Www.Wonderbabies.Com ; Femailmagazine Born 15 Weeks Premature, and so Tiny They Barely Filled a Man's Hand, These Twins Have Become the Internet's Most Unlikely Stars - Thanks to Their Father's Web Diary of Their Fight for Survival. By Turns Heartwrenching and Hilarious, It Makes Compulsive Reading . . .

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WHEN Martin Holdcroft's twin sons were born in December 2004, 15 weeks early, he decided to share the emotional rollercoaster through an internet diary. Unburdening himself as the boys faced one trauma after another kept him sane.

But the weblog also proved inspirational for other parents. Millions around the world have been following the progress of Edmund and Aubrey ever since.

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Www.Wonderbabies.Com ; Femailmagazine Born 15 Weeks Premature, and so Tiny They Barely Filled a Man's Hand, These Twins Have Become the Internet's Most Unlikely Stars - Thanks to Their Father's Web Diary of Their Fight for Survival. By Turns Heartwrenching and Hilarious, It Makes Compulsive Reading . . .

Now the boys are safely home in Ramsgate, Kent, with Martin, 46, a writer and their mum Julie, 32, a classroom assistant. Here is Martin's deeply personal diary.

July 2004: Julie's done a pregnancy test and it's positive. We're both shocked and absolutely thrilled. We've been together two years and got engaged last month on Julie's 31st birthday.

We met in 1997 when Julie, a care assistant at a boarding school for dyslexic children, popped into the internet cafe I was running. We started dating three years later and moved in together in 2002. Now wedding plans are on hold. We're too busy planning to become parents.

Sept: It's the routine 12-week scan at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM) hospital in Margate, but there's nothing routine about the outcome.

We're having twins. We can't stop grinning.

There's something so special about twins.

There are six sets on Julie's s...

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