Lucy and Jill are here!

After 27 hours of labor, and eventually needing a c-section, Lucy Joy and Jillian Mary were born on Sunday July 12th at 6:13 and 6:14 a.m. They were born at 38weeks, 5 days gestation.

Lucy: 6lb. 6oz. 21" long
Jill: 6lb. 9oz. 19" long

No need for DNA testing, the girls are definately fraternal! One is long, lanky, with dark hair (lucy), and Jill is short, round, with blond hair. They hardly even look like sisters!

My birth story was long, traumatic and frankly, pretty terrible. In fact, poor Jill is in the NICU right now...even though Lucy and I are home. Everything looked great, but we noticed on the second day that Jill quit nursing and seemed to be having these weird little tremors...almost like little seizures. Lots of tests were done, and it appears that it is due to oxygen deprivation...possibly that her cord was being pinched with every contraction...and her liver was deprived of oxygen...which is causing the high liver enzyme numbers and possibly the shakes she is having. Luckily, assuming she continues to eat well, she can come home in 3-7 days...if she backslides, it could be longer, but the doctors are pretty optimistic because she has gotten progressively better since she's been there...like 36 hours.

So, just goes to show that just because you make it to a long gestation, it doesn't guarantee that you will avoid NICU time!!!

Here are some photos:

http://gibsonsurprise.blogspot.com/2009/07/update-and-pictures.html

 

I've been stalking your blog for updates and was so sorry to hear about all of your troubles!!! :hug: Congrats on their birth and it's awesome that Jill is getting better by the day! I hope it will all work out perfectly!! Stay strong momma and enjoy your new baby girls! They are gorgeous and I love their names!!!

 

Welcome to the world Jillian & Lucy! :wub: :wub:
Congratulations on your little ones momma!

I hope that Jill's NICU stay is a short one & that she is home with you all very soon! :hug:

Thank you for sharing your story & the beautiful photos!! :hug:

 

Glad to hear Jill is making such good progress! What beautiful babies you have! Great sizes!
welcome girls!!!

 

:Clap: Congrats on the babies delivery and a prayer that Jill has a short stay in the NICU! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

 

Congratulations on your beautiful baby girls. Prayers for baby Jill, hope she's home soon!

Congratulations on your beautiful baby girls. Prayers for baby Jill, hope she's home soon!

 

Congrats and welcome to Lucy and Jill! I am so sorry to hear you had a traumatic birth experience and do hope that the NICU stay is a brief one. Look forward to hearing how it goes getting up an going with two twins + a toddler!

 

Congrats on your girls. I am sorry that you had a rough delivery and that Jill is in the NICU. If you need any support, we have a great NICU forum that has lots of BTDT Moms waiting for you. The link is in my siggy! :hug:

 

:Clap: Congratulations and Welcome Jill & Lucy to the world. :wub: THey are adorable! I hope that Jill's stay in the NICU is a short one. :hug:

 

You have some adorable girls there! :clapping: Congratulations Momma! I hope Jill has a speedy stay in the NICU!

 

Congrats on your girls. Welcome to the world Lucy and Jill!!​

They share my birthday :banana:

I am sorry to hear your delivery was traumatic. Hopefully Jill's stay in NICU will be very short.

 

Congratulations Momma!! :woo: Welcome to the 1st year! :yahoo: I hope Jill's NICU stay is short and uneventful! :hug:

 

Congratulations on your girls!!! I'm sorry to hear that Jill is in the NICU....but i'm praying that its a short stay!

They are beautiful though!

 

Congratulations Mama!! So glad you made it through. Sorry to hear that the delivery was difficult and that little Jill is in the NICU. Hopefully she will be home soon!

 

it's great that jill is getting better and such a long labor followed by a section really sucks!!! i hope jill is home very soon with you and lucy!!!

 

YAY! You posted!!! Congrats, so glad you had those babies finally!!!! Were you induced? I know you were possibly scheduled for that.
Hope your other little one comes home soon! And again, congrats!!!

Molly
37 weeks 3 days

 

congrats on your girls! They are adorable!


Take care & enjoy!

 

No, I didn't end up being induced...my water broke on it's own. But unfortunately, I went 12 hours before I started contracting...and it wasn't strong enough to change my cervix. After hours of laboring like that (unmedicated), I asked for a couple of doses of Stadol...with my son, my labor stopped too, but once I was able to rest for a couple of hours, I progressed rapidly and had him about an hour later...so I thought I would try that again...no such luck. Still at 3 cm. Dr. wanted to section. I thought to first try an epidural (which I never in a million years thought I would ask for)...but only so that they could pump me with Pitocin as quickly and agressively as possible (within safety limits of course)...because even an epidural was prefereable to a c/s and by that point, I had been laboring for over 20 hours and knew that I didn't have the energy/stamina to take on high doses of Pit w/o some help...after a few hours of that, I was *barely* 5 cm and the monitor showed little bitty rolling hills for contractions rather than the steep peaks it should have been considering they were literally pumping me with just about the highest dosage of Pitocin they could...I think my uterus was so overextended (I had 13 pounds of baby and I'm 5'2"!) that it couldn't contract properly.

Finally, after 27 hours, I consented to the c/s. I'm fine with the decision since we tried everything we could to avoid it, but holy moly, this recovery is soooo much different than that of a vaginal birth!

 

Congratulations on your gorgeous girls & :welcome: to First Year!

 

I love their names! So sweet! :wub: Welcome to the First Year!