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I am very interested in sharing my story of my premature, low birth
weight babies. I am happy to say I am the mother of wonderfully
healthy and beautiful four-year old twins who have been amazing to
watch develop. I had a fantastic, problem free pregnancy and was
loving every minute of it. At a routine ultrasound at 30 weeks, I was
told my twins were not developing equally and would have to be
delivered immediately - I was not given any feedback as to what the
problem might be. I was induced within three days (of my ultrasound)
and delivered a 4lb. 3oz. boy and a 3lb. 8oz. girl. Very big for 10
weeks early. As it turned out, they were both developing very well,
were close in weight and did not need to be delivered so early. It
was a very truly, frustrating and scary time for us. Of course we ran
the gamut of incubation, tube feeding, long hospital stays, no sucking
reflex, breast pumping every two hours, one baby home while one
remained in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, living in a new city
with no family or friends close by, guilt for letting them be taken
from me needlessly, and lots more. But we were so lucky there were no
major health problems and I did learn a life-long lesson about being
an advocate for my children. This is just a small part of our story
and I would love to be able to help others by sharing it.
Thanks,
Michelle, St. Thomas, Ontario
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