrated. She's been really
01:24 frustrating like why like no but she is still producing like crazy and I have only fed a
01:31 couple times like I'm not because I want her to keep her milk supply up and then she's pumping
01:35 as well. She's doing really good but it's just frustrating and if anyone's had c-diff and knows
01:40 like any tips or tricks to getting better faster we ordered some probiotics. She's been trying to
01:47 stay hydrated. It's just been like wow c-diff is brutal. So but yeah that's why I was feeding her
01:56 and then me and my sister we all we live together while we remodel our house and so it's been nice
02:01 because I can just walk to her room grab the baby and so but yes I was really pleased with the
02:08 comment section. I loved it so much. Everyone is like everyone was just so on board with breastfeeding
02:15 someone else's baby and that's pretty cool.
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