I'm returning to this blog after a long, long time.  I have been otherwise occupied.  My daughter, Amina opted to be a Choice Mom or in layman's terms......a single mother by choice.  She had twins...So as you can imagine, we have been very busy. The twins were born premature and as we soon learned carrying the badges of multiples and low birthweight babies. One had trying times learning to keep breathing and maintaining body temperature.  They both had to learn to feed.

We were told our loving arms and presence itself would go a long way in helping them along besides all the known benefits of breastfeeding itself. Amina was discharged after a week post delivery, the twins enjoyed Sutter hospitality for another month on their own.  So everyday Amina and I would drive with preloaded  bottles of breastmilk to visit the twins. We would hold one twin each while my daughter fed them one by one. There were always specialists who would visit appraising us of the twins' development, offering us advice on how to bathe them, hold them, feed them......support groups for Mom etc. etc.

Every year Sutter has been holding a reunion of all NICU babies with games, photo booth, puppet shows, bounce house etc. for the kids and lunch for all. This year this building was razed so the children went for one last look at the NICU, Mom's room et al on their birthday.

We've enjoyed the twins through the ups and downs of normal parenting. They're now five and starting kindergarten. Now to enjoy kindergarten.........