Double( and even triplets) - breast-feeding

You will invest twice as much, you will get twice as much. Here's how to survive and even benefit from breastfeeding twins.

Get the right help as early as possible. In , the last weeks of pregnancy, talk with other mothers who have nursed twins. Agree on the advice of a breastfeeding specialist with experience in assisting with multiple pregnancies, so that he helps you a day or two after giving birth and taught you the right techniques.

Start right. What makes breastfeeding even more difficult is that most twins are born prematurely, and that's why they usually sleep and suck badly in the first week or two. Having recourse to a breastfeeding specialist, immediately master the correct positions and techniques of breast-holding before your children have acquired bad habits before your nipples became ill and before you were faced with insufficient milk production. The correct positions and techniques of breast grab are important for the mother of one child;Twice for the mother of twins.

Feed the children separately, then together. In , the first week, most mothers find it easier to feed one child at a time, paying all their attention to teaching them to take each breast correctly. As soon as both children learn how to take the breast correctly, you can decide that feeding both is easier, especially if both children have the same appetite and temperament. To give everyone a little of their attention, try to feed mostly simultaneously and once or twice a day separately, especially in those moments when one is hungry and the other is asleep. Simultaneous feeding is better if the children have one sleep mode. In addition, studies have shown that mothers who breastfeed twice at the same time, the amount of the parent hormone prolactin rises to a higher level than that of mothers who feed children separately.

In many cases, twins have almost the same birth weight and the same nutritional requirement, but more often one neighbor on the uterus steals another, taking placental nutrition from him, and therefore one of the twins has obvious signs of underdevelopment. This child is likely to need more frequent feeding to compensate for growth. Sometimes one of the twins is very demanding, while the other is calm and simple to handle;and one may just be more hungry than the other. Let more hungry sets the mode of feeding. When you are going to feed a hungrier child, periodically awaken a less demanding child to feed him, so that at least several times a day you have simultaneous feeding. Otherwise, you may find that all the time ( literally) feed only one child or another.

Positions for feeding twins.

Experiment with all these positions to find out which combination suits you and your kids best.

• If you are not sitting in bed, use a footstool to lift your knees in order to better support both babies. The double position of the

"under the arm" allows you to control the movement of the head of both kids in the event that one or both like to feed the heads back during feeding. Breastfeeding in this position, be sure to arrange yourself and the children more comfortable with pillows or purchase a special foam pillow of a special configuration( via the La Leche League).

• To take a cross position in the cradle, put one child on the arm, then place the second child on the second hand and attach to the chest - the children's heads will be divorced in different directions, and their legs will cross. Again, use a lot of pillows to support.

• In a parallel position, one child lies on your arm( position "in the cradle"), and the second under the arm, so that their bodies lie in the one direction. One child lies on your arm, under which a pillow is placed, and the second is on the pillow, and you keep his head in your palm.

Father is the second mother. The father should be involved in feeding the baby in any case. If you have twins, he simply must. When you take care of the twin roles, mothers and fathers are not so divided. It is true that only the mother can produce milk, but the father can do the rest. Fatigue is the main enemy of most nursing mothers. Our mothers who consulted with us, who managed to successfully breastfeed twins, mastered the art of being a home administrator in a chair directing the flow and distributing responsibilities between all the friends and family members that they manage to get. The father can carry out additional feeding, bring the children to the "administrator" for feeding( especially at night), and also perform or hand out household chores. One proud father of twins described the joint parental care as follows: "Our children have two mothers: she's a milkmaid and I'm a hairy mother."Breastfeeding

twins: twice as many duties, twice as much sense of humor.(For more on twins care, see Article 18.)