They get lucky with Libby, to be honest.
Despite neither of them having a clue what to do with a kid, they have plenty of friends and pack practically fighting each other to help.
(Okay, so Julia fights to get out of it, but she's practically an expert at raising Greybacks whether she wants to be or not, so more often then not she's there helping.)
It's also probably completely unbelievable, but Libby was a good baby. She mostly laughed and smiled, and even her worst cries could be easily swayed away with a good cuddle from her mother or tickle.
(This state would last only until she was three, as Julia called it like an old timey soothesayer, calling her terror-baby-in-the-making. Never for once trusting the docile nature of the babe.)
Orion's arrival is just as unexpected, so quick on his sister's heels but they take it in stride. At least now they know what they are doing, and best of all they are so close in age that it's easy enough to simply ease Orion into their world. Sure, Libby is started to teeth like a shark and Orion doesn't seem to cry as so much howl...
but all in all they've got this.
-that's what they keep thinking even when Grace gets knocked up with baby number three.
Which awkwardly turns into baby three and four.
Well. They're not like Libby and Orion.
For one, they are born Alpha which practically gives Erik a heart attack, and sadly means the pack members are not able to help as much (the pull of two new alphas, even as infants is not something Erik wants to test) and that also means no Julia, no Gloria or even the Delacroix's.
(Julia laughs loudly until Erik smugly reminds her that currently she is carrying another branch of the Greyback line all by herself, and who knows, maybe twins run in the family. Alex too is furthering his line, first with two sons and another on the way. Between the growing family and the growing career, Erik honestly doesn't know how he does it.)
Erika and Nikola are without a doubt, the worst babies ever.
-he loves them so much, don't get him wrong, he does.
But they are sooooo the worst. They are collic-y, angry and some how spiteful?
There are many nights when they run both Grace and Erik ragged. Werewolf or not, the body needs sleep and before the twins are one neither of them get much. There's more than one episode of teething (because of course both girls start teething at the same time) that ends up in tears (and not the kids) or one of them passed out on the floor of the nursery.
(Alex suggests a nanny -because that's what they sometimes do, but both Erik and Grace flinch at the mere idea of a stranger being anywhere near their children.)
They manage not to have any more kids for actual years instead of months and it's all because of the trauma of that.
(-and also that their bed now gets hijacked by all four children. Libby will crawl in to snuggle against Erik's side, Orion on Grace and the twins will escape their cribs to worm their way in between both.)
So poor unimpressed Liam gets a very heavy handed parenting of harden veterans. It's probably why he rebels so much.
Gracie gets pretty much the same deal, but learns early on that the best way to get her space is to bite at the hands that feed her. Both are so quiet and self-reliant that Erik and Grace step back and relax.
Which is a mistake that allows Cora to run wild.
It's poor Val, their youngest son that gets the oddest amount of affection. Despite their growing pack, and his siblings being some more than decade older than him, he's cherished and coddled like none of the others. (no one can explain it, since it's clear at this point Grace and Erik are baby making machines, but there's something soft and gentle about Val that's so completely odd in their family that makes them treat him like he's made of glass.)
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