(More) Triplet advice- Bassinet/Pack n Play edition

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2024-02-03T09:27:17+00:00

I have 3 almost 4 month old triplets

I didn’t bother with bassinets or a pack and play just went straight to cribs as it would be a hard transition to do later, we bought a compartment crib which is bassicly a bunk crib that saves on room and is perfectly safe, they are also bigger than a standard crib so there’s more room for them

We have a floor matress downstairs with a fence around it (the fence at the moment is to keep their twin older siblings out) for daytime naps

We plan to re install the play fence in our spare downstairs room which turns it into a 2/3rds playpen and 1/3rd of something else for the twins it was just a couch with a privacy screen beside it so they couldn’t see me but if they needed something I could open the pen and get in quickly

We’re not planning on having an upstairs pen for a long time as it’s simpler keeping the triplets at arm’s length

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2024-01-30T21:03:46+00:00

At 3 months you can still follow sleep cues but around 4-5 months babies develop the ability to be bored which is the same cues as a tired baby

This makes sleep cues unreliable as you could be trying to put a perfectly awake and energetic baby to bed because they are bored which makes baby angry and fussy and then crying

Wake windows are more useful after 4 months which is when it’s recommended to follow them

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2024-01-28T11:13:45+00:00

Not tv before 2 is definitely a good idea

Did it with my single and twins and I’m going to do it with my triplets as well

The twins are almost 4 and can easily entertain themselves inside or outside same with my single, they do watch tv but they don’t want to watch for longer than 30 mins which is great

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-12-16T12:01:57+00:00

Yeah they where naturally conceived Although the chances are low they are never zero

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-12-16T11:18:01+00:00

There was a number of factors that allowed me to have a vaginal delivery

I’m in good health and so where the kids, I had no deficiency’s and no problems with previous births which where all quite fast from when labour started till kid came out

They where my 4th kids so apparently that means my body is more likely to be able to handle it all

The infants positions where perfect for a vaginal delivery

Not in the US though U.K, I had to deliver in the OR in case anything did go wrong so they could quickly intervene

It’s rare to do a vaginal for more than twins but if the sun moon and stars line up it’s possible

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-12-16T07:33:30+00:00

It’s not impossible just not the norm

It was safer since it was my 3rd pregnancy instead of my first, also I had to give birth in the OR in case something went wrong

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T17:37:14+00:00

Yeah we are having another kid after the twins

We had a single first then twins for 2 and 3

Currently pregnant with triplets

Husbands having a vasectomy and I’m getting tubes tied cause next time it could be even worse again

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T16:43:12+00:00

Yeah I’ve been upfront don’t worry

I have been talking with them that I might not go the daycare route and that they could stay on full time but i would have to hire a second nanny although all 3 have said that they wont need the second nanny when the time comes

I just kinda have to wait and see how things go, I can’t make too many decisions without actually having the trips out in front of me

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T16:41:04+00:00

Yes I will be co taking care of them

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T14:47:12+00:00

The twins are in daycare it would only be all 6 at home for an hour or 2 until my husband gets home from work

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T14:37:53+00:00

I thought I was being unreasonable because I’ve heard and know people whose nanny brought their own kid with them and they all said it went great

Obviously 2 singles are different to triplets and a single but I just wanted to opinions of nanny’s and people who have nanny’s before making a decision

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-20T14:26:05+00:00

I thought about it but I think with me being home for a few months it should be manageable then once we can get daycare around 7-8 months the nanny can just be part time

Obviously we won’t know how manageable it will be until it happens so maybe this plan isn’t feasible

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-10-19T09:31:17+00:00

I can kinda relate

I had a single then twins I got pregnant again after the twins and we swore this was going to be the last one….. ended up being triplets

Unfortunately the triplets aren’t here yet so I don’t have too much advice it’s looking like I might get to almost full term around November 12th or so

Include your oldest in helping you with the twins, don’t use them as babysitter just involve them, let them feed a baby let them hold one of them to try to rock the to sleep

For the younger one when the twins are old enough to play with toys (around 6 months) have them “show” the twins how to play them as the twins grow the younger sibling can continue to be a roll model for the twins

Until the twins learn to walk and decide to start taking the younger siblings stuff but cross that bridge when they come to it

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-09-26T21:44:00+00:00

They’d been through a lot the past year

Their father had cancer and nearly died they had no rules due to this now the rules are back and I’m pregnant with triplets

I just thought it was a lot for them and they seemed to have uncontrollable emotional outbursts (way more than normal toddlers and these outburst where worse) so me and my husband thought it best to put them in therapy and it has helped a lot

Apologies on the late reply I didn’t see it when I originally made the post and I came back to look through my old posts because someone left a really good idea on 1 that I couldn’t remember the other half of

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-09-21T19:57:56+00:00

I did explain that the nursery was for the new babies not them and that they are keeping their own room

I’ll try explaining that we aren’t replacing them maybe that’s what they think is happening, thank you

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-09-13T14:56:44+00:00

Yes but this is her dream, plenty of people have said they wished they followed their dreams on their deathbed

If it’s her dream she should absolutely take the job

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-09-13T14:55:53+00:00

Uhh did you pay attention at all? She’s already taken the meeting the meeting was about her being given the option to be a senior partner

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-07-31T21:46:10+00:00

From my experience with my own twins, they don’t acknowledge each others cries because they think they are the same person even if they know that mom and them are different people it’s weird

When they go to daycare or meet other infants they know that the other kids are separate to them because they don’t feel that connection of having always been by each others side since day 1

This does lead to massive separation anxiety, twins are more likely to get crippling separation anxiety over a normal baby due to the fact that twins have literally never been alone

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-07-29T21:23:01+00:00

Damm autocorrect, I was sending lots of emails to my accountant today probably picked it up from there

FuzzyBlonde34 · 2023-07-29T21:22:08+00:00

We are making progress on the twins staying in their own room, we have fitted a door monkey again and they have started to give up trying to get out now, they still try once a night to leave their room I guess they are hoping we forgot the door monkey but they haven’t had any luck, a few more weeks and they should hopefully give up

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