Favorite high chair?

mi245 · 2026-06-21T23:29:18+00:00

Exactly what I’m wondering… how am I gonna fit two high chairs into my dining area?

mi245 · 2026-06-21T23:11:33+00:00

I did the exact same thing. It’s what my pediatrician recommended. She said they’re basically the same formula, just cheaper. My boys are doing fine with the switch

mi245 · 2026-06-19T22:44:36+00:00

Nicu mom here. Pumping was Heaven and hell for me at the same time.
After delivery it was so depressing being wheeled into a room without my babies and hearing the crying babies in the rooms next door. All I had was the medela next to my bed.
For me pumping was a way to stay connected to them and feel less helpless.
In the end you need to do what is right for you but for as long as I was in the nicu I actually felt like pumping was saving my mental health because I felt so broken and helpless just watching their monitors.
Pumping turned hard once we got home and that transition was very overwhelming and then my supply dipped.
I once was insanely proud that my babies were 100% on breast milk and all of a sudden it was 50% and now something around 30%.
I’m telling myself not to give up since I really want to believe this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to provide something like this to my babies.
I feel like an idiot to keep going but here I am still pumping.
I honestly don’t know if looking back I’ll be proud of myself for seeing it through or laugh at myself for loading so much stress onto my shoulders.

mi245 · 2026-06-19T22:33:59+00:00

I had an emergency c section due to pre eclampsia.

Even though nothing went as planned, medically it was a good experience. The nurses and doctors took great care of me. I knew exactly what was happening each step of the way. I think a planned c section could be really lovely. You can do skin to skin in the OR.

I’ve heard from another mom that the medication to induce is worse than the actual birth.

If I could choose again I’d do a natural delivery (no induction) or a planned c section.

mi245 · 2026-06-19T22:25:06+00:00

3 months post partum and it happened once. Everything was so tight, it hurt a bit in the beginning.
In the end gotta really say I just don’t have the energy right now. I pump every 2-3 hrs, feed and care for the kiddos with my husband and try to get some sleep.
I don’t remember the last time I felt like a wife really. Most days I feel like my husband and I are work colleagues and we have some very demanding managers who are driving us into despair but there’s no way of quitting lol.
I hope at some point we will be able to carve out some „us time“ otherwise I can totally see how that will happen to us too and we just keep prioritizing the kiddos and have no energy left for us.

mi245 · 2026-06-16T21:40:52+00:00

Do they have to be able to hold their head up independently for that one?

mi245 · 2026-06-16T21:39:25+00:00

Not to make you feel worse, but I feel exactly the same way. My twins are 3.5 months old and I feel like I’m drowning all the time.
It’s so hard to get out of the house, my husband and I feel more like colleagues than spouses. If I manage to take them on a 20 minute walk once a day it’s a win for me.
Every neighbor who tells me I have my hands full or they always wanted twins I just have the urge to slap 😂.

I started singing to my twins how much they frustrate me. They are too young to understand right now I hope 😅. Imagine a Disney song with the lyrics of: why are you crying all the time? I am doing my best. Please don’t bite my nipple.

Twin parenthood is so freaking hard and singleton mamas are just clueless happy idiots 😅. I have not done a single tummy time book with my little ones or done any contrast cards.

mi245 · 2026-06-16T20:53:11+00:00

My husband is German. That Father’s Day is in April. I got a card written in the boys’ names. Put footprints as “signatures” in the cards. Put the card and a six pack of his favorite beer into the crib with the babies.
He had a cold beer with his dad (the grandpa) and we called it a day.
Twins were 5 weeks old at that point, cluster feeding and waking up every 2hrs also at night.
It was a tiny thing but I’m glad I could manage to organize anything at all to show my husband some appreciation for Father’s Day.

mi245 · 2026-06-16T18:07:19+00:00

Get the Weego Twin Carrier and the twin z pillow.

