‘My issue is that when I get stressed, I eat! I probably had like four or five meals that day, I had to keep on sneaking off.’įrank’s joyful first skin-on-skin contact with the twins (Picture: Supplied) ‘Frankie was nil by mouth ,’ recalls Frank. They also enjoyed an email chain from the registrars at Ealing Council wishing them good luck. Friends and family who’d travelled into town for the celebrations met up and had dinner together, sending them photos and well wishes. Rearranging the wedding proved to be a blessing in disguise, giving Frank something to focus on. We had 100 people coming, some traveling from France, Germany…’ ‘And it was also the fact that we had a wedding the following day. ‘As you can imagine, we were completely shell shocked, because it wasn’t expected,’ he says. In the meantime, Frank was tasked with contacting every wedding vendor and guest, to tell them the celebrations would be postponed. The couple were supposed to get married on July 30 2022, but two days before their wedding, a routine check-up for their twins revealed potential complications and doctors ‘made a plan to get them out’ the next day.įrankie was advised to have a C-section – unplanned, but not a rushed emergency – so the couple waited hours upon hours for a surgeon to become available. But Ben, who’s a content creator and runs The Diary of a Dad, reassures fathers-to-be it’s not all drama and excitement – a lot of the time you’re just waiting for something to happen.įrank Fallon with his sons Theo and Ezra, now one (Picture: Supplied)įrank Fallon, 37, from Ealing, also had time to kill when his wife Frankie was admitted to hospital, but had plenty of tasks to complete to fill the hours. Thankfully, after 11 weeks in hospital she’s now home and doing well. ‘She had to be resuscitated and brought back a couple of times,’ says Ben. That feeling is quite strange.’Īfter losing the twins, watching Raya born prematurely at 27 weeks was also hard. ‘The doctors just literally advise you to sit there, hold your wife’s hands, and wait, but you almost feel like you want to do more than that. I couldn’t see everything that was going on, but I was very aware that lots of stuff was happening there. ‘I think what a lot of people don’t really appreciate is that it’s major surgery that’s happening, just the other side of this blue sheet. Baby Otis, who arrived via emergency C-Section (Picture: definitely felt feelings of helplessness, because I couldn’t do anything, medically, to help,’ says Ben.
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