spring - 2014
On a beautiful Texas evening, and after a dinner celebrating daddy's birthday, things with Kate just weren't quite right. With a due date of early June, mom's agitation with the twins in her belly didn't quite add up. The pregnancy had been fairly smooth up until this point and, being her first time carrying children, mom was hoping this was just a little bump in the road. Three days later, the expecting parents were on the verge of delivering twin girls in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) in Lewisville only days into mom's 3rd trimester.
The girls would arrive 13 weeks early and 2 pounds each.
From mid-March until the first weeks of June, the Corbins would spend each day visiting, holding, and (at times) feeding their newborns. With a dizzying array of tubes, wires, blue light phototherapy, and incredible nursing support, the girls continued to develop in plastic incubators. Their release from the hospital was predicated on their ability to finish every feeding within a 24 hour period. Shortly after their original due date passed, Baby A came home first, followed a week later by her sister. They had no major health issues and had survived formidable odds.
Today, Bentley and Violet are vibrant 3rd graders and other than being some of the smaller students in their class, there is little evidence their combined birth weight was less than a bag of flour. A miracle in March indeed.
