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nurse twins & schedule

By: cjvntr   on  10/20/2002 7:06:40 PM

I have twins that are two months old. I breastfeed them on demand. I was wondering if any other moms had a schedule for everyone else but the babies or what you did. I still want to keep them feeding on demand and they are going well. My 4lb preemie is now almost 10lbs. Just wondered what ya'll did with everyone else?
Christina in TN

nurse twins & schedule

By: Hindsfeet   on  10/21/2002 2:17:17 PM

Hi Christina,

I breastfeed on demand but usually by two months the babies have a pattern (like wanting to nurse around 3:30 or 4 every afternoon or waking to nurse around the same time every morning) and I "schedule" my babies based on their own patterns and schedule the rest of us around it.... for example I'd "schedule" the late afternoon feeding for 3:30.

Of course, since yours are preemies they may not yet have formed a clear pattern of when they eat. And I realize tandem nursing has it's own challenges. It's easy to keep the rest of the house going on schedule when nursing one (by using a sling for example), but with two you have no choice but to sit down somewhere to nurse. I have tandem nursed, though not with twins, so I do understand those challenges in part.

I think I'd just follow the schedule as best I could until I recognized a pattern in the babies feeding and then go from there. If they're not nursing every day around certain times, maybe you notice that they need to feed every 2 hours in the afternoons but do well with 3-4 hour intervals in the morning and you can create a schedule based on that... it's kind of a schedule-on-demand thing. ;o)

~Heather

 
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