Just a Day in the Life of a Mom with Twins

Breastfeeding has been a hard and long road for us and we’re only four months in. If you read my Twin Birth Story you’ll know that we had trouble with breastfeeding from the very start. There are so many things I wish I could go back and change, but alas – I know I cannot. For a quick reminder, I was so sick when I woke up from my C-Section surgery, I did not get a spinal and I was completely knocked out. I was sick and frozen from the anesthesia and so out of it for the remainder of that day that my babies got bottles for their first feeds and when we tried to nurse for the first time it was disastrous. They were so little they couldn’t figure out how to latch and stay latched, so we had a lactation consultant come in and help and she gave us great advice and encouraged us to keep trying, that it might take a few days to a few weeks for them to really get the hang of it, but not to give up. She was great. Now, I did not leak or have any milk prior to my C-Section so my body didn’t...