Rachel Natalie and Ashley Leora were born December 20, 2006.
The due date was February 13, 2007.
Ashley was born at 3 lbs, 4 oz, 15 inches. Rachel was 3 lbs, 1 oz, 15 inches.
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Latest Status, 7/25/2009:
Ashley weighs about 26 lbs, Rachel 23 lbs.
Answers to common questions:
Yes, they have very different personalities.
No, they're not identical. Yes, they're very similar, but if you take a minute to look at them next to each other you will see the differences.
They both came home on Thursday, January 18, after 29 days in the NICU.
You'll see lots of wires in the earlier photos, from the hospital. They had monitors for heart and respitory rates.
There's also a cuff on one foot that uses a light sensor to measure how much oxygen
is in their blood (and prove therefore that they're breathing).
In the earlier pictures, the thing in their noses is the feeding tube, though in some of the earliest pictures it was in their mouths.
Only in the very earliest pictures, the first couple days, will you see they're getting extra oxygen through a tube.