Today we continue our father of twins interview series with Robert Wheatley, father of twin girls. Listen as we explore his twin parenting journey, including:
- Becoming a stay-at-home dad to twins
- When Mom's blood type caused a serious pregnancy complication
- Mom worked 4 months into pregnancy and then had to stop due to doctors orders
- Wife had itchy hands and feet late in pregnancy due to Cholestasis
- 32 weeks delivery of twins after pre-term labor
- Local hospital couldn't handle twins so had to go to big city 1.5hours away
- Had to wait 36 hours for c-section after Mom's water broke
- Bubble CPAP in NICU 2 weeks for 1 and one week for the other
- One twin coming home before the other
- Moved back to parents house after birth
- Keeping twins in same room as parents
- Why bottle feeding worked for them
- Surprises of being a stay at home dad
- Potty training the twins at 3
- Typical day-in-the-life schedule of 4 year olds
- Making one-on-one time with each twin
- Expressing individuality, becoming different people
- Raising one introverted and one extroverted twin