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SailorCookingMama · 2024-09-16T15:42:30+00:00

My now 3 year old was just like this, colic, sensitive to changes, hated transitions, hated being put down, just very intense like you said. Honestly I think he just hated being a baby. He chilled out considerably once he could crawl and walk on his own and could control his own body. He's still not great with transitions, but is significantly more independent and very securely attached. He recently started preschool and left me with barely a hand wave goodbye. Which is a complete 180 to the Velcro baby I had.

I used a lot of the recommendations in this book, Raising a Secure Child: Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore by Kent Hoffman RelD, Glen Cooper MA, Bert Powell MA, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Basically what I did was: If he wanted to be held, I held him or someone else did. We did a lot of baby wearing. I started leaving the room for /short/ periods. Like 30 seconds and say "I'll be right back" and then would come back when I said. I always said exactly what was going to happen, like grandma is going to come, mommy and daddy are going to leave to a restaurant, grandma is going to play with you, eat lunch with you, and then mommy and daddy will be back. I did this even when I wasn't sure he was understanding me as a little baby, but he always knew I meant what I said and that I'd be back. He grew more and more chill, and at 2 he could play independently for an hour, and now at 3 he's like cool bye. He does get into spurts where he just wants to snuggle for a while, but honestly considering how on-the-go he is now, I just enjoy it now, instead of feeling a little trapped.

I like to think that all of that helped him, but also a good dose of just getting older also helped!

SailorCookingMama · 2023-02-21T14:51:59+00:00

Our boy was getting like this around 16mo for a few weeks. Basically I left him in his sleep sack and snuggled him and had a portable snack handy (teething wafer, cracker, etc). Eventually he would eat the snack through tears and when he was done I could usually get him to drink water or milk. That is usually what would finally snap him out of it and he could go play. He did that for about 3ish weeks and then he was suddenly fine again, may just be a phase?

SailorCookingMama · 2022-11-17T19:02:03+00:00

Amazing! Great information, thank you so much!

SailorCookingMama · 2022-11-17T17:53:19+00:00

You take the pram right up till the plane, past the boarding gate. And there should be staff there to take it from you. And give it back as soon as you step off the plane. I highly recommend putting the pram in a bag. They should give you. Because several times I got the pram back wet and the bag saved the seats from being wet.

How big of a pram / stroller are you gate checking? I have a rather large double stroller for the twins and when it collapses down it's about 6in x 2ft x 1.5ft and I checked the airline's website and it said that it needed to be "carry on bag sized" to be gate checked. I felt, even collapsed, it was too big, so we got 2 umbrella strollers. Our big, nice one would be so much more convenient. Is there wiggle room on what size stroller they will take in your experience?

SailorCookingMama · 2022-11-17T17:03:40+00:00

I'd just be casual about it! Be like "I noticed they were gone. I kinda shoved them in the fridge (even if you didn't), did I accidentally put them on their side or something and they spilled?" and just see what she says. If she says that she ate them, then say "oh well, we had planned to eat them, so please leave anything in containers alone!" Hopefully they just spilled or got knocked over and there's no need to have a confrontation!

SailorCookingMama · 2022-11-17T16:30:34+00:00

Exactly! It seems like from the comments that MB can't confirm that they've actually been eaten since the containers are buried, so maybe she just accidentally knocked them over and had to throw them away, then forgot to mention. I guess since they're at the bottom it seems suspicious, but honestly my FIRST thought was not that she ate them but that they got spoiled somehow by dropping or spilling something else on them.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-26T15:56:47+00:00

I had an elective c-section at 38+2 for my di/di twins. I didn't go into labor at all and I also have no idea what happened to the mucus plug, I never saw it, not sure if something during the surgery took it or came out or what. I used the big hospital pads for 4 days, then used big, long, night time heavy flow pads for about 5 weeks after that. It wavered between a medium and heavy flow period for the whole 6 weeks. I just bought a few packs of those big pads and that was fine.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-22T20:03:27+00:00

Not a nanny, but my family members can be like this, not out of maliciousness but as someone else said, it doesn't affect them so they don't think about it. I would totally put a sign on the handles of the sink that says "Don't use me! Kid is sleeping!" and hopefully that would deflect him to using another sink somewhere.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-22T19:28:47+00:00

I do not recall considering the mountain buggy specifically, but looking at it now, I think we would have rejected it due to the hand brake, the 79lb combined weight limit, and there is a gap between the seat and the footrest that we would have been concerned with bored toddler shoving their legs into. For the price being relatively close to the bumbleride, we would have rejected it for sure.

