2. Use Available
Resources
Call your local WIC
Breastfeeding Coordinator
or the Breastfeeding Help
and Information Line at
1-800-514-6667.
Look into support groups for
moms with multiples in your
area or your local La Leche
League chapter.
Nursing multiples can be a
challenge, especially if they
are born early. For the first
Get Comfortable weeks, you may be very busy, few weeks after your babies to talk to a breastfeeding
but you need to keep up your are born, you may want counselor every day.
Use pillows. strength. Have a snack and to contact a breastfeeding
Ask for help before you come
beverage nearby each time counselor frequently – some
Lie down in bed. home from the hospital. Ask
you nurse. mothers of multiples need
a friend or family member to:
Curl up in your favorite chair
run an errand
or sofa with your favorite Pump If You
television show, video, music, Need To do a load of laundry
or a book. prepare a pot of soup or
If your babies are premature or a casserole
Use the time you spend do not have a strong suck at
nursing your babies to relax first, you may need to use a Dad or a grandparent can
and enjoy yourself. Nursing breast pump. Your babies will help with:
will allow you to get off still get your breastmilk until diapering babies
your feet and get some they are strong enough to nurse,
needed rest. bathing and dressing
and pumping will help increase
babies
your milk supply. Talk to a WIC
Eat Sensibly breastfeeding counselor about reading to babies
the kind of pump to use. Ask limiting visitors
Eat and drink often throughout for a copy of the WIC brochure reading to or playing
the day. During the first few Mother’s Milk for Premature Babies, with one baby while mom
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