[House] San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion forum digest - 10/29/2012

Mon Oct 29 02:15:06 PDT 2012

San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion 10/28/2012
9:14 am - 10/29/2012

1. Sample nanny contract? (bhavna12)
2. Comment: Best bottles for colic? (bhavna12)
3. Comment: Keeping babies together, advice please! (elyich)
4. Comment: Should we try a different bottle? (VickiZettler)

1. Sample nanny contract?
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bhavna12 - 10/29/2012 12:37 am

 We are talking with nannies for full time help for at
 least a year and wanted to know if anybody had a sample
 contract that we can use as a guide to create one to
 give to a potential hire.

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Email author: bhavna at gmail.com
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Topic: Best bottles for colic?

 I am using Dr. Brown's natural flow (level 1 nipple) for my
 twins who are 3 weeks...

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 2. bhavna12 says...
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 10/28/2012 9:05 pm

 We were gifted born free bottles and the box says its
 for gas, colic etc. we didn't end up using them much
 because we use think baby (he sucks fast so the cross
 cut nipple helps slow him down) for one and dr browns
 (she drinks slowly and this helps get her milk faster)
 for the other.
 Email author: bhavna at gmail.com
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Topic: Keeping babies together, advice please!

 My boy/girl twins are 7 weeks old and my question is about
 keeping the babies together...

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please!"

 3. elyich says...
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 10/28/2012 7:46 am

 When we naturally waited for them to wake up, our girl
 would always wake up later than our boy to eat. We were
 never told NOT to keep them on a feeding schedule, and
 so they have always been on a schedule (and still are
 at 5mo.). In the beginning, our girl would not drink
 all her milk during her feeding, so with the advice our
 our night nurse, we made her wait until the next
 feeding to eat. They learn fast to drink all their milk
 at their feeding, and after a few feelings, she'd drink
 it all up! Good luck. Not sure why the pediatrician
 recommended taking them off schedule. I've seen our
 twins respond well to it, and it's provided sanity for
 us too. Good luck!
 Email author: elyich at yahoo.com
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Topic: Should we try a different bottle?

 I have always used the regular dr. browns bottles. I used
 them with my first daughter...

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 4. VickiZettler says...
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 10/28/2012 11:07 pm

 I've been kind of offline lately and wanted to chime in
 on this and another string in which someone was trying
 to deal with feeding both children (as close to at the
 same time as they could), putting them in for nap etc.
 alone. I haven't been able to read all of the emails,
 but we used this feeding system called the podee
 bottles (hopefully this late email is not redundant of
 another one?) I'm not positive at what month we
 started with these, but they were a total lifesaver! 
 We used the Dr Brown's glass bottels (there were no BPA
 free bottles that I could find at the time) and screwed
 this podee system onto those. There's a long tube that
 goes into the bottle and then extends out of the top
 and connects to a nipple that sits on a plastic ring. 
 It's a LOT to clean up from, but it was amazingly worth
 it for us. We could put the nipples in the boys mouths
 and they would just drink away at the same time. No
 more carpal tunnel from double bottles, etc. It didn't
 take them long to catch on either. We'd prop the boys
 up in their carseats to feed them when they were really
 young and just prop up a bottle in there with them. 
 Very little gas issue after we started with them too. 
 Feeding them sitting up like that is very good for a
 number of reasons, it can help ear infections down,
 stomach gas down, etc. So with a fussy or colicky
 baby, it might help? Just found them on Amazon, I see
 that they are BPA free now but people said they leak
 and they used Dr Browns bottles instead. It's totally
 worth it!!! Best wishes! 

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