Re: How to cosleep with breastfed twins
Different things worked at different ages . . . there's definitely "trial and error". We had a twin mattress side-car'd next to our queen mattress (my dad built a platform for it with walls around 3 sides that we padded and covered with fabric). I slept on the side of the queen bed that had the side car, with one baby in the side car and the other one between dh & me in bed (that's contrary to safety recommendations. We felt it was safe in our situation, use good judgement for your situation). I rolled back and forth into the co-sleeper to nurse that baby, back into the bed to nurse the other baby. They both nursed to sleep and then their mouths fell open, releasing the nipple. I could sleep while they nursed so only had to be awake to roll over and latch on whichever baby fussed. That's not true of all babies, Lina wiggled more when she nursed and needed me to unlatch her so she could roll away from me in order for her to go back to sleep, which meant I had to stay awake while she nursed during the night.
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