Twin Girls with Kristy

Breastfeeding Relief with Bethany

In this Episode, Bethany and Kristy discussed Kristy's breastfeeding journey with her twins. Kristy was fortunate to have a lactation consultant who helped her prepare for breastfeeding and encouraged natural latching, but the hospital staff had a more clinical approach and did not follow Kristy's desires. Kristy shared how connecting with other mothers of multiples and giving herself permission to use formula for one feed helped alleviate the pressure and guilt around breastfeeding. Bethany emphasized the importance of asking for help from one's partner and taking care of oneself.
Quotes:
"Giving myself permission just to do one feed with formula at that really difficult time where we're all tired, we're all grizzly."

“I was very, very lucky to find a lactation consultant who had twins.”

“Not just about looking after the little ones, but looking after mum through that breastfeeding journey as well.”

“I'd lost a lot of blood through the C-section, to not get up through the night, to use the midwives or the nurses if the babies were calling out to get them to bring them over for breastfeeding. And I would call for the nurses to come when they were crying. And they were so annoyed that I was calling them to pass the babies over. You could feel it, you could see it. There was a lot of frustration in those nurses. They wanted me to just get up and do the thing.”

“I think about that time and I wish I had a strong advocate to empower me to be able to ask for what I needed and to feel confident that that was the right thing to do.”

“I had two at the same time, the same room, the same environment and I had two really different children with different sensitivities and needs.”

“For me, for twins, it was having a chair that was wide. So really wide enough to be able to fit both babies. My back felt really supported and I could put my feet up. That was the bomb. We still have that chair, they're nine years old now and they sort of still fit in it.

“In my journey of breastfeeding is that, especially as a mum of multiples, that I connected with in Australia, we have what's called the multiple mum's birth association.”

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