18 months here . And, I had two toddlers too! I did not think it would be possible when I first learned I was pregnant with twins. But, I lucked out with full-term, healthy babies who were good latchers from the start.
Mom to Megan(5), Bridget(4), Tessa and Annie (2) and Mary (brand new)
I have since my milk came in...the girls were on formula until day 3 in the nicu. I am doing a combo of nursing and pumping/bottle feeding. So far it's been manageable.
Due to NICU time, I have been pumping. While the boys were in the NICU, I exclusively pumped. Since they have come home, I have been pumping, nursing, and using formula. The NICU has me using 2 enfamil enfacare bottles a day. I just started nursing 3 days ago, and the boys each spent about 30 minutes total nursing today. It is a lot to keep up with--nursing and pumping, but I feel it is worth it. We will see what happens when I go back to work!
We made it past a year! I wasn't sure we would when they came home unable to latch, but after pumping for a few weeks we made transition from pumping to bfing. Wasn't easy in the begining but so glad I stuck with it!
I ebf until I went back to work. I wasn't able to keep up with them with the pump, though, so now I breastfeed three times per day and they get two bottles of formula.
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Still going strong. Supplemented with one formula feed daily for the first couple of months and then went to ebf, except a very rare bottle feed which was manually expressed bm--if I was out. Now still bfing, no bottles, started solids at around 5 and 1/2 months.
Re: Ebf your twins
Mom to Megan(5), Bridget(4), Tessa and Annie (2) and Mary (brand new)