MARSLADY - I really need your help please?

[pophas2boybeans]

or anyione else that can help me please - I'm going crazy.

I have 3 week old twins who were born at 33+5. For the first two weeks of their lives they were tube and bottle fed my milk in special care. Since coming home I've tried to breastfeed from me.I can't get them to latch/latch properly for love nor money as their mouths are not able to open wide enough to get the suction to enable my milk to come down. I'm having to express round the clock to I can bottle feed them and I'm sore and tired. Hugo is the slightly bigger and twin and I can get him latched but not brilliantly (he keeps falling off). He sucks and sucks and then acts punch drunk, I think whoppeee - he's cracked it but then 10 minutes later he's screaming and takes a whole 70ml of expressed milk in a bottle. I think he's wearing himself out and falling asleep before he even gets anything. I'm not even getting the let down sensation when he's on. Henry is another ball game all togther. I can't get him to latch what so ever.I put him to me and he pulls away and thrashes about.

I had to bring in some formula feeds just to give me a bit of a rest from the expressing every two hours round the clock but I really would like to BF totally. Marslady or anyone one else for that matter, can you help please? This is really getting me down.Thanks
xxx

I have put a link in breast and bottle feeding asking tiktok to pop over here.

I would think you need to see someone in RL to help with latch etc.

Have you called any of the helplines?

Will go try to find numbers for you

Congrats on your twins!

Oh this thread is in breast and bottle feeding (confused myself as there are two and didn't read )

this site has the numbers of all of the helplines.

Good luck!

pophas ..... it's not surprising you are exhausted

37 week twins are highly unlikely to be able to breastfeed direct very efficiently just yet - sucking and swallowing co-ordination may not be developed fully and everything you're experiencing is explainable by their age and twin-ness.

I agree - you need expert RL help, either in person or on the phone if not available.

You may not have tried baby-led attachment and biological nurturing - in archives or search the web. Skin to skin cuddles and snuggles help a lot - you might be able to do 2 at once, as well. When Hugo wakes again after 10 mins, can you put him to the breast again, maybe the other breast? Not sure why you are giving him the ebm....please don't tell me you have been told only to offer one side at a time, or that you won't have any milk left in the first breast? Many babies - singltons and term babies - will fall asleep after feeding and then wake wanting to feed after 10 mins . This is normal baby stuff

The pulling away suggests to me there has been a bit of a struggle which Henry may need to forget about...the skin to skin cuddles will help with this.

Hope this helps.