{"id":29163,"date":"2015-01-30T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=29163"},"modified":"2015-01-30T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:38:04","slug":"flashback-friday-time-spent-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=29163","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday – Time Spent in the NICU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Karlie and Brina in their bed at the NICU!<\/p>\n

Today’s flashback is to February 2005 when the two beautiful blessings were born – my daughters Brina and Karlie!\u00a0 After 12 weeks of permanent bed rest they came 7 weeks early and spent almost a month in the NICU.\u00a0 Thankfully, they spent the majority of their time in NICU sharing a crib.\u00a0 They looked so cute and all wrapped up together in their blanket.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine them being this tiny – Karlie was 3 pounds 15 ounces and Brina was 4 pounds 9 ounces when they were born.<\/p>\n

\"Daddy<\/a><\/p>\n

At first they were not able to finish all their milk on their own so they had NG tubes.\u00a0 Jake had to hold up a syringe with the remaining milk and would drain directly into their little tummies!\u00a0 It wasn’t long before they were drinking their full portion on their own!<\/p>\n

\"Sleepingc\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sleeping beauties!\u00a0 Can you tell who is who?!\u00a0 Karlie is next to Mr. Duck and Brina is sleeping next to Miss Kitty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karlie and Brina in their bed at the NICU! Today’s flashback is to February 2005 when the two beautiful blessings were born – my daughters Brina and Karlie!\u00a0 After 12 weeks of permanent bed rest they came 7 weeks early and spent almost a month in the NICU.\u00a0 Thankfully, they spent the majority of their time in NICU sharing a crib.\u00a0 They looked so cute and all wrapped up together in their blanket.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine them being this tiny – Karlie was 3 pounds 15 ounces and Brina was 4 pounds 9 ounces when they were born. At first they were not able to finish all their milk on their own so they had NG tubes.\u00a0 Jake had to hold up a syringe with the remaining milk and would drain directly into their little tummies!\u00a0 It wasn’t long before they were drinking their full portion on their own! Sleeping beauties!\u00a0 Can you tell who is who?!\u00a0 Karlie is next to Mr. Duck and Brina is sleeping next to Miss Kitty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64,65,16,22,25,43],"tags":[1976,7518,7543,7631,7683,15950,16879,19181,19190,22505,24024,24567,24578],"class_list":["post-29163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-family","category-kids","category-memories","category-raising-multiples","category-twins","tag-bedrest","tag-families","tag-family-adventures","tag-family-fun","tag-family-love","tag-memories","tag-nicu","tag-raising-kids","tag-raising-twins","tag-starting-a-family","tag-time-in-the-hospital","tag-twins-bedrest","tag-twins-in-the-nicu"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-7An","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}