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When will my supply calm down?

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HappyAsASandboy · 16/11/2010 04:36

Sorry to post yet another question, but this is all very new to me Smile

I've been breast feeding twins for almost a month, and expressing 2 - 4 oz once or twice a day in addition (so that DH can feed in the evening if I get too exhausted - probably 2 or three feeds per week).

This has been going fairly well, but yesterday I felt much more engorged than normal. Then from early afternoon yesterday, DTS started producing green-ish poo, and tonight (3am feed), DTD brought up what looked to be a large proportion of her feed quite violently (I would describe it as projectile rather than just coming out of the side of her mouth IYKWIM). At the 3am feed they both seemed to struggle to keep up with the flow (guzzling).

From looking on the internet, green-ish poo can be a sign of getting too much foremilk and not enough hindmilk, which would tally with the engorgement and guzzling. It also seems likely to me that guzzling could cause DTD to bring back her feed.

How can I settle things down? I'd like to keep the expressed feeds if at all possible as it reasures me to know there are supplies in the fridge for those times when I really need to sleep. I thought about expressing some milk off before a feed to try and reduce the flow, but won't this just stimulate my supply even more? I don't know what to do!

Any advice would be gratefully received Smile

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foxytoxin · 16/11/2010 05:02

Kellymom and search that site for 'oversupply' and 'fast let down'

good luck.

HappyAsASandboy · 16/11/2010 14:09

Thanks for the kellymom recommendation, they had lots of information about oversupply and advised feeding from one side only for blocks of tome to let the other side realise it is 'full' and slow production.

My dilemma is that I have twins. At the moment I am feeding one from each side at each feed, changing which twin is on which side regularly (though probably a little randomly) so that the babies don't become reluctant to feed on either side and tp try and avoid lopsided production if one twin feeds more than the other.

How do I apply the 'feed from one side' advice to twin feeding? I don't doubt that I could feed both twins from one side at each feed, but it feels like that would stimulate supply even more?

Can anyone help?

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foxytoxin · 16/11/2010 15:29

if you are feeding one twin at at time, then maybe feed the second twin from the same side and hand express to comfort on the side you didn't use.

Then do the same thing on the other side at the next feeding time?

hand express to comfort on the side you didn't use ought to help.

it should start to decrease your supply after a couple of days.

I tandem fed (an older child at the same time with the new baby) and the baby got a few green nappies, the green nappies went after a couple of days for me with me doing nothing about it. Then it came back a couple more times and I did nothing.

Green nappies are not a bad thing in themselves so if your babies don't seem grumpy about them then you don't need to 'do' anything either.

hth.

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