Sorry for not being in touch sooner but the last six weeks are a bit of a blur. Tim and I were expecting our twins to arrive (as planned ) on the 17th of March. However, nothing went to plan. Thankfully our twins have fought the odds and survived. At 16 weeks a routine scan identified our problem. Called twin-to-twin transfusion, one twin thrives while the other is deprived of nutrition and blood through the shared placenta while in the womb. It's a rare syndrome that affects just 5 to 10 per cent of identical twins. (About one in 250 pregnancies results in identical twins). We were told that our little twin would probably never make it past 24 weeks. But little Toby defied all odds and kept hanging on. The decision was to get me past 28 weeks and deliver. On New Years Eve we had a routine growth scan. The specialists decided that we needed to deliver the twins in order to save Toby, so on New Years Eve, 11 weeks early, Toby (480g) and Finn (1310g) were born. Both boys are doing well in NICU (Newborn Intensive Care Unit) at Auckland Hospital. Finns already put on a kilo and Toby's doubled his birth weight. I'm spending all of my time with the boys, leaving poor old Tim to man the shop.
PS - we'll post some pics when all of the tubes and monitors are off.

I thought I'd share some interesting things I've learned during  my stay at NICU.

•     C-Sections hurt like hell
•     Morphine is great
•     Prem babies take lots of supplements, nurses fortify their milk with vitamins and whey protein
•     Probiotics do transfer in the breast milk
•     Taking probiotics and Vitamin D does help your baby if you are breastfeeding
•     Finn is the only baby in the infant nursery without nappie rash, and I reckon its because I take Omega 3,     Vitamin D, a Multi and Probiotics.
•     Nurses talk about diets all of the time.
•     Sugar is like morphine to babies.
•     480g babies do not fit nappies.