Well, I was hoping to write about my last shower this weekend and fill you in on an update of my last doctor visit but that all seems unimportant now. (PS. I got a picture though. This was taken on the day my water broke!)THE BABIES HAVE ARRIVED!!!! Baby A & Baby B, both BOYS came into this world Sunday (02/25/07) at around 1:35pm. Everyone is doing very well considering the fact that they still had about a month more to "Cook" in my womb. (Guess I got my wish from my last post!)
Now, you should know by now that there have been little uneventful moments in this entire pregnancy. D-Day was no exception to the rule. Here's the whole story:
Last Wednesday I had a lot of uncomfortable, yet painless tightening going on in my abdomen. This has been occurring for several months, but usually only at night. On Wednesday, however it just never let up, so I called my doctor. They had me go to the hospital for a stress test & confirmed that I was having a few small, yet consistent contractions. They gave me a shot to stop them and checked to see if I had dialated at all. Doc said the contractions had not affected my uterus, so they sent me home and said to take it easy.
I felt great, no more contractions, nothing at ALL that would lead me to believe that these little guys were ready to be born. Matt left on Friday morning for a quickie work trip to Denver. He was supposed to return Saturday afternoon, but with weather delays to Indy his flight was cancelled. No big deal...until my water broke!
I was just hanging out at my parent's house. I had decided to spend the night with them because the weather was bad out and I figured Matt wouldn't get a flight home until Sunday anyway. We were just sitting in front of the TV and all of the sudden, GUSH!! Mom and Dad took me to Columbus Regional Hospital and Matt frantically started searching for any flight to come home.
The best flight he could find was one from Denver arriving in Nashville, TN at 12:15am. He took it, rented a car from there and headed north. The doctor at CRH confirmed that I had indeed broken my bag of water and they decided to send me to St. Vincent's in Indianapolis where they had a higher-level ICU for the babies...just in case it was needed. I took off in an ambulance and Mom & Dad followed.
En route, I remembered that I had left our brand new video camera & still camera at my parent's house. I was sobbing hysterically at this point, fighting one-on-top-of-the-other contractions (OUCH!!) and worrying that Matt was going to miss the whole thing, or hurt himself trying to get to me. I called my parents from the ambulance and told them about the camera saying that I HAD TO HAVE IT so that I could at least capture everything for Matt to see. They called my cousin, Rachel and had her and her husband meet us at the hospital with theirs. When I arrived, I was stunned to hear a tap on the ambulance window. It was them with their cameras already filming!! They followed me into my room and left the cameras with my parents.
Initially, the doctors here tried to stop my contractions. The medication they used worked very well and slowed them down considerably so that we could at least get some sleep through the night. The intention of stopping labor was so that they could give me a 48-hour dose of steroids to strengthen the babies' lungs. My parents, bless their dear hearts, were right here in the room with me the whole time. Matt, safely arrived at around 6:30 am!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was overjoyed, to say the least!!!
The next day my contractions started coming back pretty regularly and they ultimately decided that these babies were going to be born within the next few hours, despite anything else we could do. They scheduled a c-section because Baby B was still breech. Everything went very smoothly and at 1:32 I heard the first hea
lthy cry from our dear, sweet baby BOY! Matt and I were both flooded with emotions, but before we could even soak it all in we heard another very healthy cry from Baby B...another BOY!!!!! They took them into a small room next to the OR for observation while they finished with my surgery. Matt got to go into the room and take a few pictures, and they let him carry them out, one at a time for me to see. I couldn't hold them, but I could kiss their little cheeks and sob all over them. It was truly the most amazing thing I've ever exper
ienced!!They are now both resting comfortably in the NICU. They are getting a little extra support/oxygen from C-PAP and have some IV's in their arms, but overall they are doing very well. I'm so proud of them! A very drugged-up me was wheeled in to see them in my hospital bed after surgery. It's about 10:30 am now and I'm getting ready to go over and see them in a wheelchair this time. I still haven't been able to hold them yet, which is why we haven't settled on names either. I need to bond and hold & look at them closely first before we can truly decide what to call them. I'll keep you posted!
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