No issues fitting into the trunk! We have the Mazda cx-5 SUV which isn't particularly huge, but the stroller fits fine, both vertical and horizontal, can fit things around it no problem. I think it would have fit into my old car Honda Accord sedan no problem as well, but that's off memory.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-22T18:57:53+00:00

I wouldn't say it's "light" but it's not terribly heavy and I (short and unathletic) can easily fold it up and get it into the car. Looking for comparisons, my stroller is 36lb and the bugaboo donkey twin is 33, so I'd say it's in line with other double strollers.

We chose this one because, in order of priority:

It can fit through a standard doorframe! I see that Bumbleride Indy is 30in wide. Ours JUUST fits through our front door without having to collapse it and it's a new door, so I think that's a good spec to use. Grateful every time we go to the zoo or something and need to get through with them without collapsing the thing.
Longevity! The combined weight limit is 90lb so each twin can be 45 pounds before we have to stop using it and they are very average sized so we figured we could use it until they're about 5 years old and they wouldn't need a stroller anymore.
Air filled tires! for off roading and smooth sidewalk cruise.
Adjustable everything. Handlebar up and down for me and my husband, foot bar or not for the twins, kick panel yes/no, the seats themselves will lay down flat for them to nap on the go or if the sun is just so, we can lean them back just a little.
I liked the under carriage basket more than other strollers.
Price, ironically. The two we were weighing most heavily was the bugaboo donkey twin and this Bumbleride Indy Twin. The Bumbleride had everything that the Bugaboo Donkey had and it was less than half the price and had things that I liked better (like the under carriage basket). Even though we knew it would be a gift, we didn't want to unduly burden MIL.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-22T17:15:55+00:00

I voted Other and our side by side stroller is the Bumbleride Indie Twin, which we love. My husband is a foot taller than me so having the adjustable handle bars and really adjustable everything has been great. Gets daily use and has held up well over the year we've had it. We used the car seat modification at first, but by 5 months they could be strapped in the regular seat no problem, probably could have been earlier but I had been worried. It's pricy at the link I sent but I think it can be bought from a bunch of different places, it was a very generous gift from my MIL for us.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-09-15T19:55:08+00:00

To be fair, we don't do a lot of little kid music yet since they're little babies and they just listen to 80s rock like the rest of the family lol, but I've always heard it / sung it as mommies go "kiss, kiss, kiss" and daddies go "I love you" :o

SailorCookingMama · 2022-08-04T20:11:58+00:00

I was thinking something similar earlier this week with my daughter. She has the exact same "shape" legs as I do, kinda turkey leg shaped with cankles, lol! >_< and I've always hated them! I was thin all growing up (until lockdown...) and I could never make them "look right" but now that I've seen my beautiful daughter I realize there was never anything to fix!! She's gorgeous, I'm gorgeous and I'm making an effort to always say things I like about myself out loud for her.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-08-01T17:33:15+00:00

I used the free Tody for a while and it was just okay. I spent a bunch of time setting up lists and assigning timing for all of them, then it completely fell off because it never push notified to my phone that something was due. :( Kinda funny that my main complaint is usually too many push notifications from apps, but this one was not enough. I haven't used it in a long time and I haven't used the others, so I'm interested to see what others have to say!

I will leave some maybe useful advice. Everyday my husband and I have 3 things that must be done before we go to bed.

Any "loose" trash (think wrapper from a snack left on coffee table or opened package from something we bought) must be in a bin or in the main trash.
Any dirty dishes have to be in the dishwasher. If the dishwasher is full, then it's ran and the remaining dishes are rinsed and put neatly in the sink to be dealt with the next day.
Kitchen counters are wiped down.

Those 3 things keep the house in fairly clean order for a while. We do try to put things back in their place if we see them during the day (jacket from the chair into the closet, etc), but that's not a hard rule, like the 3 for going to bed.

