Guest Story: My Premmie Twins
Posted by mommyofanangel on August 18, 2009
I found out I was having twins when I was 5 months along. From then on out I had to go to 2 different doctors at 2 different hospitals. On February 27th of 2009 I went to Fletcher Allen hospital in Burlington Vermont for a routine ultrasound. They didn’t like what they saw so they admitted me. They gave me a shot to help develop the boys lungs. Four long hours later my twin boys came at just 31 weeks. I was scared to death, I had no idea. Brandon was twin A and weighed 3lbs 5 oz and was 16 inches long. Jayden twin B was 2lbs 10 oz and 14 inches long. They rushed them down the hall to the NICU. It was a very long night and the next day we found out that it wasn’t Jayden the smaller of the 2 who had problems but Brandon. He struggled through the day and at a awful 2:30 in the morning of March 1st of 2009 our precious baby died. It was horrible. The most horrible thing I have done this far in my life. Our son Jayden is now 6 months old and doing great and doesn’t have any health issues except being a few pounds smaller than other 6 month olds.
virginia said,
I Feel so sad to read about this i just condole you on that but having a Twin is a big thing its just a wonderful experience one can have.I am also a Twin in my family we are two brothers both are healthy i had some complications at birth but now i
am fine living a blessed life.My Mother had much pain in bringing up twin babies simultaneously but what a woman she is . I just praise my mom for taking care us so well.
Alexandra said,
I am a twin ,and was born at 4 months 3 weeks and two days and our lungs were very weak. we were born march 5 89. I was baby A and weighed 570 grams. I was in the NICU for 4 months after and had over 8 nersues. my brother benjamin R.I.P twin b died a day later bc the resperater blew a hole in his lungs. i miss him drearly and dont have a picture of him. I now am 20 and have a healthy wounderful life. I am sad for your lost… thoughts for you…as i tell myself each day…what a wounderful blessed day it will be when we finally DO meet. As for you and yours~
margie said,
im sorry for the lost of your twin i to have lost one twin boy(b) Lorcan was his name and im still in NICU with the other one (boy). I have been here for a month now and i stll have the chance of lossing him. I am scared.
Louise said,
My twin girls were born at 25 1/2 weeks, the doctors were sure that they would not last the night. Martha was born first weighing just 500 grams and Maria next at 630 grams. When I saw how small they both were I was also sure that they would not be able to survive, they proved the doctors wrong though. Again being the smaller of the two I thought Martha would be the one more at risk but I was wrong. Maria lasted 40 days and died friday night 2 September, she had caught some kind of infection and was just to weak to fight it any longer. Martha is still fighting, she had one operation to close a valve to help her breath but is still on the ventilator. It is almost 9 weeks now, she is still very small only 720 grams and the doctors still dont have good news. It was the hardest thing to bury my baby but I am finding it even harder waiting and not knowing how Martha will do. You dont want them to suffer but I just hope she wants to stay in this world and fights. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the babies in the incubators and I hope these families never have to get that phone call.
Robyn said,
I am so sorry that you lost your baby. It breaks my heart! It hurts even worst that this could have been my baby. My water broke at 4 mths pregnant. We held off labor somehow until my little boy, Mason was born at 30 weeks. He weighed 3.2 lbs. His biggest health issues were that he had no water to develope his lungs. He was born with chronic lung disease, and small lungs. The doctor wasnt working on him immediatly after his birth, they said he couldnt make it and they didnt even want to try. I got upset so they started working on him. I was told it would do no good and he would never breath on his own. He fooled them all!! He developed NEC at 2 months old, and had to be rescusitated once but right afterward he pulled his own breathing tube out and was breathing just fine. It didnt go back in and he came home the week of his due date. He was almost 3 months old. He is 8 lbs now and is a very happy and beautiful baby. I just know that your other lil one is going to make it. That baby must be a fighter the same as mine. I will pray for you and Martha. It doesnt take as long as it seems when she comes home. I thought it would take forever. But it wasnt, and he is home with us.
Louise said,
Thank you Robyn for your kind words. Unfortunately Martha did not make it, she passed away on 02/11/09, exactly a month after Maria. She was 72 days old. We had been worried all along about her lungs but in the end her heart gave out, but at least they are together now. It did’nt seem right to have one without the other. My husband and I have decided to leave it a year and try the IVF treatment again, right now I need time to remember my little girls.
I am so glad that your little boy is now doing so well. We were fortunate that we had such good doctors and nurses around us, they tried their best from the start but in the end it is sometimes out of their hands. I am glad little Mason proved your doctors wrong though.
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