That seems a bit dramatic! However, getting the babies home from Cornell was no small feat! It was their 5th day, Jordan had bought a couple of car seats the day before she went to the hospital. That was a huge choice-from a ton of different styles and different reviews. The bases were so heavy that there was no way the babies could be transported in them. You could however, move the babies without the bases. You can't leave the hospital without a car seat for the babies, whether or not you had a car. That was different from when we brought our children home. I remember with the 2nd baby, Jerry picked me up in a Dodge 6 seater. Gone was the TR4!
But first of all Sidney had to be able to get into the city, which was closed to vehicles. The night before when I escaped back to Brooklyn, (I'd stayed at Erica's for 2 nights), via car at 9pm, I carried with me a note from the hospital saying Sidney was coming into the city to pick up the babies and to let her pass. So the next day when she and her boyfriend Dennis came by to get the car seats I gave her the pass. Even picking up the car seats was complicated because our street was one way and there was no room to double park.
Meanwhile back at Cornell, they were trying to kick Jordan out of the hospital. Two other hospitals in the city were being evacuated and they wanted Jordan's room. When I left on Thursday night they were bringing patients into one of the lobbies and setting up patients there. Jordan told them they couldn't kick a mother with twins out on the street and she wasn't leaving!
Sidney got the car seats and headed for the city, Jordan, and two new babies!
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