Coco Austinis relishing the bond that breastfeeding brings.
The model and formerIce Loves Cocostar has regularly been open about her support for breastfeeding mothers and in nursing her own daughter, 2½-year-old Chanel Nicole, sharing on Tuesday why she still chooses to do so.
“I follow some mother [empowering] pages here on Instagram and I love the inspiring pics they post showing the tenderness and love between a mother and child with or without nursing moments.. I love that I can be a part of that,” Austincaptioned a photoof her daughter sleeping on her chest during a recent flight.
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Austin previously shared in March 2017 that her child was still breastfeeding at 15 months.
“The main question I get from women is if I still breastfeed and the answer is yes. She’s 15 months and still going strong,” the wife of rapper and actorIce-Tsaid in a video during which she was feeding Chanel.
In fact, Austin has continued to be outspoken about breastfeeding since giving birth to her daughter in November 2015. “I’m kind of obsessed with [breastfeeding],” she told E! News in June 2016. “[Chanel] is 6 months now, but for a good five months, she was great at breastfeeding.”
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Coco Austin, husband Ice-T and daughter Chanel
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Austin also revealed that Chanel “want[ing] the bottle more” had “hurt my feelings.”
“I’m doing whatever I can because now, she’s growing, so she needs more milk … so I have to go from breastfeeding to formula, breastfeeding to formula, but I wish she would want a little more of me,” she said at the time, adding that she still pumped “every single day” to provide breast milk for Chanel, even though it was often through a bottle.
But the truth is she wasn’t even sure if she would be able to nurse at all. “I got breast implants, so I wasn’t sure if Icouldeven breastfeed … I was hoping I’d be one of those women who can because my whole family have been really pro-breastfeeding,” she said.
“She took the boob instantly, too,” Austin continued, calling breast milk “liquid gold” due toall its reported health benefits. “She was a pro.”
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Coco Austin and daughter Chanel
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“That first week, my nipples were bleeding and scabbing over. I was like, ‘No one tells you that your nipples bleed!’ ” she said in March of that year.
source: people.com
