I can remember the day that my wife did a pregnancy test so clearly. It’s like it was yesterday! Those two little pink lines appeared in a split second and my first thought was of twins! I don’t know why I thought it was twins, but it turns out I was right! Panic set in…
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My Premature Twins: World Prematurity Day
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know I’m a father of five children and there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t feel lucky and blessed to have five healthy children. Of my five children, two of them are five year old twins who were born premature. They were six weeks early. When…
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Special care revisited
Read moreI have never really been in hospitals that much. That was until R&M were born. I had to deal with my wife having a cesarean and any possible complications and on top of that our girls were coming into the world early. We knew they would be whisked off to special care straight away. The…
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Our first night at home with the twins
Read moreFollowing on from my last post, we arrived home at around 3:30pm. We were anxious, nervous and full of trepidation. We were fully equipped with girls medication and prescription milk. This was going to be a big learning curve! Twins! There were no doctors or nurses around anymore. It was just us. 24/7! I can remember sitting…
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The last seven days in special care
Read moreFollowing on from my last post… The routine in a special care unit is rigid, you have to experience it first hand in order to fully understand where I’m going with with this, but having been a rebel most of my life, I had difficulty understanding all the rules or in fact, wanting to stick…
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The girls are moved to a nursery ward
Read moreFollowing on from my last post our girls had been moved to a nursery ward. This meant nursery nurses would take over looking after them now. I have to be honest the nursey nurse, all of which were women were an interesting set of nurses. I felt as though they treated us parents as we were…
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Our journey continues at our local hospital
Read moreThis is a follow up from my last post which you can read here. So here we are. Our second day at our local hospital. My wife and I arrived at about 8 o’clock in the morning. We went straight to see our girls. We knew that they’d had an uneventful night because my wife…
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The first day at our local hospital
Read moreFollowing on from my last post, we arrived at our local hospital. When we arrived we were shocked at the size of the neo-natal unit. It’s a big hospital anyway, but when the reality of being there sunk in my wife and I felt emotionally battered. We were had two very tiny babies. One of which…
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Our time at the first hospital comes to an end
Read moreFollowing on from my last post, my wife and I felt much more settled. Knowing where we would be sleeping every night made a huge difference. As did being close to our girls. We could be with them 24/7. It was very comforting. The hospital arranged for my wife to have free food in the cafeteria…
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Special Care: The next few days
Read moreThis is a follow up to my last parenting post, which you can read here. So, after a very uncomfortable nights sleep in a chair – which didn’t really matter when you consider the grand scale of things. I mean along as I was close to my wife and our girls that’s all that mattered.…
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My first few hours in a special care unit
Read moreSo the girls have been moved to the neo-natal unit. Before I continue let me just tell you now that nothing could have prepared me for what was going happen next. R was born first weighing 4lb and 3oz. Two minutes later, M arrived weighing 2lb and 11oz’s. I felt lost and helpless. The responsibility…
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