twin birth stories

Discussion in 'The First Year' started by [email protected], Sep 21, 2007.

  1. Username

    Username Well-Known Member

    I had an umedicated vaginal delivery at 41 weeks. Labor was harder than with my singletons. I think because I didn't have a head pressing on my cervix this time. Birthing is the same. After baby A was born (8lbs 3 oz) I spent about 45 minutes with her, nursing her, etc before Baby B arrived (6 lbs 3 oz). I spent some time with her, let her nurse, etc before the midwife started making noises about getting the placenta moving. It was big and beautiful with no signs of aging. I did, however, have some bleeding issues that were quickly controlled. (Gotta love the pills up your bum! They work though!)

    Recovery was much harder for me than with my singletons. Not because of labor and birth, but because the pregnancy itself was much harder and I had 4 kids to contend with this time. I found it difficult to be patient with recovery since I felt like I had "lost" so much time during the pregnancy.

    Good luck to you.
     
  2. Cindy123

    Cindy123 Well-Known Member

    Congratulations on your twin pregnancy! I have identical twin girls that were born at 36 + 3. I was induced due to PIH concerns and got my epidural asap (try not to worry about that, I felt no more than a small needle prick--and it was sure better than the few contractions I had). After dilating all day and not feeling a single thing thanks to the epidural I started pushing late in the day. After 1 1/2 hours of pushing, and Baby A not moving down even an inch, the doc decided to go with a c-section. I was feeling the blade a little more than I should have so they took me down further and unfortunately I was so loopy I don't remember the babies being born. I hated that part more than anything, but atleast everyone was safe and happy. The girls required no NICU time, but I was out for a few days with toxemia. Besides a lot of pain when trying to move the first two days the recovery really was no problem, and here we are almost a year old, and it seems like the birth was just a few weeks ago!

    Good luck to you, I bet you're ready to see those girls!
     
  3. mandyfish3

    mandyfish3 Well-Known Member

    congratulations!! Hope all these birth stories help you!

    My water broke at 1:00am at exactly 36 weeks. I was MISERABLE and so ready for it!

    I woke up DH and away we went to the hospital (45 minutes away). We arrived and they checked to make sure it was my water that broke. It had. I was put on a pad and was amazed at how much fluid there was. They put me on the monitor and waited for my Dr. She came and checked me and i was at 2 cm. Just 3 days before i was only a fingertip.

    They started me on an IV for fluids, antibitotic (postive for Strep B) and pitocin. Then the pain started! It was pretty intense and contractions came fast. Soon I was every 2 minutes or so. by then my parents and DH's parents came and were in the room. My blood pressure went up so the nurses (thankfully) kicked them out. I was so miserable. It was about 9:00 am now and I was really feeling the pain. I started throwing up with each contraction.

    My doctor came to check me then and I was 4 cm. she let me get my epidural and it was fabulous!! Of course, as the needle went in my back I was throwing up and dealing with contractiosn so I didnt' feel it AT ALL. My DH got faint though! He had to sit down.

    After that time flew. At 12:00 I was checked and I was 10 cm. They wheeled me into the operating room (that's where they do their twin deliveries in case of an emergency) and I had to get onto the operating bed. There were so many people in the room. That's really all I remember. I pushed Ella out in 3 pushes. They told me she was okay and I watched her get cleaned and weighed and put in a warmer while they turned Addison (she was transverse). The only real pain I had was when they were turning her. It hurt BAD! Then Addison came out 7 minutes later.

    Ella Catherine
    5 lb 1 oz
    1:01 pm

    Addison Kay
    5 lb 4 oz
    1:08 pm.

    The worst part of the whole ordeal was after Addison was born. She had a cord problem and was bleeding. She ended up losing 1/3 of her blood volume. They wouldnt' tell me what was goign on and whisked her away and was stitching me up. I was hysterical at this point so as soon as I was stitched, they wheeled me to see her. She had to be lifeflighted to another NICU an hour away. DH followed her down. I stayed back with Ella. That was by far the worst part. I was left alone with Ella (and my family) and DH/Addison were away. I had to get a catheter after the fact because I coudlnt' pee, and had the worst pain from my episiotomy after the epidural wore off!

    I was in the hosptial 3 days and so was Ella. Addison was in NICU for 11 days. They are both totally healthy now and doing great! I really think if Addison had been healthy and got to stay with me, I would have had a great birth experience.

    I started trying to nurse Ella and pumping right away! Whatever I pumped they put in a freezer for Addison.

    By the time Addison came home from teh NICU, my supply was well established but she never did latch on. But I still pump and bottlefeed her and nurse Ella.
     
  4. jato63@aol.com

    [email protected] Well-Known Member

    aww thanks to eveyrone for the advice!!! I wass wondering if you girls would mid if I saved your birth stories so i coul;d have soemthing to read when the time comes to help me through it!!! i dont think my hospital has wireles...
     
