High Risk Twins Bakwob and Medkwob
"Bakwob" means "hope" and "medkwob" means "happiness" in the Shilluk language of Sudan. So when Sudanese refugees Victoria and Gabriel Dennis welcomed their twins into the world, they named them Bakwob and Medkwob, because the parents’ difficult journey had ended in hope and happiness at Alegent Health.

Victoria suffered four miscarriages before moving to Omaha where she discovered she was pregnant again. Even then, she felt depressed and hopeless until an ultrasound confirmed she was expecting twins. Somehow that news – and the support of the perinatologists – doctors specializing in high-risk pregnancies – gave her courage to endure the months of bed rest, medications and hospital stays. Bakwob, a boy, and Medkwob, a girl, were born on October 9, seven weeks premature and barely 4 pounds each.

Yet, thanks to the care of the nurses and physicians they spent only two weeks in the Bergan Mercy Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit before going home with their parents. Victoria says she sometimes wonders if she and her children would have survived the pregnancy without the level of care they received through Alegent Health. "When I look at them (the twins), I think how God answered my prayers, and how thankful I am to the doctors and nurses."