Lactation counselor here. :) If you can nurse both twins at once, this is actually preferable because then there’s more chance for the mother to rest afterwards. Unfortunately, twins often are on different schedules, where one is sleeping while the other is hungry, so consecutive nursing tends to be more common. But if both twins are awake and interested, simultaneous nursing is perfectly acceptable. Here’s a good page that shows different holds useful for simultaneously feeding twins.

As for visual acuity, it is recommended that if you nurse twins simultaneously, then you do change which side you hold each twin on (so you’re not always holding Twin A on your left and Twin B on your right) for exactly that reason. :)

doesn’t breast feeding hurt like a motherfucker for new moms or for that matter most moms when the milk comes in, and the little blotchy, shrunken raisin beasts suck away like piranhas?

Some women experience an easy transition to breastfeeding with no or very little pain; for others, it is more difficult and accompanied by some pain or significant pain. It’s based on a number of factors, such as prior breastfeeding experience for the mother, physiologic differences such as the strength of the baby’s suck or the presence of tongue-tie, whether there are issues like overactive letdown, etc. The experience of most women I’ve come into contact with is that breastfeeding tends to be a little or somewhat painful in the beginning while both the mama and the baby learn to feed, but that it eases with time and becomes a pleasant experience. (A lot of that is naturally induced – for example, a baby suckling releases tranquilizing hormones in the mother’s brain.) But there’s certainly no guarantee that breastfeeding will automatically be painful. :) And if a woman is experiencing serious and continuing pain, she should see an IBCLC* (anyone can call themselves a “lactation consultant” with any kind of training or not at all, so be sure to only see an IBCLC, because they’re certified to have several thousands of hours of experience and a lot of training) for help; almost all breastfeeding difficulties can be resolved successfully.

As for the content of the original cartoons… yuck. There’s nothing quite like a hostile, passive-aggressive relationship between the parents for creating a healthy environment to raise children. o_O The remakes are pretty funny though. :)

* IBCLC = International Board Certified Lactation Consultant

No one’s a little strong.

Maybe he thought it would be “funnier” that way. Ha.

It’s doubleplusfunny in the context of the “affirmative action” strip; both Mallard Filmore and this wretched bit of business are going concerns purely because of a few editors’ misconceptions that “equal time” doesn’t just apply to elections, but to anything having to do with politics. Or, at least, to anything liberal (like Doonesbury) that people actually want to read.

This pair of twins represents a great opportunity – split them up, keeping one with his real parents and placing one in a liberal home. Disallow any contact between the families. Wait until the twins are 21 or so to tell them about the arrangement and have a reunion. If both twins refuse to leave the basement and stay down there gorging themselves on Cheetos, we will have proof of the Wingnut Gene.

They don’t sleep, they don’t go to the bathroom, they don’t even get burped. All they do is eat, eat, eat!

It wasn’t a professional attempt, but someone did manage it:

http://mentalhealth.atp.cx/?date=20020227

Isn’t it amazing that “conservative” counterpart of anything is always shallow, humorless and replete with non-sequitors and straw man arguments?

And Clint—hey, thanks a LOT, pal. Just when I thought the remix couldn’t have been more horrifying. Now I’m envisioning those poor doomed twins sucking their mamma’s tits with little duck bills.

Men are always the ideal; even for a nursing mother who just gave birth to twin girls.

this beats Mallard Fillmore for unadulterated wretchedness.

Dude, I try really hard to be the most loathesomely unfunny comic strip ever. Comments like this make me wonder if I shouldn’t just chuck the whole project.

Could you do better?

(Excuse me. That should be …)

Could you do worse?

I’m guessing the drawer is around ten years old.

Lookie here!