My twins are here!

Here's my birth story!

Jake Christopher arrived on April 5th at 4:08am at 5lbs 9oz, 18.5 inches long
Hailey Rose arrived on April 5th at 4:10am at 5lbs, 18 inches long

I stopped taking my terb pills on Monday April 2nd at exactly 36
weeks ... pretty much right away I could feel the difference in how
many BH contractions I was having ... unless I was laying on my side
they seemed to be pretty constant ...


Finally on Wed night the 4th I got a little nervous and told my DH
that I wanted to get checked out. At my last drs appt prior, I was
only 50% effaced and 1 cm dilated ... but I was worried that all the
contractions were moving me along ... and my next appt wasn't till
Friday and I just need a little piece of mind ... My doctors have two
offices, and one was open late Wed night, so we went in there to get
checked out my the on call doc ... She said I was now like 75% effaced
and still at only 1 cm dialated ...


Now this was a doctor I had only seen one time during my pregnancy and
it was very early on ... and they didn't have my chart at this office
since I had never been there ... and although when I called in I gave
my name and info, I guess someone forgot to mention to her that it was
twins ... cause she got one heartbeat with the doppler and went to put
it away and told me i should just go home and relax ... so I was like
"are you going to try to get the other heartbeat?" ... and she was
like "oh, it's twins? well, maybe you should go over to the hospital
to the PET unit and have then check you out a little further just to
be safe"


So, off to the hospital again ... luckily DH and I had put our bags in
the car before leaving the house ... just in case ... once at the
hospital they did the usual ... hooked up the heart monitors on the
babies ... everyone was fine, and hooked up the contraction monitoring
thing as well ... i was having them ... but not really feeling
them ... so i assumed they were just BH ... they gave me an IV and
wanted to see if hydrating me would slow things down ... but it didn't
seem to ... finally my doc came in ... and I was so glad cause the
doctor we really wanted to deliver our babies was the one on call ...
so i felt good that she was there ...


basically she said that they hoped that the rehydration would stop the
contractions . ... but it wasn't ... she told me since I wasn't in
pain, she could send me home ... but that since I stopped the terb,
the contractions wouldn't stop, and chances are I would just be back
in a day or two ... she was very happy that I was now at 36w3d (it was
after midnight at this point) and she felt that we should go forward
and deliver the angels ...


well, I just didn't think it was going to happen! Me and DH looked at
each other just like "holy crap!" ... My doc came back in and told us
that it was a crazy delivery night, and there were like 5 c-sections
in front of me (none being done by my doc though) ... and that it
would be around 4am ...


So it was good, cause I just relaxed, and called all my family ... DH
ran home to get some last minute stuff ... I wasn't in pain, so the
doc said we would just wait and do the epidural in the operation
room ... but if I did start to feel pain, they could easily do it
sooner ...


Finally they came to get me and brought me to the OR ... DH had to
wait outside while they prepped me and gave me the epidural ... I was
really really nervous about that, cause I was just scared of it ...
but for me it was fine ... I felt the initial pinch of the numbing
meds ... but after that I didn't really feel anything else ... just
pressure ... but nothing hurt ... and suddenly my legs starting
getting all tingly ... but I can second Leighann on the shaking ...
whoa ... it was non-stop ... i'm sure it was partially the medicine,
but also partially being scared ...


they brought DH back in once the sheet was up, and he sat next to me
and held me hand and we just kind of looked at each other, scared,
excited and mostly just totally freaked! My doc was great and talked
to me the whole time ... and suddenly was like "Your baby boy is about
to be born!" and suddenly I heard what sound like a duck ... haha ...
he made a few loud quack like sounds ... and then DH was allowed to
get up and look at him ... and I just remember him saying "he's so
beautiful, and he's got a ton of dark hair!" .. i was crying from the
minute I heard me cry ...


then they started working on getting baby 2 ... Let me tell you it
felt like 20 minutes before they got her out ... but obviously not,
since there birth times were only 2 minutes apart ... I heard the doc
say "Welcome to the world, baby girl" and I cried more and DH got up
to see her and said "More hair on that one!" and then they brought DH
over to take pics of them ...


They then called DH to go to the nursery with the babies ... It killed
me, cause I never saw mu son ... I guess the nurse in charge of him
just cleaned him all up and didn't think to bring him to me ... she
just walked out of the room with him and DH ... the nurse carrying my
daughter was following them but stopped and said
"hey momma, look this way, heres your baby girl" ... so I at least got
to see her ...


