First encounters in the NICU

After delivery, both girls were taken to the NICU for respiratory issues. Both were on oxygen for about 12 hours. They also had infectious type issues which put both on an antibiotic. Then came the heart, both have a small hole, which is not too much of a concern right now. It will just be monitored over the next couple months hoping they will close on their own. (Notice how often the word BOTH is used there, they are twins through and through!! The nurses got a kick out of how they always did things together!) First two pics are right after they were born and my first time seeing them (other than the brief moment before they went to the NICU). I would not see them again until the next morning due to my inability to get out of bed due to medications in surgery. Third pic is Ella, fourth is Emma. Second to last pic is Saturday morning (date is wrong on the pic) for our first time holding them (actually Travis snuck in earlier that morning and when he came back and told me he held one, I made myself, pain and all, get in to see them. That's why I look so darn good there!!). But all worth it!! The last pic is still of Travis and I holding them. Don't they look alike!! But the test results are in, they are non-identical girls!!