Breastfeeding Twin Help. Weight loss.

[Nsd2024]

TWIN BREASTFEEDING HELP!

Hi all. My girl twins are 10 days old today and their weight have been up and down since birth. Born 38+2 weighing 6lb14 and 6lb 14. They both lost 11%, then between them they have slightly gained, maintained and one lost 90g again but then maintained. My midwife told me it's probably best to introduce my expressed milk by bottle.
I don't know where I'm going wrong. I am constantly feeding and pumping, feeding and pumping. I'm not shy to breastfeeding, I breastfeed my daughter exclusively with no bottles until she was 16 months (only stopped because I got pregnant with twins).
I am so so down about the whole thing, I feel like a failure. I want so much for them to be able to feed well from me. When they latch, they suck for a couple of minutes then off, then on and then they fall asleep. It's like they have no energy for it.
I know I have a good supply, my boobs make a lot of letdown on the unused boob when feeding and can pump around 60-90ml per boob each pump.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any positive stories or tips would be really appreciated. I want so much to be able to successfully feed the both of them from me and I'm so worried and sad that this won't be possible now. They had tongue tie but it has been rectified and caught early.

From one stressed out, sad mummy 😢

Have you had them checked out by a breastfeeding specialist? To check they're latching well, no tongue tie or anything like that.
If you can, spend as much time as you can skin to skin and just feed them as much as possible.

Just realised I missed the end of your post, try and get them checked again sometimes the tongue tie isn't fully released.
Do they have any signs of CMPA? I have 4 dc managed to feed 2 forever and 2 just didn't work. One had severe tongue tie and the other had CMPA

A friend currently has one twin who is EBF and another twin who is combination fed and may eventually be FF. Even if you have to formula feed now, they are latching and drinking, you are producing, and you could get one or both back to EBF with no top up pumping /formula in a couple of weeks if you wanted to. But for now, do what you have to do to feed them.

I had exactly same as you OP - birth at about 38.5 weeks, twins weighed 12 pounds in total. They both lost 10% of birth weight as well.

I had a section and milk didn’t kick in for days so I had to give them formula at first. I pumped a lot and eventually I was able to move pretty much to EBF within a few weeks with the occasional bottle.

I would advise:

see a twin breastfeeding specialist. There are volunteers around who will come to your house.

Hire a heavy duty hospital grade breast pump.

Don’t try to feed them together until they’ve got the hang of it. It will be absolutely constant but eventually you’ll be able to feed them together.

Get a pillow that you can pop them both on when you do feed them together.

Don’t feel bad as BF twins is brutal. Honestly it’s one of the hardest things I’ve done. You are a hero either way! enjoy your new babies!

Ps mine are doing their GCSEs now, strong fit and really tall!

All my kids have take 3+ weeks to get back to birthweight/gain much weight at all while breastfeeding then they absolutely pile it on. 10 days is still very early and you are doing amazing!