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ABCs of Breastfeeding in the NICU

Many many MANY sets of twins are born at term or only a bit early, and with no medical concerns. As a group, however, multiples have a increased risk of complications resulting from high risk pregnancy and/or premature delivery. If your babies are born early or face any health challenges, they may spend some time…

Call to Action: Women’s Health

I am taking a break today from the questions of breastfeeding twins to look more broadly at women’s health, and access to maternal health care. As so many moms of multiples know, birth can sometimes come with complications. In industrialized countries, those complications can typically be managed through varying levels of medical intervention — from…

My Breastfeeding Journey… So Far

Today’s guest post comes to us from Theresa, who blogs at Confessions of a High-Heel Wearing Hippie Mommy I’m breastfeeding twins. Exclusively. It’s actually really easy. But it hasn’t always been this easy! My first foray into breastfeeding was with my son, a singleton. I knew before he was born that there might be issues.…

Q&A: Tandem Feeding Logistics

Carrie asks:

My twins are due in October and I want to tandem feed. That is the only way I will get anytime with my two year old. My concern is how the heck I am going to get both girls up on to the nursing pillow and latched if there is no one to hand them to me. And how can I lay down and still feed two babies?

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…

Q&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?

Breastfeeding Older Twins

Welcome, Carnival of Breastfeeding readers! This month’s theme is extended breastfeeding. Check out the bottom of this post for links to other posts on this topic. Once I was past the foggy, early days of juggling babies, figuring out latch and soreness and the myriad of other early breastfeeding challenges I faced, breastfeeding twins was…

Q&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…

Beer and Bottles (and other motherly advice)

The arrival of my twins was eventful, and about as far from my own homebirth as possible. One baby was in the NICU for a few days and the other lost a lot of weight early on, and I began pumping and supplementing and trying to navigate between my room and the NICU and juggle three bodies, two breasts, and one frazzled mama.