How do you hold on to multiples on matching feed diary?
I'm pregnant with twins. I've decided to pump my breast milk for the first 3 months, and then switch them to an life lactose-free, gluten free baby formula. I would like to know what your feeding calendar is for your multiples? Do you wake them up in the middle of the night to nurture them? How often did you feed them? I will be using a hands free apparatuss to nurture the twins. I would like to know what you did to keep your multiples on the same feed schedule. Please no rude answers. Thanks.
My twins are now 11 months old. They be low-birth weight when they were born so we had to wake up them every 3 hours to feed.
As to getting them on the same schedule, we would nurture the "hungry" one on demand and then wake the second. Eventually, we fell into a agenda of every 4 hours give or take (once they got to a well-mannered weight) and then they started sleeping more and more through the night. We would always wake up the second if he or she was sleeping so that my husband and I would either feed them at matching time or we would feed them back-to-back at minimum. It really did help to get us on a rota.
I think the key is to feed them at alike time even if it means waking a sleeping little one. You don't want to spend your whole light of day randomly feeding the little ones. We found that once the feedings fell into a pattern, the sleeping rota followed - made life much easier!
Congrats and best wishes for a happy & healthy transfer! Twins are such a blessing! Source(s): My twins will be 1 at the end of August.
I enjoy 5 month old twins, and at first they were on different feeding schedule and it was very hard. I be up every hour to feed them one at a time. So I started waking up the other one when one would wake up to chomp through and it was so much easier. I never woke them both up in the middle of the night to guzzle, when they slept I just let them sleep. They were intake every two hours, just feed them both at the same time and try to carry to get them to nap at the same time.
Congradulations on your twins! It's going to be plentifully of hard work, but it's alot of fun. Good luck.
Answers: My twins came home from NICU on a schedule, so I have it a bit easier for the first month or so. The first little while I had to wake them up to eat every three hours, round the clock.
After the first month they be home the Doctor said I could pick a bedtime and let them sleep as long as they were willing to sleep. I feed them when they woke up at night, but didn't wake them up to eat. I also picked a stir up time, 12 hours after bedtime, when I woke them both up and fed them. This was very central because it started them off on the same schedule for the sunshine. I feed them at least every three hours, but if they wanted to devour more often, I fed them more often. I lately feed both of them if one wanted to eat.
Once they hit 12 lbs I worked at making sure they ate at smallest 25 ounces during the day, so they would sleep longer at night. I tried to make sure they get 30 ounces. If I was sure they had enough to devour during the day, I'd offer the pacifier first, then pat their final if they woke up. If they still were crying I'd offer the bottle. By 4 month old they be both sleeping at least 8 hours and one was sleeping 12 hours consistantly, with no cry-it-out.
Congratulations on your twins! It's a natural ride, and getting them on a similar schedule helps a lot. I express milk for my babies as all right. It's hard, but worth it! Source(s): I got most of my information from the book, "The Baby Whisperer"
Mommy of almost 6 month old boy/girl twins
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My twins are now 11 months old. They be low-birth weight when they were born so we had to wake up them every 3 hours to feed.
As to getting them on the same schedule, we would nurture the "hungry" one on demand and then wake the second. Eventually, we fell into a agenda of every 4 hours give or take (once they got to a well-mannered weight) and then they started sleeping more and more through the night. We would always wake up the second if he or she was sleeping so that my husband and I would either feed them at matching time or we would feed them back-to-back at minimum. It really did help to get us on a rota.
I think the key is to feed them at alike time even if it means waking a sleeping little one. You don't want to spend your whole light of day randomly feeding the little ones. We found that once the feedings fell into a pattern, the sleeping rota followed - made life much easier!
Congrats and best wishes for a happy & healthy transfer! Twins are such a blessing! Source(s): My twins will be 1 at the end of August.
I enjoy 5 month old twins, and at first they were on different feeding schedule and it was very hard. I be up every hour to feed them one at a time. So I started waking up the other one when one would wake up to chomp through and it was so much easier. I never woke them both up in the middle of the night to guzzle, when they slept I just let them sleep. They were intake every two hours, just feed them both at the same time and try to carry to get them to nap at the same time.
Congradulations on your twins! It's going to be plentifully of hard work, but it's alot of fun. Good luck.
Answers: My twins came home from NICU on a schedule, so I have it a bit easier for the first month or so. The first little while I had to wake them up to eat every three hours, round the clock.
After the first month they be home the Doctor said I could pick a bedtime and let them sleep as long as they were willing to sleep. I feed them when they woke up at night, but didn't wake them up to eat. I also picked a stir up time, 12 hours after bedtime, when I woke them both up and fed them. This was very central because it started them off on the same schedule for the sunshine. I feed them at least every three hours, but if they wanted to devour more often, I fed them more often. I lately feed both of them if one wanted to eat.
Once they hit 12 lbs I worked at making sure they ate at smallest 25 ounces during the day, so they would sleep longer at night. I tried to make sure they get 30 ounces. If I was sure they had enough to devour during the day, I'd offer the pacifier first, then pat their final if they woke up. If they still were crying I'd offer the bottle. By 4 month old they be both sleeping at least 8 hours and one was sleeping 12 hours consistantly, with no cry-it-out.
Congratulations on your twins! It's a natural ride, and getting them on a similar schedule helps a lot. I express milk for my babies as all right. It's hard, but worth it! Source(s): I got most of my information from the book, "The Baby Whisperer"
Mommy of almost 6 month old boy/girl twins
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