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Tandem Nursing
The How-to of Nursing Two
By Gwen Morrison
It was more than just timesaving to feed both at the same time. "I liked the positive interacting the babies had with each other during those happy, peaceful moments," Kratz says.
As the mother of four children and a former member of La Leche League, Wanda LaGrave of Hobbs, N.M., considers herself an "old pro" at breastfeeding. Since the birth of her second child, tandem nursing has been a mainstay in her household. "The current nursling was not ready to wean when I became pregnant with the next, so [we] just nursed right through my pregnancy," she says. "I stopped producing milk at 12 weeks gestation, but it did not seem to bother any of the children. I began to produce colostrum at about 38 weeks gestation, and milk came in about three days after birth with almost all of the experiences."
What seemed to surprise LaGrave the most was how easy it was to slip into tandem nursing once the new baby was born. Her first-born child didn't nurse as often as his sibling, but LaGrave says he knew he was free to partake in the feeding while the new infant was breastfeeding.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding, says that tandem nursing can in some cases ease your older child's adjustment to the new baby, address your own desire to maintain closeness with the older child and even make childcare easier in some cases, as both children are fed and comforted on the breast.
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