Posts Tagged ‘tips’
Q&A: Pumping and return to work
Jennifer writes: I just returned to work full time and I am pumping breast milk for my twins. This is my second set of twins and I was not supported with the first set to breastfeed, however this time I have more support. I am having issues with pumping breast milk. It takes 30mins to…
Read MoreQ&A: Feeding Schedules
Kristi asks:
My daughter is breastfeeding twins (3 weeks old). My question is: Should she alternate which baby is nursed first each time? If she does, then the baby who nursed first last time has to wait longer for her next feeding. Or does she nurse the same one first everytime, keeping them on a schedule?
Read MoreQ&A: Bottles, Supplementation and Late Preterm Infants
Tawny asks: My twin boys were born at 35 weeks and are doing great except for the nursing. In the hospital we finger fed with a syringe and feed them a combo of my expressed milk and donated milk. As the amount they were supposed to eat increased the hospital suggested using a bottle as…
Read MoreAround the Web
There’s a lot of information out there on the great wide web – some useful and some not. I’d like to begin a regular feature highlighting the best of what’s out there in terms of breastfeeding in general, and breastfeeding multiples, in specific. Have you recently come across a great resource, a personal narrative, or…
Read MoreBeginnings
Before my twins were born, I didn’t have a lot of information on breastfeeding twins. But I’m a researcher, so I did my best to get the information I thought I needed. When I met a mom who was nursing her twins at an event through my local mothers of twins club, it was the…
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