Kristen Bell reveals her husband relieves her mastitis pain
We've never heard of anyone doing this to relieve it
Anyone who's had mastitis knows how utterly excruciating it can be, so maybe – just maybe – you'll understand the lengths actress Kristen Bell went to just to get some relief from it when she as on holiday to Atlanta with her baby and husband Dax Shepherd.
For some reason (we don't know what), she says she couldn't get to a doctor, and wasn't pumping.
So, she revealed while chatting to mum friend Katie Lowes on her YouTube blog Momsplaining, she got her husband Dax Shepard to suck her breast to relieve the painful engorgement. Yep, he sucked the milk out of her breast.
"I’m gonna need you to suck this out," she says she said to Dax. "We could talk about it, we could be weird about it, or you can just go ahead and nurse."
Kristen went on to explain that Dax had a cup next to him to spit the milk into.
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Wow, true love? Kristen definitely thinks so. "I've never been more in love in my life," she said of her husband's actions.
What do you think?
Now, we have to say, we've never heard of anyone doing this before to cure or relieve the pain of mastitis, though we get the reasoning behind it: mastitis happens when your milk ducts get inflamed, and so making sure you let out some milk so you're boobs aren't too swollen will definitely help. And getting someone to suck it out is kind of like using a human pump....
But would you give it a go? And if you did, would you tell anyone? Let us know in the comments below or over on Facebook
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Tara is mum to 1 daughter, Bodhi Rae, and has worked as Content Editor and Social Media Producer at MadeForMums since 2015
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