Pete and Chasten Buttigieg Are New Parents

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Pete and Chasten Buttigieg Are New Parents

https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/04/pete-and-chasten-buttigieg-are-new-parents/

September 4, 2021 at 1:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 70 Comments

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, announced that they had welcomed two new babies to their family.

It is unclear whether the transportation secretary will take paternity leave.

Link to tweet

[CTyankee]

1. How wonderful! Any info on the babies, i.e. girls/boys and how old?

They are going to have their hands full! Heartfelt wishes and love beamed your way, Pete and Chasten!

[applegrove]

2. There was a photo of the 4 of them on Facebook. A girl and a boy.

[madaboutharry]

3. Newborns.

The photo of them was obviously taken in a hospital.

[CTyankee]

4. I'm so happy for them!

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Oh...they need a babysitter.

As luck would have it, I just became available.

I love newborns. Call me, dads!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. This is wonderful news! Congrats to Sec'y Buttigieg and Chasten! ♥

They are fraternal twins, which means two eggs got fertilized at the same time, resulting in two babies.

Pete and Chasten will have their hands full!

[hunter]

6. My most significant memory as a new parent was that I didn't sleep much.

My wife and I were able to arrange our work schedules so that one of us was always home. That was okay when we had one kid.

With two children they decided to take shifts sleeping so one of them was always awake and expecting the full attention of the parent at home.

Honestly, I don't remember much of that time. I do remember falling asleep on the living room floor after an especially hard night, graveyard shift, and my older kid opening my eyelids demanding I wake up.

My brother and his wife had twins and scheduled their work in a similar way.

I think those times are a black hole in their memories. They didn't reemerge into something approaching normality until the twins were in the first grade and stopped tag teaming them.

[applegrove]

8. My parents had 4 in three years. Thankfully my parents had help. Dad was

a riot. Both my parents worked. They kept us busy outside playing. Even in winter. And to bed early.

[hunter]

11. Me and my siblings were semi-feral children.

There were more of us than my pacifist parents could comfortably support, however much they were praised in church for their fertility.

They didn't have help.

What's worse, or maybe the best, they are artists.

When I was a young teen we moved to Franco's Spain. It didn't work out.

My dad couldn't sleep one night, after my mom had mouthed off to one of Franco's men, so we packed up everything and left for France in the middle of the night.

We were living as indigent Americans in a French public park, which disturbed the local people immensely, so they bought us ferry tickets to England.

When we returned to the U.S.A. I was dropped into U.S.A high school hell.

Quitting high school was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.

I'm not sure how much my parents supported me in that decision. They may have simply been worn out.

Curiously, me and a sister who quit high school, are the ones with the university degrees. I'm not claiming we are the most successful.

[applegrove]

12. Sometimes when your parents are too much the same it makes for a free childhood.

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Mine were both shy people devoted to us. My mom took Augusts off so we could run wild in the woods if Quebec. We were very lucky. We kids are very different people and yet very much the same. On the days mom did not work she would get us into our snowsuits, my twin brother and I, and send us outside for 1/2 an hour to an hour on the coldest Ottawa days in winter. I remember being let outside on one of these days when we were 4 and standing on the stoop like peguins waiting to be let back in. It did not occur to us on that day that moving around would keep us warm. Another time i was licking the snow off an iron metal railing to the stoop and getting my tongue really stuck. Like really stuck. My mom the doctor boiled some water and poured it on the railing about 3 feet from me and my tongue got lose. It is great being a twin. Buttigieg is blessed.

[2naSalit]

10. That's why you have to take pictures!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Did they have a surrogate mom or is this regular adoption?

If the former, anyone know which is the genetic-material supplier?

Congrats in any case, love me some Sec. Pete

[hunter]

13. So, which baby will grow up to be President of the United States?

That too could be a twofer.

[applegrove]

14. Buttigieg dynasty. That would be the best. If Pete can familiarize himself

with African American issues, and infrastructure often runs right through AA communities, he will make a stellar candidate.