Our Pea Pod: Octomom's Got Competition!!

Haha!! Just kidding! I don't think we would like that sort of attention! It was a pretty scary time when we had to move here while I was 30 weeks pregnant with triplets. Not only because I was having to stand in a doorway and direct the movers as to where to set down our furniture while watching my ankles and legs swell before my eyes (well I couldn't actually see them past my belly, but everyone else could)! But the hardest thing was putting our trust in the hands of brand new doctors and nurses to deliver our three miracles as well as take care of me when I had been taken care of by the Virginia doctors for so long. Thankfully, my sister-in-law works for a doctor at Westchester and so we had come up during Christmas of 2009 to check out the facilities. We LOVED it! The neonatologists were amazing and the medical technology that the pediatric wing of the hospital had was unbelievable!

One of our favorite nurses!

Teaching Joe how to burp!

If you can think back to the first time you had to leave your child in the hands of someone else you can probably remember feeling lots of emotion. Well imagine that times three children, twice a day, every day! Joe and I had to do that every time we had to leave our babies at the NICU for 4 weeks (I can't imagine doing it any longer than this like some do). The only thing that got us through those moments of driving away from the hospital every morning and every night empty handed was knowing that we had nurses and doctors watching those precious babies as if they were their own.

Maria Fareri Children's Hospital entrance

They even have a fish tank!

So when the Media Relations Directors approached us at the NICU alumni reunion and asked us to help out we couldn't say no. Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at West Chester Hospital relys a lot on donations to run their facility with such high standards so they have numerous fundraising events every year. One of those is a radio-a-thon similar to the ones you see on television when people perform and you call in to donate money. Now I'm sure as you've flipped through your radio you've come across these and heard the sad stories told by patients. And you've probably changed the channel quickly so you aren't faced with that guilty conscience to donate money. I did that too! But after being that patient and telling that story it changes your perspective completely! Without the knowledge of those amazing doctors and nurses as well as the beautiful facility who knows what sort of complications we could have encountered. So we were interviewed by the radio station and had a blast! They loved us so much (the babies really) that they asked us to participate in another one a month later for another station. They also asked if we would interview for a magazine that gets sent out all over the West Chester area from the hospital with our story.