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The kids are now officially 1 week old and doing fine.

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Pronunciation: "en-"I-(")sE-'yü, 'nik-(")yü
Function: abbreviation
neonatal intensive care unit

N.: a special care nursery that uses advanced technology and trained health professionals to care for sick and premature newborns.

Note those keywords: sick and premature. People seem to be forgetting this part. We’ve been getting a lot of requests from people who want to “come by and see the babies”. While we appreciate the sentiment, we’d rather not entertain visitors right now while the kids are in the NICU. They’re in there to stay warm and gain weight. We want less exposure to other people’s germs, not more.

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I got to feed my daughter for the first time today.

Holding this fragile little child is both thrilling and terrifying at the same time. Am I holding her right? Is she burping or coughing or what is that? Is that a hiccup? Wait, she looks like she’s uncomfortable, is this normal?

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It’s been 24 hours and the kids are doing great.  They’re breathing room air on their own and are feeding from a bottle. Not bad for 33-week preemies.

My son sleeps a lot and is a pretty quiet guy.  I’m sure that will change soon enough.

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What started out as the wife’s weekly routine OB visit turned out to be the birthday of our twins.

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