Testimonial: Breastfeeding twins located in two different wings of the hospital

In neonat, a nurse helps me take my son despite all his sons and put him to the breast. I am lucky, my 2 guys are real champions, they know what they have to do to drink! But like real identical juju, they are already synchronized in their hunger... Mom will have to split in two for this breastfeeding marathon.

My 2 guys ask for the breast every 2 to 3 hours and the feeding can last 30 to 40 minutes. I am forbidden to enter my healthy baby into the neo-nat, and the baby from neo-nat cannot leave there, so we forget the idea of feeding them at the same time. But they are hungry at the same time!

I will go back and forth between the 2 places nonstop. I am breastfeeding in my room and I stay there until the nurse at Néo-Nat calls me to tell me that the one who is there is hungry. And when I am in neonatal, it's my boyfriend who calls me to tell me that the one in our room is hungry.

I soon ran into another problem. Besides the synchronicity of their hunger, the colostrum that a breast produces is not enough for every guy's hunger. When you have only one baby, you offer him the 2 breasts, alternately, in order to satisfy his thirst. For me, I had to reserve one breast for each baby. But my guys weren't thrilled after their 30-minute feeding, and my milky rise will only come in 36-48 hours. For me, leaving them hungry is out of the question. A nurse offered me to supplement the feeding with formula milk. This solution is fine with me. For me it is important to offer my breast milk to my children, but it is out of the question to starve them because my body is not yet in production for 2.

I feel no guilt in doing this, I think I am meeting their needs in a way that is most beneficial for everyone. It is important to specify, there are so many prejudices about bottles. Before giving birth, I took a lot of training on breastfeeding. And all the trainers warned me against mixed breastfeeding:

• Your production will not be enough
• Your boys may experience confusion between the different methods.
• No bottle before 6 weeks, otherwise babies will no longer want the breast

I refused these speeches and trusted myself. But I had to shock myself with a few nurses for getting formula milk. Each new nurse rewound the tape for me and told me about the many risks I ran in doing this!

Thank you, I understood very well, but MY BABIES ARE HUNGRY!

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