Sienna and Sierra, A Tale of Twin Sisters with Unique Journeys

Sometimes when we go out of the public, people would think she's my mom and not my twin

When we go to bars, people think I'm eight, even though I'm 23

First off, I didn't even though I didn't even though I didn't even

even realized that I was having twins until about six weeks before they were born

They said, well, you're having twins, but you need to quickly get over that because we need

to talk about Baby B. I knew that she had Dandy Walker in utero so they could see that she

was missing a portion of her brain, and then they could see that she was a lot smaller as well

Sienna stayed in the NICU for 108 days, and then she went into the hospital a lot over the

the next several years of her life. It was a long fight to

find out what kind of dwarfism she had or that she had dwarfism in general

She did have a hole in her heart and they thought perhaps that was why she was so small

And then they gave her a feeding tube in her stomach because they thought maybe she wasn't eating enough

And so it wasn't until she was about six, right? Six or seven, yeah

That we discovered that she had dwarfism. It was more or less like a relief because now that we know what it is we know what we need to do in order to better her life Sienna is a spitfire

Yeah, I always say I'm like a side though, a chihuahua, or a person I like a wottweiler

For me, the emotional side of things was a little challenging because Sienna would

having an identical twin who is, you know, average, high, she would see what she was missing

So she could see what her life would have been like because she would say, you know

why is Sierra getting to live the life I want to live? It's affected our relationship in the sense that we have to be very communicative

and we have to be very, really we can't be jealous of anything

because we do have very different lives. And we have different experiences

Yeah, very different experiences. We're on a different road path. It's neat, you know, from a dad's standpoint

to see that they are twins and that they have such a tight relationship

And yet they are still really so different not just because of their height

Thank you