{"id":247395,"date":"2021-06-20T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=247395"},"modified":"2021-06-18T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T03:09:03","slug":"preemies-attendants-parents-wedding-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/preemies-attendants-parents-wedding-nicu\/","title":{"rendered":"Preemies serve as attendants at parents’ wedding, thanks to NICU staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Told they would have difficulty getting pregnant, Chandra and Tyson Dahl<\/a> scheduled an appointment with a fertility doctor, but a month before they were to go, they learned Chandra was pregnant. That’s not where the surprises ended for the couple, who had a wedding planned for April 24.<\/p>\n

At their first ultrasound visit, they heard two heartbeats and learned they were having twins. Though the pregnancy was event-free, babies Jaycen and Arianna were born six weeks early on April 11, sneaking in their birth before their parents could have their wedding. They each weighed about three pounds and were placed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) so they could receive proper medical care.<\/p>\n

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Chandra and Tyson Dahl<\/p><\/div>\n

“They’re so small and so frail,” Chandra told CTV News. “It’s the most difficult thing we’ve ever had to go through.”<\/p>\n

The babies would still be in the NICU when their wedding was scheduled to take place, so the couple saw no reason to postpone it. They planned to “have a quick little COVID wedding and then go see our kids in the NICU and get a few more photos while we’re in our dress clothes and stuff,” explained Tyson. But they got much more than they expected.<\/p>\n

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