Day by Day

Because of recent developments,  we might not be looking at having the twins in the 3-6 week timeframe - as we had last thought - but rather, sometime within the next couple of weeks. We would be extremely lucky – and grateful – if our boys made it to 34 weeks. Regardless of when they come, though, it’s inevitable that they will need to spend some time in the NICU.

We won’t be able to take our kids home with us. Carrie might not even be able to hold them after they are born. What’s worse is that I would have to follow the first kid to the NICU, leaving my wife alone in the operating room to give birth and recover. As mentally ready as we might be for these possible eventualities, there really aren’t any words of consolation that can be said, no comfort that can be offered, that makes up for the enormity of what is to come.

For right now, we are treating each and every day that our sons are in the womb as a gift to both us, and to them; perhaps that will be one less day that they spend in the NICU, one day less that they spend away from the place that their loving parents call home, one day less that we, their loving parents, won’t have their kicking, cooing, cuddling, crying selves safe with us in our happy abode.