The Dad Stories - Week One

To make this post more enjoyable and easy-to-read I will just use bullet points with random thoughts of the last week. Ready! Set! GO!

Hospital

• First night with the babies was brutal! Hospital wasn't very helpful after they were born. I will say some of the nurses were good but some of them were not. Katherine slept all night even when Layla would cry right in her ear. 
• I ate a bacon cheese burger from the cafeteria at about 2am. The burger was good!
• Katherine finally woke up in the morning heaving, which worried us greatly. It turned out that she had swallowed some of the fluid therefore she was a full happy baby.
  
• Layla on the other hand was a hungry little girl. She would eat for about 15 minutes and as soon as I laid down she would start crying. This continued through the night.
• The wife was very tired and started to cry a few times during the night. I told her to go to sleep and I would take care of the girls. I should have said take care of THE girl. Layla was not a happy kiddo.
• Another thing about hospitals after baby delivery. They will check on your babies constantly and your wife as well. That is what they need to do and it is great. However, when you have twins those moments when they come in to check them seem to be to only ones you have to take a nap.
• Slept about two-hours and forgot to eat breakfast and lunch. I had dinner at 5pm. 
• Seeing your wife on two percocet pills and realizing this is as high as she will ever get was interesting!
• Family and friends started to make their faces seen. We really like the visitors a lot! 
• Big frustration is when you are trying to breastfeed babies. You have to teach them everything! Katherine didn't know how to eat so I had to teach her with something like called Supplemental Nursing System the one we used wasn't that fancy but it was still brutal to use. 
• Wondering what the SNS is? Picture a small syringe tied to a itsy bitsy tube that looks like a straw going right next to your wife's nipple and trying to attach a small little baby on the breast while making sure the straw stays put! It takes a lot I repeat A LOT OF PATIENCE! 
• The sad thing about all that is that we had to use formula, which we didn't want to do but since my wife's milk had not come in. Ladies thinking of breastfeeding it is a great thing to do but the early stages of it are very difficult.
• Seeing nurses grab my wife's boobs was different but you get used to it.
• Being in the same room with my wife's boobs hanging out and my mother-in-law in the same room is...weird!
• If you have family and friends like ours when you get to the last day of being in the hospital and your body is on the verge of collapsing please thank them a lot! I almost puked and had the biggest headache in my life on the last day. I guess not eating but two times and sleeping very little will do that to you.
• When asked if I was okay to drive home I said NO!
• Losing the camera that has your babies' first pictures and videos....REALLY BLOWS!

At Home

• Home Sweet Home = No More Interruptions when trying to take a nap!
• Friends/Family helping unpack and get situated are the best.
• Friends/Family that bring food over are the best.
• Having your little family finally home is the greatest thing in the world!
• Going to the pediatrician three days after the babies' are born and learning that you have been starving the kids because they lost more weight than they should of makes you feel like crap!
• Hustling to the store to buy formula to supplement your kids so that they can get strong enough to breastfeed is something I never thought I would have to do.
• Realizing that these little babies' life depend on you is scary, amazing, incredible and super cool!
• When paying bills and you sit both babies in their bouncers while you pay bills and then you smell poop, priceless!
• Seeing your wife pump with her Medela Pump 'N Style and then pretending she was someone in the Austin Powers movie was pretty funny...even if it was at 3 in the morning!
• Going down on all fours to smell which baby pooped and figuring it out was different but cool.(It was Layla she was awake and just looking around)
• Feeling warm pee after you changed your daughter is something most dads of girls probably go through.
• Taking a gazillion pictures of your daughters takes time but they are worth it.
• Going back to the pediatrician and learning that your girls gained weight after a couple of days makes you feel good.
• Forgetting the diaper bag in the car at the pediatrician's office and learning of your mistake when they tell you to undress the girls (diaper included) and you realize that you have no diapers. Good thing the girls didn't pee or poo while the nurse gave me a gianourmous diaper to put on my babies.
• Waking up every two hours at night to help your wife "latch" your babies to her milk machines is awesome until you realize that if you squeeze like you used to you will get squirted!
• When you realize that you are cooking bottles, bottle nipples, breast pump instruments and other feeding utensils in the middle of the night and think to yourself....a new chapter has begun!
• Seeing the first smile of your daughter for a split second makes you melt.
• Realizing that these girls will grow up and you will have to fight their boyfriends makes you want to just not let them grow up.
• Sleeping for four hours and feeling like a million bucks! 
• Realizing that you will have to go back to work soon....well good and bad. Good you get to work to provide for your new family, bad you will not see them but a few hours at night.

That is all for now I will write more during this week!

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