Elena Kersey gave birth to identical twins in a private hospital in Malaysia where she felt very cared for in the early postpartum period. Her babies had very different abilities to breastfeed, and this meant that she needed to pump, breastfeed and use formula, which was not what she planned on doing prenatally. Elena discusses how her expectations differed from reality and the toll this took on her.On this episode you will hear themes related to:

• The inner mom club that withholds information until you are a mom
• The value of understanding the difficulty of the postpartum experience before you go through it
• The power of great lactation support
• Twin breastfeeding and how difficult it can be
• Breastfeeding a small baby
• The grief of a changed baby feeding plan

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