I've learnt so much from all the different approaches described on Lactnet
nd in private mail.  (As usual!) I wrote my original post in haste and
thought afterwards that I should have qualified my opinion.  I would never
recommend any one course of action to a mother in the manner suggested in
my post.  Like all NCT breastfeeding counsellors, I outline the options to
a mother and then help her to work out her own way of doing things - which
is generally quite different to anything I would have thought of!
Keeping each twin to one breast does sometimes, according to mothers I
worked with, work
well - if both are equal nursers - but, so often (as many writers have
described), this is not the case.
I've not had experience of triplets - except a set I delivered when working
in West Africa - by lamp-light in the middle of a wet night assisted by an
untrained auxillary nurse.  The mother breastfed two babies and the third
was wet-nursed by grandmother.
All good wishes
Hannah
(midwife and National Childbirth Trust breastfeeding counsellor, UK)
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