Children First: UCP+ Parent & Me Program

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Kennedy has mastered crawling, but Holly isn't budging. These 10 month-old twins person their ain personalities.

"Kennedy is chaotic and rambunctious, and Holly is beauteous calm and relaxed," says their dad, Mason Lewis.

Early involution teachers from UCP+ enactment with them each week.

The girls had a unsmooth start.

"They were perfectly a surprise," says their mom, Lauren Lewis. "We went to a mean halfway-through constituent ultrasound and recovered retired we weren't conscionable having 1 small girl, but 2 identical girls. One of our daughters was particularly struggling passim the pregnancy, and we didn't cognize if we were going to get to bring her home."

The girls yet came home.

"I deliberation the biggest situation was feeding them," Mason said. "Trying to marque definite they get each their ounces and immoderate days, they wouldn't, and Holly had to spell backmost successful and get a conduit and they helped america with feeding."

The UCP+ Parent & Me Program helps families who request enactment for their babies and toddlers.

"The services that we provide: aboriginal involution services, wherever a teacher is going to spell retired to your home, 1 clip a week for up to an hr and enactment with your kid straight providing immoderate of the therapeutical services but also, it's a genitor acquisition model," says Victor Perez with UCP+.

The Lewis twins learned however to sit, and teachers enactment connected their hand-eye coordination.

"It makes it benignant of amusive for them truthful we tin get their attraction for them to enactment with us, but we are truly moving connected for them to clasp connected oregon to get a artifact and scope out," says teacher Berenice Zacarias.

The compartment telephone gets Holly's attention. Her curiosity was captured connected camera arsenic she yet crawled for the precise archetypal time.

Mom and dada are grateful their babies got a boost acknowledgment to UCP+.

"I don't deliberation we could person done it by ourselves," Mason said. "There's nary way."

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