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?

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...

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!!

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.

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.

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

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