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discussion 5/23/2012 9:16 am - 6/20/2012

1. breastfeeding issue - pls share your experience (aryf123)

1. breastfeeding issue - pls share your experience
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aryf123 - 6/19/2012 7:17 am

 I have 4-week-old twins and still am wondering on how
 to proceed with nursing as total confusion has overcome
 me.Our twins were born at 36 weeks and had to be fed
 formula at the hospital. At the same time I started
 pumping and once my milk came in, gave them the bottle
 with breastmilk, but also supplemented. They were too
 weak to go directly to the breast at the beginning. In
 the meantime they both know how to breastfeed in
 "theory", but there is still a lot of confusion.For the
 past 11 days, after we had a lactation consultant come
 to our house, the process now looks like this: I give
 one of them the bottle, pumped milk, and the other one,
 half of the bottle and then try to latch this baby on.
 At the next feeding session I offer the breast to the
 baby who had only had the bottle. After this, I pump
 for 15 minutes while burping them - which is kind of
 complicated to do simultaniously. This process involves
 a lot of patience, contains numerous steps and takes
 around 60 minutes plus (cleaning of bottles and pumping
 equipment excluded). Surprisingly, the weaker baby
 latches on a lot better than the stronger one. With
 her, there is lot of fussing going on. Also, very
 often, one of them is hungry after roughly an hour to
 an hour and a half: I understand that this could be due
 to a growth spurt, cluster feeding but/ or the simple
 fact that they did not get enough milk at the breast.
 Not only does this then change the schedule, but it
 also leaves me completely confused on whether I am
 doing things right, wrong, try hard enough etc.I would
 love to make a decision on how to proceed. As this is
 my first time nursing, I am looking for any advice/
 experience to help me get a better understanding of
 this situation. Thanks in advance.

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