Lottie - wow you are doing great. I was taking into account the prem bit, although this becomes rapidly insignificant, they are in some ways at the 6 week mark. At the stage they are at now, they will be getting very efficient at feeding, and you will find that they can get a full feed in about 10 mins easily!!!! It is difficult to trust that they will take what they need. As Fettle said the feed intervals will start stretch out now. They are bigger now, and with their more efficient feeding, they will be able to go longer inbetween feeds and take less time to feed, it will be much easier for you very soon. With breastfeeding, I always found the first hurdle was 2 weeks, the next 6 weeks, and then suddenly by 12 weeks the breastfeeding was so easy (well with ds1 it took to about 16 weeks to be very easy, but it was ok by 12 weeks I just still had latching problems with him). So I would say that over the next 3 weeks if you start spacing out the feeds and just trusting that if they had a quick 10 min feed and then are not interested that you try to just believe that they have had enough. I found it easiest to think about feed times around my meal times. So I would give a breakfast, lunch dinner and supper feeds around the times when I would be eating, then I would give a night-time feed if needed. I found that mine dropped the night-time feeds quite quickly. They still woke up during the night, but did not need feeding every time. That was a tough one to trust that they did not need a feed just because they had woken up, but tiredness on my part made it important for me to get as much sleep as possible, and feeding when they were only snuggling instead of feeding became too much for me.
Lottie, bottle feeding is definitely not easier, so if you can manage to keep going for another 3 weeks or so, you will enter easy-street with breastfeeding if that is what you want. A quick pop onto the boob for 5 or 10 mins, compared to sterilizing, preparing and bottle feeding, is no comparison. No dragging bottles out with you everywhere you go, no messing about with have I got enough feeds with me, as I am not sure how long I will be out for.... It is just my experience, my ds1 was mixed fed bottle and breastfeeding, and I switched to total bottle at 7 months, whereas with ds2 I exclusive breastfed him and continued his breastfeeds til he was 14months. There is no doubt in my mind that breastfeeding is easier in the longer run. It is just very tiring in the first weeks. Remember you are doing fantastically.
Honey - grrrrr, delivery men are not nice. Glad your buyer was understanding.
Fettle - I don't watch Eastenders normally, but was facinated to see how a live recording would go, I was very impressed. However, at the end even though I have no idea of who was murdered or anything, I missed the line of who actually did it as my dh started making noise.... so can you put me out of my misery and tell me what was said - who did it???? Did she say "I did it" or someone else.