I'm Breast Feeding Three Children At The Sametime

Alicia Has Three Kids Lining Up for a Feed! 

- Emma Levett

Panting through her labour, Alicia Dixon, who was having a home birth, heard her toddler MJ wake up.

‘He’d always been a difficult sleeper, and the only thing that would settle him was breastfeeding,’ she explains.

It meant that even as she was giving birth to baby Poppy, she was also feeding her little boy.

‘It ended up slowing my labour down,’ says Alicia, 35. ‘He went off to my mum’s in the morning, and Poppy was born quickly after that.’

From then on she had two hungry mouths to feed.

‘Before the birth, MJ hadn’t been feeding that much. But when Poppy fed, he wanted it too. At the beginning I was feeding them both about six times a day.’

Tandem feeding – breastfeeding multiple children together – was something she had researched and was keen to try.