Conjoined babies a blessing, says mom

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/540297.html

VANCOUVER - Two-week-old twin sisters Tatiana and Krista Hogan are ready for a feast at their mom's breasts.
But these babies are joined at the head and breast feeding them is a challenging dance that takes two people and a whole lot of patience, something their 21-year-old mother, Felicia Simms, seems to have in abundance.

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Although Simms breastfed her two older kids, it's a whole new beginning with her twins.

"What's the most challenging part of breast feeding them?" Simms said. "Positioning!"

"It's very complicated because when one is on the breast the other has to be tilted and has to be slanted downwards.

"You're feeding one and the other will suck on its tongue and you have to give it a soother or something because it wants food.

"We're trying to figure out how to feed both of them at the same time," Simms said, bursting out laughing.

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Janice Reynolds

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