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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