twins in 12 days

twinsmomma96 - 12:02am Aug 13, 2006 EST
twins born 12 days apart

My name is Heather Nesbitt, ten years ago at the age of twenty-five, I found out at 9 1/2 weeks that I was carrying twins with an expected due date of September 4, 1996. Well, everything was going fine, they were growing and maturirng normally, when after attending a doctor's appointment, about 28 weeks, my membranes ruptured(June 17, 1996), I arrived at the hospital in preterm labor, my ob immediately admitted me to the hospital, while placing me on bed rest and trying to stop my labor with magnisum sulfate and injections to mature their lungs, while exactly five days after that first admission to the hospital, at 29 weeks, I gave birth to my first born son, Dylan Scott, weighing only 2lbs,10 1/2ozs., after his birth the doctors' decided it was better to allow his twin to have better chance of survival if he remained in utero awhile longer, they originally were hoping for a baby born at term, but at 31 weeks, my second twin son, Chase David, was born weighing in at 3lbs.,7ozs., exactly 12 days after his brother.
 Dylan remained in the NICU for two months, coming home at on August 19, 1996, weighing in at 6lbs,14ozs. While Chase come home from the hospital exactly two weeks after he was born weighing in at 4lbs,5ozs. It's been a long 10 years but after those first years of obstacles, they are happy and healthy 4th graders.