Looking at 5-year-old twins Axel and Barrett today, you’d never guess everything they went through, even before they were born. But when Erin and Andy, the twins’ parents, look at their kids, they can still see how their early months of life impacted their boys.
For example, in the family’s home in Hudson, Wisconsin, Barrett enjoys snuggling close to his family and tight squeezes – what Erin thinks of as a remnant of his early days in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and even when he was in the womb and had less space than his brother. Axel, on the other hand, sprawls out.
