When the NICU is Far from Home with Steve Idlett- Podcast 306
Episode 306 of the Dad’s Guide to Twins Podcast Show Notes Today we continue our father of twins interview series with Steve Idlett, father of twin boys. Listen as we explore his twin parenting journey, including: being a stay at home dad with their first child when the hospital is far from home the twins were 6 weeks early dealing with 3 weeks in the NICU using a camper to stay close to hospital daily routine for 8 month old twins putting kids in day care creating a family that loves music raising a toddler and infant twins what is working with feeding the twins when one twin wakes up before the other and more… Connect with Steve on Instagram , steveidlett.com , at the Teague Farmers Market , or Buffalo Trade Days . Podcast Transcript This is transcript auto-generated so please forgive any mistakes. Today we are continuing our Father of Twins interview series with a fellow dad from Texas as he shares his journey of raising three children ages three and younger, including eight-month-old twin boys. We talk about everything from the shock of discovery of learning they be having twins to how he keeps a positive perspective and attitude in parenting to help him through the ups and downs of every day. We talk about that much more today on the show. Welcome to the Dad’s Guide to Twins podcast, the podcast that’ll help you survive and thrive as a father of twins. Now, here’s your host, the author of the book, the Dad’s Guide to Twins, Joe Rawlinson. Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. This is Joe Rawlinson. I’m glad that you’re here today. As always, you can find me on the web at dadsguidetotwins.com, where you’ll find all previous podcast episodes and tons of other resources to help you along your twin parenting journey. And to help you along that journey, I’ve put together a ginormous list of baby gear that you will need for your twins. So rather than search all over the place, trying to find what you need, you can find this big list to add to your twin baby registry or to ask for as gifts from your friends and family or maybe just double check your preparations as you prepare for and raise your twins. You can find this entire list by just going to my website, dadsguidetowins.com and from the main menu click gear and it’ll give you all those things that I recommend from strollers to cribs, to baby gear and feeding equipment, to you name it, to help you along your journey. So once again, just go straight to the website, dadsguidetowins.com and click on the gear item in the menu and it’ll take you right there. Today I would like to welcome to the show, Father of Twins, Steve Islet. Welcome to the show, Steve. [Steve Idlett] Hey man, how’s it going? [Host: Joe Rawlinson] It’s going great. Thanks for coming on the show today. Tell me a little bit about your family. [Steve Idlett] We have a little girl who’s two and a half and we just had twin boys. And so it’s me and my wife and three kids right now, three kids under the three, as they say. [Host: Joe Rawlinson] How old are your boys right now? [Steve Idlett] They are eight months. [Host: Joe Rawlinson] And are they identical? Are they fraternal? [Steve Idlett] No, they’re fraternal. They look identical. I always tell everybody that they’re fraternal. And, uh, and one of them, he looks, me and him are identical twins, but his brother, but him and his brother, they’re fraternal twins, but a lot of people act as they can’t tell him apart, but, but you know, as the parent, you can really tell them apart pretty quick. [Host: Joe Rawlinson] Was that ever a challenge for you, even in the beginning? [Steve Idlett] Um, no, uh, not really. They were, they had a little bit of different weight , weights on them. So one of them kind of seemed chubbier cheeks and stuff in the other. So it’s it’s kind of easier to tell them apart, but, uh, you know, now sometimes now they’re both kind of filling out. If I’m looking at them kind of from the side or from a top down position every now and then I’ll