http://preemietwins.com Resource for Caregivers of Multiples and/or Premature Infants! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://preemietwins.com/my-premmie-twins/ http://preemietwins.com/my-premmie-twins/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:43:59 +0000 mommyofanangel http://preemietwins.com/?p=283 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.

]]> http://preemietwins.com/my-premmie-twins/feed/ 6 http://preemietwins.com/momo-girls/ http://preemietwins.com/momo-girls/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:41:30 +0000 amyneil http://preemietwins.com/?p=281 I have 10 weeks old identical twin girls.  They were born at 31 weeks and 2 days.  We went through IVF, one egg took and then split.  It split late, both girls were in the same amniotic sac – Monoamniotic Monochorionic.  We were originally told that they cold be conjoined, but thankfully they were not.  I was admitted to the hospital at 26 weeks.  I was scheduled for a c section at 34 weeks, but my water broke early.  The girls were 3lbs each when they were born. They spent 3 1/2 weeks in the NICU gaining weight and learning to take a bottle.  One was on a nasal canula for a few days; the other required no breathing help.  Both had episodes of Bradycardias – very scary.  They are both 6lbs 3oz and 18 inches long – as of their pediatrician appointment last week.

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