Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Cribs

I ended up getting 2 of the Graco Lauren Convertible cribs for my girls and they are beautiful. They are very sturdy and reasonable. I got them from Target.

PNV

I was very gaggy from Prenatal vitamins with their nasty after taste. But this one was the best one after all of the ones I tried. I got a ton of samples from my OB.
I also took Folguard for extra vitamins as directed by my OB.

Angelcare baby monitors- Angel Care Deluxe Plus

After much research and talking with friends that have these, my husband and I decided to buy 2 of the Angel Care Deluxe Plus Baby Monitors. I was having a hard time transitioning them to their cribs because I was scared of SIDS. Even though you see 2 pads on this does not mean it works for 2 babies. The two pads go under the mattress and the two parent monitors show you whats going in that crib for that one baby. You must have 2 cribs, 2 sets of Deluxe Plus Angelcare Monitors and each baby in there own crib for these to work. The difference between the deluxe and the deluxe plus is that the plus covers more area. With the basic one with one pad the baby can roll in the corners and give you a false alarm. So I would rather go ahead and get the deluxe plus to prevent my rolling babies from triggering false alarms that scare me to death. I have been able to sleep better now. Because these have sound feed as well as temperature alerts on them in case the room is too hot or too cold. I could not afford to pay $170 each for these brand new so I bought 2 off of ebay for $100 for one and $80 for the other and I am pleased. Shop around! :-)

Fisher Price Sit-Me-Up Floor Seat vs Bumbo

I received 2 bumbo seats from family. They have been passed around for awhile and definitely hold up but I sat my girls in them sometimes and to me my girls are just too floppy in them and I didn't like them. My mother in law found the Fisher Price Sit Me Up Floor Seats at Babies R Us and the were on sale for around $35 and they are worth it. My girls were premies so even though they are 7 months they still aren't sitting up completely unassisted so we use these for feeding them baby food and it works perfect. It has helped them tremendously. One of the best items I have.


MAM Pacifiers

We tried quiet a few brands of pacifiers. And with them being premies these fit perfect and actually one of my twins still likes this size at 7 months. But as they have gotten older they have all different sizes of them but we stick with MAM.

Bottles- Dr Brown's

We tried all sorts of bottles with the girls. And these seem to work the best to me. There is alot of parts to them though so if you don't have a dishwasher then I do not recommend. We have two little baskets and we put the small parts in them and the nipples go on top. We heat them up in the Avent bottle warmer, I got it because it was the cheapest one at Babies R Us and it works just fine.We used the 4 oz with level 1 nipples until probably 4 months then went to the 8 oz with Level 2 nipples. Don't buy too many 4 oz ones and level 1 nipples because you will need to move up before you know it. They are 7 months and we are still using Level 2 nipples because the Level 3 is just too fast. Every baby is different. But I knew absolutely nothing about all of this and was so lost on the bottle aisle.

Pack n Play

This is a Minnie Mouse playard I got from Babies R Us. It was very pricey thoug. Around $219 I think. But it works good. Its not too big so it didn't hog up much space in my bedroom. My twins slept in it from when they came home until I transitioned them to their cribs and it worked great. I honestly never used the top attachments, I only used it with the bed part up top and always went to our nursery to change them. But by 7 months it will really be of no use to you unless you plan to have more children.