We had the child and family health nurse visit today. She helped us with breastfeeding. Ethan is getting good and Tracie breastfed him twice today. The best effort so far. We saw 2 short videos on breastfeeding that helped our attachment techniques. Sal breastfed Benji twice with the supply line. It was his first breastfeed since hospital 2 weeks ago, he did really well in the end. It started with a lot of screaming and crying, and Sal's poor breast got scratched and clawed by is sharp little finger nails. It was a big effort to get him to attach, but with a lot of perseverence, we did it.
We would like to eventually get them both feeding at the same time, so we decided to buy a twin feeding pillow today. We are looking forward to trying it out tomorrow.
The nurse weighed the boys too.
Ethan weighs 3.95kg (8lb11oz) and Benji weighs 3.46kg (7lb10oz). They are both 51cm long. They have gained 480g and 430g respectivly in 10days! The nurse says they should gain 100-200g/week.... so we are doing great. She also said there is no issue with too much weight gain at this point.
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