The Twins 1st Week of Daycare

...and my wife's first week back to work is over! The twins are now 3 months old and my wife's maternity leave is over. I think she is pretty happy to be back to work. Our biggest concern was getting them to take a bottle at daycare. My wife has been very successful breast feeding the twins. Which is no easy accomplishment, believe me. Twins must be feed at the same time otherwise there is zero chance of parents getting any sleep, at all, ever! Picture that in your head! My wife and I get asked all the time how she does it. I'll post a review of the gadget that allows double breast feeding soon.

The girls took to the bottle on their Thursday, their second day of daycare. We were really stressed about that. Meghan, did not like the bottle when we tried to prepare them for daycare. Believe me, saying that Meghan didn't like the bottle is being gentle. She would scream if she saw a bottle on a counter or table. She would scream if my wife or I said the word "bottle" while holding her. Reilly, we call stone face, because most of the time she has the same some what angry somewhat apathetice look on her face, would take a bottle begrudgingly until she heard Meghan!

The daycare center, the pediatrician, and my mother all said that it could take both girls a while before they will take to the bottle. By "a while" our pediatrician clarified by saying weeks. This caused my wife to almost pass out!

My wife took the twins and our two year old daughter Sophia daycare this week. This, however, will not be the norm. This was so that she could breast feed them when they are dropped off and picked up.

Starting next week I get the put on my bus driver hat! I have been taking Sophia to daycare her entire life so I'm used the the process. However, I don't know how I am going to get myself ready, all three of them ready, out to the care, and dropped off by myself. My wife has been home, on maternity leave, with the twins three days a week and with the twins and Sophia two days a week. She has managed to get herself, and the girls all up and out the door in a hour and a half!

If I can get the same done in two hours on Tuesday I will be so lucky! I'm going to pick my wife's brain this weekend to figure out how she did it.

During that time she has made it a point to get out of the house every day.