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(cross-posted from Good Old Rock) If you’ve been wondering why there’s been a marked lack of content here at the Rock lately, I have what I consider to be a very good excuse. On Wednesday, Dec 30, my lovely wife Carrie gave birth to our two awesome new sons, Henry Phillip and Joseph Steven. I’ve been blogging a lot over at http://strattonboys.com, which is the site I set up for updates about the two guys. I recommend you take a visit over there for all the details, but in case one Stratton website is your limit, I’ll give you some updates and info here. Henry and Joey were born slightly early – they were delivered at 35 weeks and 5 days. This was determined to be necessary as Carrie was diagnosed with preclampsia, which can be a very severe condition. The doctors decided that the risk to her health was greater than the benefits of the boys staying in utero. So out they came. Both boys came out pretty healthy, despite being born early. Carrie spent five days in the hospital recovering from a C-section, but only Henry got to come home with us at first. Joey was having difficulty with his breathing (he was respirating too quickly and too shallowly at first), but fortunately he was able to come home with us yesterday (a little over a week after his brother came home). We are a full family finally. It feels good. 
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I realized today that there might be some of you who I have fallen out of touch with (due to the fact that I post on my blog now, and not LJ) so you might have missed what is possibly the most important announcement of my life.
I'm cross-posting it from the original blog post, so you don't even have to click through if you don't want to.Regular readers of this blog know that my wife and I have been struggling with infertility issues for a while now. Over the past 18 plus months we’ve played games with having “relations” on a specific schedule (whether we wanted to or not), injected more needles than Sammy Sosa, and moved genetic material around in all kinds of random ways. And it’s finally paid off. Yes. For reals. We are going to be parents. But wait, there’s more… We are having TWINS. As I told my friend Marcelo last night – it’s not so much a matter of “slipping one past the goalie” as much as “body checking the goalie and whipping two pucks into the net at once”. But it worked. The Stratton twins will be joining this world circa January 2010. As you might expect, we are super excited about this. It’s quite a shock to have two for the price of one, although really it’s like double the cost of what we had planned. In the same conversation referenced above, Marcelo told me that we should have our own reality show. I said “Yes. It will be called Matt and Carrie Plus Two Minus Money.” We’re doing research on all things we DO need two of…and what we don’t. Fortunately, Carrie’s cousin has twins, so we’re getting a lot of great knowledge from her. And the internets…bless the internets… But yeah. We’re jumping ahead and having two at once. They are fraternal, but we won’t know their gender for a few months. But feel free to start the pool – I just ask that you give the house a 5% cut on all bets. We have names in mind as well, but only for a boy and a girl – if we have double-up gender, we need to do more thinking. And I’m not telling you what the names are yet. You can try to guess if you want though. We want to thank all of you for your love and support through all of this. It’s been a rough road, and our friends and family are all too aware of this. But now, the good news is, you can stop hearing us talk endlessly about infertility. Now you get to hear us talk endlessly about multiples. 
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So, I'd been thinking about porting my blog from LJ to a "main" site for a while, and I finally got around to doing it. The catalyst for this was the rumors of the Russians shutting down LJ, which appears to not be a concern now, but the point is, I did it anyway. You can add it to your friends list by adding ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif?v=91.7) mstrattonblog . However, I recommend waiting a few days to add it, since as soon as the syndication picks up, that feed is going to FLOOD (since I ported all of my LJ entries to the blog). I'll post an LJ reminding you about it in a few days just in case. But please, don't add it now or you will regret it :) I won't be posting here anymore, but I will still be reading, so please don't take me off your f-lists, as I'll still use this account to read all your super private thoughts :)
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