{"id":2236,"date":"2005-09-20T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/shelter-from-the-storm-1.html"},"modified":"2005-09-20T00:35:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T00:35:32","slug":"shelter-from-the-storm-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/shelter-from-the-storm-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Shelter from the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caring for the newborns:<\/a><\/p>\n

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First came the rising floodwaters, and the pregnant woman started praying.<\/p>\n

Please, she said to herself, please don’t let me give birth to my twins in this hot, dark attic surrounded by water. Finally, using a crowbar and hammer, friends pried open the roof and she made her way out by a leaky boat.<\/p>\n

Then came her dramatic delivery.<\/p>\n

After a few days in the Superdome, an ambulance rushed the woman out of the chaos toward a waiting helicopter. But before she arrived, Dwight and Dwayne entered this world – 9 pounds in all – one month early. "It was a miracle," their mother, Antoinette Hickerson, says with a still-dazed smile.<\/p>\n

Now comes the hard part.<\/p>\n

Hickerson has to find a way to care for her premature twins even though she and her partner, Dwight Ward, have no home, no money, no jobs. They’re now living in a special shelter for newborns at St. Patrick Catholic Church, trying to figure out where to go next.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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