bottle feeding at same time

Discussion in 'The First Year' started by lisachalf, Jul 28, 2009.

  1. lisachalf

    lisachalf Well-Known Member

    When did you start bottle feeding your LO's at the same time? I know this question has been asked before but I can't remember and the search function is not working for me.

    Thanks!
     
  2. roxy08

    roxy08 Member


    I started at a month and half. Breastfed for a month and half.
     
  3. lisachalf

    lisachalf Well-Known Member

    lol I mean feed them together using pillows or boppies or putting them in car seats.
     
  4. tinalb

    tinalb Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    I was feeding both at once as early as a month I'm sure. I just propped them side-by-side on a pillow, then I sat in front of them holding their bottles.
     
  5. h2believe

    h2believe Well-Known Member

    I just started this last week. I put them in a boppy and prop the bottle with a pillow and I sit there holding the bottle, as well. Usually one finishes before the other so it's easy to burp.
     
  6. someone

    someone Well-Known Member

    There were a couple times probably starting around one month where I did this, if they were both hungry at the same time and no one else was around.
     
  7. ohjojo

    ohjojo Well-Known Member

    probably around 6 weeks, i couldn't get it to work earlier than that because DD had absolutely no head control and DS had a terrible suck reflex and i had to coax him through each bottle until then..

    when i was finally able to do it, i used boppies with a blanket laying over them to keep them from falling into the hole and put one on either side of me on the couch.
     
  8. jrtchr

    jrtchr Well-Known Member

    I have been bottle feeding the two of them together for probably 2 weeks now (my girls are almost 5 weeks old). I prop them both on boppys on either side of me on the couch and hold both bottles for them. Sometimes I also put one in a boppy and one on my lap (that helps with wobbly heads). I often have to reposition them throughout the feeding to account for wobbly heads but the boppys really help. Good luck!
     
  9. rhc0607

    rhc0607 Well-Known Member

    I just started this yesterday and it makes feeding go by so much faster. I have mini boppy's from their tummy time mats and it fits the boys perfectly!!
     
  10. ShelbyJ

    ShelbyJ Well-Known Member

    I used the boppys on either side of me on the couch, too. Did it from day 1. The boys have always eaten at the same time and for me, it saved my sanity. Good luck! As they got bigger, we tried the podee bottle. One of my twins did well with it, the other...not so much.
     
  11. ssb2e

    ssb2e Well-Known Member

    About 2 months old. Would have probably done it sooner, but I didn't have both babies home from the hospital until then!
     
  12. Sisrea

    Sisrea Well-Known Member

    I used an EZ 2 Nurse pillow and flipped it over and bottle fed them together from the start. I was home from the hosptial at 5days old and then DH went back to work when they were 2 weeks old so I think 2 weeks because i was home alone after that during the day
     
  13. linz

    linz Well-Known Member

    I started feeding mine together last week at 4 weeks old. Not EVERY single time, but I do most of the time when I am by myself. I use two boppys, one on either side of me, and prop the bottles with blankets so that I can burp one and not have to stop feeding the other. Once I have finished burping one of them and get them going again, I burp the other one, and then hold and cuddle him while he eats until the first one has to burp again. I try to switch back and forth this way so that I am holding one or the other most of the time.
     
  14. asamac

    asamac Well-Known Member

    I just started feeding both at the same time in the evening when they are very hungry and they are almost 6 months old! I have one sitting on my lap and the other one sits to the left of me leaning on my stomach. Both are facing out. I still feed them one at a time in the morning - first BF and then bottle.
     
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