How to stimulate/entertain wingy 10 week old dts?

[Ewemoo]

I can't remember from my dd1 when I stopped the feed put to sleep routine and started letting them 'play'. My dts are never awake without winging even when they're not hungry so I don't know how to go about this. I feel like I'm making them sleep so I can get on with housework etc and that this is not doing them any good in the long run. Any ideas anyone?

[bellabelly]

My Dts didn't really do much except lie on their backs on the playmat until they were about 4 months iirc. I used to feel guilty for not "playing" with them more but now I think if I had that time over again, I'd have made more use of the time for me! I used to sing nursery rhymes, read stories and attempt to do tummytime with them (they hated it though). Sometimes they quite liked waving a rattle around...

[nickschick]

Do you lay them down together so they can just be near each other? - my friends twins were very wingey and she used to sit them opposite each other in bouncy chairs - my own ds3 who was a cryer used to settle if i covered him with my cardigan or jumper from the day before...even now I often find my cardi in his room he likes to sleep with it hes 8!!

[ScummyMummy]

Sit them in bouncy chairs and put some music on?
Take them for a walk in the buggy?
Lie them under a playgym type thingy?
Chat with them.

[Bmum1]

Have you tried a baby swing. They are hideous things with dreadful tinny music, but my second ds loved his and it was a godsend for those whingey hours. I have already bought two for the dts.

[frumpygrumpy]

I decided to have one of everything and rotate. So when one was on the play gym the other was upright in the bouncy door hangy thing, then one in a babywalker (yup, I know what the HV says about them but they were only in it to play for a short time and it saved my life at times!!) and one in the bouncy chair.

I also bought an electric swing (it was about £100) but it was absolutely a saving grace at times. I could bath one, with one in the swing, then swap over. It also meant I could feed them separately whilst one was entertained (another lifesaver as my twins didn't go for this feeding at the same time lark! )

Sometimes, if I rotated them well, it could buy me long enough to cook something quick or spend a tiny bit time with my older DD.

Sometimes I would move the kit so they would have a different view.....someone on the play gym in the living room beside CBeebies (thank you!) and someone in the kitchen in a bouncy chair. I got very skilled

Sometimes you have to really work at it to keep sane. And other times you put them in the their cots and make a cuppa and breathe out for your sanity

[frumpygrumpy]

I seem to have lost brain cells somewhere along the way and now I only know the word 'sometimes'