Twins x3

About the Book

Life from behind double strollers! Journey along as the author travels from the struggles, heartaches and moral dilemmas associated with infertility, through the incredible arrival of her third set of twins. The entire book is an emotional roller coaster filled with love, pain, humor, fear, thanksgiving, anguish, joy and a healthy dose of faith and family which will cause the reader to laugh, cry, and surely relate with each turn of the page. Fran Circe Pitre is a graphic designer, first-time author and a devout Catholic who lives with her husband and their six children in Jacksonville, Florida. Fran shares in detail her personal experiences with long-term infertility, infertility diagnostic work-up, pregnancy sickness, high-risk multiple pregnancy, pre-term labor, pregnancy bed rest, premature birth, preemie illness and surgery, anxiety attacks, pregnancy over 40, postpartum depression, and more.

About the Author

Fran is a devout Catholic raised in a Catholic family from upstate New York. She and her family moved to the outskirts of New Orleans when she was 12, and she met the teenage guy who would one day become her husband when she was just 16. Bruce Pitre was also from a Catholic family, so after they both earned their college degrees (Bruce in architecture, and Fran in art education and graphic design), they were married. They centered their marriage around their faith and decided to make their important life decisions based on our Christian beliefs. After they were married a few years while pursuing their careers and living in Northern Virginia just outside of Washington DC, they decided to begin a family. A fertility issue was suspected when they´d not conceived a baby after attempting for more than a year. After five years of tests and treatments, Fran finally became pregnant, but not without medical intervention. When Fran became pregnant with her first set, she and Bruce decided to undergo a procedure that they’d researched extensively and felt comfortable pursuing. Unlike many fertility treatments available then and today which are not viewed as acceptable by the Catholic Church because of the ethical conflicts they present, they decided to pursue a treatment that, although was not unconditionally approved of by the Catholic Church, was also not disapproved by it, and they were careful about how all the aspects of the treatment were approached. Two weeks later, they discovered that Fran was pregnant, and three weeks later learned there were two babies on the way! Their baby girls were born in the winter of 1994. Fran and Bruce underwent the same treatment over four years later and had their second set of twins, a boy and a girl. Then, three years ago, deciding to try for one more child, they received only minimal intervention from their doctor ... no surgical procedure or fertility drugs, and discovered that Fran was pregnant with her now two-year-old twin boys. TWINS x 3 is the story of how two people who wanted to raise their family, are blessed with both the struggles and the rewards that came from years prayer and perseverance. Today, Fran runs her own graphic design business out of her home office and lives with her husband Bruce and their six children in Jacksonville, FL.