Today is the 24th of July 2019 and five years now since our twins left the NICU unit and we were finally reunited at home. What a five years it has been, full of love, laughter, tears( what five year olds don't occasionally butt heads) but most of all a overwhelming feeling of contentment and... Continue Reading →
I’m saying goodbye to the last links to babyhood but they’ll be my babies forever.
It is hard looking back now over a very short number of years that at the tender age of four and a half years the last delicate link to my babies has been broken. Granted when one of my children corrects me for calling them my baby and insists they are in fact a big... Continue Reading →
Leaving your twins behind in NICU.
I wanted to be with them, needed to be with them, to hold them ,feed them ,tell them I was their Mammy . But I couldn’t , my husband was with them in NICU , I knew he was minding them for me, I desperately wanted to go to them but I had to... Continue Reading →
Our reflux hell
There has been a lot of defining moments thus far,in the short three and a half years I have been a Mother. Most memories, post birth, are mainly happy ones. However one piece of the twins early little lives that replays over and over, is when I hear another mother desperate to know why their... Continue Reading →
World prematurity day
Today is World prematurity day and as a parent to premature twins who thankfully are happy and healthy three-year olds, I am reminded more so today of that journey we undertook during my pregnancy. A journey that confined me to bed-rest from twenty-three weeks on. Three of those weeks I could only walk two feet... Continue Reading →



