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10. How Wrong Can Things Go?

I walked into the doctor’s office with, as usual, both babies tied to the front of me. I had lost all of my pregnancy weight and was starting to go down from there. Worse, my pre-pregnancy bras fit. The three-day-a-week routine of two hours of traveling on the subway and into the […]

9. Homeward Bound

The next few days were a blur of running through the sterile hallways between one baby and the other, pleading with the nurses to not give the twins formula or water, and trying to find the time to get sleep and food to create enough milk for my two hungry babies. Lars was recovering […]

8. Compassion

Decisions made, MW stumbled home to get his first sleep in twenty-four hours. I settled down to get to know my daughter’s smell, her fingers and her toes. Realizing she had also just had a rough 24 hours, I settled her into her crib and settled down to get caught up on my […]

7. Life or Death

A whirlwind of activity followed the birth. Rebecca and Lars were born with their names picked out. MW, Becky and I were settled into a room on the maternity ward and Becky and I began our first experience at breast feeding together. She had beautiful blue eyes and blond fuzz covering her […]

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