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She had taken the bottle perfectly
earlier on but maybe now it is just a preference to the breast. I
don't think we're trying to overfeed her because she starts fighting
the bottle sometimes after only taking 1 oz.

Babies, especially primarily breastfed ones, will take varying amounts from
the bottle because they are used to getting varying amounts at the breast.
If the baby is showing a preference then she may always take just enough to
get by on from the bottle. Don't worry about it. She'll make up the
difference at the breast. Especially if you are talking about just one or
two bottles a day. This situation has been true for all of my babies and
it was never a problem for us. I will say that I never gave my babies a
bottle. I usually tried to leave the area. It is hard to imagine right
now, in the thick of things, but really - nursing directly will be easier
for your wife then nursing, pumping, fiddling with bottles etc.

I'm going back to work soon and my wife was hoping that she might
exclusively pump and bottle both girls with the breastmilk rather then
nurse them one at a time as it would be far quicker. Unfortunately,
Hannah doesn't take to the tandem nursing very well either and until
they can self latch and hold my wife literally needs an extra hand to
do it.

I have twins that I am nursing. I promise that it will get a lot easier
when they get just a little older and are better able to stay latched on.
She should continue to work with tandeming them and it will happen. They
are very close to being good at it. Does she have a twins nursing pillow?
I used the EZ-2-Nurse twins nursing pillow and it was a life savor. It made
tandeming possible. We found that it was much easier for me to nurse them
at the same time then it was for dh to bottle them at the same time. He had
to bottle them individually for a long time.

I'm wishing you the best of luck!!

--
Nikki, mama to
Hunter 4/99
Luke 4/01
Brock 4/06
Ben 4/06