Under 1s twin post-natal group? Should we have one? Who's in?!

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The antenatal group is nearly full, any graduates fancy joining forces to compare

I think you are all amazing for bf twins fro 5-6 months!! I am struggling a bit with lack os sleep at the moment

Can I ask all the twin mummies who conbine feed how are you doing it?

And qhen did you all start a peiper routine? How do you combine that with feeding on demnd?

I never bothered til about 3 months with my other girls, but there was only one id them at the time, twins is a completely new level!

Hello all, just peeking in, twins due for eviction in 3 weeks 4 days (not that I'm.counting!) and dd was 18 months old yesterday (oh my.goodness, how did she get so big?!)

Can I join you then?

Hi there
Well we won't bw going swimming, they're both really snotty and wouldn't be fair on all the other babies! This would have been our 3rd lesson, unfortunately you need 1 adult per child (thats why we go on saturdays so DH can come). Oh well, will catch up next week!

Mine were born at 37+1 by ELCS, due to breech presentation. Were originally booked in for 38+3 but when we had our 36 week scan it was clear that 'twin b' had not grown since 32 weeks so they moved the date. She was 3lb13 and her brother 6lb4! She was in SCBU for a week, just for feeding as she was fully formed, just small!

We also do mixed feeding, I bf 3 x per day (sometimes with top-ups) and FF 2 x day. We fed them on a routine since birth, was every 3 hours day and night, but now every 4 hours during the day and on demand in the night. I am very lucky in that my two seem to be good sleepers so far, have only ever had to do 1 night feed each, and since 12 weeks they sleep from 1030pm till 7am. Except when they have colds and then I am up cuddling them most of the night.....

Oh wow ceevee how good to hear about some good sleepers! What a shame they're both ill, its hard enough with one ill baby...

Thanks dreaming, they're a bit better today. I have a question re calpol - when I gave it to Eliza last night after her bottle she brought it all back together with quite a bit of milk. Should I be giving it to her before a feed instead?

i'm on a break in work and eating my lunch at 11.45....i'm ravenous, blaiming bf!

You carried them to 37weeks, that's great! :) We were ECS at 34 weeks. My girls had Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome and i had laser surgery of the womb at 17weeks, we could have lost them. TBH my pregnancy was very stressful and there was only a 33% chance that both babies would survive. I was scanned weekly for whole pregnancy and it was all on a week to week basis..THANKFULLY i carried them for much longer than we orginally thought :) :) and when they arrived they needed minimal help in NICU. we were there for only 3weeks though as birth weight was quite low and Esme dt1 needed oxygen and antibs. They had typical TTS complextions - Esme dt1 was as white as a ghost for weeks and Clara dt2 pretty red and rosy! now they are fine :)

I thank my lucky stars everyday that we have two beautiful and healthy little girls in our arms!

hhmmmm going to make a dash to tesco as i'm still hungry! i should be on the 'what do you eat whilst bf' thread.... I am as hungry as a horse today.... and still losing weight so can't complain for now!

chat soon

Ooh, thread's moving quickly!

BB3 I'll do my birth story some time I'm on a laptop rather than a phone, it involves a builders van and a cross-country trip across Ukraine I've so just lured myself!! They arrived 10 weeks early and spent 7 weeks in NICU, but seem to be doing really well.
In NICU they were on 4 hourly tube feeds, and as I started bfeeding we kept to that schedule with a bottle top up each time. By the time they could suck strongly to get a decent amount of milk they'd got used to it, so we just carried on. Dtd dropped her bfeeds a few weeks ago, but Dts still seems to like it, although he's getting fussier too. I think it's lots of different teats etc have confused them, and she was always quite a poor sucker so think she decided bottle was easier.
The routine gave us some structure in the early days, although it gets pushed now (looks at watch, oops, very late again )

Outed, not lured!

Hi everyone,

Twinnies - good to see you're getting on so well!

I have 7 month old girls, like Twinnies we had TTTS, laser ablation at 19 weeks and they were delivered at 31 weeks following a placental abruption so all in all not the best experience BUT we made it and I have two adorable girls who are thriving. They spent nearly six weeks in SCBU but we were lucky, they weren't unwell they just needed to grow. They were 3lb1 and 3lb3, now they are 14lb8 and 14lb1r!

