A Double Delight Cannonvale Twins Come Home

After 37 days at Townsville Hospital, twins Owen and Evan have finally made it home to Cannonvale with their proud parents and excited older brother.

The boys arrived at just 32 weeks and were kept in the Special Care Nursery while they reached a healthy size.

It had been an intense pregnancy for mum Louise (Lou) Grice who was diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome early on.

This meant the babies shared unequal amounts of the placenta’s blood, restricting the growth of one baby.

To solve the issue, Lou needed to endure an operation at 18 weeks so that the blood vessels that run from one twin to the other could be separated.

Lou says the whole journey for her and her husband Matty has been a rollercoaster - the initial news that she was carrying twins was the biggest surprise of them all.

“There are no twins in the family, so it was very much a shock for us,” Louise said.

“I told Mathew he didn’t need to be at the scan as we had already gone down this road with our first son, Cameron.

“I couldn’t believe it when they told me it was twins and when I told Mathew his jaw dropped, and his face screwed up, but I could see he was smiling.”

Lou’s membranes ruptured on February 9, and she was swiftly moved from Proserpine to Townsville where she spent a week in hospital.

A long wait ensued, and the boys were finally born 15 days later.

Lou went into labour at 11.30pm which meant that the twins were born minutes