  5. AmynTony

    AmynTony Well-Known Member

    I had the twins by c-section at 36w due to pre-eclampsia...I went in to be induced the night before and the cervidil didn't work so I had a c-section the next morning when my bp hit 210/101 from the pitocin they were trying to use to induce me was shooting it up....

    not to frighten you but they couldn't get my spinal right and had to poke me 10 times to get it in....

    Ian Matthew was born at 11:16 am and was 4 lb 8 oz and 16 1/4 in long
    Abigail Rose was born at 11:18 am and was 3 lb 8 oz and 15 3/4 in long

    our hospital does not allow rooming in so they went to the nursery at night but were with me all day long...

    they also came home with me 5 days later...

    I was very out of it after surgery between the spinal drugs and the mag sulfate for my bp - I didn't see the twins till nearly midnight
     
  6. reeba1976

    reeba1976 Well-Known Member

    I had my guys at 30 weeks and 1 day. I had a perfect pregnancy up until that point. No complications whatsoever. I did not even realize I was in labor! I had lots and lots of back pain (but I had been having dull pain most of my pregnancy). These just got real intense. We actually had friends over for dinner that night!! We had to ask them to leave so we could go to the hospital! I got there and I had dialated to a 3. Within an hour I had gone to a 4. They gave me magnesium to stop the labor. It did not help. Getting that mag made me feel like I was sitting on two hot oven burners!! After 8 hours, they decided to go ahead with a c-section. By that point, I was having a TON of back pain. I never had pain up front, only back pain. At that point, I was welcoming a spinal epi. I did not feel a thing getting the epi. Only a shot from where he instered a small needle for the numbing med. It worked within minutes. They brought my DH in and after about 10 min, I asked DH, "when are they going to start". His comment...."They already have". HEHE! My guys were born fairly quick and everything after that point goes into fast forward for me.

    Good luck!!
     
  7. bigmama

    bigmama Well-Known Member

    I am medically trained which if anything greatly intensifies my fear of and distaste for L&D wards at hospitals, (dare I say loathing?). They are a neccessary evil when it comes to having babies, creating almost as many problems if not MORE problems as they save people from. My youngest twins, they did all kinds of awful crap to me at the hospital without my consent and gave me a combination of meds that are on my allergy list largely--can't take these meds largely because I become incoherent on these two meds especially if they are administered together. I'm combat trained, and they finally angered me and scared me so badly apparently I decked several people and left. [I do not remeber this AT ALL] Rode home sitting on twin A's head trying not to have him in the car. Took superhuman effort to get up the stairs without having him, then he apparently had receeded higher up. I really think he really was presenting first originally just as we had been told, but that they rearranged themselves. Collapsed on the couch and fell into a dead exhausted sleep. Think I slept 40 mins or an hour. Woke up pushing. Called 911 to get back to the hospital. Was refused an ambulance due to an insane mix-up. Immediately crawled on my hands and knees to the door to unlock it for the paramedics, at which time my daughter's head emerged. Called 911 back to ask again for an ambulance, (still on my hands and knees), told stupid wench dispatcher the baby's head was out. Neighbor arrived to help and caught my daughter---she was tiny and literally fell out when I stood up. Neighbor is an-ex ambulance driver but not much help as to shoulder dystocia with my son. Finally got some help when the ambulance arrived, but all the position changes I had tried to free my son's shoulders had not worked and it gets fuzzy at this point b/c apparently had a seizure. Woke in the ambulance mumbling about "I thought they weren't allowed to shackle prisoners in labor anymore.." Was coherent in a minute or two. They said my son's head had receeded and they didn't know I was in labor, let alone ADVANCED labor. Once they saw my daughter, I guess they didn't know it was twins? Asked for the hand mirror that (in my fog) I had still brought with me, baby's huge head very dusky, dark-in distress. Told them my son needed to be born right away, so they stopped the ambulance to effect delivery. Coached the paramedic thru performing his first (generous) episiotomy, but he too was unversed in shoulder dystocia and wanted to waste precious minutes getting OBs permission to follow my instructions, so, with help, I squatted next to the gurney and my son finally fell out. He's fine, no thanks to the hospital and the incompetent dispatcher. My daughter got MRSA from her stay in the hospital which we sent to an independent lab to be cultured and verified she did not get from me. Am still fighting in court for my babies because I'm not a nicey nicey quiet easy, passive, obedient little patient. Gold stars to the paramedic who did my episiotomy, I haven't had any problems with it at all. He was kind and respectful too, listened well in a stressful situation and followed directions well, dealing well with what had to be a confusing and difficult situation.
     
  8. jato63@aol.com

    [email protected] Well-Known Member

    these r great labor stories
     
  9. caba

    caba Banned

    I had my twins at 36w3d. I had some preterm labor scares around 29 weeks, so I was put on terbutaline to control the contractions. My doc told me to stop taking them at 36weeks if i made it that far. As soon as I stopped the meds at 36 weeks, I was contracting all the time. Nothing painful, I think they were Braxton Hicks, but I had a ton of them! So at 36w3d I was having a lot of them and getting nervous, so I called my doc on call and they said I was only 1cm dilated. But wanted me to go to the hospital to just get checked out.

