u/djduhnizzle

TW: oversupply + NICU mentioned!

I have 6 month twins (3 months adjusted) born at 28 weeks and I’ve been exclusively pumping this whole time. They spent 93 days in the NICU.

I have two chest freezers (that I rotate) full of breastmilk and I know it is a huge blessing! I’m just feeling a lot of guilt around wanting to stop pumping.

I’m currently down to 6 sessions a day and the freedom that comes along with weaning sounds so amazing. But the guilt is tearing me up inside. It’s been amazing feeding them from my body and I know breastmilk has amazing benefits.

I think I’m holding onto it so hard since my babies were so little and it all felt so serious.

Any tips? How did those of you who stopped pumping stop feeling guilty?

*Note: I’m not saying vaccines caused these issues just writing things out as a concerned mom.

My twins are 5 months (12 weeks adjusted) and got the PCV and Hib vaccine on Friday. My daughter has been acting like her normal self but my son seems different. Before the vaccine he was rolling tummy to back, loved kicking the toys on his activity gym, and was overall just loved using his body to explore the space around him.

It’s Monday and as of yesterday he’s just been wanting to sleep and stare off into space. It’s SO unlike him. He still smiles, and coos at me and loves to interact but just diminished interest in toys and the space around him.
He was a kicking machine, lifting his head etc before Friday and he barely even lift his head yesterday or today. He still generally had good head control

He’s never slept through the night before but the last 2 nights he’s been sleeping from 7:45p-7:45a. We’ve actually been having to wake him up to eat.

Idk something just seems off.

Wondering if anyone else got this email? I looked up and it seems to be legit but wondering if the email itself is real.

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I’m in the twin “newborn” trenches (my twins are 3 months but 4 weeks adjusted) and I’ve been soooo exhausted that after we got done feeding the babies I went right back to sleep instead of pumping. I missed my 2:30am session, and my 5am one was pushed back by 45 mins. My last pump session was 10pm last night.

When I woke up this morning this morning my boobs were SO engorged that I could barely fit the flanges on me I didn’t even feel my letdown. My boobs just immediately started draining and I pumped 25 ounces 😭

How screwed am I? Will this impact my supply? I do have a twin supply (65-70ounces a day) with a slight oversupply. I made sure to drain my boobs fully.

My twins were born 28 weeks and both spent 90 something days in the NICU (came home last Thursday). They’re currently 3 months (3 weeks adjusted)

Now that we’re home life and sleep is a dumpster fire. Neonatologist only discharged us with the condition that we would be on top of feeds every 3 hours and not a minute later.

They’re both 9 pounds now and their weights have trended upwards nicely. However the both still struggle with bottle feeding and need to be paced. I’ve tried to do it on my own and it is impossible. My daughter chokes, and my son gulps. We tried moving down a nipple size to Transitional and they would get frustrated and fall asleep. They do well with my husband and I both waking up to feed them so we can watch stress cues while eating etc.

On top of that my daughter has terrible reflux. We keep them upright in the twin z for about 15-20 minutes and even then she’s arching her back out of discomfort, grunting, gagging etc. She struggles to burp and has terrible gas to the point she wakes up screaming. I try to fart her but it’s a hit or miss and I’m not quite comfortable using the Frida Windi on her. She does okay with gas drops.

My son has 100% started to roll over in his sleep. I caught him on his face 3 times in a day and that was it. I decided it’s time to he unswaddled but he loves being swaddled up! He will not enter a deep sleep and will whine throughout the time he’s supposed to be asleep and then actually fall asleep a few minutes before it’s the next time to eat and then the cycle continues again. But he sleeps fine throughout the day.

For me. I got one hour of sleep last night :) My head is pounding. I’m exhausted. I wanna do shifts but it’s not feasible at this point because they have such high needs with feeding.

Idk what to do. Please please please give some tips. I think they can go longer stretches without eating but don’t have their doctor appt until next week to ask.

Just a place for all of us to laugh so we don’t cry 🫶🏽

I’ll go first

My twins are 3 months (3 weeks corrected)

For me, my son is struggling with not being swaddled anymore when sleeping. He hates sleep sacks/suits, and hates one arm out as well.

My daughter gets trapped gas and it makes her very uncomfortable. I help her fart multiple times a day and gripe water/gas drops don’t help. But she is getting better and is learning to relax to fart.

Hi all! Just wondering if anyone has had this happen?

I’ve noticed my babies only eat well for my husband. He’s been able to get my daughter to finish 5 bottles and my son to finish 2. But when I feed them I can only get them to finish 50-70% of a bottle.

Today my daughter finished 2 back to back bottles with my husband and only ate 60% of her bottle when I fed her.

I just want them out the NICU and idk what to do. My husband works so he can only attend one care time during the week and he does Fri-Sun with me.

When speech observed they say I’m doing fine but clearly not.

I spend so much time at the NICU I feel like I should have this down already.

We’re headed into week 13 and I can’t take it anymore. I’ve already lost so much time with them.

Hello!

28+1 b/g twins will be 40 weeks tomorrow. My daughter is doing so well finishing 60-70% of her bottles and has now fully finished 3 bottles (yay!)

Her first finished bottle was 4/29 and she also finished one 4/30 and 5/1. Today she didn’t finish any had a couple sleepy feeds. I’m waiting for it to still click for her and for it to take off and it’s so hard bc the finish line is getting closer.

My son is doing better and finished 40-60% of his feeds as he was initially doing 10-20%