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Family Forum / Parenting / Twins / July 2006How do you do your shopping?
I'm full of questions. Currently when I go shopping and have to take the babies (I try not to do that) I put both carseats in a cart and drag another cart behind me if I have very many items I need. I took the stroller once but that only works if I need very few things and they were really tiny. They mostly cry in the stroller now :-( I can't maneuver the stroller and pull a cart. If I have one of the other kids they help, which works. If I have both big kids, they are more work then the babies, lol. What do you do once you no longer carry them in infant seats but they don't sit up good enough to be in the cart seats? I'm thinking there might be a strategy I haven't thought of. Thanks!  SignatureNikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 > I'm full of questions. Currently when I go shopping and have to take the > babies (I try not to do that) I put both carseats in a cart and drag another [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Brock 4/06 > Ben 4/06 We found fairly early on that a winter coat in the cart seat makes a nice little bassinet - they've even fallen asleep there. A thick blanket works well too. When I was alone, I'd lay one in the cart like that, and the other I would carry in a front carrier. I still do a variation of this now. When I can't find a cart with a side-by-side seat, I just put one in the cart and the other in the hip hammock. I often wished for a double sided hip hammock... "AnnRobbi" <annrobbi@comcast.net> wrote in message > We found fairly early on that a winter coat in the cart seat makes a > nice little bassinet - they've even fallen asleep there. Hi. I tried that trick, with a blanket, and they hated it. Maybe the blanket wasn't thick enough and/or the cart wasn't big enough. It wasn't the best time of day either. So, on to plan B, lol. > often wished for a double sided hip hammock... Oh yeah! I have a sling, which didn't work out to well either. I don't know if I need to practice more or change the position or what. I decided to just unlatch the carseats and take them in that. I took my two other kids so they each had a small cart with a baby in carseat and I had the big cart which I piled full of groceries. It was a full length procession through the store but at least we aren't starving now. We only had one baby race ;-) SignatureNikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 > "AnnRobbi" <annrobbi@comcast.net> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Brock 4/06 > Ben 4/06 Sorry to hear the blanket didn't work, but now I have this image of your little caravan! I hope the store wasn't too crowded that day. You have two very helpful little guys. Have you tried the Maximom Baby Carrier from Twinstuff.com? It allows you to carry both your twins at the same time. Unfortunately, I haven't, but I wonder if it would work? And how much weight I could handle on the front of me :) Jennifer Rylee Hannah 5/06 Haylee Kathleen 5/06 > Have you tried the Maximom Baby Carrier from Twinstuff.com? It allows > you to carry both your twins at the same time. Unfortunately, I > haven't, but I wonder if it would work? And how much weight I could > handle on the front of me :) Haven't tried it :-) My guys are pretty big. That would be a lot of baby hanging of me, lol. SignatureNikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 I did most of my shopping online for the first two years and sent my husband for groceries! The whole event of taking the twins shopping was definitely more trouble than it was worth! > I'm full of questions. Currently when I go shopping and have to take the > babies (I try not to do that) I put both carseats in a cart and drag [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks! When my girls were in carseats I loaded them into the cart (one in front, one in the basket) and used another cart like you do, but I left it at the end of the aisle and just got what I needed in each aisle, dumped it in the cart at the end and pushed it to the next aisle. When the girls were older there wasn't double shopping carts yet so I put one in the front seat (padded if they still couldn't sit that well) and the other in a backpack. The backpack was not on my back, however. I bungee corded it into the cart so the couldn't kick themselves over. The backpack gave me alot more room for groceries around it and I rarely needed the second cart anymore. I think with the invention of home delivered groceries I might do that now-a-days! SignatureErin Morgan and Megan 2-15-97 Evan 5-14-00 > I'm full of questions. Currently when I go shopping and have to take the > babies (I try not to do that) I put both carseats in a cart and drag [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks! "Kender" <e.kender@comcast.nospamnet> wrote in message > When the girls were older there wasn't double shopping carts yet so I put > one in the front seat (padded if they still couldn't sit that well) and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I think with the invention of home delivered groceries I might do that > now-a-days! I never thought of the backpack! I have one to and haven't even used it yet. Brock could definitely sit in there now, his head control is good enough. I'll give it a try. SignatureNikki, mama to Hunter 4/99 Luke 4/01 Brock 4/06 Ben 4/06 |
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