Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has used the Itzbeen baby timer and found it useful.
I'm thinking it would be helpful mostly for feeds and sleeps but also if others are helping me they just look at the timer to see if the grils are due for something. Then I don't have to try and remember everything for everyone or if I'm asleep or shower I can be left alone

I want to order it ASAP if I decide so its arrived when we get home so your thought are appreciated.
I'm on the final count down with only 4 days until the girls arrive!!
Am so excited but terrified all at once.

Thanks
Kate

Good luck Kate! If I had my time again I would have got them - trying to write down every time they had a feed/nappy change etc got so confusing! I had my mum helping and she would SMS me the things she did lol. Alternatively there is an iphone app that does a similar thing - but obviously wouldn't be as good for helpers

Best of luck Kate, not long now!
I never used them but I thought I'd let you know that Little Bare Bear stocks them and they currently have 15% off storewide with the code MGV. She ships very quickly usually.

I made a book but these things came out just as I no longer needed to keep track and were one of the two things I really would have loved to have had. Even now I see them and think they are the best present to get a multi mum

Those and the Milk in a Minute machine ( if you need to formula feed) - I would have given up many things to have those two items!

Thanks ladies for your quick replies.
Blessed many thanks for the info about the code for little bare bear. It made it much better and easier to justify!

I've called DH and he thinks its a great idea - he loves gadets - so I've just ordered 2.
Hopefully they'll arrive on Monday before I go in on Tuesday so I can have a play!

I don't have an iphone but thanks for the info on the apps.

Thanks
Kate

If you have an iPhone there is an app called Total Baby which does essentially the same thing. it cost me $5. (it does multiple babies as well).

I so wished I would have known about them when I had the boys... Would have saved all the scrawling in the notebook and trying to remember things- when I forgot to write... ...

I had them for my twins and I loved them.

Gee ... I clearly lost my brain when I had children... I didn't write anything down when mine were babies... no wonder I felt like I was constantly calculating in my head! Every time I looked at my watch I was calculating and checking my calculations! lol! ... If I'd have just thought to write it down...

So... the answer is YES! I would've really loved one of these ... and I agree with DG one of those milk in a minute things would've been amazing.

There are certainly some smart inventing multiple mummies out there!

I had a form thing which I printed off in a big stack and used one each day. The timer alone is not that important because babies don't go by the clock work anyway but what I found invaluable was writing down and recording everything. It's like a report that I can easily understand, how many feeds, how many cycles, how long each cycle etc if anyone was looking after the babies, they also have to note down everything..what time they woke up, what time they went down ...a bit like what they do in the hospital. I even recorded how many soil nappies each day..I guess info that I thought I would need at the doctor check ups.

I stopped at about 10 weeks when their routines were more consistent.

Hmm I thought I responded to this thread earlier? Lol, anyway.

I had one of these with DD#2. I found it really useful, I actually had a need for it which is why I decided to buy it. I had a hard time with DD#1 keeping track of what happened when, and while I wasn't keeping her on a schedule, I still wanted to know what her schedule was, and I found it hard to remember.

I saw the Itzbeen while looking for something else online, knew I'd find it useful and I did. Like I said before, it wasn't so I could keep DD#2 on a timetable, it was just so I could keep track of hers. It was handy being able to just glance at it and know what was going on, instead of trying to remember or find a piece of paper I had written it on. I was so delirious from sleep deprivation (and the pain killers they put me on!) after both girls births, I needed all the help I could get lol.

I think for twins they would be quite handy, I think they come in different colours now, so as long as you either label them or get different coloured ones, you'll know who's is whos.

I've also found them useful past the point when I needed the timers, a quick distraction during nappy changes, or DD#1 using it as a torch/nightlight. Lol I actually was using the light to read books under my covers when DD#2 was still in our room and I couldn't read with the lamp on.

Best of luck with everything, I hope it all goes well!