Breastfeeding Twins

Hi everyone! I've breastfed both of my singletons until 18 months. My daughter is about to turn 18 months, and we are about to stop due to drying up. I'm just wondering how many of you were able to successfully nurse your twins without needing to supplement? I was an oversupplier with my daughter until about 10 months, and then it evened out to make just enough without making any changes. I'm worried if I will have a big enough supply for twins and the tandem feeding aspect. I also pumped with my others because of working. I plan to try to nurse more than pump and may end up staying at home. My toddler will be 2 or close to it when they are born if things go as planned, so I'm also worried about being able to nurse them and chase her around. Any advice/tips?

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I managed 6 months and then my supply couldn't keep up, I had to power pump twice a day and I fed them one at a time, tandem feeding its strange sometimes 😅 one boob has a different flow and the babies get distracted with eachtoher ahhaha xxx

Does milk just dry up when still feeding?

@Steamtrane Family My supply has been dwindling down since finding out I was pregnant. Not everyone is the same, but typically, the hormones decrease milk supply. I am currently 10 weeks along with twins.

Thank you that makes sense Congratulations by the way🎊🎉✨💐

@Steamtrane Family Thank you!

I made it to 6 months ebf both twins even with my 16.5 month old around. I found once you get the hang of tandem feeding it gets much easier. I only stopped breastfeeding Twin A at 6 months because she had a couple bottles of pumped milk and then never went back to boob, Twin B was ebf up until 13ish months and wouldn't touch a bottle. I pretty much pumped about 10 times total and tbh that was specially of I was having my SIL watch them for a couple of hours or if I wanted to have a just in case feed in the freezer. The only difference I noticed was that I was way hungrier than when I breastfed my singleton 🫠

Please message me if you have any questions!! - @evolveingrace on IG My twins are just over 10 months, still exclusively breastfed. They started refusing bottles of pumped milk around 2 months. I would suggest to latch as much as possible the first couple of days/weeks and have a lot of skin-to-skin. I started doing that once they started refusing bottles and that helped my supply - I was also pumping but I preferred nursing over sleep deprivation to pump (I kept missing my alarm in the night). I realized I had an over supply compared to under supply when the twin were in the NICU and I was away and couldn’t latch as much. For tandem feeding I used twin boppy pillow but mostly the my brestfriend pillow. There are also twin carriers that have both babies in the front so that made it easy to tandem feed on the go or with visitors near.

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