Feeding Check-In 7/22

[Squishy622]

Welcome to our bi-weekly feeding check-in! This is a regular thread to share the unique challenges of feeding multiples, vent about frustrations, and get ideas. All are welcome whether you're BFing, EPing, FFing, feeding solids, or any/all of the above. Pregnant POMs, feel free to pop in here too if you have questions about your plans!

- How old are your multiples?

- Are you BFing/EPing/FFing/solids?

- How's it going?

- Do you have any questions or concerns that you'd like advice on?

- Any advice to share with others or things that have particularly worked for you?

[schmella]

9m on Monday!
FF & solids

Ugh. They love food. So much that they are fighting bottles. All of a sudden it's a fight for every ounce. A is especially bad, but I think it's partly due to teething. I'm just so tired of fighting to get calories in them!
Today dinner was entirely self fed. It was lovely, but I can't tell if they ever get full... Like they stopped eating whatever was on their tray but if I pulled out something they really like, they started shrieking and inhaled it. I just can't wait until they can just tell me they're hungry!

Advice: so we are pretty much at table food at this point. Pedi said anything but honey, and no salt. Well but then how is that table food?! I'm not suggesting they eat a pile of French fries, but I'm struggling with meats- I can't marinate anything? Or am I being overly strict on this?

[chiwifey]

The twins will be ONE in 2 weeks. I'm in denial.

FF and solids.

They eat everything and are like machines when it comes to solids. They're getting about 16oz (4 bottles) a day of formula and still really love their bottle. They don't always finish the bottle but it does make them so happy when it's bottle time.

Advice: I'm struggling with a feeding schedule once bottles are done. How do I combine 4 bottles into 3 sippy cups of milk?
It just doesn't seem to work out around naps. I'll keep playing with it and see what I can do. Also baby boy is great with a straw sippy. Baby girl was but now she spits everything back out (water or milk) when drinking. It's almost like a new trick she learned. It's making a mess and she doesn't seem to want a sippy with a spout either. Anyone else experience this?

schmella I think marinated meats are fine. I do avoid honey strictly but salt not as much.

[thesportsgal]

- How old are your multiples? 11.5 months. I'm in denial, like chiwifey,

- Are you BFing/EPing/FFing/solids? LAST 2 TUBS OF FORMULA ON HAND, WOO HOO!!! We will get $220/month back once we are done with this. And they eat ALL the food.

- How's it going? Good, outside of the mess. But it just comes with the territory.

- Do you have any questions or concerns that you'd like advice on? Any solutions for the mess would be great!

- Any advice to share with others or things that have particularly worked for you. Nothing new I don't think!

schmella, We only avoid honey and peanut butter, since LO #1 has a peanut allergy. But that's it. My husband and I do not add additional salt to our food and I assume that's probably what your pedi is talking about. Baby doesn't need someone putting the salt shaker to their food . We cook with it for sure though!

[housecarder]

- How old are your multiples? 6 weeks tomorrow

- Are you BFing/EPing/FFing/solids? FF

- How's it going? Good, although they are both super gassy. I've never heard a baby fart so much. The bottle prop bibs came in and they help a bit, although our 4 oz bottles are almost to short for them. Might break out the taller bottles.


- Do you have any questions or concerns that you'd like advice on? Any way to decrease the flatulence? They don't seem super bothered by it, only Finn on occasion.

- Any advice to share with others or things that have particularly worked for you? Just that I love you all for suggesting the bibs!

[schmella]

housecarder, we had to switch to Doctor Browns and burp every ounce. Knees to chest and bicycles after every meal. Mylicon drops. Lil man has the worst gas- my ILs all have IBS and this poor kid seems on track to be dealing with the same.

[schmella]

Thanks for the reality check on the salt. A had really bad gas after tasting some hormel pork roast so I got really freaked out about salt.

Hey those of you feeding solids, like real meals, how long does a meal take? I've been just kind of stopping after an hour- they would still eat fruit at that point but seem uninterested in anything else- I want to make sure they're full but I can't have dinner last 2 hrs!

[schmella]

And apparently this week all they want is purées, and to be spoon fed? Two steps forward, one step back.
In other news, is there such a thing as too many blueberries? Because W would eat them until she explodes I think.

[robertjane33]

Jul 25, 2016 9:52:21 GMT -5 chiwifey said:

The twins will be ONE in 2 weeks. I'm in denial.


Advice: I'm struggling with a feeding schedule once bottles are done. How do I combine 4 bottles into 3 sippy cups of milk?
It just doesn't seem to work out around naps. I'll keep playing with it and see what I can do. Also baby boy is great with a straw sippy. Baby girl was but now she spits everything back out (water or milk) when drinking. It's almost like a new trick she learned. It's making a mess and she doesn't seem to want a sippy with a spout either. Anyone else experience this?

My son did this - he would get water/milk in his mouth, then open his mouth so it came back out.  We went back to what worked last, which for us, was the penguin spout cups for a while.  We putting in the straw cup every now and then, and after a few weeks, he stopped with the spitting.