Tips for Breast Feeding Twins

Your pleasure of motherhood may have doubled but so does your troubles after giving birth to twins. The first problem that you are going to face with twins is to know how to breastfeed them. It can be very difficult and leave you frustrated. With some tips given here, you can make it much easier for yourself.

Learn to relax

You should first of all learn to relax. Let go off all other responsibilities from your mind as feeding your babies is the most important priority at this stage. If your mobile bothers and interrupts you a lot, switch it off. Relegate your household chores to other people in your house. If you happen to have other kids too, find ways to keep them busy with toys, books and other healthy activities.

In short, you need to stay away from anything that makes you stressed, worried, or anything that takes your focus away from the babies. Apart from breastfeeding, you also need to enjoy your time with your babies. Fondle them, sing to them, and strengthen your bond with them.

Stimulate milk production with a nursing pump

You can stimulate your milk production by using a nursing pump. It is very useful for moms who are worried about not producing enough milk as they have to feed two babies together. This pump is also useful when you want to stock up extra milk necessary to feed the babies.

You might want to try an electric double pump that helps to extract milk from both breasts at the same time. For this, your doctor’s recommendation would be a must.

Take help from people

Let go off your hesitation to take help from people. You do not need to nurse an ego or become a martyr now. Just take the help of a friend who wants to. Ask your husband to do the laundry or rock the baby to sleep. He should help out in changing diapers too.

You should also join a support group of other multiple parents. If you have a local twin mothers’ club, nothing like it. They can be your most valuable support at this time. They will give you plenty of advice which would be very useful, as they are coming from experienced people. They will tell you a lot of things that worked for them, and they might well work for you too.

Follow these tips to solve your problem of breastfeeding for twins.