We spent a lot of time watching them sleep back then. They didn't do much else, other than drink milk, and back in the very earliest days they didn't even do that (they were fed by nasogastric tube for about the first month). I couldn't really bear to be anywhere else most of the time, so we sat there and watched them sleep. They were the most compelling little sleeping people I could ever have imagined.
They still are. I went back to take a picture, but in the 30 seconds I was out of the room, she moved and I missed the moment. It's OK - that and all the other sleeping moments are in my heart forever.
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What a beautiful post about such a powerful memory. It's hard to believe how big and active they are, it seems just yesterday they were so fragile. I'm sure you'll never really see them without that lens.
They look so sweet together. I love when some little moment flashes me back and I see her as a little newborn or baby again.
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