Haha still lurking here even though there's a Dads board now...

romeoliketheplay

But I really had no idea twins could drain you so much! And yet they're so small and perfect! We sometimes let them sleep with us at night, but we usually can't because I move WAY too much! This fatherhood of multiples thing is really, really awesome!

Tofumonkey

Congrats!

 I noticed the dads board too, (I'm a mum) and told my husband he should check it out. He said no way in hell, it will be full of women pretending to be men and being read by mostly rabid women waiting to jump on you and tell you how wrong you are. Like Craigslist.

 Bump bittches be crazy, dude (not the multiples board. But mostly because we MOM's don't have time to unleash our crazy on the Internet like bored singleton patents, Mwah ha ha ha ha), and I can't wait to see what the bumpies do with a dad's board.

Ive totally got popcorn in the wings.

 Oh, and I feel your bed pain. I'm in bed with my monkeys right now. DH took off to their bed at the first sign of trouble. Clever. 

Tofumonkey

Case in point, on the very first page of the board. My husband is a SAHD and I found kitty's post to be extremely offensive. Not funny, just offensive and childish. Wow.

LadyNikon

Tofumonkey - how does your hubby like being a SahD?  I told my husband if i get a good promotion I wanted him to say home.. he said sure!

Tofumonkey

Ladynikon:

Tofumonkey - how does your hubby like being a SahD?  I told my husband if i get a good promotion I wanted him to say home.. he said sure!

He likes it and is pretty good at it, but he doesn't go out much with them other than to run errands, shopping, etc. He doesn't go to playgroups or classes because he's the only dad there and he's uncomfortable, plus, well, twin toddlers. He went to one multiples group once but someone whipped off their top for a double breastfeed and he was so uncomfortable that he just left and never went back. 

I do wish he would get out more with the girls, they don't know what to do when they see other kids (I've described their zombie brains! brains! shuffle on here before) but he insists that our back garden has way better toys than the park anyway, and that they're hardly suffering.

We made the decision for him to stay at home because we're expats and move globally for my job, which maintains our visas in the countries that we work in. So I work, or we have to head back to Canada. We had a nanny, which was fine, but I prefer that he doesn't have to work and that the girls can be raised by their dad.

Daycare just isn't an option financially, time wise or anything. A good daycare in London is farking insanely expensive. A decent one is packed with kids and an affordable one is just not of the quality that we prefer, when we have the option for one of us to stay at home.