Eze2 Nurse cushion ...

[Millie1]

How long did anyone use theirs for? My babies are 23 weeks and we only use it for night-time feeds so it hasn't been bashed out ... it's sprung a puncture somewhere - groan. Have a nasty feeling it's around the air hole so would be impossible to fix. Am totally browned off as it's handy for feeding in bed ... I use a v-cushion downstairs but in bed that needs to be propped up with what feels like 100 pillows. So, please make me feel better and tell me the babies will have outgrown it in a few weeks anyway - or that it's under warranty!!

Hi Millie, how's it going? Mine are 25 weeks old now. How time flies!!

Now they are older I can BF them together in bed just using a pillow under each. I sit them facing each other and put them in the vicinity of my boobs and they just latch on (a bit from the side really).

Will try to find a pic and post it on my profile!

They are kind of crossed over each other really with a pillow for support.

It is the third pic down on my profile.

Hi Neenz ... I can't believe your pair are 25w but then I can't believe my own are 23w either! What lovely babies ... and what fabulous hair your little man has. Thanks for posting that pic ... I shall do some experimenting tomorrow whilst the girls are in a good mood, rather than tonight when they're grumpy and wanting to feed not for me to fiddle about with the set-up!

Have you started solids yet? I'm trying hard to hold off til 26w but tbh DT1 would be ready now ... she's watching us eat all the time but, apart from what I presume was a growth spurt over a few days last week, hasn't been feeding constantly so we'll just hold our horses til then. DT2 is still a little lightweight compared to her sister and isn't ready for solids yet. Can't imagine feeding two more on top of our almost 5 and 7 year olds who need 'helped' with food at far too many meals.

Thanks for posting the pic!

Hi Millie, yes I started them on solids at 22.5 weeks. I really wanted to wait till 26 weeks but we went through a week of cluster feeding in the evenings - they just would not go to sleep, when they had been sleeping from 7pm till 8am with just one feed at 8/9pm. It was totally exhausting and I felt they were ready. They could sit up and when I put my finger in their mouth they didn't stick their tongue out (which I took to mean they had lost the tongue thrust reflex). However, when I did first give them food they spat it out! After about five days they got really good tho and now they just wolf down everything I give them. It has helped them sleep better too. It only takes 10-15 mins now to feed them their food so not too bad.

Hope you have some luck with the tandem feeding!

Oh wow Neenz ... they went through the night for you???? Ours get a feed at 7pm, we wake them at 11pm and they wake at 3 and 5am although for a few weeks that was 4-5am and then 7am for the day. I'm soooo jealous! Do you have them on 3 feeds a day yet and have they dropped any milk feeds? Are they sitting unaided? Ours aren't ...they're still at that tipping over stage .

Millie, they slept through the night at 11 and 13 weeks (sorry!). Yes they still tip over when I am not holding them, but they can hold themselves up, they just can't balance (I think it is the holding themselves up that is important). They can sit in their highchairs fine. How is the feeding going without the pillow?

Tell me no more ... they're perfect!!!!

Pillow is still in use although it gets flat over a 24hr period and needs pumped up each night. Need to get myself organised to try different positions before it gives up the ghost altogether! My pair are about the same with sitting up ...they just need a prop and will tip over without it.

Sounds like the tyre of my Mountain Buggy (needs pumping up before we go out - need new inner tube )

Used it til they were nearly 1 year old!! it was great!!!