    All the previous times this had happened, they gave me an IV and the contractions would slow down and they would send me home. This time the IV of fluids wasn't slowing down the contractions. I still wasn't dilating, and the contractions weren't hurting me. But my doc came in and said that the kids had cooked long enough. She said she could send me home, but the contractions would probably justcontinue, and get worse. So she said it was go time. Basically I just hung out in the room until they brought me down to the operating room. I was most scared of the epidural, and it was a piece of cake. Everything happened really quick. I think they started moving me down to the OR at 345am and the babies arrived at 4:08am and 4:10am. My DS was 5.8 lbs and my DD was 5lbs. My husband was able to see them and go with them down to the NICU, but I didn't get to see them, which SUCKED! They went to the NICU just for observation for the first 12 hours of their life. I was in recovery and moved to my room. So it wasn't until 5pm that night that I got to see and hold them. And I'm starting to well up just remembering that moment. It was the most special moment of my life. They were perfect and healthy and doing great. We staying in the hospital for 4 days. The labor was the easy part! haha ... once we got home, well, that was another story!

    Congrats on your girls! Twins are such a joy ...
     
  10. AshleyLD

    AshleyLD Well-Known Member

    QUOTE(DoubleTrouble07 @ Sep 23 2007, 02:33 PM) [snapback]419976[/snapback]
    i got a quetsion will they stopp ur labor if you tell them you dont want them too?


    i went into "labor" a couple of times.. and i begged them to not stop labor... they did it anyways... as for being scared that one will be vag then the next will be a section.... i think everyone is scared of that.. i know i was.. thats why they are born in the OR just in case.. i almost had to have a section for baby B.. her heart stopped beating after A was born.. they cut me (down there) to get her out really fast.. she was blue and not breathing for like 3 mins, but i still went home with them. the DRs did a really good job at not letting me know about baby B's problems.. i didnt find out until a day later when DH and my mom told me... (mom was allowed in the delivery... had to stand way out of the way though)
     
  11. jato63@aol.com

    [email protected] Well-Known Member

    ohh ok glad to know ur baby was ok!!!!
     
  12. bridgeport

    bridgeport Well-Known Member

    I've been on here awhile, but I'm not sure I've ever shared the birth story, so here goes.

    At 30 weeks, I woke up at 5 am and just felt like something wasn't right. I couldn't really pinpoint it, but I told my husband I thought we should go to the hospital, just in case. It never occurred to me I'd be having the boys that day; I just wanted to see them kicking on the ultrasound to reassure myself everything was okay. As we set out, I was trying to think how I would justify getting my husband up and out so early for nothing.

    Well, at 5:30, on the way to the hospital, I had my first contraction. I had my second contraction 2 minutes later. By the time we got to the hospital, about 5:45, the contractions were pretty much constant. They got both boys on the monitor right away and checked me; I was 8 cm dilated. The nurse said it looked like I was having my babies that morning, and we could not believe what she was saying. My contractions were pretty constant, and they shoved some forms in my face and asked me to sign authorizing an emergency c-section. I'd love to see what my signature looked like; I couldn't even see straight.

    Next thing I knew, I had a mask over my face and was falling asleep. I finally came back a couple of hours later and found out that I had two baby boys! Bridger was born at 6:49 (just over an hour after the first contraction) and Porter was born at 6:50. They were in the NICU for about 6 weeks, off of the ventilator by that first night. They were jaundiced, but otherwise they just needed to stay there to grow and learn to feed. They were very big for 30 weekers (4-3 and 3-14).

    We never did know why I went into labor that morning; never a sign of preterm labor before that day. I did find out a few things from the NICU nurses later on, though. Bridger needed CPR after he was born, and I believe that is why I needed to be rushed into surgery...no time even for an epidural....because he needed to be out of there asap. He also had the cord wrapped around his foot. Then apparently I was losing too much blood and they needed to get Porter out asap to get their attention on me, and my doctor delivered him still in his sack to get him out as quickly as possible. They managed to finish without needing to give me a transfusion, but I needed to take iron supplements and was pretty slow moving for the next several weeks because of the blood loss.

    I still don't know how I knew to go to the hospital that morning, but thank god I did! So, trust your instincts!!! Now I'm all healed up (I was up and walking the next day and actually feeling good about being up and walking by two days after the surgery....sore for awhile, but not too bad altogether) and I have two perfect boys!! Well worth a morning of trauma. :)
     
  13. jato63@aol.com

    [email protected] Well-Known Member

    I agree with you!!! we know when something isnt right
     
  14. jato63@aol.com

    [email protected] Well-Known Member

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