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If you don't feed at the same time...a question

WantastickybabyWantastickybaby
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So DH and I usually feed the babies one after the other when we're alone.  Unless, of course, they are both screaming to be fed - then we feed them in their bouncy chairs at the same time.  We prefer to feed one first and then wake the other so that we can focus on feeding each of them & take our time - plus our girls don't eat as well when we try to feed them simultaneously.

We are transitioning the girls to their cribs in the nursery this week.  They had been sleeping in the living room wherever they would fall asleep (bouncy seats, swing, PnP).  Now that they're in the nursery I'm wondering...

What if one wakes up from a nap and cries to eat, waking baby #2 (they'll be sharing a crib at first)?  Now I need to make a bottle, feed #1 and figure out a way to get #2 back to sleep???  If you don't feed at the same time, how do you handle this sort of thing when you're alone?

Thanks!

P.S. The answer might be that we need to feed at the same time, I'm just wondering if there's another solution :) 

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Re: If you don't feed at the same time...a question

  • RoseWhiteRoseWhite
    hmm, I feed at the same time...but what I would do is try to get baby 2 back to sleep and make baby 1 wait...unless baby 2 is awake because she's hungry, then I would feed them at the same time...
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  • LMK8605LMK8605

    You may find that they don't wake each other up.  Twins who have been kept in the same room usually don't - mine can scream their heads off and the other doesn't care at all.  How old are your twins?  By the time mine was a month old my DS was a little more patient (bc he always ate 2nd) he would take a paci and wait his turn 99% of the time.  My advice is that if the 2nd does wake up at the same time try laying them next to you on the bed or couch while you feed the 1st one - that way you can talk soothingly to them and replace the paci when needed.  Plus they will be closer if you need to start feeding both mid-way through.

    Good luck.

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  • LMK8605LMK8605
    Sorry I didn't see your ticker... maybe you will find one to be more patient at that age.. Also - when both of mine start crying one will stop to listen to the other crying.. maybe that will happen for you too :)
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  • sara1014sara1014

    We do feed at the same time, but I find that it takes quite a bit for one to wake the other one up.  It's only happened once or twice and it's when one lets out a really big, sudden scream.  They won't wake each other up if they've kind of slowly wound up.

    We put ours in their own crib around this age because they were already so wiggly and would get really close to whacking the other in the head...so I don't know if that has anything to do with them not waking each other up.

    Good luck! 

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