I don't know
Initially I wasn't planning to pump, then when I read that it would help with the supply I thought maybe I should. Someone else feeding with the bottle wasn't my initial motivation but a sort of side-bonus.
However pumping during the day is one thing, having to pump at night is another, I just couldn't do that.
I read loads of the nursing nurture site last night and there it says that actually during the night esp. it's so much easier to BF because you can doze while feeding too and that that way you don't really have to wake the other to feed too when one wakes (which is what everyone else says you should do), you just kind of alternate babies in the night. (of course this is assuming they don't need a nappy change etc).
Ideally my milk would just come in nicely and I'd only pump if there seemed too much rather than with the stress of trying to make more milk.
Taking it as it comes is probably what I should do, it just goes against my grain of wanting to have a plan in place and being ready. So maybe I just need A, B, C plans. Like have a pump on the ready but don't use it initially work on BF, hand express before the feed if nipples are too flat. Try different positions, see what works. B plan, if supply does seem to be an issue start pumping. or C plan if BF 2 at the same time is just too overwhelming pump so 1 can be bottlefed and try to alternate...
does that make sense?
I asked about the lactation consultant and it's roughly 80£ for 1 visit you can choose whether it's pre or post birth. To me it would make so much more sense if it was a 1 pre 1 post sort of package, don't know if it's worth going down that route, not sure i'm going to get any great revelations that haven't been mentioned here or on other nursing websites..