How long did you tandem BF?

Re: How long did you tandem BF?

• carrotcake06 member

  March 2014

  Mine are close to 9m and we still tandem. I give them each a burp rag to hold onto while they nurse and that helps. I wear a necklace, so one will fiddle with that usually. Or I'll hold one's hand so he doesn't rip out his brother's hair.
  
  They are efficient these days - we're usually done in 10-15 min.
  
  But I agree, once you add in meal times, it's quite the time suck.

  
  
  
  

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• BabyCarryingVessel member

  March 2014

  We made it 10 months. It's different for everyone, but you deserve a pat on the back for sticking with it this long!

   

  

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• bumpuser924057 member

  March 2014

  I only got a couple of months of tandem feeding - for the first five or so months they were too small and floppy and I need hands to support boobs in addition to baby heads, and then at like seven months they started getting mobile enough for it not to work.  So we're back to one at a time, but they honestly don't nurse much at nine months (maybe 4-5x a day, each?) so it isn't as big of a time suck as it used to be.

  
  

  
  

  Grant - 6/2/11

  Glenn and Caroline - 6/19/13

  
  

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• alanwifey2b member

  March 2014

  Mine are 11 months today and we still tandem. Sometimes it's like a wwe match though.

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