Well today is May 8 & it is the anniversary of my husband's liberation from the concentration camp 64 years ago when he was 10.
It is also the day in 1966 our identical twins Dawn & Denise were born. We do not celebrate birthdays because they are rooted in pagan beliefs. But they are healthy & 43 years old today.
They were the first babies born on that day in Bergen County NJ. They were born at 12:03 & 12:10 am. I told the doctor I thought I was having twins, but he said no. Also when I went into the hospital they checked the babie's heart beat & I asked how many? The dr. said just one. I looked like I had swollowed 2 watermelon. Besides that I felt like I had a kangaroo in my stomach as they were so active.
I went to the hospital while my neighbor was having me a baby shower, so I did not get to go to my shower.
The doctor's nurse who delivered them told me when I went back to him that you kept telling the doctor you were having twins.
Also the nurses at hospital said they thought I was having twins even though the doctor there said one baby.
When I went to visit my brother-in-law when he was in the hospital & I was 6 mos. pregnant the nurses said mam you are on the wrong floor, the maternity ward is .....lol.
The twins were born about 4 wks. early as they were due June 1 or 2, but that is usual for twins. They weighed 5 lb. 2 oz. & 5 lb. 1 oz. After 10 days in isolation we took them home at 5 lb. & 4 lb. 15 oz, like 2 sacks of sugar & their heads the size of oranges!
At that time you could not go into isolation or ICU or whatever they called it. You had to look at your babies through the glass like everyone else.
They suppose to be 5 1/2 lb. before they were released. After 10 days my husband told the nurse to get his babies ready to go home. She said she could not without the dr.'s authorization. My husband said then the dr. can pay for them after today. She came back & said we could take them home.
A similiar thing happened in NJ with my next baby Kelly, daughter no. 5. She weighed 9 lb. 12 oz. It was hard to imagine she was a newborn as she looked about 3 mos. old after having the twins. She & I were going to be released on Sunday. The hospital demanded a $1000 bank check before releasing us. My husband said how can I get you a bank check on Sunday? He said if you don't let my wife & baby go I will bring you my other 4 children her for you to watch as I have to go to work tomorrow. They released us.
Sometimes it pays to speak up & be forceful!
My first daughter Susan (Susie) was born here in the same hospital in Columbia, SC that I was born in. She was born April 27, 1961. She weighed about 7 lb. All the rest besides the twins weighed 9 lb. or more. We are going to the beach for a week with her & husband & 2 teenage boys tomorrow.
She was a beautiful baby as all my daughters were. The nurses said she was so beautiful that she would probably be "Miss America". The baby nurse that took care of her also took care of me after I was born.
My relatives all said she was beautiful also. She still is, & especially so the way she acts.
We are going to Edisto Beach which is below Charleston (near where they live) down about an hour's drive from where daughter lives, toward Beaufort & Savannah, Ga.
I have never been there, but they got a nice private beach house that has 4 bedrooms on the oceanfront. It is not commercialized there as it is in Myrtle Beach & further north. Only has about 1 store & gas station & mostly private houses, only 2 rows.
The beach should not be crowded & they say you can find a lot of shells.
Will write more after we come back of how it was.
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