Welcome to BB ... i think you'd be due around the same time as me so you should pop over to our Belly Buddies thread .. https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...-2010-3-a.html if your due date falls out of that group there will be another you can join if you like
Congrats on your double delight Molly! And great on already having the twin feeding pillow. Sounds exactly like mine. Blue, strap around the back, and back rest. You are def going to need it if you want to double feed (big time saver and great if you can do it!).
Tips- have you got a breast pump? Of not, its a good idea, then you can express inbetween some feeds and get DH to feed one to have the odd break (taking care not to interfere with your supply). Also expressing is good to up your supply especially when the bubs are going through a growth spurt, that sometimes never seems to end! main tip, is to be super organised. Accept help if you have any around, do your best and also try to relax and take everything in. Its so easy to get lost up in everything.
Oh, and try and get as much sleep before they come!!
xx
I do have the single Avent electronic breastpump - do you think it is worth investing in a double breast pump though? I expressed with my first though not as much as I would have liked...mainly in the morning when I had soo much milk it wasnt funny. I am really divided on the double breastpump though as I think it would be difficult to have both going at the same time.......has anyone used a double breastpump before/wondering how easy they are?
Hello and welcome to bellybelly from another twin mamma. May I say a huge congratulations, you have such an exciting journey ahead of you, twins are such a double blessing.
I never expressed for my twins apart from when my boytwin was in hospital (he was sick as a newborn) so can't really comment on that, although it sounds like a good idea, but other than that the best tip I have for breastfeeding is try to feed them one at a time until all of you get into the swing of how they attach. The only time I tandom fed was at night in my big comfy chair, during the day it was too difficult with my other little ones running around wanting attention. Tandom feeding equalled poor weight gain for my girltwin and as soon as she was feeding on her own she got much better at it and started putting on the pounds. It didn't take twice as long either, as I didn't have to spend ages trying to get the attached before they fed.
Good luck, I hope you have an uneventful pregnancy
Hi MollyC
Big congratulations to you, and good on you for getting organsied early. I have the same twin feeding pillow and use it religiously. Just to give you an idea from the other side, I pretty much tandem feed from the get go, my girls were good with their attachment, and I just find it saves so much time. Some of the books I read suggested treating them as individuals on their own time/routine, however I have never done this and kept them on the same routine always, they feed at the same time, I wake them both or the other is one is already away, they sleep at the same time, the only time I have feed otherwise is when they have been overly hungry and obviously needed a top up.
My girls were born at 37 weeks, and luckily didn't spend any time in special care nursery, though we did have 7 nights in hospital until my littler one started to gain weight. I hand expressed for the first 2 days, started on the double electric pump on day 3 and my milk came in by the morning of the 4th day. I had really good supply right away thankfully. We bottle feed expressed milk for the first 2 weeks, just to make sure they were getting enough and as they were small would tire easily on the breast. From there I slowly introduced an extra breastfeed each day and dropped a bottle feed until they were fully breastfead by 3 weeks. I have just had a week or so of a growth spurt and have gone back to expressing just to make sure I am producing enough.
I would highly recoomend getting a double electric, it saves so much time and once you get the hang of it it is easy.
I feed pretty much 3 hourly for the first 2-3 weeks until my little Aria reached 3kgs, then started on the routines in the book Save our Sleep by Tizzie Hall, which is working really well, so much so they slept from 10pm to 5am last night, so I am very happy.
Hope you are tracking along ok, look forward to hearing how your pregnancy progresses, xx
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