Breastfeeding twins at 14 months - anyone else?!

[TheShockoftheTwo]

Also posted this in bfeeding forum - before I found whole Multiples forum - yay!

Am hoping I might find another mum who is also breastfeeding twins post-one year. While breastfeeding was hard going for first 6(ish weeks), kept at it, and am still doing so, albeit just the one (bedtime) feed a day now.

I have recently gone back to work (4 days a week), so stopped the morning feed, and it felt a little emotional, but actually I'm now fine about it. I feel in no rush to stop feeding, and they still like it too, so I guess what I'm looking for is a bit of reassurance I'm not crazy to be continuing!!

Is anyone else still breastfeeding after the one year marker? How do you find it? What are your thoughts on when you will stop?

Also for those who have stopped post-one year, how did you approach it? How did you know when the right time was to stop?

Would really appreciate a bit of chat about this, as I don't have any other twin mums in same position as me that I know of!

Thanks!

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I'm not breastfeeding twins, but I am breastfeeding a 2.5 yr old son... I just popped on to say WELL DONE you - that's a tremendous achievement
I certainly don't think it's crazy and I was happy to keep on feeding after I returned to work and we're now in the don't offer, don't refuse type scenario (although I do refuse from time to time...). However, I appreciate I'm not breastfeeding twins... I just wanted to celebrate your achievement!

Yes!

My DTs will be 14mo tomorrow and I am still breastfeeding - like you we are down to one feed a day, to go to bed. I let them set the pace for dropping feeds and until recently I was sometimes still feeding in the night too, but they now don't seem to want that and even in this hot weather have been happy to take a cup of water.

I did go through a spell recently of wanting to stop so that I could leave them for a night, but now they're only on the one bedtime feed I think I'll keep going for a bit longer and see what happens.

Well done for keeping going. There isn't nearly enough support for breastfeeding beyond 6 months let alone a year, multiples even more so.

My twins are just over 12 months old, and I'm still breastfeeding them. I haven't gone back to work yet, but they are beginning to do without day time feeds. Morning and evening are still very popular.

I don't know what I'm going to do without it, to be honest. My daughter is currently refusing to settle at night, and without being able to give her a feed I don't know how I'd be able to calm her down. I think I'll be keeping going until she can communicate a little of what's upsetting her.

It's also been brilliant for me. I'm nearly 2 stone lighter than I was before I got pregnant (or the same weight as 15 years ago), and I've only just had my first period (sorry if TMI).

People have been asking right from the beginning "when do you plan to stop?", as if BF is something you must want to eradicate as early as possible. I suppose we'll phase it out when the time is right, but I don't feel any need to encourage it at the moment.

I'm still BF'ing mine at 16 months, just morning and evening and am planning to phase out soon as although I've loved breastfeeding I am starting to get a bit bored with the amount of time mine take to feed (an hour between them every evening!). I've mainly done it because mine were very fussy feeders and would never take a bottle but have been a bit annoyed by the odd comment - one girl in particular seems a bit obsessed with it even though I never mention it and haven't breastfed in public for months and months.

But hey, they will never have had the laughs I've had when my two breast-swap mid feed, just in case one tastes better I guess!

minimisa! that's cute, it's the old 'grass is greener' attitude.

I am only at 6 months here, but intend to go on for as long as my last dd, who stopped at aroun 18 months. At that point I was just down to the morning feed, and I got pregnant with the twins which made my milk dry up.

At 9 weeks pregnant the feed had dwindled to a minute (max) and dd finally said 'Milk. Gone' and we never tried again. I think it was the right time for us both.

Isn't it strange how people ask from the get-go how long you are going to breastfeed for. It's as if they are trying to work out how much of a beardy-weirdy you are.

I just finished breastfeeding at 18 months with my twins. It was a hard decision but the timing felt right - we were only doing first-thing feed in the morning and one of them was still fed at bedtime. The bedtime feed was difficult to give up at first, he cried a bit for the first two nights but now drinks his milk out of a cup with his brother.

Morning they still - after a week - get a bit upset, but generally feel better after they have had a drink of water and milk.

Keep going for as long as you want to. I found that cutting down the feeds gradually, first cutting out night, then daytime feeds, and now these last ones, has helped the milk reduce steadily and lessened the emotional impact on us all. I'm still grieving for the 'losss' and so are they, but we will all move on. Best of luck.