We started solids four weeks ago and they are on three meals a day - does feel like a never ending routine of feeding - bottle, breakfast, bottle, lunch, bottle, tea, bottle!

Huge respect to all of you who have managed to BF - I expressedfor five weeks while they were being tube fed but a number of issues meant supply went from not much to none at all so gave it up.

Hi everyone,

Twinnies - good to see you're getting on so well!

I have 7 month old girls, like Twinnies we had TTTS, laser ablation at 19 weeks and they were delivered at 31 weeks following a placental abruption so all in all not the best experience BUT we made it and I have two adorable girls who are thriving. They spent nearly six weeks in SCBU but we were lucky, they weren't unwell they just needed to grow. They were 3lb1 and 3lb3, now they are 14lb8 and 14lb1r!

We started solids four weeks ago and they are on three meals a day - does feel like a never ending routine of feeding - bottle, breakfast, bottle, lunch, bottle, tea, bottle!

Huge respect to all of you who have managed to BF - I expressedfor five weeks while they were being tube fed but a number of issues meant supply went from not much to none at all so gave it up.

Hi silver!
Oh dear, just tried their first purée... Not sure it was a huge success

Oh dear Peeling, what was it? We started on baby rice - they hated it, then we had butternut squash, carrot, parsnip and gradually added more things in different combinations. The only thing they have refused has been sweet potato for some reason.

It is a messy messy business though, Alice has a habit of sneezing with her mouth full and spraying me in the process!

Just a bit of ella's pear. They don't seem to like spoons, which is odd as Dts will put anything else in his mouth. Ah well, try again tmrw!

Me please. 7 month dts, non-id boys born @ 33 wks. Ds1 aged 5. Both on solids for 2 wks after no sleep for 3. Still bad nights.

DCDA elective CS at 37 weeks I was the size of an elephant 8 weeks ago. Home after 3 days nothing as traumatic as some of you premmies. Now feeding every 4 ish hours FF just stopped BF... (another thread).
Seriously freaking Out at the lack of sleep that the twin mums on here have! I need to know there is some light at the end of this dark dark tunnel of hellish sleep deprivation.

Well, now I feel very bad for how much I've been complaining of various aches and ailments, return of morning sickness and how much I'm looking forward to the end of the pregnancy and meeting the babies seeing how straightforward its been compared to so many of yours . I'm 34 + 2 so lucky to be this far.

Urgh. Weaning. Too recent a memory for my liking. Plus dd ate so many fancy, varied Annabel Karmel recipes I was thinking we'd cracked it, now at 18 months she won't eat anything vaguely healthy, especially if it resembles a vegetable (unless its a pea!)

Silver!! great to see you on here :) sounds like the girls are thriving! How is everything with you all? I'm actually dreading starting solids, i feel i've only got the hang of all this tandem and double bottle feeding and now it's going to get more complicated temporarily!.... i'm sure the mess will be fantastic!

Esme and Clara are great, full of smiles and hysterical laughter at times (this is the new thing at the moment!) Do your girls sleep now? I need someone with older twins to tell me that it will all improve! Esme sleeps almost every night but Clara is up all the time. Getting baby rice out tomorrow for the first time so fingers crossed it might stop her waking up all the time!

mummypig you will get more sleep in time and have more energy..... although sometimes I wonder if it's just that i've just got used to having little sleep

Brilliant! Loving this thread, just what I need...I've got 5 month boy girl twins (sorry, I'm like an old gimmer when it comes to mumsnet abbreviations, I'll get there one day). Carrot slop is in the fridge for tomorrow, woop woop bring on their first attempt. I'm bypassing baby rice, just sounds like thick milk to me. Rebel yell!?! Second confession- I've already been eyeing up hipp organic pots, can't see if I'm still struggling to feed myself properly how I'm going to manage doing all the various purees.

