Our twins are 3 weeks old and we're feeling way out of our depth on establishing good habits for feeding and sleeping since having left the hospital. When we left, they were having us give top-ups to supplement breastfeeding because my supply hadn't sufficiently built up while they were in the NICU with jaundice. The top-ups meant we had pretty regular feeds every 3 hours. Now that I've got a bit more supply and am trying to move to breastfeeding more, feeding and sleeping are becoming a nightmare. I tandem feed whenever possible, but they still sometimes manage to get themselves out of sync. At night, they're often up until 12:30 or 1 just feeding straight through the evening, and then from there their sleep is fitful at best. They do like sleeping in their bouncers, but I don't want to mess up their bodies or heads from too much bouncer time.
Help! How do you get your twins to happily eat and sleep?
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Linguaphile · 24/09/2013 12:36
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