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Who here feeds or fed their infant twins at the same time
I have been trying to feed my girls (1 month on Friday) at the same time a few different ways on a couple of occasions. I have been fortunate enough to have help this first month, but now my help is leaving and it will be up to me to do the majority of feedings during the day and night.
Tell me your success stories of feeding both babies at the same time. I will probably only do this at night time and actually hold them during the day (good bonding time).
My problem at night has been while I am burping one, the other falls asleep and I can barely (if I can at all) wake the other one up when I am finished burping the first.
Suggestions are appreciated.
Jerre
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Re: Who here feeds or fed their infant twins at the same time
I still feed both at the same time. If one doesn't wake at night, do you need to wake the other one up to feed? If you didn't wake the other one, would they sleep another few hours?
I always feed with them on boppies and me holding both bottles at the same time.
I did 2 boppys on the couch during the day until they could roll over, then switched to bouncy seats. During the night I would either do the bouncy seats if they were both awake or feed them separately if one was sleeping then wake the other to eat.
Feeding them at the same time saved me so much time!
This. If possible, it is so much easier to do it all for one and then move to the other. I do my "easier" one first because he is most content after. When they are both up at the same time, the boppies or RNPs are great. The burping is a little difficult, but sometimes one has to squirm a little!
We only did/do if they're both starving, or there are two people there. They were pretty high maintenance in the early days (needing frequent stimulation to stay awake, and a lot of burping), and even after that they were too small to really prop well for a long time. And they have a clear preference for being held to eat. Not what you wanted to hear probably, but we're just now starting to feed them together often at almost 4 months.
ETA: When they were both eaten often overnight (they usually eat just at 11 now, and sometimes one will around 3 or 4), we both got up with them and each took one. I was back at work, but its just as much of a job to care for two tiny humans all day as it is to be at work.
I found that two boppies on the bed worked best for us. I would sit cross-legged in front of them and hold a bottle in each hand. When they were really little I had to stuff blankets into the boppy holes so they didn't sink through.
Good luck!
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We used Boppies on the couch at that age.
I started tandem feeding around 2 weeks old. I'd put them on Boppy pillows on the floor in front of me, bottle in each hand. When it was time for one baby to burp, the other would get a paci, then I'd do the same for the other baby. It takes awhile to get a rhythm going but once you figure it out, it becomes like second nature.
I did tandem feeding any time I was alone with the babies. Not that I didn't want the bonding time of feeding them one at a time but it was just too time consuming and exhausting to do it one after the other.
Around the time they were 6-7 weeks old I figured out that it was more comfortable to put the Boppy pillows on either side of me on the couch, rather than on the floor. We fed this way until they were 5ish months old and we were eating in high chairs.
Boppies for the win!
That is totally me! haha
I may try having the boppy's next to me on the couch to see how that works.
This is what I do as well.
One of my guys falls asleep when taking his last bottle of the night. We used to always try to burp him, but rarely could. I've just given up.