Multiples
Twin confessions
As MOMs, I'm sure a lot of us take shortcuts (aka survival tactics).
One of my many that I'm not proud of: I confess that I've shared bottles back and forth between the twins. For instance, if one twin finishes a bottle and is still hungry but the other is done and hasn't finished the bottle, I pass it over. Part of it is the convenience and the other part is I don't want any wasted breast milk. I figure they will catch each other's colds anyway but it probably isn't the smartest idea..
So ladies, do you have any confessions?
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Re: Twin confessions
Married since June 2010
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3 abnormal PAPs and 2 colpo/biopsy since 09/2009
LEEP 05/2011
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One of our twins seems to love watching football (yes he's only 4 months old), so we just go with it. It makes him happy hanging out with DH, and DH makes sure to narrate the plays so technically it's interactive. Ha. I go grocery shopping with one twin and the other stays home watching football, so Sunday afternoons work out really well for us right now.
Our guys share pacifiers, burp cloths, etc. I wouldn't think twice about them sharing a bottle!
Lost our first little peanut on 1/17/2012 at 9 weeks and 5 days. We miss you little blessing, but we know you were too perfect for this world.
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Not sure - my doctor wasn't happy w/ the practice but I don't care.
Your doc clearly doesn't have twins. lol.
Lost our first little peanut on 1/17/2012 at 9 weeks and 5 days. We miss you little blessing, but we know you were too perfect for this world.
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That is the cutest thing! I can so see DH doing that w/ our boys lol!
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23 week loss, 24 week loss, 3 early miscarriages & a 25 weeker who lived only 9 weeks.
I was thinking this. I was talking to a twin mom at the doctors office. I asked her how important was it for them to not share things. She said and I quote " yea that goes out the window when they are able to pass stuff to each other." So I don't feel so bad anymore when I forget who's is whats..
My twins haven't been here long enough for me to have a confession.. :S. Give me another week! lol.
Guilty here of all of this. Also often times, when I'm giving them baths in the baby bath tub, I won't change out the water before bathing the second baby unless the first bather has an accident in the tub.
Ditto on your confession! I think it is just because people can be so know.it.all about it that you want to prove them wrong and leave them speechless since they probably offered their advice unsolicited anyways!
My confessions:
Along the lines of sharing, if I put a spoonful of food in one kids mouth and they only take part of it, I just give it to the other one as we alternate bites.
If they're both screaming I don't kill myself trying to take care of them both at the same time. I take care of one and then move on to the other. It can be hard but its saved my sanity, and my back!
I shamelessly ask for diapers, formula and clothes for them any time anyone asks, and I can get away with it because of the stigma associated with twins being so much more work and cost. Might as well milk it /appreciatively of course!/ while I can.
I know there are more but these are the ones that came to mind. :
Eta: Alternate punctuation for the stuff that mobile bumping removed.
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i dont steralize my breasts between feedings, so they share bottles, and pacis, and toys that go right in their mouths!
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And with the delivery trifecra of one twin vaginal, one c-section with general anesthesia for twin B, Spencer and Sidney joined us at 35 weeks exactly on June 18.
I'm going to echo everyone on bottle sharing. I also let one scream while I change/diaper/tend to the other. It's honestly easier to get one under control then the other, rather than fumbling to soothe both at the same time. I don't always change their'clothes if they've spit up, just wipe it up. Jace peed a tiny bit on his pjs last week in the MOTN, and I left them on him until morning.
I never change the bath water in between =/ I sometimes add hot water if it cooled down but don't with pee (theirs or brothers). Made me laugh when all the singletons on my bmb change the water after pee, and to rinse off... Yeah, mine come out soapy I guess lol.
I only change clothes if it is a big wet spot and/or before a nap.
yup! none of these sound like bad things at all! maybe because I do most of them. I feed with the same spoon, scrape a chin with the spoon and keep going. Which means sometimes one may get what was on the other's chin. They steal each others paci and drool on each other-there would be no way to keep the germs separated unless I put them both behind glass.
Oh, I have a ton: