update on twins

I wanted to update everyone on our twins. They had surgery today on their hearts. They had a PDA that wasn't closed so the surgeon went in and closed it. Usually, when babies are closer to full term this artery closes by itself. Since the babies were so early, it didn't close. It is important for this surgery because if the PDA isn't closed the heart works very hard to pump too much blood to the lungs. Eventually the boys would have had problems from that if we didn't do the surgery now because they don't need that much blood going to the lungs. Now, since their PDA's have been closed the lungs will get the proper amounts of blood and things will start to work better. The boys should be able to breathe better and they can continue to heal and grow bigger and get healthy enough to come home at some point. It will take a few days for them to recover from this surgery before we start to see more improvement. We stayed at the hospital today to be with the boys before and after their surgeries. It was exhausting. During baby b's surgery we went over to Sweetwater Tavern because we were both really stressed and we couldn't go and sit with baby a because we were just reminded of what baby b was going through. The root beer was really great. I have never had root beer with an anise taste. Doug and I are convinced there are some other flavors in it although they wouldn't tell us what it was. We had never been there before and it was nice to be out of the hospital and we were able to concentrate on something else for a little while.

After baby b had his surgery we went in there to check up on him. He was still asleep and the nurse let us see his scar which was good for us because then we could see what happened and it wasn't as bad as we thought. It was also very hard to see them and not be able to touch them or kiss them. Preemies are very different and too much touching is not a good thing. That was the hardest for me anyway, not being able to just hold them and talk to them. I hope we will be able to hold them soon. I really can't wait for that part.

Thank you to everyone who fasted and prayed for us and our little boys. I believe all of our prayers have been heard and answered. That is honestly the only way we have been able to get through any of this. I will keep updating this blog about the twins and maybe here soon I will post some pictures of the boys.