2 months later…

Today was the day, the day that Polly was finally going to be able to take her baby girls home; she couldn't wait.

Avani was working, so Dixie had stayed at Polly's house with her, and they would meet Jeff at the hospital later that morning.

6:30am "Dix? Dixie!" Polly said, gently shaking her awake.

"Polly, what? You do realise we're not due to pick the girls up until 9:30, don't you? That's 3 hours away!" she grumbled, trying to scowl at her friend but not quite managing it; she just looked so excited, Dixie wondered if she had actually slept at all that night.

"Dixie…" she pleaded, smiling and hugging her when she sat up; she couldn't wait to pick them up and have them at home with her.

"Urgh, alright I'm up! Doesn't look like I'm going to get any more sleep, does it? Right, come on then, we should probably get some breakfast…"

"Yay!" she squealed with excitement, jumping up and down then running into the girl's nursery and looking around it in awe. The big spare room in Polly's house was now to be the girls' nursery; everyone had pitched in to help and it looked brilliant. The walls were painted with jungle scenes on two walls and there were flowers and butterflies on the others, and the ceiling was covered in fluorescent stars. The furniture was all set up, two cots were all ready set up, and a large chest of draws and wardrobe sat to the far side of the room by the window. As well as all of this, Polly was fully equipped with clothes, nappies, bottles, toys and everything that she would need to care for her baby girls.

Jeff had come round a couple of days ago to finish everything off, and to add finishing touches; he'd been round most days or just whenever he had a few spare hours, he had really enjoyed helping out with it. And he would do anything for Polly, anything at all to help her; she deserved it after the last 8 months or so, she'd really been through a hell of a lot.

Polly walked over to the two cots and stood in between them; all that was left to do now was to fish out the blankets and attach the mobiles to the headboard of each cot. She went over to the chest of drawers and pulled out the two blankets; they were hand embroidered by her aunt, who loved to sew. Each blanket had the girl's name on, and different types of flowers all over it. Smiling she draped each one over the side of each cot, then attached the mobiles to the headboards, making sure that they were secure and weren't going to fall off.

Looking around the rest of the room, Polly couldn't stop smiling; she was just so excited to be finally bringing them home! Aside from the cots and general nursery furniture, there were two jungle gyms on the floor, two highchairs and a feeding area. Attached to the nursery was a little utility room which would be used as a changing room.

The rest of the house was suitably baby-proofed as well; there were safety gates at the top and bottom of the stairs as well as going in and out of all the rooms, plug sockets were covered over etc. Friends from work had helped out a lot as well; Polly had been given loads of baby equipment for her girls which would help her out.

"Polly! Come and get some breakfast, love" Dixie shouted up the stairs to her.

"Okay, coming!"

"There you go, get that down you and then we'd better get ready to go" Dixie laughed at the beaming smile that suddenly appeared on Polly's face, it was lovely to see her happy again and back to her usual self.

1 hour later…

Dixie pulled up in the hospital car park and got out. They went up to NICU, carrying two baby carriers and blankets.

Polly wasted no time in signing them both in, then rushing into the room to see her baby girls "Hello, you two, ready to go home?" she cooed, earning a short cry from Isabel and a raspberry from Nieve. She assumed that these responses meant yes.

Walking over first to Nieve, she very carefully picked her up for the first time; they had had to stay in the incubators whilst they had been in NICU; and walked around with her for a few moments before stopping and placing her into her car seat, making sure that all the straps were buckled tightly. Nieve cried when her mother put her down, clumsily and shakily attempting to reach back out to her, but not quite managing it.

Polly took hold of her daughter's hand and smiled at her "Alright, Nieve, I'm here, mummy's here" she told her, tucking the blanket in around her.

She then repeated the process with Isabel, ensuring that she was safely strapped in to the car seat and tucked her blanket around her.

"Come on then!" Polly said cheerfully, picking up one car seat in each hand and walking out of NICU and towards the car.

Jeff and Dixie exchanged glances and followed her out, both smiling at each other as they could easily see how happy she was.

Once everyone was strapped in, Jeff started the car and began the half hour drive back to Polly's house. "We're here!" he said, stopping the engine and climbing out.

"Alright Pol?" Dixie asked her, taking Isabel's car seat and walking up the drive with her

"Yeah, I'm fine, better than fine" she smiled, walking inside.

"Come on then girls, shall we go upstairs?" Polly said, opening the door that led into the nursery.

Polly took Nieve out of her car seat and sat down, placing the baby on her lap and supporting her so that she could lean against her mother.

Dixie took Isabel out, and carefully laid her down in her cot. Hearing her start to cry at being put down, she turned on the music on the mobile to try and distract her; it worked, in seconds Isabel had stopped crying and was listening intently to the new sounds, trying to work out where it was coming from.

Nieve had quickly fallen asleep on Polly, so she stood up and gently laid her down in her cot so as not to wake her. The music seemed to have soothed both girls, so Polly decided to leave it on for a while longer while they were both sleeping.

Going into the kitchen, she hugged Dixie and then Jeff "Thank you!" she said "I could never have done this without you, or Avani"

"It's no problem, princess, no problem at all!" Jeff laughed, seeing Dixie nod; they would all help her out whenever she needed it.