bedtime routine alone

What do you do with the first baby when you are done with their bath but before the bottle when you are bathing the second one? My only option at the moment seems to be back in the highchair or the jumperoo. Both ways would be playing with toys and probably too stimulating during a time when they are suppose to be winding down. I do this alone each night so it is not an option for me to have someone else start the bottle or something.

 

Sounds like you've got a great plan. With twins, you just go with whatever works! I know you're also "supposed to" have a "soothe to sleep" routine for naps and nighttime, but I've got no way to do that for two babies at once, so their "routine" is getting plopped in their cribs. But it works! They adapt to whatever routine you have for them.

Also, have you considered teaching your babies to hold their own bottles? Mine have been holding their own for a month now. Then you can have one with the bottle (maybe in a bouncy in your bathroom) while you bathe the other. Then switch.

We are mostly bf'ing, but I give one bottle a day and it's GRRREAT to go out to a restaurant and they drink their bottles while we eat. It's the only way to keep them happy during a meal, even if I just fed them prior to going out! I guess they're like mommy, they see/smell food, they want to eat it, hungry or not!

 

I think the whole idea of a bath as soothing is misguided - all the babies I've known either get hyped up excited by the bath, or they hate it and get negatively excited. So I never worried too much about them playing with toys after the bath (I do nights alone, too). I'd just keep doing what you're doing, and just work in an extra few minutes of "cool down" time to your routine if you feel you need it. Soon enough you'll be able to bathe them together and the whole point will be moot.

 

i got with the swing while bathing the other ... but that's not always great either ... because sometimes they fall asleep, and then i need to wake them to feed them and they don't eat as well. Like everyone said, whatever works. All I know is that my kids get revved up by the bath ... it never calms them!

 

I did one in the swing, now I have one in the Exersaucer or sitting in their room (and playing with a few toys).

 

QUOTE(~ilyse~ @ Aug 23 2007, 10:28 PM) [snapback]377819[/snapback]
What do you do with the first baby when you are done with their bath but before the bottle when you are bathing the second one? My only option at the moment seems to be back in the highchair or the jumperoo. Both ways would be playing with toys and probably too stimulating during a time when they are suppose to be winding down. I do this alone each night so it is not an option for me to have someone else start the bottle or something.


I do bedtime by myself too. I put one in a bouncy chair right outside the bathroom door so she can watch me bathe her sister and also look out the sliding glass door to the backyard. I used to just lay them on a blanket outside the door, but now that they are rolling and moving, I can't do that anymore

-Leighann

 

I also do baths alone and always have. At 9 months, I got those bath rings. When bath was ove, I take them out and the same time. I have the towels laid out on the floor and wrap them up like tacos so they cant escape. I bring pjs and diapers in there and get them ready in the bathroom. Then we come inthe famliy room and I put them in their chairs and sit in the middle and they have their bottles. THen straight to their room for bedtime.

 

I do bedtime by myself too, always have (except for sunday), After I feed them dinner I just wheel the highchair right into the kitchen/bathroom (sometimes with a toy on the tray) or wherever we are until I can get to the other baby in to the bath; so they can see me and their sibling and not feel left out. I tried the activity center but it was too far away and I felt way too stimulating and they just fussed until I brought them closer to me. As far as the bottle thing, I put them on the floor in the LR after they are both dried off, dressed and Bedtime diapers are on and put them in their boppies or sometimes back into their HC and feed them their bottles at the same time, then do a book or in reverse order depending on how hungry they look and then a burp and a song and to bed. I always talk to both of them even if I am with the other.