Your milk production has to be sufficient, for starters. If the babies are allowed to feed as much as they want your body should respond by producing enough milk for them both.

It is generally felt that putting your babies to the breast within the first hour after birth helps in establishing breastfeeding, but when your babies are hauled off to SCBU this may not be possible. Don't automatically assume that SCBU means the end of breastfeeding though, as the following stories tell, the one key word which seems to dominate is perseverence.

Of course breastfeeding is healthier for babies, saves money on baby food and can help you get your figure back (the uterus contracts as you feed babies).  However it can often take hours on end to feed your babies even when feeding both at the same time, and if you have other children to look after and a house to run, then time issues will affect you.

Many of us want to breastfeed, but for one reason or another the babies simply just don't get it. This can make you feel like you've failed at the first hurdle of motherhood, but try not to let it get you down.

Here are a few breastfeeding tales from twin and triplet mums, not all of them are the shiny rosy stories your midwife would have you believe, but rather they are the truth about breastfeeding, from those in the know!