I am writing this on my mobile phone, at my partners hospital bedside. Our twins, born this afternoon and 5 weeks premature, are in the neonatal intensive care unit downstairs.
This paragraph begins 15 minutes later than the first as I have just delivered 8ml of hand expressed milk to them, stroked and spoken to them through the incubator portholes and returned. The last few days of our lives have seen us on incredible highs, desperate lows and fogs of exhaustion in between. This is the beginning of an incredible journey.
I’m going to try to write something of our experiences over the coming days and months. I think it helps to focus your mind and organise your thoughts if you can commit them to the page. You never know, and you can but hope, that it may also be of some help to someone coming along a similar path sometime after me.
Twin Dad Site 