Much like the triple long jump (?!), triple feeding involves 3 steps at each feed, normally for the purposes of getting more milk into baby and to make sure your breasts are continuing to keep up a good supply of milk.

Step 1: Breastfeed the baby directly - support to optimise your baby's latch at the breast and positioning can help to maximise the milk that baby IS getting. You can also assist by utilising your hands on the breast while baby feeds (like you do for hand-expressing) and making sure to offer both breasts, switching between the 2 as needed to keep baby feeding until they have had enough.

Step 2: Top-up - this can be done by a bottle, cup or even finger feeding (a small tube attached to your finger passing between a container of expressed milk and baby's mouth so that as baby sucks on your finger they draw up the extra milk!). If necessary, the top-up can be formula 

Step 3: Express - This should preferably be done with a hospital-grade double pump and doesn't need to be longer than 10-20 minutes. You can assist with the pumping as you did with the feeding, with hands on stimulation! 

This may seem quite tiresome and time-consuming so find ways to make the experience as manageable as you can. Create an oxytocin (Love/Happy hormone) fuelled environment with your favourite snacks, Netflix, a book, upbeat music and remind yourself this is only temporary!

Give yourself a deadline - a few days maybe or a week - before you'll check in on baby's weight gain, nappy output etc. and consider trialling reducing the amounts you offer as top-ups or the amount of time you spend at each pumping session. As long as baby continues to feed well and gain weight, you can keep cutting down the triple feeding elements until you're in a comfortable position for you - whether that's exclusively back at the breast or not.