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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2014, 19:55:32 pm »
Kayra do you know the sex of the babies yet?
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2014, 20:35:54 pm »
nope, next wednesday hopefully!

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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #32 on: January 23, 2014, 20:53:16 pm »
How exciting!! 



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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2014, 21:24:34 pm »
Kayra do you know the sex of the babies yet?

I was also wondering this! very excited for you!
Hope to see a happy update from you next week then!
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2014, 21:36:32 pm »
I plan on using my Brest friend again, especially in the early weeks when baby is learning and needs a lot of holding in position and reattaching. I think it became redundant after 10 weeks or so. But it is brilliant. I answered the front door to my MW with O still attached, when he was a few days old, which would have been impossible otherwise as I needed 2 hands on him at that stage :)

Success stories are invaluable, prem reflux twin success stories are even more inspiring!  :D
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2014, 21:39:18 pm »
i used a breast friend pillow too - good to know they make one for twins!
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2014, 07:08:35 am »
not sure that i'm getting the twin version, a friend said she had one for me so i wasn't sure if it's the one she used or she's found it from someone else or bought one....we'll see.
I corresponded with the LC in training and she was very nice and said she could offer peer to peer support, no charge. So I could probably email with her, possibly meet up and chat, but don't think I could ask her to come over after the birth or something, feels like taking advantage of her though she was very sweet overall. we'll see. in the meanwhile i'll research what services the hospital i'm likely to give birth in offers. It's the reduction thing which I feel throws a spanner in everything, it may be unrelated (when i talked to the dr who did it, when DS was born, he didn't seem to think it was related to that and kept going on about my stress levels-which of course really helped my stress levels ::) ) but it's always a niggling thought. And I think I feel slightly embarrassed about it when I have to mention it to a LC.

I am excited about wednesday :) DS then wants to have meetings about name choosing but he does have some rather strange suggestions so not sure how we're going to navigate that!

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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #37 on: January 27, 2014, 20:42:05 pm »
And I think I feel slightly embarrassed about it when I have to mention it to a LC.

about having a breast reduction? LC are the experts in all things breasts related. i'm sure you are not the only one who wants to BF who has a breast reduction?

i hope you are not getting too stressed about this….yea it will be great if you can BF the twins but it is fine if you don't!
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #38 on: January 27, 2014, 20:57:11 pm »
Quote from: kayra on January 24, 2014, 07:08:35 AM
And I think I feel slightly embarrassed about it when I have to mention it to a LC.

about having a breast reduction?
I guess, I don't know it's just another thing to have to explain I suppose, but it's silly I know and noone I've spoken to (about BF) has ever made me feel embarrassed about it.
I'm not too stressed at present, I was, mainly because I was just confused about whether pumping was good or not, but I'm doing better now, there's a rough plan and like you said if it does come to formula it's not the end of the world, DS was FF and was absolutely fine, not having the expense would be nice :P but we'll figure it out if it comes to it :)

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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2014, 01:54:06 am »
yea the expense would be nice as it would be double eek! however,  BFing 2 sounds a bit daunting but time goes by fast! esp that first year!  my DD will be 2 in a few weeks! I can't believe it!  i think i'd be more worried about the toddler stage than the BFing one LOL  my DD is a handful compared to DS!
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2014, 10:04:12 am »
You know what?  It doesn't have to be all or none.  Sometimes BF and sometimes bottles also good.  Any breast milk is a surplus!  Stay happy is most important.  Prayers for you all xx



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« Reply #41 on: January 28, 2014, 22:49:51 pm »
very true Koe! my Sil did a mix for her twins who she birthed both vaginally. crazy!!!!
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #42 on: January 29, 2014, 19:35:33 pm »
It is wednesday here!!!! can not wait to find out the sex of these babies! praying everything went well during your visit/ultrasound.
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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2014, 21:11:59 pm »
:) All is well thankfully, I've updated on my 'some news' thread ;) couldn't figure out how to alter the title of the thread tho..

I'm fine with the idea of doing both BF and FF, DS was like that so I know that it's by no means the end of the world.

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Re: breast feeding, pumping, confused..
« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2014, 21:29:12 pm »
yes everyone hope on over to the other thread! congrats!
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