I've already posted a message but figured any advice will be worth having.
Well to cut a long story short...am going camping with partner and boys Ewan and Finn in June, they will be 5 months old and were going camping because its cheap but we still really really need a holiday...esp with having twins!!!
Any advice from twin parents or any parents that matter who have camped with babes will be greatly appreciated...looking forward to the trip but dreading it also!!!!
I don't have any experience of twins, but have taken a 4 month old camping. How do you feed them/ what do you plan on them sleeping in?
I found camping with our youngest much easier than I thought. She slept most of the time! My main worry was sterilisation of bottles and keeping feeds cool (I was used to a microwave sterilizer LOL). Once this was figured out, it was plain sailing. They should be in a settled sleeping and feeding routine also by 5 months, so life should be much easier.
Not sure if you post/use Babycentre? but there is a Parents of Twins forum board on there and I am sure someone will have been camping with twins. Maybe you should introduce yourself?
Any questions, just ask and I am sure there will be more people along to answer shortly,
I haven't been out with our 2 yet ( Girls 8 months ) but are hopeing to later this year. Not sure if you have asked on the forums at twinsclub.com but I remember a chat on there about camping but i cannot remember if anyone had actually been.
Good Luck, have fun. I'm sure it will be fine though, us twin parents learn to be a bit more relaxed with the little'uns.
well i am bottle feeding them....because its easier really and you can get help from dad lol, BUT i was used to microwave steriliser too, but have bought a cheap coldwater one and will get a large supply of throw away bottles. thought that would be ok?
have also got a travel cot for them to sleep in, was gonna put them in together as they are now but a) may be too big and b) they may be too hot....so have asked company were hiring the tent off if we can have a second cot
(oh by the way were cheating really becuae it one of those tents that they provide with a fridge and oven and stuff lol just to see how we goet on.... i felt it was more of a compremise!!! LOL)
and then after some advice off other campers am just gonna see what happens lol. got the double buggy ready thats quite compact and swim nappies. just see what happens!! i just hope they sleep all the way to dover in the care then on the ferry and then all the way to the vedee LOL could be wishful thinking!
Hia,
You say you have a micro sterilizer. So did I, but I could also use it as a cold water one too, is your not able to do this? If that is the case, then sterilizing is easy. Just use Milton. Clean the bottles as usual and just leave them soaking in solution until you need them. I think any clean tub with a lid on would be fine though. When our two were in hospital as babies on the children's ward, old biscuit boxes were even used! As long as the container is sterile. I think they have to soak for 1 hour before they are sterile though.
Also, if you have a fridge, then I presume you may have an electric hook up? If this is the case, then you may be able to use an electric sterilizer?
I am sure they will sleep a lot of the journey with all the motion!
Would it be worth you doing a trial run in this country with a borrowed tent maybe? Just a thought
Good luck, you will love it, I am sure!
Jen
we drove from Scotland to the Vendee with 3 kids, the youngest at that time was 5 months, in a ford mondeo! We took our regular pram/pushchair, and some steribottles, although I did mainly feed myself. Just take loads of sunblock, a really decent sunshade, (we used a baby sheet over the pram hood as well as a parasole), and hats. The twins should be okay in one cot, because it did get cooler at night, although not cold. The bedroom divider if I remember, can be lifted to make one big room, so making the space a bit airier. Just do it, enjoy yourself and relax. When we went in a tent, it was up there as one of our best holidays ever!
My kids were camping from the day they were born almost. When very young I used a collapsable travel cot set up in the living area of the tent, which was put in the boot of the car during the day; the cot not the baby! As teenagers now, I'm tempted to shut them in the boot not the cot. I would advise EHU for ease of boiling water for steralising bottles and making milk, but other than that, enjoy it.
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