For mamas who breastfed their twins:

Everyone's experience is different but I know that I definitely didn't produce enough for both babies and I supplemented with formula and then eventually gave up pumping all together and just used formula because it was exhausting!!

Don't torture yourself about breast milk only, at the beginning I thought this also then I realized my babies needed to be sane, constantly pumping/feeding 2 was just too much for me.

Do whatever works for you and don't feel any shame/guilt of having to supplement with formula.

Hey mama, I’m feeding my babies with breast milk only. My babies were born 34 weeks we gave them for 3 days formula and then I started to having the milk. Now they are 8 weeks old and I am giving breast milk. I pumped 8 times a day 30/60 mins depends. Also I am drinking mothers milk tea and tea with condensed milk and also I bought Hipp Herbal nursing tea and I’m pumping, eating when and drinking when I am feeding them. Im trying my best and for now it’s working :)

Hi, congrats on your twins! In answer to your questions, yes I did tandem feed - my twins are 6 months now and I tandem feed a lot less than before but still on occasion, but I always feed individually at night. I have combi fed my twins since they were born, we had a very difficult start to our feeding journey (the boys wouldn’t latch, I had aversion and then they were both tongue tied). For the first few months I would breastfeed then give them both a formula top up, but it is hard work! As they’ve gotten bigger one twin now almost exclusively breastfeeds but the other prefers the bottle 🤷🏻‍♀️ I did try exclusively breastfeeding after their tongue ties were cut etc but I found the cluster feeding exhausting and they always seemed so hungry. I also found the constant pumping unsustainable so for my own sanity we settled on the combi feeding. You can try power pumping for increasing supply… I’d recommend joining the Breastfeeding twins and triplets UK Facebook group, it’s so helpful!

https://m.facebook.com/groups/BfTwinsUk/?ref=share

I do and I don't need any extra milk but if I did I would use mothers milk. I pump every once in a while for date night but find that pumping is taxing and so don't do it too much I just nurse babies on demand around the clock and the milk flows in well from that alone especially with cluster feeding etc