Thursday, October 21, 2010

Breastfeeding Twins Tips


Buy Mothering Multiples. This is absolutely the best resource for the care of twins (or more).
Get the EZ-2 Nurse Foam Pillow Twins. Tandem nursing has never really worked for me, but many mothers swear Twin makes life easier. They also know that if you can not help the nurse to do tandem.
He expects it will hurt at first, even if all goes well, and to soothe and Lansinoh.
You probably need to pump. Do not mess around and just go rent a good,Hospital grade pump. I liked the Medela Symphony, which was rented at Babies R Us.

Send a lactation consultant before giving birth, but make sure you have experience with twins.
Do not do anything other than a nurse. Someone else take the baby and take away the kids when you're done. They change someone else and clothing for children. Someone else clean the house and preparing food and crockery. Your only job should be breast-feeding;Do not underestimate how tired you let in first.
Make sure your partner is on board, someone to clean and cook and take care not-care-baby.
KellyMom breastfeeding is a great resource.
Set goals small. Make it an extra day to try to be for 6 weeks. After 6 weeks you may feel like you can do for 3 months. After three months you will probably never want to stop.
Cut yourself some slack if they integrate. Nursing twins is not necessarily an all or nothingSituation. Combine, care and support formula that works for you that day. 1 month after my children were about 50% of the milk of two months was up to about 70% of 6 months was 100%.

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