Then after they put me all back together again I was rolled off to the
recovery room ... my DH visited me there and showed me pics ... and my
parents came in and said how beautiful the babies are ... It was
tough, cause they brought them to the NICU for observation ... and I
was on mandatory 12 hours bed rest cause of the c-section ... so I
coudln't go down and see them, and they couldn't leave the NICU to
come to me ... so they told me if the babies weren't released from the
NICU before 5pm, I could go down in a wheelchair and see them
then ...


Luckily DH, and my parents were allowed in the NICU, so they went and
took tons of pics and brought them to me ... not that it's remotely
the same, but at least I was able to see them ...


I was brought to my room probably about an hour or hour and a half in
recovery and the next few hours are a blur ... but finally I was up
and the epidural wore off and I sent DH and my parents back to the
NICU to get more pics ... and they came back up like 2 minutes later
and were like "the nicu released them!" they are coming up to the
regular nursery now ... I was ecstatic ... they didn't need to be on
any machines after their birth ... they just had some rapid breathing
issues that had to do with excess fluid in the lungs ... but they
resolved it themselves ... little troupers!


So around 6pm on their birthday, they rolled them into my room, and
the minute I saw those beautiful babies I burst into tears ... we were
all crying ... It was the most wonderful experience of my life ... and
I can't imagine loving 2 people more than I love them!


So I was in the hospital until Monday, and we all went home
together ... its been a rough start ... we are tired ... not
sleeping ... trying to figure out how to be parents ... and i'm
insanely emotional ... but I think that's just normal ...

Here's a link to some pics ...
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=9QcuXDJo3YQs

 

:birthday: :birthday: Congratulations on your babies! Yeah for no NICU time!!!! Enjoy your babies. :yahoo:

 

CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

OH MY GOD!!!! They are so cute!!!! Congratulations on your beautiful babies and it sounds like they are doing great. :birthday:

 

CONGRATS! They are sooooooooooo cute! Love the pics, thanks for sharing.

Netty

 

congratulations on the babies. They are very very cute. I cant wait to have mine. I know you were going crazy waiting all day to see them the day you had them. Well good luck.

 

What wonderful news, congratulations!!!!

 

I would love to see the pics but can't get the link to work : (

But congrats on the healthy babies!!!

 

Congratulations!!!! Now I'm sitting here all teary!! Hope you are recovering well! Best of luck! :birthday:

 

I'm teary too!

The link wouldn't work for me either.

Congratulations! I know you guys will be settled in soon!

 

Congrats on your new bundles! Sounds like everything is going well for you now that you are all at home together. Thanks for sharing your story!

Juli

 

Congrats - what a great birth experience!!

And wow - great troopers being released from NICU so soon!!

 

Congratulations! You should print this thread out for the baby books!

Don't forget to take care of yourself Momma!

 

Congratulations!!! They are both gorgeous x

 

They are sooo beautiful! I love the "bow" on Hailey's head!

 

what adorable babes! congrats!

 

They are gorgeous!!!!!! What a great story - I started crying - I can't believe how beautiful they are!!!!

 

What a story! Your babies are beautiful. :birthday:

 

:birthday: To the precious babies you got to take right home! How wonderful. They are darling!

 

[SIZE=12pt]Congrats! They are beautiful[/SIZE]

 

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 2 BEAUTIFUL BABIES!!!!

 

I just love to read about everyone's experiences. I'm so glad things went well and congratulations on your beautiful babies! Love that HAIR!! Happy Birthday Hailey and Jake!

 

Congratulations! :Clap:

I also wanted to say that you have done very well on your birth story! I love reading these kinds of descriptive stories. It is long and descriptive! Thanks for sharing your story! and Great Job Mama! :clapping:

Lots of love!
Meshell

 

Congrats!!! You should have lots of joy from them. Its funny how much they each look like such a boy and such a girl. I find that sometimes its hard to tell by the face when they are first born.

 

They are so beautiful! Brings tears to my eyes andmakes me want another one (or two!) CONGRATS!

Angel

 

They are absolutely GORGEOUS!! Good work Mama

 

They are so precious...thanks for sharing your story. Enjoy your little ones!!

 

Congratulations and :birthday:

 

Congrats!!!!! That's a great story, and the babies are absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

Congrats.... what beautiful babies you have.

 

Congratulations!!! That was such a treat to read. I am so glad that everyone is doing well. Enjoy this special, special time...even if you aren't getting any sleep!!!!

 

:sign0016: to FY and congratulations on the births of your twins! The pictures are wonderful, such alert little ones! Great birth story too! It brought back so many memories of my kids' births too! See you on FY!

 

Congratulations! :good:

 

Congratulations on yoru adorable babies! I love all the hair!

 

:Clap: Congratulations on your twins