ok give it to me ladies. Try and help prepare me for breast feeding twins

[starshaker]

I am a realist but would love to be able to bf my twins. I tried with my daughter and we didnt manage and i chose to ff after 3 days of her having nothing. In hindsight i wish i had kept going as she wasnt really interested in the bottle either and has never been a big eater.

Anyway i want to try and feed the twins myself. Help me prepare myself. Im not gonna let it stress me or them out and if i manage to ebf then fantastic but i do know it will be hard.

I was thinking about getting a cushion cos even if i dont manage it will come in handy for feeding them anyway. my mum is coming to stay for 2 weeks when i get out of hospital so im pretty sure all i will do for the first few is feed and sleep lol.

I'm ebf twins, a couple of things...

Mine were prem, and spent 3 weeks in hospital. This had pros and cons re breastfeeding. Fistly, at 3 and 4 lbs their mouths were tiny, my boobs were HUGE, hence struggle to latch! Also because there were prem their suck wasn't very good. On a positive note, because they were in hospital for this time, every time I went in I got a lesson from one of the nurses which gave us as much of a head start as possible.

Never mastered tandem feeding - just getting hang of it now - as babies were small I needed 2 hands to hold baby onto boob so lack of hands to feed 2 was an issue!

If I had 2 hungry babies it was useful if someone could take one away from me for 10 mins so I could concentrate on getting the other latched without listening to the other crying which I found upsetting obviously.

Although you don't want to be stressed out, I would say prepare to be anyway! I would express and give a bottle for the feeds that were really stressing us all, and try breast again the next feed.

Was very hard for a couple of months at least, got easier and easier, and now at 6 months is wonderful.

Good luck.