Ally & Abby are here. (Premature baby pic warning)

So small and precious! I remember using the green airway thingie on my sister and it was never that big!!!! They will be perfect!

Stacie

Awwwww!!! They're beautiful. Congratulations!!

Congratulations. My son was premature. I know what you are going thru. Hang in there. God Bless you guys!

The nasal aspirator in the pictures is a good reference for size. Bet you are tired/excited.

Congratulations!

Jake

Thought I'd add a size comparison, for those who don't realize how tiny these little ladies are. This bulb is about 1/2 inch (roughly 1cm) shorter and skinnier than the one sitting on top of Alysson. The Camera is an old SLR, a little bigger than my Rebel XT.

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Take that back, found the hospital ones I have,(I know time to get rid of some stuff, my baby's 18 months). The blue one is the SAME size, brown is bigger, green may be between or smaller than this...

wow those shots bring back some memories. Our daughter was born 9 weeks early at 2lbs 3oz. She was in neonatal intensive care for 6 weeks. Now she's 12 and you would never know she had such a tough start in life.

Our prayers are with the family and new babies. Glad to hear they are OK.

Kevin

one tip for the mom. Because they are so small, they usually will not let you hold them for more than a few seconds. They lose too much body heat and use all of the calories trying to warm back up. But one nurse told us (off the record)......if we were there while they were bathing her then we could hold her during that few minutes. The rules may have changed since then, but it's a nice tip to know

Kevin

My first two were really preemie, but not quite as small as yours, although my oldest child weight went down to 2lb 2oz.... he lost a lot...

Congratulations on the arrival of your beautiful babies.......... Wishing them all the best!!

Awww......

How precious!

congrats and good luck

Great tip Kevin! We actually got to hold both of them tonight. It was awesome!

Thank you.

-mike

absolutley precious! I will be anxiously waiting for new pics. Congratulations and lots of prayers to you!

kathy

Just saw these pictures. They brought back a flood of memories to me and I had to run for a tissue...I want to say congratulations on your babies. And I wanted to tell you that my daughters were born at 31 weeks. Alexandria was 2.14 and Sydney was 3.3. They spent 5 long weeks in the NICU and it was the hardest time of my life. Today my girls are 3-years-old, are totally healthy, fine and really really smart! They had to catch up and I worried about them for a long time (that's just my nature though) but thankfully, they are perfectly fine. (Why do you think my name is "Luckymomoftwins?"

If you want to talk or email off of this site, please feel free to contact me at jcohen520@aol.com. I so understand the place where you are right now. I know that every minute seems like an hour. It helped me to talk with people who had been there. I've served as support for lots of other parents of preemies. I'm more than willing to help you too.
Hang in there and take it day by day, or hour by hour if you have to.
I'll keep them in my prayers.
Jennifer

luckymomoftwins wrote:
Just saw these pictures. They brought back a flood of memories to me and I had to run for a tissue...I want to say congratulations on your babies. And I wanted to tell you that my daughters were born at 31 weeks. Alexandria was 2.14 and Sydney was 3.3. They spent 5 long weeks in the NICU and it was the hardest time of my life. Today my girls are 3-years-old, are totally healthy, fine and really really smart! They had to catch up and I worried about them for a long time (that's just my nature though) but thankfully, they are perfectly fine. (Why do you think my name is "Luckymomoftwins?"

If you want to talk or email off of this site, please feel free to contact me at cohen520@aol.com. I so understand the place where you are right now. I know that every minute seems like an hour. It helped me to talk with people who had been there. I've served as support for lots of other parents of preemies. I'm more than willing to help you too.
Hang in there and take it day by day, or hour by hour if you have to.
I'll keep them in my prayers.
Jennifer

Thanks Jennifer. I just might do that soon. It's been really hectic here for the past couple of weeks. Lots of pressure @ work, chasing a 20month old around, and trying to spend as much time as possible at the hospital, really wears you out quickly.

I hope to get some time this weekend, to take pictures, & find time to talk/email with people again.

BTW, I looked up some of your pictures, and you have some really beautiful children there.

I'll update everyone soon...

-mike