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Twins, first night alone with them -any advice?! PLEASE?!

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Treecreeper · 01/08/2014 20:52

My baby twin girls were born 11 weeks premature. We finally got them home out of the SCBU about 3 weeks ago. We have had three lovely weeks at home and my hubby has had the time off with us. The girls (who will be 3 months old on Sunday) have on the whole been very good. Both are a bit colicky at night, and twin2 is still on oxygen, we have coped very well, but have been sharing doing everything. We discovered infacol and back rubs are the way forward.

Sunday night my hubby goes back to work. He works in London and is away 5 nights out of 10, so I am home alone with the girls. I am totally petrified. We have managed to get into a nice routine of bath bottle and bed, however it takes about an hour and a half to do the whole routine and get one girl down. On my own this means that I could potentially have one baby bathed fed and in bed, and another one blue in the face from screaming for all that time while I deal with one...and that doesn't include the first baby not settling first time I put her down. I really don't know what to do or how to deal with both at the same time and get them to bed happily. I don't even have anyone who can come over and help with bed time. Sad

Any advice? Please?!

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Heels99 · 05/08/2014 08:27

Hi tree, mine were also in hospital for a few weeks early babies. I used to put them in a dark room from 7 pm although I did the 10pm feed in living room watching tv, apart from that did all night feeds in dark. One of mine started sleeping through from 10pm feed to 6am after 4 months made it a lot easier

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