Re: Our Stories "You're Having Multiples" & Birth Stories
It’s Twins!
So I went in for a regular check up at 12 weeks, did all the regular stuff-weigh, blood pressure. Then he felt my tummy, he didn’t actually measure me but said that I was feeling a little big for 12 weeks which could be becuz of a few different things-dates could be wrong, big baby, or twins. I told him I was sure of my dates and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was twins (twins run in family-far back, but there). He seamed to not really think it would twins, but he scheduled an u/s to see what was going on. I was so glad to be having u/s becuz I had 2 m/c before I got pg with my son, and at the beginning of my pgcy I had a lot of bleeding, but it stopped and my numbers were good so I hadn’t had a u/s earlier. I’d always wanted twins so I didn’t want to get my hopes up to high, even tho financially I knew it would be tough, I still wanted twins so bad. So I told dh that there was possibility so it wouldn’t be a total shock on the day if it was, we chose not to tell our family’s tho becuz they already thought it was too soon to be pg again (my son just turned 1). So my mom came to my u/s with me to watch my son during the actual u/s. It seemed to take forever for the tech to do all she needed (I don’t know if it’s done the same where y’all are, but here they do all the measurements and everything first with the screen usually turned away so you can’t see-I guess in case something is wrong), so when she finally asked me if I was ready to see I was going crazy. She turned the screen and said “can you see?” Now I could see 2 babies but still didn’t want to get my hopes up incase I was wrong-you know how u/s are, kinda confusing sometimes. I said “I think so”, and she said “this is baby a” (pointing), and this is baby b. I teared up but was so excited and nervous for my mom to see. The tech went and got my mom, and when my mom looked at the screen she couldn’t really tell what anything was, so I told her there were 2 babies and the tech pointed them out-I think she almost fell out of her chair!! (she’s in a wheelchair). I was so excited, I couldn’t wait so show those first pictures of my babies to everyone!
The Day My Twins Were Born
It was Good Friday, I was 37 weeks, I wanted to have those babies!! I had been in and out of the hospital all week, mild contractions, hopes of being induced, but disappointed twice that week. My dr gave me the ok to be induced Friday if L&D wasn’t busy (could have been Wednesday but there were soooooo many women having babies that day that they didn’t have the time to devote to me that my dr wanted). I called the hospital at about 6:30am and they said I was good to go (they knew who I was by now! haha) We got my son over to my parents and were at the hospital around 8am I think. I met the on call ob (unfortunately my dr was off that day) and he was really good. He told me becuz I was being induced I could have the epidural first if I wanted to, so I totally opted for that!! Getting the epidural totally sucked, it took 3 tries cuz it would not go in right. He said it was becuz I was short, my spinal cord is a little compressed making it harder to get the line in. I had the best nurse thru the whole thing tho-she was actually with me thru my whole labor and delivery and she was so great. So after the line was in place they started the on the meds, it was great to not feel anything. They were keeping an eye on me tho becuz my epi was a little high it froze me higher thru the chest, luckily it never affected my breathing. There were times I was having 6 minute contractions-thank goodness I didn’t have to feel those!! I believe all the meds were started by 10am, they checked me around 11:45am and I was only at 3cm (I was 2cm when I went in) so it seemed to be going pretty slow. My MIL and SIL were there with my husband and I, I was trying to get as much rest as I could before I had to start pushing those babies out so at about 12:45pm dh and MIL decided to take a walk and get a drink. As I dozed in and out, I started to feel some pressure so I told my nurse and she checked me and I was 7cm and going fast-that was about 1pm and by 1:10pm I was 10 cm and ready to push. They wheeled me into the OR (they do regular births there in case there is a problem and an emergency c-sec has to be done), got me all ready to go and told me to start pushing if I felt like I needed to. Well dh still wasn’t back so I didn’t want to start pushing at all!! Luckily my SIL was with the whole time and she was great. Finally dh and mil got there at about 1:25pm just as the put a call out for them. DH held my hand and talked to me softly and Ryder Jack Allen was at 1:54pm, they put him right up on my tummy while they cut the cord (something that I didn’t get with my first son) then they took him to be weighed and checked by the ped-he was doing good but his breathing was a little shallow so they took him to the nursery to keep an eye on him. Time for #2. I was pushing her down as best I could, found out the next day that I started bleeding a lot, they figured my placenta was pulling off the uterus, the babies heart rate dropped right down to 38bpm (again didn’t know until the next day-I’m so glad they hide that!) Luckily I had managed to push her down far enough that the dr could get her with the forceps and he got he out right away, fast as possible-Jorja Katherine Marie was brought into the world at 2:09pm, exactly 15 minutes after her brother. She was taken to the table right away but was doing ok, her breathing wasn’t great they took her to the nursery as well. Ryder came back to me almost right away, and Jorja wasn’t too far behind.
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