I met the mother of these twin babies in a very unique and unfortunate, for me, way. I had just gone into the room where the freezer is to store breast milk, I had about 8 bottles of milk with me that needed to be stored. As I was putting them away I heard someone say, "Hi" and at that exact moment I dropped and spilled 4 bottles of breast milk!!!! 4 of them!!! Everywhere they went, all over the floor!! Uuuh I was so upset and she helped me cleaned it up and sympathized with me over how terrible it is to lose any of your milk. While we were cleaning up the mess she told me she had her twins in the NICU and they each had their own type of difficulties. They were due in May but were born a few months before that, she had been in the NICU for awhile by the time we met. We briefly gave our introductions and what our babies were in for but then had to leave to get to our little ones.
Later, I met her in the waiting room by the NICU and we had lunch together. Her story is insane!!! She was 35 when she got pregnant and was considered high risk. She had gone in to all her appointments and had, I believe one ultra sound. Her current doctor told her she was pregnant with one baby. She later went in for her 20 week ultra sound and the tech there had asked her some questions about if she had any ultra sounds before this, of course they said yes, so then he went on to ask her, "can you tell me what you see here?"
There were 2 heart beats! 2 babies! They said excitedly that they saw the two heart beats! And the tech said, that is right, you are having twins but the second one is not doing good at all. Tests and tests start to be ran and they were trying to keep the babies in there as long as possible but they were getting worse and she then had to have a csection 26 weeks.
By the time we had met, her one baby was doing pretty well and were waiting for her to gain weight. They guessed by the time it was their due date she would be able to go home. Her second baby had a lot of other issues going on with her stomach/digestive issues. She wasn't gaining weight and they were adding vegetable oil to her breast milk to try and help her to gain weight.
They had many ups and downs while they were in the NICU, but she was the most positive person in the whole NICU! She looked at everything in such a good light, she was just so blessed to have her babies. I loved talking to her, she always made me feel better, even while she is telling me about the struggles her second baby was having. By the time of their due date, her first twin was able to go home! That became a harder battle for them. Both the mom and dad had been very use to spending all their days in the NICU with both babies. But once the sister went home, they couldn't bring her back to visit her sister, she wasn't allowed in the NICU. They then had to try to split their time between taking care of their baby at home and their baby at the NICU.
We started to see them a lot less, but I can't even imagine how difficult that had to be for them. At least the baby at the NICU had nurses that watched her, but baby at home didn't have an extra set of hands helping out! It was not much longer after the sister went home that the next baby got to go home too! I remember the babies primary nurses were talking about how they were both gone now and she had to find new baby to become the primary nurse for. But they were happy all being home together doing well!
I have tried really hard to get in contact with them after we left, but haven't been able to accomplish this yet. I hope they are all doing well and haven't had to make many trips back to the hospital. They make such a perfect little family!
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