Hi all! Just checking in to say how amazing is it to be a mum of multiples? I am loving it - everyone just thinks my DTs are amazing. Cos they are
They are 10 days old now and doing really well, the feeding is going great. The only problem we have is that Theo has spent the last four nights pretty much constantly feeding for a three=hour stretch in the early hours.
The first night it was 12-3am that he just fed and fed and wouldn't settle, then the night after it was 11.30-2.30am, then it was 12.30-3.30am (when at least I got an hour's kip before he started). He always goes off eventually and will then sleep for three hours.
So I wondered whether he was getting enough to eat during the day. He had been feeding every three hours (though not demanding most of the time) so yesterday I put him on the breast every 2.5hrs. He was happy to go on and fed well. I also expressed just over an ounce thinking I could give him that if he was fractious in the night (thinking maybe my milk was low in the night).
We felt very smug then when he slept from 11pm-2am (thanks to the extra feeds during the day?). DH then gave him the bottle of expressed milk while I fed esther. But then Esther was restless till 4am and Theo didn't go back to sleep till 5am!
Is there anything we can do about this or is this just to be expected?
Today I am going to feed them every two hours, and express 2oz each so DH can give them that at 11pm and I can go to bed at 9pm so at least I will hopefully get four or five hours sleep. Any other suggestions?