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FAMILY PROFILE
Bradley Family Home: Blue Eye, MO (Stone County)
When we found out we were having twins, we were ecstatic and also
terrified. We had so many more doctors’ appointments, ultrasounds and tests than we did with our first born. But as the pregnancy progressed, and we were doing so fabulously at every checkup, we let ourselves get really comfortable with the idea that it would be smooth sailing all the way through. As you could imagine, we were completely caught off guard when I went into spontaneous labor at 35 weeks. We went straight to Cox in Branson for an emergency C-section. Baby A was breech and standing on his umbilical cord; but the twists and turns had only begun. Baby B was immediately transported to Cox South NICU, and his brother joined him three days later. Our world was flipped upside down. We had two sick babies in a hospital over an hour from our home, jobs, and a toddler. I am not sure what we would have done without the Ronald McDonald House. We had a safe, quiet, place to return to after those late-night feedings. We had warm food to eat, even when food was far from our minds. And we had the comforting comradery of the other families, walking such similar paths as us. We could cry, or laugh, or just sit in silence, and we knew they understood. Our boys are six months old now and thriving. We’ve been home as a family for just under four months and are soaking up every precious second. We are still so full of gratitude when we think about our RMH experience. They turned a time of uncertainty and questions, into a time of hope and calm. Words cannot express how meaningful that was to us.
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