By: Science-mom

Science-mom — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:17:23 +0000

Kudos, CK and Angelina. I only managed to do it for a couple of weeks and ended up pumping for 4 months. I also had to supplement since my twins were underweight preemies but between my breastmilk and fortified formula, they caught up in no time. I would have continued pumpting except that my GP told me to stop for (my) health reasons (sigh).

By: ckay

ckay — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:19:03 +0000

Thank you for this. I am a mother of multiples, boy/girl twins born 6 weeks early. From the very beginning, we struggled to breastfeed – from learning how to suck while still in the Special Care Nursery, then to latch, and then multiple infections in both my breasts, along with a strict schedule of feeding both babies every 3 hours, for the first 6 weeks. I constantly felt bad, guilty that I had to supplement with formula, like I wasn’t a good mother and I wasn’t providing for my babies. We got through it, and even after returning to work full time at the end of our 3rd month, I managed to continue breastfeeding for 3 more months. Morning nursing, pumping multiple times a day at work, and then nursing again at home in the evenings. I now look back at that time and feel very proud that I was able to stick it out for 6 months, even though my babies were never exclusively breastmilk fed.

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