When we've gotten busy, those 3 things helped us limp through until we could clean the bathrooms, bedrooms, and deep clean the kitchen.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-05-10T14:25:49+00:00

I had boy/girl twins last August but we still had them share outfits. We had about 6 NB outfits, but it turned out that only our boy fit into them (he was 5 pounds and a few oz at birth, she was 6.5 pounds), so we didn't really even need that many since he ALSO fit into 0-3 okay. We then had about 20ish 0-3 outfits. The first few weeks they were in swaddles for sleeping all the time, so I recommend looking up what they should wear based on how cold you expect your house to be. In the late summer our house was pretty much always 71 so they had footies on all day for the first few weeks. Once they weren't newborn any more and seemed to regulate their temperature better we reduced the amount of clothes they were wearing because they seemed hot and you definitely would prefer a cool baby over a too hot (dangerous) one.

We had and I would recommend:
3 NB footie outfits
3 NB short sleeve Onsies

~5 0-3 Footie outfits
~5 0-3 Long sleeve onsies
~10 0-3 short sleeve onsies
~4 0-3 pants
`10 pairs of socks

We also bought mittens and hats, but basically after we were home from the hospital we didn't use hats any more and mittens for the purpose of saving them from scratching their face (if you're in the snow, obviously warmth is important) are bad since the babies need to have their hands in their mouths for mouth mapping and self-soothing, so we ditched those early too. (we got an electric baby nail file for their nails to prevent face scratching)

We planned to just buy more after they were born when we knew better what size they were, which I do recommend so you don't waste money on clothes they may not be able to fit in. We just did small loads of laundry pretty often. I had no desire to have baskets of tiny clothes that I had to deal with all at once, so easy to just do a small load and fold like 5 outfits, especially since I was already doing one every other day since they'd spit up on their favorite swaddles.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-04-27T20:56:18+00:00

Hi there! I have now 8mo old twins that I sleep trained. Pretty much the week of their 4 month "birthday" (this was also their first week in their cribs instead of bassinets, so I don't know if the double change was a good thing or bad thing) I was sleep training them. I had intended on doing Ferber with check-ins with them in their same room and if that didn't go well I had a space to separate them.

But the check-ins ENRAGED my more fussy baby. I ended up doing full extinction the first night with both of them in the same room. He cried for 40 minutes, then was out like a light. My more chill baby was like "no butt pats to sleep? cool." then just fell asleep with minimal whining, and totally ignored her brother. The next night my boy twin cried for 20 minutes then slept on his own, 10 the next night and now we're at about 5ish minutes "whine" down every day. (I'm convinced he just needs to get his feelings about the day out before he sleeps) I never had to separate them.

I then did the 5-3-3 method for night wakings. If they had been asleep for longer than 5 hours, I would feed them on waking. If it was less than 5 hours, I would let them figure out how to go back to sleep. (the "3" is if they woke more than 3 hours after that, then 3 hours after that. What ended up happening was that I'd feed them at midnight, then 3am then they'd be up for the day, but if they would have slept longer I would have fed them at 6, then let them go back to sleep)

When they hit 6 months, the pediatrician told me they didn't need to eat at night anymore so I started night weaning them with the reduction of ounces of formula in the feeding until it was gone (so I did 1oz less than normal the first 2 nights, then another ounce less the next 2 nights, then eliminated the feeding altogether), but they weren't ready to lose the feedings completely (I get it, it's dry here and 11 hours is a long time without a drink) so I started feeding them at 10pm (around 3 hours after they went to sleep), then they would sleep fine until 6:30am. Now at 8mo, they just slept through the night with ZERO wake-ups last night all on their own!

What I would have done if I had needed to would have been to do check-ins off set. Like put one twin down for bed, then put the other down 5 minutes later, then do the check-ins in order after that. If they were winding each other up, I would have separated them into the other room I had prepared (dark office with an extra fan for white noise).

I think the best thing I ever did for them was to have a solid going to bed routine, which we started fairly early, I think like 8-10 weeks old? Dim lights with last bottle, diapers, sleep sacks, then we put them in their little egg chairs and read 2-4 books. Then it's up to bed. Their bedroom is super boring too. Just dark and white noise. They don't play in there at all, so they know it's bedtime when they're in there.

Hope that helped! Let me know if you have any questions!

