Reagan WildaReagan Wilda

I have been fortunate enough to live in New England my whole life. I spent the first eighteen years on beautiful Cape Cod, and then moved to western Massachusetts where I met my wonderful husband and step-daughter. At the young age of 31, I feel like I have had many accomplishments.

My most recent and perhaps most significant accomplishment, is the birth of my identical twin girls. After a frightening and difficult pregnancy, my twins were born 11 weeks early and with some preliminary health problems. They both had to undergo surgery within the first few months of life and spent a total of 52 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

They were so small, their cries could barely be heard, but eventually all our tears of sadness turned into tears of joy and they are now home, healthy and happy.  It amazes me how much I have learned from them in their short time here on this earth. They are so incredibly brave and strong, and they have given me the ability to look at my life from a different perspective.

In addition to communicating with other parents, I hope to use writing as a way to express to my children the experiences they had so early in life. I want to set the best example that I can for my girls and I hope to follow my dreams so that I can teach my girls to follow theirs.

My Recent Posts:

  • This Time Last Year – Remembering Pregnancy Almost a Year Later
    A Contribution by Reagan Wilda. For more information see Reagan's section on this website. As the girls first birthdays approach, only two short months away, I find myself looking at the calendar a lot these days and asking myself  “where were we this time last year?”  Like I have mentioned before, pregnancy was [More...]

  • One Surgery Down, One to Go – Our Twins Story of Strength
    A Contribution by Reagan Wilda. For more information see Reagan's section on this website. Although it is quickly becoming a part of the past, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about all we went through in the first three months of our twin’s lives.  It may be over, [More...]

  • Prepared for Anything– Traveling with My Twins
    A Contribution by Reagan Wilda. For more information see Reagan's section on this website. I am discovering that one of the challenging parts of having twins is finding ways to keep them entertained, especially during the winter months.  There is nothing better, on a nice warm spring or summer day, then loading everyone [More...]

  • Parenting Twins – I Don’t Need a Manual After All
    A Contribution by Reagan Wilda. For more information see Reagan's section on this website. Our pediatrician thinks I am funny and gives me a big grin when at the end of every visit I ask him where I can find a baby owner’s manual.  Too embarrassed to admit that I’m not kidding when [More...]

  • Reagan Wilda: Identical Twins Who Are Not So Identical
    A Contribution by Reagan Wilda. For more information see Reagan's section on this website. Almost immediately after we found out we were having identical twin girls, people started asking me if I was going to dress them alike.  My first response was always “absolutely not” because I was dead set on giving them [More...]

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