Breastfeeding twins and feeling really low

[KatM93]

My twin girls are nearly 10 weeks old and so far we have been exclusively breastfeeding which hasn’t been without its struggles. I can seem to get the hang of tandem feeding so one baby is always screaming while I’m feeing the other which always causes me to get upset as I feel like I’m failing them. This past couple of weeks my girls have been screaming from around 6pm to 11pm. I’m starting to think about introducing formula as I’m getting really down feeling like I’m not enough for them but on the other hand I’m terrified of not having a go to comfort with breastfeeding. Not really sure what I hope to get from this post but I’m so sad and down that my girls seem so unhappy all the time and wondering if formula will help fix some of this.

I did feed both together but as they were quite different weights (boy was 8lb 6, girl was 6lb 4) he was hungrier, but then would go longer between feeds. I tried to feed at the same time to avoid multiple night wakings. It is just really tough OP

I ended up supplementing about this age with 1 bottle a day early evening when milk supply was low, and weaned onto bottle at 4.5 months. I did take a prescribed pill which boosted milk supply, can't remember what it was called 🤔

Domperidone (Motilium) it was called!

My twins are now twenty two years old! but I wanted to say it will get better ...the evening screaming /colic is a combination of low milk supply /tiredness in mother and babies alike and yes a alternating bottle of formula at that time of day (6pm) for at least one twin really helped.
Also making sure you don't try and make supper then - reheat it having prepared it much earlier.
Even bath can be a good way to soothe babies and relax everyone.
Evening colic can be a thing in both formula and breastfed babies at that stage it's because the digestive system is not fully matured perhaps ??? So going onto bottles fully might appear to have solved it when it might just be time that solves the problem...ie babies are older.
Four hour routine in a breastfed baby of that age would be asking for trouble, you really need to demand feed every two to three hours minimum in the day, it can still be tandem feeding.
I second lots and lots of comfy firm pillows when feeding, check position; as they get heavier it sometimes alters the way they latch.
It's not easy but the longer you do it the better you and they will get at it. I didn't really crack it until 15 weeks, lots of combination feeding (which probably made things in hindsight even more complicated) till then.
Fed for just about two years. I also had an older toddler when I had them

My advice is that when you have help around that is when to practise the tandem feeding. It's scary to start with and you need to have everything safely in place but it is remarkably efficient and cuts out the screaming. Screaming as you do rightly say is unbearable. It just used to make me feel like I was failing them. But tandem feeding means you are cuddling and feeding and comforting both together. Twin babies I think have a sixth sense and get remarkably jealous of the attention you give the other, hence the desperate screaming for well deserved attention.