Barbara, I agree with you 100% about the trick to feed newborn twins simultaneously. My twin girls were born at 37 weeks, just made it by a day. I was so nervous about feeding them together and feared that if I couldn't manage it than I wouldn't be able to keep up with nursing twins. It made me sore and was uncomfortable. Despite helpful, experienced LC friends and an assortment of pillows one latch remained painful. Within a couple days I switched to feeding them individually and it was fine. It worked, which was the goal. By the time they were 3 months I could feed them together without any special skill. As "term" newborns we did not receive any special attention. Their first Ped visit was scheduled at two weeks. However, they definetely showed signs of immaturity. Their sucking bursts were transitional and they slept a lot, feeding only 9 times a day. It was a marginal situation that given mother without the benefit of being educated in infant nutrition could have gone very differently! I certainly would never had made it if I blindly followed the advise to feed simultaneously. My girls are now 21/2 and we are back to feeding individually, they wait turns, because they are simply too big to nurse comfortably. They have never had a drop of formula. Wendy A Jordan BS IBCLC _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html