I am breastfeeding 8 week old twins. The larger twin seems to want more milk than I have at the 'bedtime feed' - he can sometimes stay on for 2 hours and ends up punching the boob and pulling off - it seems like he is not getting as much as he would like. He is putting on weight really well, by the way - 3/4 lb per week.
They are fed on demand - about 2 hourly in the day and they are going a couple of 4 hour stretches at night.
I seem to have loads of milk in the night (well, early hours ). Last night I expressed 230mls.
My question is: is it reasonable to express at night to do the 'bedtime feed' from a bottle, or will this mess up my supply? Or could we use the expressed bottles as an 11.30pm roll-over feed so I could get a bit more sleep? Yesterday, when we tried this for the first time, it did seem to knock out into a milky stupor so we could get some sleep satisfy DT1.
But I don't want to do anything that will jeopardise the breastfeeding.
Advice? Many thanks.
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Will bottle feeding an expressed feed in the evening mess up my supply?
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ZippysMum · 11/11/2009 20:29
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