[House] San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion forum digest - 7/1/2013

Mon Jul 1 02:15:10 PDT 2013

San Francisco Parents of Multiples SFPOM General Discussion 6/30/2013
9:13 am - 7/1/2013

1. Comment: Night Nurse/Night Nanny Recommendations...
(carrie_designsinc)
2. Comment: Night Nurse/Night Nanny Recommendations... (carlymahan)
3. Comment: Flying with twins - 2 first class or 3 coach? (R3ALMhouse)
4. Comment: Flying with twins - 2 first class or 3 coach? (CEmama)
5. Comment: Flying with twins - 2 first class or 3 coach? (kaluzoo)
6. Comment: BF, Pumping and being on my own (R3ALMhouse)
Topic: Night Nurse/Night Nanny Recommendations and Advice?

 Our twins are due in November and we want to hire a night
 nanny to help with feeding...

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 1. carrie_designsinc says...
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 6/30/2013 7:53 pm

 Hi Jennifer: I'm a mother of Twins that were born in
 April. We had amazingDoula/Newborn specialist. Our
 twins are 2 1/2 months old. We hire Cindy for the
 duration of two months, and kept her for a total of
 three months. She will finish with us in mid July.
 However, I honestly think eight to ten weeks would be
 sufficient.My husband and I are very grateful that we
 had Cindy as our doula. Cindy combines enormous wisdom,
 experience, professionalism and a great deal of human
 kindness in her work and was a joy to have with us. In
 addition to her extraordinary skills as a doula she is
 a also quite skilledin taking care of recuperating
 mothers and was very helpful to me.I have been
 incredibly fortunate to have Cindy with me to guide me
 through all of the practical skills, and most
 importantly to give me time to heal and to encourage me
 every step of the way.She is incredible.... more
 specifically, she is gifted with the ability to take
 care of our (preemie) twins, and teach parents the
 essentials skills they need to be competent parents. In
 addition, Cindy is such a pleasure to be with--- always
 has a fantastic attitude and completely focused on what
 is best for the babies. I was amazed at her composure
 and professionalism at all times. We will be forever
 grateful for having Cindy in our lives. She is
 absolutely phenomenal!Our experience with having 3 1/2
 year old stepson at home with us with the twins was
 unbearable at times. You are going to need nights. We
 started with days, and discovered the nights were more
 helpful, and less stressful--- having the support, and
 rest which was so desperately needed. Needless to say,
 we were so sleep deprived. However, Cindy works
 days/nights to accommodate a family schedule and very
 affordable.Please feel free to contact me. If you have
 any questions or concerns. Thanks,Carrie Galves
 spring_essentials at yahoo.comPlease contact her
 directly.Cindy 415 295-4785
 Email author: spring_essentials at yahoo.com
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 2. carlymahan says...
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 6/30/2013 9:31 pm

 I have 2 1/2 month old twins also and we have had our
 night doula from night one until now and I am planning
 on keeping her for another month. I honestly don't
 think I would have been able to function without her! I
 would say you can start with a month and see how you
 feel from there. I moved out of the area so
 unfortunately our nurse isn't in the bay area. I would
 look under night doula as well as night nurse... I
 wasn't finding much under night nurse when I was
 looking for my night nurse. Good luck!
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Topic: Flying with twins - 2 first class or 3 coach?

 I think I know what the answer is but just thought I'd check
 with the more seasoned...

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 3. R3ALMhouse says...
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 6/30/2013 1:53 pm

 I'll second getting 3 coach seats. The first class
 folks WILL lazer you, as many are taking the night
 flight to get to a meeting in the morning.We are flying
 soon with our 20 month old twins; we got three coach
 seats and one twin will be a lap baby. We did the same
 when we flew last summer, and that third seat with
 carseat was sure handy! Unfortunately, we have daytime
 flights and I expect we will spend most of the flights
 walking the girls when they aren't napping.
 Email author: house at digitalkingdom.org
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 4. CEmama says...
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 6/30/2013 4:59 pm

 Thanks everyone for your input!They're not walking yet
 but it could be a different story when we are planned
 to fly because they're currently standing on their own.
 I'm leaning toward 3 to 4 coach tickets. I'm realizing
 we will have more stuff than before flying with the
 twins and those extra baggage allowances will probably
 be helpful. I'm going to get the lightweight car seats
 suggested. Does anyone know if there are travel carts
 to borrow from sfpom?
 Email author: hae_won_lee at hotmail.com
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 5. kaluzoo says...
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 6/30/2013 8:16 pm

 I have two cheap travel carseats that another twin mom
 assured me would fit down the airplane aisles attached
 to my rolling bags (here's hoping). If they work, you
 are welcome to borrow them - we need them next week and
 then again in August, but otherwise you could easily
 borrow them for a week or two.
 Email author: sarahchandler at gmail.com
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Topic: BF, Pumping and being on my own

 Hello...

 I have just a few days left with the help at home. My
 husband is heading...

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 6. R3ALMhouse says...
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 6/30/2013 3:25 pm

 You can tandem feed them at this age. Once I got back
 to only breastfeeding, I generally tandem fed. It made
 things so much easier and faster to tandem feed. Make
 sure that you have good support (breastfeeding pillow,
 other pillows for them and for you). I took over our
 largest couch for tandem feeding; some women with twins
 find that the floor works better (lie the babies on the
 floor, sit down and get everything adjusted; lift
 babies up for feeding)At this stage, I wouldn't plan to
 do anything other than feed and change the babies
 during the day, at least until you find the best way to
 do that on your own. Put dinner in the slow cooker in
 the morning before your husband leaves (or have him do
 it!), or have your visitors bring you dinner that you
 can microwave later. Make up the whole day's
 supplement for the twins in the morning and put it in
 the refrigerator. You can refrigerate your pump parts,
 too, and only wash them once or twice a day instead of
 every pumping. (I wish I had known the latter even for
 the short time that I pumped!)
 Email author: house at digitalkingdom.org
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