Preemie Twins

Necrotizing Enterocolitis Study

If you read our NICU story, you know that both of my twin daughters were diagnosed with Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) where the bowel become infected and dies.  Macy had seventeen inches of her small intestines removed and a temporary colostomy.  Mallory only had a few centimeters removed and was fortunate not to have to have […]

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Holy Octuplets!

A decade and a half ago, I gave birth to two girls (yesterday was my twins’ Macy & Mallory’s 15th birthday).  Can you imagine giving birth to two girls PLUS six boys?! Yesterday, a woman California gave birth via C-Section to octuplets nine weeks premature. The medical team had prepared to deliver seven babies, but doctors were surprised when an

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My premature babies

I have had two premature pregnancies, my first not ending happily. I had my daughter on Feb 1, 1997, when I was 20 gestational weeks pregnant and she weighed 1 pound and was 12 inches long. I had started to bleed and went to emergency, a doctor checked me out and said that I was

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