Today is World Prematurity Day, a day meant to raise awareness about premature birth and infant death. The statistics are staggering; 15 million babies are born premature every year and one baby dies every thirty seconds from being born too soon. Every thirty seconds. By the time we get our Starbucks, something like 6 babies […]
Many of you have followed our story for some time; you’ve read about our pregnancy, emergency c-section, NICU time, and life at home. But, if you don’t know how it all started, how our journey began, my latest post for Twiniversity covers every week of my pregnancy and explains just exactly what MoMos are. http://twiniversity.com/2014/11/two-babies-one-sac-my-mono-mono-twin-pregnancy/
Ten months and the countdown to their first birthdays is officially on. Sigh. What a year it’s been and it is flying by at incredible speeds. At their last appointment, Raegan weighed 16 pounds and Ella 16 and a half pounds, though they feel so different in terms of weight. I swear Ella keeps that […]
Today is Jason’s birthday, and last year on his birthday we found out we were having girls. It’s pretty hard to top that surprise, but since he was off, I still wanted it to be special. We headed to lunch with the girls then over to a baby friendly movie. Considering we had two babies […]
Sometimes I feel bad for the girls being simultaneously the second and third child. When I was pregnant with Buds, I kept a scrapbook with all the special things I did when I was pregnant and kept it going after he was born; creating scrapbook pages for each month, keeping track of every new experience. […]
After the girls were first born, whenever we asked Braeden the names of his sisters he was always quick to yell Ella! but often needed help remembering Raegan’s name. At first, I thought it was because her name is a little harder to say, but since it’s so similar to his, I wondered if it […]
On Sunday, Jas and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. The biggest surprise of the day, I think, was how fast it came. Of course, the year didn’t really speed up like in some science fiction movie, but it sure feels that way. I can honestly say that most couples do not go through what […]
Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada. Since I lived in America for so long, I used to celebrate both Thanksgivings, and both had different feelings for me. Canadian Thanksgiving always reminded me of home and family, and mmm sweet potato mash. American Thanksgiving was always the beginning of the holidays and I still put […]
The other day, I was chatting with another mum about the girls. I shared a little of our story and she asked how long the girls had spent in the NICU. I responded, “80 days.” She laughed, “Not that you were counting!” I did not laugh or return her smirk because, of course I counted […]
Well, nine months. Nine whole months of having two sweet baby girls as part of our family. I can’t believe that so soon it will be their first Christmas and then first birthdays! Of course, the girls are about six and a half months corrected, but I have to say, they’re doing phenomenally. Raegan is […]
Adventures With Multiples 