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NicNOC 
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 2:35pm |
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Hi - i have a friend who is giving birth to twins in Julyish - can anyone give me an idea of practical gifts for twins! I know how expensive it is setting up for a new baby. Or any thing that parents of multiples find hard to live without
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SusyNZ
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 2:38pm |
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I guess ask her what she needs :) to get an idea of what to get incase you get something she has already or something she knows someone else is getting her. :D
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 3:30pm |
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yeah trouble is it her first too so she has no clue either!
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 3:41pm |
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ahh ok... well there is heaps of lists on the web just search google for New Baby Checklist and I guess you just double everything she will need.
Her midwive or her LMC will be able to give her information of what she will need to get, she could also ask friends that have had babys, her mother, sister etc.
Farmers is having a sale this weekend with some good specials 30-50% baby clothes and nursery items.
Not knowing what she has already has got is hard for someone to suggest something as there is heaps of things she will need and heaps of things someone can buy :)
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 3:49pm |
You could also go and make a post in this thread
http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=23153&PN=1
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 7:09pm |
Nappies!!! If she is planning on using disposables, then a couple packs of nappies is always handy! My SIL brought us a box of crawler size, was fantastic!!
Bouncers....a must for soothing one baby while other is being tended to.
Bottles and a couple small packs of formula....even if she is planning to breastfeed, it always pays to have some on stand-by....learning to BF is hard enough, when there is 2 it can be twice as hard!!! (I had one good latcher, one not!!!)
Frozen meals!! Closer to the time, stock her freezer with frozen meals she & her DH/DP can just reheat....those first few weeks can be pretty exhausting and having a readymade meal is a god-send!!!!
Lots of support and genuine offers of help (we had heaps of people offer help....very very few came through!!) .
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 8:48pm |
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bibs bibs bibs.
we didn't realise just how many we would need!
Oh and agree re frozen meals, twins are HARD work, and just heating is so much easier than having to cook when your brain is zombie like after 3 hourly twin feeds!
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Posted: 23 April 2010 at 10:32pm |
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Agree with bibs and frozen meals...they're the best ever!!!
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Posted: 24 April 2010 at 5:29pm |
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Love your sigi minik8e!! Your girls are so cute!!!
Not really specific to twins, but all the medical kind of stuff is pretty handy eg theometer, nasal bulb, medicine spoon etc..
Another pressie I loved was a massage voucher. I got both one for during pregnancy which was devine and also after when I got a much deserved break. I bet ya a twin mummy doubly needs those.
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Posted: 24 April 2010 at 6:17pm |
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One thing my mum always talks about 18 years after having twins is a friend of hers who came around to help out. She did washing, dishes, cooked etc and when she could looked after the babies so mum could have a well deserved sleep. Be hard for someone who is working but if I had a friend who was having twins I'd make a book of vouchers that she could 'redeem' when she needed kinda symbolic as I'd do everything I could to help anyway but make the gift tangible.
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Posted: 26 April 2010 at 10:45am |
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I agree with bibs I asked everyone at my baby shower to buy bibs and still we had to buy more. Same with nappies they don't seem like the most exciting gifts but they were my favorite gifts by far lol. Blankets are also good. We had like 20 different blankets :)
If shes planning to breastfeed a breast feeding pillow is a must! I wouldn't buy clothes. I had way to many clothes given to us we didn't get to even use half of them which was a real shame.
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Posted: 26 April 2010 at 10:48am |
A baby carrier  - I couldn't live without my carriers with my one baby - I only imagine how great they would be with two!
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Posted: 27 April 2010 at 3:56pm |
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Oh I love the idea of Frozen Meals - think I'll do that. I'd love to help her out but I work full time and will be about 30 weeks myself when she has them! so I guess frozen meals will be like I'm there! I wanted to be practical as you always hear you get lots of clothes! I thought I would do a couple of personalised paintings when shes named them too.
Thanks for everones help!
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