So the big news is I have delivered the twins!! Not saying that's good or bad news, I'm still up in arms about how to classify that one. Lots of good and bad things have happened since Tuesday morning when my water broke. Good news is I am home, was released Thursday afternoon. Bad news is Baby B is not, he's in the hospital still due to not eating and has a feeding tube now to help him gain strength so he can take a bottle. Good news is Baby A is doing great, she was released from the hospital on Thursday as well. But she is still there with her brother and parents, obviously. Bad news is I had to have a couple surgeries because I bled so much after delivery. Good news is delivery went so smooth, quick and easy! Bad news is..ah forget the good vs bad. Good news is I'm home and recovering with my family :)
Baby A is Ariela and weighed 6lbs .4oz She is 19 1/4 inches long.
Baby B is Marcus and weighed 5lbs 4oz and is 18 1/4 inches long.
They both received 8 & 9's on their apgar scores right after birth. Ariela came out screaming...and screaming...and screaming, lol. Marcus worked his lungs, but then went back to sleep and was chilling, lol. I don't think he was ready to enter the world yet, but she sure was. She's been the inpatient one for quiet a while now, so it doesn't surprise me she escaped early. Poor Marcus got the rough deal as I'm sure if they both lasted until the 30th, he'd be doing much much better.
Little on delivery day...Woke up at 5:30 to some water leaking, but fell back sleep, lol. Woke up at 6:30 to a big gush! Didn't fall back asleep this time! Called Keith who was downstairs to come up. Called the parents and my mom. It took us a while to get going as I didn't have a bag packed, plus had to get the boys up and decided what to do with them. Kaden still had a tiny fever so he couldn't go to school, no other choice but to bring him with us. Salem was able to get ready for school and he would end up leaving only about 10 minutes after us. So we got all ready and out we go. Keith is freaking a bit and I start to do the same as contractions were coming closer and she had definitely dropped so I knew I was getting pretty close!
Get to the hospital around 8:30, little sooner and I'm checked in to a room and do all that stuff. I'm 5cm already! They order the epidural and doc comes to see me. My regular doc is not on call, but the one that is is really awesome. He's very caring and concerning, which was very helpful in my case that day!
I end up getting some pitocin but that kicked in quick and I was ready to deliver at 11:30! Couple contractions and Ariels was born at 11:52am! Marcus was born at 12:01pm! That was nice and easy, no probs. Probs came when I didn't stop bleeding and I ended up in the recovery room until 2:30pm. They gave me a few shots of stuff to try and stop it, plus some pills and who knows what else. They finally decided I was okay to go back to my room. Keith and Kaden figured I was okay, so they left to go home to be with Salem and they'd come back up around 6pm to see me.
That's when all hell broke loose! I started bleeding a bunch again so off to the OR I went! I got a chance to call Keith and tell him kind of what was going on. No one was home to watch the kids, so he was stuck at home. Not like he would have been able to be in the OR with me, but atleast he would have been closer.
They had taken my epidural out back in the room, so now I was all unnumbed so they had to put me under for this first surgery. I had a C of a D&C to clean me all out, so to speak. They then packed me full of gauze. I remember waking up and asking if I was supposed to fall asleep, lol. I guess that didn't help at all as I bled right through that and so they rushed me off to interventional radiology to have a uterine artery embolazition. It's where they go through your femoral artery in your groin then into your uterine artery and stuff your tubes full of gel packs to slow the bleeding. They will disappear in 2-3 weeks. My nurses that had been with me since I was first admitted came with me for it, which was really nice! Except noone knew where this room was so we got lost on the way over, lol. We were flying through the basement tunnels to the hospital and couldn't find the room. Finally found it, which made us all chuckle. I was awake for this procedure, but don't remember much pain, guess they kept giving me stuff in my iv. I just remember how dry my mouth was! The one radiology nurse was nice and gave me some water every so often even though I wasn't supposed to have any. My OB was there and he kept telling the radiology doc to put more gel packs in me! Took 2 hours! But that procedure did the trick!!! I got done with everything and finally got back to my room at 8pm when the nurses finally called Keith to have him come up.
Our friend Jenni from Marshalltown (2 hours away) had talked to Keith and found out what was going on and she drove over to stay with the boys so he could come visit me! So Keith came up :) We were both very happy to see each other again! He was just as scared I was...and I know we had lots of others scared and concerned as well! My mom called the pastor at our new church and he came up to visit us. It was very touching that we had so many people praying and thinking of us and offering their support all over the states!!
So anyway...Tuesday night I did not get much sleep. I was on drugs but none of it was helping with the pain! My poor nurse felt SO bad for me as she was doing all she could. Finally my OB allowed me to have a Morphine drip at 3am! Took an hour or so to kick in, but once it did I was loving it! Every 10 minutes I could give me a shot of that stuff, yummy!! I'd push the button, then fall asleep and wake up on my own in 10 and push it again. I was SO sad when in the morning she was told to take it away from me. I even told her it's not fair, lol. And she agreed since I was finally getting some rest! She left it in a little longer and when the new nurse came in she kept it in until the morphine ran out. So sweet of them!!
So that was the main stuff. Wednesday brought Keith up around 9am and he left just after noon because I was so tired to let me sleep. He came up later thay day with both boys. I don't remember much of the rest. I was on pain pills (nice ones) and sleeping alot.
I was finally released Thursday afternoon and home by 3pm! To which I have laid my butt on the couch or bed and done nothing! Keith has been a HUGE help in taking care of the house, dinner, shopping, the boys and of course not letting me move without him helping me. Pain killers are still my friend, more so from the 2nd surgery being painful.
So that's that. Sorry it ended up being so long...didn't realize then when I started writing.
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