[House] San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion forum digest - 11/10/2012

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San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion 11/9/2012
10:15 am - 11/10/2012

1. Babysitter needed Saturday Dec. 1 and Friday Dec. 7 (erin_loback)
2. pumping and bottle feeding (lborkow)
3. Comment: pumping and bottle feeding (HollyBuchanan)
4. Comment: pumping and bottle feeding (lborkow)
5. Best bike attachment? (rebeccaadaly)
6. Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution on twins? (eeewww)
7. Comment: Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution... (noursej)
8. Comment: Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution... (HollyBuchanan)
9. Comment: Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution... (eeewww)
10. Comment: Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution... (bhavna12)
11. Comment: Baby Jogger City Select Double question (jmn3313)
12. Comment: Meetup 11/10 at AT&T playground (bhavna12)
13. Comment: wake-up and goodbye rituals? (HollyBuchanan)
14. Comment: Anyone have twins and wanna meet up! (bhavna12)

1. Babysitter needed Saturday Dec. 1 and Friday Dec. 7
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erin_loback - 11/9/2012 8:52 pm

 Our regular sitter is out of town and we need a sitter
 for our 3-year-old twins from 5:30ish to 11ish both of
 these nights. Does anyone have someone to recommend who
 might be available those nights?Thank you!

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Email author: erin_loback at yahoo.com
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2. pumping and bottle feeding
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lborkow - 11/9/2012 12:51 pm

 just curious - does anyone pump and bottle feed? I
 have been doing that and supplementing with formula but
 recently I tried bf them and it has become such a pain
 in the neck bc now they want to eat all the time rather
 than every 3-4 hours. I feel really bad, but I think I
 may give up and go back to just bottle feeding.

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Email author: leslieellen at gmail.com
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 3. HollyBuchanan says...
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 11/9/2012 8:10 pm
 
 Please don't feel bad about this. Breastfeeding is not
 the only way to bond with your babies. My twins were
 micro-preemies, so my only option was to pump while
 they were on feeding tubes, and by the time they were
 ready to feed from a nipple it just didn't work out
 very often for it to be from the breast. I pumped and
 bottle fed, and while I felt like it was twice the
 amount of work (pumping, then feeding, then all the
 dishes associated with the pumping and the bottle
 feeding - I felt like I never got a break) I knew in my
 heart it was the only solution that was going to work
 for our situation. Follow your gut, and do not feel
 bad or guilty about bottle feeding. You are giving
 them the best possible nutrition and that is what
 matters most. All the best to you!
 Email author: h.buch at hotmail.com
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 4. lborkow says...
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 11/9/2012 9:22 pm
 
 Thanks for your support! I do feel like it's a lot of
 work with all of the cleaning of equipment and pumping,
 but that's nothing compared to when I try to bf on top
 of it. ps. my babies were preemie (34 weeks) and my
 little boy was IUGR and weighed 2lbs 6oz at birth. 
 They both were in the NICU and gavage fed until they
 could take the majority of their feeds from a bottle.
 Email author: leslieellen at gmail.com
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5. Best bike attachment?
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rebeccaadaly - 11/9/2012 9:37 am

 Anyone know of a good child seat attachment for an
 adult bike? What's a good age to start them riding
 along?

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Email author: rebeccaadaly at yahoo.com
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6. Have you used the Sleep Easy Solution on twins?
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eeewww - 11/9/2012 9:30 am

 We are going to sleep train our 4 month old twins next
 week. We used the Sleep Easy Solution with our now 2.5
 year old. We plan to use it again for our twins.Just
 wondering if anyone has any advice. I'm a little
 nervous about how this will work with twins and with a
 toddler in the next room.I plan to keep the twins in
 the same room for the sleep training. Is that a bad
 idea?

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Email author: bugjarbabe at yahoo.com
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 7. noursej says...
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 11/9/2012 1:42 pm
 
 our girls are 15 months. if you intend for them to
 share a room after sleep training, my advice is to keep
 them in the same room during sleep training. they'll
 learn to sleep through each other's cries. no advice
 on the toddler part...good luck!
 Email author: noursejlm at gmail.com
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 8. HollyBuchanan says...
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 11/9/2012 8:05 pm
 
 no advice on the toddler part, but we followed "Healthy
 sleep habits, happy twins" and kept them in the same
 room (no matter what) and we have excellent sleeping
 2-year-olds now, who snore through each other's
 meltdowns because they sleep trained in the same room. 
 I highly recommend keeping them together if you want
 them together in the future. Good luck!
 Email author: h.buch at hotmail.com
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 9. eeewww says...
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 11/9/2012 9:06 pm
 
 Keeping them together is my leaning too. Thanks. I
 think we will try it with my toddler here as see how it
 goes. If it is too terrible, she can sleep at grandmas
 the next night. I also think we will be going cold
 turkey on all sleep aids when we sleep train. They have
 been swaddled and fall asleep to a pacifier right now.
 They are also in sleep positioners in yet cribs. But
 one is almost rolling so we have o lose the sleep
 positioners anyway. I kind of figure if I'm going to
 make them cry it out, make them figure everything out
 at once. Otherwise it seems like we might have to sleep
 train each time we take something away. My doc seemed
 to agree. Any thoughts?We sleep trained my older
 daughter no swaddled no paci, but she could roll on her
 tummy to soothe herself, and these babies can't quite
 yet. So this might be rough. We will just have sleep
 sacks, white noise and lovies.
 Email author: bugjarbabe at yahoo.com
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 10. bhavna12 says...
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 11/9/2012 11:14 pm
 
 Our twins are 9 weeks, is there any advice you may have
 before we sleep train?
 Email author: bhavna at gmail.com
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Topic: Baby Jogger City Select Double question

 Does anyone know how much a baby has to weigh before they
 can go into the Baby Jogger...

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 11. jmn3313 says...
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 11/9/2012 11:09 am
 
 Same for me as PP.
 Email author: jnieman33 at gmail.com
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Topic: Meetup 11/10 at AT&T playground

 Hi everyone!
 
 A few families are meeting up at AT&T park playground! We
 will be there...

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