Imagine suffering through 10 years of infertility before getting pregnant only to wake up with cramps and end up miscarrying at
13.5 weeks...
Imagine waking up one Sunday morning just four days shy of your third trimester with cramps exactly like the ones when you
miscarried just 8 months before, praying it was constipation but knowing in your heart it wasn't...
Imagine trying to go to bathroom before going to the ER, because you are still hoping it's just constipation, when you notice that
the bags of membranes is protruding out...
Imagine that the OB on call doesn't think that they can hold off delivery for more than a couple hours and wants to go ahead
with the c-section right then so he wouldn't be bothered in the night...
Imagine that the neonatologist on call convinces the OB that every hour that your babies remain in utero increases their chance
for survival and they manage to hold off delivery for 28 hours...
Imagine working really hard to wiggle your toes and move your legs to 'help' the epideral wear off so that you can go and meet
your children...
Imagine not being allowed into the NICU because your temperature is 100.1 from the mag and having to sit outside the viewing
window bawling while your babies are being baptized...
Imagine that the Polaroid snapshots of your babies that your husband brought to you in recovery did nothing to prepare you for
how really tiny your 26.5 weekers were...
Imagine having to have your own intensive care ward at home to have your family all together again.
Imagine at two years, despite the odds, your preemie twins are running around, talking, and fighting just like any other normal
toddlers.
Angie, mom to Joey (1 lb 13 oz) and Jake (2 lb 1.5oz) 26.5 weekers b. 3-10-97
The StinkerTwins' Homepage
Now Really into the Terrible twos!!
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