Overcoming Infertility and PTSD to Raising 3 Young Children with Casey McCurdy – Podcast 307
Episode 307 of the Dad’s Guide to Twins Podcast Show Notes Today we continue our father of twins interview series with Casey McCurdy, father of 7 year old boy/girl twins. Listen as we explore his twin parenting journey, including: Managing twins in first grade Separating twins at school and twins’ reaction Different friend groups Different activities for all 3 kids Deciding which parent will stay at home with kids Overcoming infertility and having twins via IVF donor eggs Mom had daytime morning sickness first two trimesters Being there with wife during pregnancy Delivered at 33.5 weeks after 60 hours of labor Being a veteran with mental struggles with PTSD, anxiety, depression Getting twins to breastfeed successfully NICU for three weeks and going home without your children Juggling work while kids in NICU Using FMLA and coworkers donated some time off Kids on oxygen after coming from NICU for about a month Having a third child after twins Challenges of three very young children Help twins feel uniquely celebrated on birthdays and more… Connect with Casey on Instagram or email . Podcast Transcript This is transcript auto-generated so please forgive any mistakes. Today we are continuing our father of twins interview series with a twin dad who shares his story about overcoming their challenges with infertility overcoming challenges with anxiety depression and PTSD that was kind of triggered again by the birth of the twins and managing young school-aged children and the crazy logistics that that requires we talk about that and so much more today on the show Today’s show is brought to you by my two books for Dads of Twins. You can get a special deal, save 20% on the combo of these two books, Dads Guide to Twins and Dads Guide to Raising Twins. If you go straight to my website and order there, dadsguidetotwins.com/books . You can save 20% off of list price for those books and you’ll get free shipping if you’re here in the United States. Today I would like to welcome to the show, Father Twins, Casey McCurdy. Welcome to the show, Casey. Thank you, Joe. How are you doing today? I’m great. I’m glad that you’re on the show today. Casey, how old are your twins right now and what’s something exciting about this age? So my boy-girl twins are seven and I would say something exciting about this age is just how much is going on, changes with them. They’re in first grade now. And so there’s a lot of school activities, a lot of friends that we’re making play dates with . It’s a very busy time of year for us, a busy season of life, but it’s totally different than when they were infants or toddlers. Now, are they in the same class at school or are they separate? They are not. They are actually in separate classes. One of the things that their school has done is put them in separate classes to kind of let them develop their own kind of school personalities. And it’s been wonderful with my son. He’s really kind of come into his own and had his own, developed his own voice and his own personality is really starting to show through. And your daughter’s same kind of thing or is a different reaction? She’s always been more of a source of nature and has always had no problem with sharing her own thoughts and sometimes she could talk over her brother. So it’s been really beneficial for them to be in separate classes and she’s really blossomed. She’s very social, made lots of friends. So it’s been cool to see the development for both of them. Is this their first year apart or like kindergarten or preschool where they separate as well? Preschool, they were together. And then kindergarten, that was the first time they were apart. And the way their classrooms work, they can actually go between classrooms for different activities. And so they still get to see each other. They see each other put lunch for recess throughout the day. And what’s entertaining is that the teachers always tell me they’ll walk by each other, say hi, and then go play with their own f