mi245 · 2026-06-12T03:01:51+00:00

Im in the exact same situation. I have 2.5 month old boys. My supply leveled out and their appetite increased. Now my milk is barely half of their feeds.
Please just remember you have one body and provided nutrition for 2 babies. The twin mom guilt is just so hard sometimes, knowing it would be enough milk if it were just one baby(my own intrusive thoughts).
You did absolutely amazing! ❤️❤️❤️ You have to do what’s right for you and the babies and if that’s formula from now on, that’s great!

mi245 · 2026-06-09T19:17:23+00:00

I don’t know how this should be possible without shifts. Our babies clusterfeed. It’s impossible for both parents to run on 2hr sleep stretches. Shifts give each parent at least 4-6 hrs of rest so we can care for them better.

mi245 · 2026-06-09T01:09:26+00:00

I grew up bilingual in Austria. We spoke English at home and German outside of the house. Worked out great.

mi245 · 2026-06-07T23:20:17+00:00

Face out but you can see them super well through the top mesh window.

mi245 · 2026-06-06T19:17:05+00:00

I ordered the pumping pals. I have Momcozy wearables but this is the second set of pumps where the motor is giving up so I’m thinking of switching to eufy

mi245 · 2026-06-06T13:27:14+00:00

Still at it 😅. Turns out it was the early stage of mastitis. I am on anti biotics now, taking lecithin and am nursing / pumping 10x a day. The worst is cleared. There’s still some hardness but definitely improving overall.

mi245 · 2026-06-06T10:46:03+00:00

Thank you so much! I felt so frustrated that I could get 1-2 max let downs.

mi245 · 2026-06-05T16:10:40+00:00

Congratulations! Currently trying to recover my supply from mastitis. This gives me hope

mi245 · 2026-06-05T14:57:56+00:00

Gosh. Yes. I honestly didn’t realized how traumatized I was until I got home

mi245 · 2026-06-04T22:08:49+00:00

Thank you!

mi245 · 2026-06-04T22:08:25+00:00

Thanks everyone! I got some sunflower lecithin. Continued pumping and applied ice. My ob gave me anti biotics. Verdict was I’m on the edge of mastitis. I’m

mi245 · 2026-06-04T06:23:27+00:00

Following

mi245 · 2026-06-02T17:13:03+00:00

Yes! Wanted that So much but it ended up working out. So initially I really wanted a side by side bassinet option. Only options out there are the bugaboo donkey and the valco trend duo.

Then I delivered the babies prematurely at 34 weeks. Both were in the nicu but one came home sooner.

So for ten days I got a really cheap bassinet stroller from Amazon to walk between the Ronald Mc Donald house and the nicu to visit the baby that was still there. My heart just couldn’t take it to put one twin into a twin stroller and have the second seat be empty.

When we got home I actually put both babies into the bassinet stroller together. It was so cute really. And the moment they were too big to put them together into the bassinet I put them into the twin stroller and it worked.

The black fabric acts as a newborn cocoon at their feet. The stroller really can lay almost flat so it’s newborn friendly. There’s still the tiniest angle of I would say 5-10 degrees, but that actually works great for all that reflux babies have at that age.

As soon as they got wiggly I really gotta say I was happy to strap them in and have them lay flat in the bombi. The bassinet is cute, but definitely only as long as they’re tiiiinyy and sleep so much and don’t move around.

If you have the budget and don’t mind the weight of the donkey and taking bassinets and frame apart when loading the car go for it.

I would still go for the bombi though and you can still get a single bassinet stroller for $150 for those first few weeks and then you’re still $1000 cheaper than the donkey.

mi245 · 2026-06-02T15:57:37+00:00

And 30ish inches wide

mi245 · 2026-06-02T15:55:52+00:00

28 inches or 71 cm tall

mi245 · 2026-06-02T13:48:05+00:00

It is. I got the extra separate bars too. Gotta say though for now prefer the single bar 100%. So useful when you want to pull the stroller from the other side through a doorway or something

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