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Nursing/Feeding Twins at Night

carissasmomcarissasmom
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I know I'm way ahead of myself but I'm trying to mentally prepare.  For night feedings/nursing when one woke up did you go ahead and feed both of them even if the other was asleep.  I can see pros and cons to both way.  And maybe they'll wake up at the same time.  I just wanted to see what you experienced MoMs did.  Thanks!
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Re: Nursing/Feeding Twins at Night

  • MetalMonkeyMetalMonkey
    We formula fed and I pumped.  My girls never really took to bfing.  We would wake up the other if one woke up.  Sometimes we didn't have to because they would wake up together.  This worked for us.  We were able to keep them on the same schedule instead of feeding one and then the other 1 hour or 2 later.  That happened a few times and it just felt like we were feeding non-stop.  I prefered tandem feeding because then there was an actual break between bottles. 
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  • antes22antes22 member
    Yes! If one wakes up feed them both. My boys are on the exact same nursing schedule to this day. It's a life saver.
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  • Rose.9.6.03Rose.9.6.03 member

    I EP'd and bottle fed my girls.  For the first two months, I'd feed the first baby to wake up and then wake the other and feed her.  I think that's the only way to make sure you're getting at least a little bit of sleep.

    After two months, both girls were showing signs of being able to go longer than 3 hours between feedings, so the pedi suggested that we stop waking the sleeping baby - so that we didn't train them to wake up for food before they needed it.   For a couple of weeks it was hellish b/c they were waking at all times, but at the end, I had one baby STTN and the other was just getting up 1-2 times per night. 

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  • jd0614jd0614
    We always woke one when the other woke up, otherwise we could potentially be up all night. - they were formula fed, i didn't have enough milk. 
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  • MNheidiMNheidi member

    First, definitely wake them up to feed them together at night.  We did it until they dropped their final night time feeding.  It will help keep them on the same schedule during the day as well.

    I pumped so dh always got up to bottle feed while I pumped for the next feeding.  It was pretty rough on both of us but my boys didn't take to bfing either.

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  • kblindgrenkblindgren

    I EP and bottle feed the boys. My boys are preemies, so they are still on the "eat every 3 hours" schedule from the NICU (with exceptions for when they wake up early and are hungry - although usually we have to wake them up to eat).  Right now I feed one, then the other.  Lately, I've been pumping while I feed one to save time.  I personally can't feed both at the same time because I have one that's very fussy/burpy/uncomfortable and the other that can take a bottle down in 5 min. and need to burp and be done - it's just easier to do it seperately right now. 
    DH takes the midnight shift and I take 3am.  We both get up at 6, DH goes to work and I sleep again until 9.  We like splitting night feedings because then we each get at least 4-5 consecutive hours of sleep a night (usually!).  GL!!

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