When we found out we were having twins, my best friend of 25 years started planning our baby shower. We had not lived in the same city for about 10 years and she missed out on my older boys pregnancies so it was so nice to be able to share this with her and my other close friends here in New Zealand. She would not let me have anything to do with organising it (and she knows I am a control freak, ha!) apart from asking who I wanted to invite.
When I found out my waters had started leaking at 24 weeks, we brought the baby shower date forward to June 13th where I would have been just over 28 weeks pregnant. However, our boys had other plans and arrived two days before that on June 11th. I remember thinking to myself when I was told I was delivering them (amongst all the trauma of the actual delivery!) how awful I felt having to cancel the shower after all the effort she had gone to to put it together. I messaged her immediately after they arrived on Thursday evening to say that I was so sorry I had to cancel because I had had the babies to which she responded, are you kidding?! are you ok? don’t be sorry! haha.
She then suggested that we do it a few weeks later still and I thought it was a great idea instead turning it in to a welcome baby (babies) shower! I really didn’t want everything she had organised to go to waste and I was so looking forward to catching up with friends I had not seen in ages as well as the distraction from the emotional journey we were going through in NICU.
So here it is. Our welcome babies’ shower! and what an amazing job she did.
Also a big thank you to my darling friend Brogan from Kiwi Captures Photography who took these photos for me and travelled 7 hours to be there.
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