They have arrived.

The babies are here! Well, they have been here for 10 weeks, but I have been a little busy and not able to write…. so I will be playing some catch up.  My intent is to use this blog as a means for the family to share in our adventures with the twins, but first I will fill you in on their birth story!

I was feeling huge and very much ready to meet these babies.  My parents came on the 4^th of July as I was convinced the babies would be here soon due to the swelling, discomfort, and contractions – well I hoped they would be here sooner rather than later at that point.  I spent most of the week with my parents in an effort to get them out! I walked miles, ate pineapple, started taking primrose oil, walked up and down about a million stairs while my dear Hubby played “Eye of the Tiger” for me, and even drank a glass of wine.  Nothing seemed to be working – not even the overheating due to our air conditioner breaking.  Nothing like being nine months pregnant with twins and without a/c, needless to say we ended up spending our last two kidless nights in a hotel. 

I went to the doctor the morning of July 11^th where I was fully prepared to beg the doctor to admit me to the hospital.  Turns out I looked pretty pathetic and did not have to do much begging – that combined with the 7 pounds gained in six days and the high blood pressure got me a trip to the hospital for monitoring.  Once at the hospital, I was told I was not meeting all of the criteria for them to induce because technically I was early (36w4d), but they would monitor and we would make a decision once the lab work came back.  A decision did not need to be made because they checked and I was already dilated to a 2 and then shortly thereafter a 3 so I was admitted in active labor.  We were moved to a room about two that day (room 11 on the 11^th – thought it was a sign!) and the rest of the day is pretty much a blur.  I was allowed to eat a meal, a very good thing since I had not been feeling well and did not have much breakfast so I was starving at that point).  They continued to check and by this time I had been on the non-stress test all day.  I did get an ultrasound that morning and it was discovered that the babies were both head down – a good thing because I was hoping to avoid a c-section if at all possible.  I received some Pitocin to speed the process on a little, they broke my water and I got an epidural.  I found out that we had to deliver in the operating room due to the chance of my little girl flipping over once she found all the room after her brother’s eviction.  I didn’t know that prior to that day so it was a little upsetting because it meant that my mom could not be in the room as well, but I knew she and my dad would be waiting for me in the hall.  We went to the operating room about 2 in the morning on July 12^th-didn’t make the 11^th deadline that the Hubby had in the pool.  I will spare you all the gory details in the operating room, but after about 2 hours there was an extra little body in the room as Landon Patrick joined us at 3:53 am at 6lbs 4 oz.  His sister, Riley Anne, joined us about 50 long minutes later at 6lbs 3 oz.  She was bigger than expected as well as entering the world face up- forcing us to wait a little longer for her appearance.

 

We were very lucky to have a friend come to the hospital and take some pictures for us, Below are some of my favorites, but there were far too many I love to choose a few. Thank you to www.devinneyphotography.com