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The first day was easy. Well, as easy as it could have been with newborn twin girls. It really had been one heck of a week for the new dads, so that first day was used for resting and convincing Charlie that yes, those are your babies, you can pick them up all you want, while Grizz and Ice Bear (mostly Ice Bear) took a lot of initiative in making sure the babies were well taken care of while also making sure Panda and Charlie had a hand in looking after their daughters.
Panda didn’t know when this supposed “dad-strength” was supposed to kick in. It had happened for Charlie pretty quickly after the snake babies hatched, but that seemed to only happen once they were in danger. Panda didn’t even want to think about either of his babies being out of his sight let alone in danger, so he was content in never acquiring dad-strength mode if that’s what it costs.
Not much “resting” occurred on the first day. The new fathers felt so unbelievably tired, but… How would anyone expect them to sleep on the knowledge that those two beautiful baby girls that slept (haha) so close by were theirs? 100%, undoubtedly, fully theirs?
...Also, the wailing didn’t help.
Yes, but it was Ice Bear who scolded Panda and Charlie for not taking the time to rest. Grizz tried to, but it was hard to take him seriously, especially with two armfuls of baby. Panda stuck his tongue out at Grizz, who had taken to joking that those babies deserved to meet their uncles at least once in their lives. Panda responded by demanding that they get to know their dads first.
The twins were identical, so it was of utmost importance that the first thing they did was differentiate them as soon as possible.
Luna came first-- born with a dark patch over her left eye. She took to being an older sister quite fast, as she had proven to be the quieter of the two. Charlie dressed her with a simple purple onesie-- Panda’s idea.
Momo was second-- born with a dark patch over her right eye. She was slipped into her own tiny pink onesie not long after Luna, though she gave her parents twice the fight over it.
The first day ended too soon. Charlie took the first shift, letting Panda sleep for a few hours while holding the twins close as to allow Charlie to keep an eye on his little family so Panda could rest easy knowing if there were to be a problem, Charlie would be up and ready to fix it. They would alternate this throughout the night, taking time every few hours to bottle feed the babies. It wasn’t ideal, but it worked for the time being.
It still hadn’t fully clicked yet, that they were parents now. Even though they’d been preparing for months, it still felt incredibly new and weird that there were two tiny, fluffy baby girls who were totally and entirely dependent on Panda and Charlie, both a perfect mix of the two. That being said, neither of them could imagine a better version of forever.