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Heather Rae El Moussais getting some kind words from friendChrishell Strause.
TheSelling Sunsetstar, 41, praised El Moussa for her maternal skills while talking to E! News at the Laneige + Innisfree’s K-BEAUTY VIP Party in Los Angeles on Thursday.
“She is already a wonderful mombecause I’ve seen her be a mom toTarek’skids, and she’s so amazing,” Strause said about El Moussa, who is stepmom to husband Tarek’s childrenTaylor, 12, andBrayden, 7, which he shares with exChristina Hall.
Strause also shared that she is going to meet El Moussa’s newborn son “in a couple days.”
“I’m very excited, and I know she’s gonna be the best mom, because she already is,” she said.
A few weeks later they revealed his full name:Tristan Jay El Moussa. They explained that they chose the moniker as Tarek was originally supposed to be named Tristan and his middle name came from Heather’s dad’s middle name.
She said the condition “made it very hard for him to latchand suck, and it made it so that he was burning a lot of calories because it was so hard for him to eat, so his weight was dropping.”
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With some help from her lactation specialist, she said she was able to get his tongue tie fixed. Now, “He’s latching so well on the left side, and we’re still working on the right side using non-traditional positions.”
“But, I love it.I love skin-to-skin. I love breastfeeding,” she said in another post, noting that she has been “producing a lot of milk,” but overall found the learning curve “harder than expected.”
source: people.com
