breastfeeding twins --help please!!!

[mum2twin100]

Hello!

My girls are now 6 weeks old. I'm trying to breastfeed them, sometimes its all going well and i feel like i have enough of milk but sometimes its feels like there is not much at all.

Like for example today i didnt have many milk infows.

Is it possible that my milk supply is decreasing? Has anyone had that?

Thank you

Hi, your milk isn't decreasing. It's common at 6 weeks to feel that you don't have enough milk. It tends to coincide with a growth spurt. Your breasts have probably shrunk back a bit but your milk production is still good. Keep going and you'll see that all is well.

I breastfed my pair to 18 months and stopped because I wanted to stop. I support lots of twin mums who breastfeed and what you are feeling is common at 6 weeks.

In a few days it should all settle again and you'll find that you have more than enough.

May be express a bit to increase supply. It is really based on supply demand. For me when I expressed I was always able to get 80-120ml per session which was enough for my prem twins. I did notice my supply was lowest in the evening and highest in the mornings. May be it depended on how rested I felt and also my fluid intake. I stopped at 4 weeks only because I was very exhausted from expressing and bottle feeding since my babies had a very bad suck reflex.

I had started to nurse towards the end and always expressed after a feed so that babies took what they wanted first.

You're not alone, I felt exactly the same way at 6 weeks. Stick with it and feed as much on demand as you can (though I always used to feed together so went on demand with the first baby to wake up!). Your milk supply will catch up with the babies' new found appetites in a day or two.

Just to make you feel better, once this growth spurt was over, I really felt on top of things a bit more, the feeding settled down and they started being a bit more regular and predictable.

Give yourself an enormous pat on the back for what you've done so far, and keep going, you're doing brilliantly!

Thank you so much for all your support!!!!
Its so kind of you to write to me!!!
Todays it feels like i have more inflows and girls keep on pooping all day long and a lot of wet nappies! I hope it will stay like that!!!! I think i will do a bit more expressing so that i will have even more. I really want to see them really chubby!
Love you lots!!!