Neil buys breastmilk for his daughter
“When we found out it was fraternal twins, we were thrilled,” adds David. They used an anonymous egg donor and then the eggs were carried by a surrogate who had helped a same-sex couple previously. “We don’t know whose is whose, but it’s amazing how different they already are. She is all girl and he is all boy,” he explains to the magazine about the 2-month-olds.
Little Harper is quite the talker. “She’s more emotional and verbal,” reveals Neil. While Gideon is already becoming a guy’s guy. “He sleeps and burps a lot.”
Neil is exhausted — welcome to fatherhood!
The proud dads — Neil goes by “Papa” and David is “Daddy” — spent every night in the hospital with the babies after their birth. And they’re adjusting to the lack of sleep. “With twins, we can’t really take turns getting up,” says David, an actor/chef. “The sleep deprivation. You have to live in those spurts,” adds the How I Met Your Mother star, who credits their nanny with sleep-training the tots. “If she wasn’t here, we’d be calling the pediatrician every half hour,” he admits.
HollyMoms, do you have any sleep-training tips to share with these guys?
–Amy L. Harper
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