Boys, you are on the move!
It’s Labor Day weekend and you have been busy. Saturday brought three face plants for you, Finn, as you took a few attempts at crawling. Luca, you had something between an army crawl and a tripod crawl with one knee-to-leg extension to scoot you down the hall. This has been [...]
A New York Times op-ed this weekend, “How to Lick a Slug”, serves as inspiration and motivation that the little steps I’m taking to get our twins outside early, is building a habit for myself and our family to always seek rejuvenation and wonder from the natural world.
Living in northern Nevada, we’re fond of citing [...]
A friend of ours was struck with preeclampsia earlier this week. The doctors were able to get her blood pressure down with magnesium sulfate (which I had after delivery for preeclampsia, as well) which bought them enough time to get her two steroid shots to boost the surfactant in her baby girl’s lungs. Her little [...]
One of the unexpected joys of parenthood is the sentimental understanding of our family’s place in our genealogical tree. Hearing stories, reading letters, and understanding our early experiences in parenting our preemie twins in the larger context is a wonderful discovery.
Below is a letter my grandfather penned wishing me a speedy recovery from hernia surgery [...]
Wednesday night’s homecoming for our first preemie twin went off without a hitch. With planning reminiscent of the invasion of Normandy, a major consideration was how best to introduce our Aussie Heeler dog to her new housemate.
The introduction started the day our twins boys were born. Returning home from the hospital, I brought the two [...]
One of our doctors in the NICU is someone we particularly enjoy. Brilliant (as they all are in our group of neonatologists,) slightly mercurial, and always ready with a folksy story to impart some nugget of wisdom about parenting.
Over the past four weeks in the NICU, it’s been fascinating watching our relationship with this hospital unit change. Soon after the birth of our twin boys (9 weeks early, planned c-section), I was walking briskly down the hall following a parade of respiratory therapists, a neonatal doctor, nurses and isolettes (with boys inside) to the inner sanctum of our local hopital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU.) The education of this place’s strange customs began immediately- stopped from instinctively following my boys, I was kindly given a lesson in “scrubbing up”- cracking open an iodine brush pack, rolling up my sleeves at the sink, and then scrubbing vigorously for 2 minutes to sanitize myself as much as possible.
Soon after our identical twin boys were born, the enormity of their plight in the NICU as preemies hit me with full force. After one particular evening vigil with the boys, I was up late processing the fact that: 1) my wife and I had two little adorable babies that we loved intensely, and 2) they were in the hospital NICU with tubes and wires attached to them- leaving us feeling completely helpless.
While Lisa sits next to met sending an email to our parents with the daily update on our two little ones, I’m pounding out this, the first post of our new project: Growing Twins, a blog by two new parents of twin boys. The dichotomy of our two writings couldn’t be sweeter.
You Know You Are a Mom of Twins When…
Posted on April 30th, 2010
Snow Day
Posted on December 7th, 2009
A Weekend of Face Plants
Posted on September 6th, 2009
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the NICU
Posted on August 26th, 2009
Get Your Twins Outdoors!
Posted on August 3rd, 2009
Happy 6M Birthday!
Posted on May 29th, 2009
4 Months, Give or Take a Week
Posted on April 13th, 2009
Feeling Like a Mama
Posted on February 8th, 2009
Twin Dreams
Posted on January 20th, 2009
The Cycle Continues: a Letter from Grandpa
Posted on January 18th, 2009
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