Ha, love how this seems to be weekend of The Great Twin Weaning Experiment! Hope it goes a bit better for the rest of you than my two. Bit scares as I've just got feeds down to a manageable timescale, so frustrating to think I'm going to have to add a load more stages back in. Ah well, if this afternoon is anything to go by we might be on milk feeds for a while longer.

Oh and Hi Rets! I went straight for Ella pouches too - need to figure out if they WILL eat before I worry about cooking for them. Agreed that cooking for me and dh is a rarity these days, and I LOVE to cook. Well I did, in a previous life anyhow

Twinnies, we're very very lucky - both go 7-7, we dropped the dreamfeed at end of December as they weren't taking anything and they haven't woken up for it or missed it. I am waiting for it to go hideously wrong but so far so good! Am so pleased Esme and Clara are doing well too - we've had the hysterical laughing for a couple of weeks now and it is adorable. You are doing so well to still be mix feeding. Good luck with the baby rice!

Retsbewdy - it takes a lot of time, I get my mum to look after the babies and I spend a day in the kitchen making batches and freezing. We are using Ella's pouches for fruit as well, particularly stuff like blueberries that are expensive to buy and you wouldn't get much puree out of. They have Ready Brek in the morning so at least that's quick and easy!

Can I ask those of you who ff what formula you use - I have one carton of nutriprem left and then we have to switch to a regular one and I don't know what to go for? Am going to miss the free formula!

Twinnies, we're very very lucky - both go 7-7, we dropped the dreamfeed at end of December as they weren't taking anything and they haven't woken up for it or missed it. I am waiting for it to go hideously wrong but so far so good! Am so pleased Esme and Clara are doing well too - we've had the hysterical laughing for a couple of weeks now and it is adorable. You are doing so well to still be mix feeding. Good luck with the baby rice!

Retsbewdy - it takes a lot of time, I get my mum to look after the babies and I spend a day in the kitchen making batches and freezing. We are using Ella's pouches for fruit as well, particularly stuff like blueberries that are expensive to buy and you wouldn't get much puree out of. They have Ready Brek in the morning so at least that's quick and easy!

Can I ask those of you who ff what formula you use - I have one carton of nutriprem left and then we have to switch to a regular one and I don't know what to go for? Am going to miss the free formula!

Aww, twinnies, glad everything turned out ok in the end! And silverangel too.

I'd love to add myself to this although mine aren't born yet! I'm 34+3 with ID twins that are doing very well as far as we can tell, measuring very good sizes etc (probably more due to my diabetes than anything else though...) (I'm suffering with horrid SPD, huge as a barge and struggling with my 22 month old but feeling lucky all the same!) Unless labour happens in the meantime, I'm booked for a CS in just over 2 weeks.

On the weaning subject, I never thought baby rice was anything brill and nor did my son, and in fact we still have a packet left over that we've never finished... (OTOH ds thought mushy apple was the best thing on earth and mushy carrot almost as good)

Silver we switched from nutriprem to c&g 1 after they stopped our prescription at 12 weeks. No issues with it other than the price! it's actually cheaper than the other brands.

solids are a pain but will get better. We've done mashed banana and avocado, pureed carrot, courgette, apple, broccoli, pea soup (pea and onion), frozen chopped spinach, rice cake and a finger of toast when dt1 was complaining and I didn't have time to feed him. we've also done lots of baby rice. It does take time but hopefully soon I can start taking some of our food and giving it to them.

The sleeping was quite good for a couple of months but then went out of kilter when dt1 got a cough and then growth spurt and it still hasn't recovered. Dt2 went through the night last night so maybe there is hope......

Am really looking forward to weaning actually, although like peeling i am a bit scared of what it is going to do to my feeding times! Has anyone considered baby led weaning? I am thinking about it only because I wondered whether it would be quicker for me to just give them finger foods rather than me trying to spoonfeed them both!

silver how old were your Babies when you dropped the dream feed? My DTS Roddy is now around 15lb and 16 weeks, and I am sure he would sleep through if I didn't wake him, I always have to wake him in the morning and he doesn't seem to be that hungry. His sister Eliza is only around 11lb and wakes about 6am anyway so I don't think she's ready yet.

We use Aptamil, no particular reason other than thats what the SCBU started us off on.