Dear Lactnetters:
    I recently had a client who had three children and was planning a tubal
ligation.  To her surprise, she was pregnant---this time with naturally
conceived triplets!
    She breastfed them for seven months.  Two months after weaning she told
me,"Every time I stand at the sink washing out bottles I ask myself why I
thought this would be easier!  I should have just kept breastfeeding".
    She occasionally fed more than one at a time, but preferred nursing them
each alone.  With three infants, she must have been feeding constantly.  And
with three other young children!  But, this was her choice and worked for her.
    I have another friend who has triplets and two older children.  She read
Ezzo, with her eyes open, used her considerable intellect, and used what she
liked.  I shuddered, expressed my conserns and cautions.  Nonetheless, she
put the three on a schedule in order to have some sense of order and some
moments to sleep, eat, shower, and be mom to her other two, then four and
six.  One of the triplets had reflux and needed to be re-fed after each
feeding because of spitting.  She also chose to feed each of the girls alone
one time each day.  She was flexible with the schedule---she herself is a
pediatrician as well as a sensitive mother and she wasn't about to let any of
the children go hungry!  Her choice, and it worked for them!  Have I
converted to Ezzo-ism?  Perish the thought!
    It's so interesting to learn how different families find ways that work
for them.  We can support, inform, suggest, educate, but the bottom line is
that we're going home and mom and dad will stay to manage (or not).

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