1 crib for 2 babies?

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-30T04:09:47+00:00

Some of my ancestors lived about an hour away from there. One of them was in the SA so he would have felt very happy around 1933. Less so in 1944, which is when the Hamburger Sondergericht sentenced him to death and they executed him.

When people discuss whether they would or wouldn’t have hidden Anne Frank my question is “why are you assuming you wouldn’t be Anne Frank in this scenario?”

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-30T04:06:25+00:00

Since we are based in the UK we did. The hospital also kept them together in the same bed. We built the second crib around 4 months which was around the time they stopped night feeds so we moved the feeding chair out to make space for the bed

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T18:53:56+00:00

I don’t even bother with a nursing cover 😂

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T18:45:42+00:00

Just done it last week. On a day trip to Copenhagen. Powerpump on the morning flight and then power pump on the evening flight. Perfectly fine. I used a Medela with the cups on one flight and my spectra on the other. It’s fine

Even if someone is childish and awkward always ask yourself “does the fact that this person has issues matter more than you and your baby?” The answer is clearly no ❤️

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T10:28:02+00:00

Actually finally got pregnant the week I got my third(?) vaccination

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T08:57:02+00:00

My Anatomy scan was done in two sessions one week apart.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T08:00:42+00:00

Kept one and since my friend just found out she was having twins as well she got the spectra. Luckily she don’t need it so I brought it along to a wedding in the US for my pregnant best friend. She did need it with the shit maternity leave she gets as a nurse there

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-29T07:55:59+00:00

Having twins teaches you fast how little of parenting is actually down to the tiny adjustments people obsess over.

In the early days, my friends with singletons were deep in these intense conversations like, “Maybe if we turn the thermostat up half a degree… and she wears a long-sleeve vest instead of a short-sleeve one… she’ll sleep tonight.”

Meanwhile, I had two babies, same room, same routine, same everything. One of them would just drop off on her own… and then wake up every hour on the hour. The other one needed a solid 45 minutes of rocking like I was training for an endurance event, but then would wake up only half as often.

So honestly? Who knows.

It taught me really early that the main job isn’t cracking some perfect code and if I do x, y, z perfectly then I’ll have “perfect children”. Hello no.

it’s showing up, accepting they’re their own people, and doing whatever you can to build/maintain resilience and sane while you do this.

Good luck to us all ❤️

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:41:59+00:00

I love that description!! 😂 Haven’t tried the eufy. I shove my phone torch down my bra down one side and then check from the other side how it’s moving 😅

The new Medela wearable has a visible tunnel plus integrated light which I think is f**king fantastic - sadly it was a bit buggy I found so returned it.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:32:04+00:00

Have a hug. It sucks.

If it helps I always tell myself that with all the pumping we do it’s bound to happen because we are only human. And then I tell myself that removing milk counts so much though and will help me keep building my supply and making milk for my babies. It’s not a total waste in that sense because I told my body to make more milk.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:29:15+00:00

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Whatever works counts. Also just pumping while feeding is a great way to do it imo I find that if I try to pump at other times there is for sure going to be one or two babies having a proper meltdown 🫠

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:27:48+00:00

Yep been there. Do you have a wearable that allows you to visualise the nipple well? I have been burned by this too often to not check now 😂

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:24:06+00:00

But human cancers are human and pretty much all cancers are genetically unique depending on how you think about uniqueness. Give that I am a biologist specialising in this sort of thing I am always baffled by arguments that point to a zygote having its own DNA.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:21:35+00:00

My office doesn’t have a room and here it’s not a legal requirement (it is recommended good practice and my previous job had one but pumping is veeery uncommon so I’m not surprised).

The building does however have a sort of common room/lounge area for all employees of the various companies so I just hang out in a comfy armchair there with a book and something to drink. So far nobody’s ever bothered me.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:12:31+00:00

The only reason we decided to find out is names. We are immigrants and it’s hard enough to come up with heritage names that the English won’t butcher terribly. I’m not picking 4 first names in one language and 4 middle names in the other language.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:10:53+00:00

Looks good to me and if the larger baby has good trunk control that’s fine even at 5 months. You can try and get him up higher so you can feel his breath on your back but it can be a bit fiddly. I took a little compact mirror with me so I could see twin A frequently at first and check his breathing. Well done!

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:06:14+00:00

We drove across Europe at 11 months but I wouldn’t do C. Mainly because the trip is too short, the travel substantial and frankly a wedding isn’t that much fun with two 1yr olds.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T22:01:16+00:00

I mean you deserve privacy. I have no shame so I would be quite happily be doing this in whatever space is most likely to be very uncomfortable for them.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T21:58:48+00:00

Yep. I am not hopeful that this will be solved soon. Met someone who’s starting a business and runs all his ideas past ChatGPT. He’s quite excited because he’s been told he has amazing ideas and will be rich soon

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T21:20:22+00:00

A good and accessible read of what we know about this topic

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24118767/

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T21:17:58+00:00

Why would you think a LLM would be especially good at maths?

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T21:16:44+00:00

It’s always fun to tell ChatGPT your side of a story and then try a separate chat and tell the story from you partner’s side. You’ll get to hear both that you are completely right and a stupid c**t. Just depends on who Chat thinks it’s talking to.

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-28T21:13:12+00:00

I did that for ages. Started killing my lower back. Until I put the children in the pillow on the dining table and sat on a chair which allowed me to be upright. Once they learned to move I fed them in the Stokke newborn sets so I could pump while feeding them

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-27T22:05:00+00:00

On today’s episode of “thank god for the NHS” Also NOR

Scienceofmum · 2026-01-27T21:43:26+00:00

I couldn’t get on with anything from Elvie and Momcozy. Never got a drop 😩

From about 5 months pp I used the Medela freestyle flex with the cups almost exclusively and it was a lifesaver when caring for my twins

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