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Teresa Palmer Opens Up About Breastfeeding For 8 Years Straight

Women’s bodies are amazing. Not only can we grow another human being inside us, but we can also feed our children with our bodies, sometimes for years – as actress Teresa Palmer can attest.

By Paula Gallagher1 min read
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In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, Teresa Palmer shared about her experience breastfeeding her three children – son Bodhi (7), son Forest (4), and daughter Poet (2) – on Instagram. Along with a collection of pictures of Teresa breastfeeding her children, she wrote, “Today is day 2728 of breastfeeding straight. I have nursed since Feb 17th 2014 when my first son was born. I nursed him in to toddlerhood through the pregnancy of my 2nd son, embarked on a tandem nursing journey for a year. I then continued nursing my 2nd son through the pregnancy of my daughter, in to my second tandem nursing journey.”