Megan Joy
born 3:00pm, Feb 2
4 lbs, 3 ozs
Megan
Maribeth Joelle
born 3:10pm, Feb 2
2 lbs, 12 ozs
Maribeth
After a bit of a scare on Sunday, and early testing on Monday, the twins were surgically removed in the afternoon and everybody is doing fine. I will take the liberty of copying and pasting bits and pieces from their Maine grandparents' website (Cheryl's dad is an ER doctor):
[As you can see, Megan is much bigger than Maribeth.] Both are on IVs as the doctors are not sure that they are "old enough" to take a bottle yet. Maribeth is on CPAP to support her breathing while Megan is breathing on her own... Allan got to hold both of them and to cut Megan's cord. He saw the placenta--it looks to him like Maribeth only had about 25% of the placenta. Her cord was much, much thinner than the other one (pinky thickness as compared with thumb thickness.)
The NICU staff told Cheryl and Allan that "They are cute as buttons and they are doing very well!"
This is the first set of twins recorded for our side of the family. Mind you, documentation in the Philippines has really only been since WWII, and I'd say even that's sketchy. I know for a fact that relatives who have immigrated made up their own birthdays (not just my father!). I would say the Philippines remains, at least in rural areas, primarily an oral society.
On Cheryl's side of the family, there was a set of twins but quite distantly related.
