Dana wanted a clear account of the babies’ care, feeding patterns, medical follow-up, current routines, and the practical arrangements proposed by each parent.

Their clinicians could provide appropriate recommendations about their needs.

Those recommendations would inform the process; a pediatrician would not decide legal custody simply by writing that twins should remain together.

We sought a workable plan that did not single Owen out for favored treatment and did not disrupt care merely to satisfy Garrett’s new interest in having a son.

The aim was not to prove that twins could never be apart for a minute.

It was to plan for these two infants, at this age, with this history and these needs.