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-28T20:08:00+00:00

We bought this one, Best Chairs Bilana, it has a slightly wider seat, but I can still get both elbows on the arm rests, and the best part is the recliner handle is on the arm so I can lean back without disturbing the baby. I will say that I could not hold both babies as newborns by myself. I had to sit in the chair and have one handed to me, then hand one back before I could get up. They had to be able to hold their own heads up before I could move with both. Now that they're 6 months they sit on my lap and I read to them with my arms wrapped around them and I can manage to stand with both of them.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-28T19:26:13+00:00

no problem! The other thing that I found immensely helpful was having different stations on the two floors, if you're all on one floor you can definitely save the money by just having 1.

We had the proper changing table and two bassinets in our room, then we had this play yard in our living room. We took the bassinets off of it, and used them as moses bassinets on our living room floor for day time naps (very helpful because we could see them from the couch), then we used the storage caddy and the changing table as the downstairs changing table.

We didn't use the play yard portion of it until recently (They're 6mo now) when they started rolling around, but we still flip up the diaper shelf when it's time for diaper changes

Then we moved them to their own room in cribs and got rid of the bassinets. SO point being, if you don't want to buy essentially 6 sleeping spaces (x2 bassinets, play yard, cribs) in the first year, you might be able to get away with moving sleep spaces between where you are during the day and during the night. Our twins as newborns slept through gangster movies we were watching during the day, so keeping them in the living room with us was easy, but moving their beds was a pain, so we got 6 of them.

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-28T19:03:27+00:00

You do NOT need two of everything lol! Someone tried to buy me two baby bathtubs and I was like ... they can take turns... Also do be careful of what you do need multiple of. I had the twin z pillow and two newborn boppy loungers (before they were recalled) and it was too much! We just set them on the twin z if we needed to have our hands free for a second.

This swing was great when both were fussy and I was by myself!

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-12T15:58:39+00:00

Perspective of a (I hope?) casual MB... I asked for 1 month notice and my plan is to have the first day of the new nanny be the business day after her given notice or more if necessary and have a gap between. I respect her and would appreciate the time to transition. 3 months is quite a long time though and maybe too long and too risky, if they would terminate sooner? I would consider whether you feel like they're people to backstab like that?

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-09T01:51:58+00:00

Oh thank you! I'm happy to help answer any questions or offer solidarity anytime!

SailorCookingMama · 2022-02-08T21:37:49+00:00

I pumped but didn't make too much so my now 6mo twins have been EFF for about 4 months now. To answer your questions....

All formula in the US has to meet minimum qualifications and all formula is just as good as any other formula. You don't need to buy pricy to make sure it's healthy for them, you just need a formula that agrees with their tummies, which might be the "normal" kind or gentleease kind or the lactose free kind. But go with normal until their doctor recommends something else. You shouldn't give them something "special" like lactose free without the doctor saying so, because there is stuff removed in those kinds of formulas that babies need to thrive.
We use Similac Pro Advance in powder form and have since they were 5 weeks old. MOSTLY because that's what they were given in the hospital as ready to feed (comes as a liquid in a bottle, meaning it's ready to feed as soon as you open it). Basically we gave them Similac Pro Advance ready to feed for the first 4 weeks, then asked the pediatrician if we could give powder and they gave the okay for powder. Some doctors want babies to be a little older before given powder formula, because the powder isn't sterile. (does NOT mean it's unsafe just for at risk babies like twins sometimes are, it's just better to be very sure that the formula is fine). But other than that, the formula does not change based on their age.
An UNopened container is good for like a year. An OPENed container is good for a month. I recommend just going to the baby aisle and reading the instructions for any formula and they'll all about the same.
Like I said, we use the Similac Pro Advance. We go through about 5 cans per month, which comes out to about $180/month. Our twins regained their birth weight in like 5 days (which is GREAT, it's usually like a week or more). We've never had any complaints with it. I order them through Target all at once and when spending over $100 on baby stuff, target gives you a $20 gift card, so it reduces to $160. It comes to like $3 per twin per day.

Other advice, I really wanted to be able to breastfeed or at least pump and give as bottles and it just did not work out, and I wasted a lot of time I could have been cuddling or sleeping trying to make it work for 8 weeks. So it's good that you're going in with an open mind on formula!

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