Week of April 19th, 2009

In the middle of this week I started having major pains in my lower back and abdomen. There was nothing showing up on the monitoring for the first couple days. Then they started showing up as contractions. Doctors were able to stop them with medication (Magnesium Sulfate then Indomethacin also called Indocin). Thursday night they did an ultrasound to check the position of the babies because they couldn't get them to stay on the monitor. At that ultrasound they suspected they water had broken on baby A. With a full ultrasound at the high risk clinic Friday April 24th in the morning they confirmed the water was broken. They had to stop the medications that were preventing my contractions at that point. The contractions started back up at 5 PM. They came on pretty strong and I knew I was going to have the girls. It had been a long wait in the hospital and we hoped they would be OK. I kept them in as long as possible but it was finally time. The doctor came in a little before 11 PM and confirmed they were going to do the cesarean right then. I knew surgery was always and option and even though I had done some research I never had time to get scared, at this time everything went so quickly I realized I never really thought about it. Oh well. I was taken into the ER and prepped pretty quickly. They had a stool by my head for daddy to sit on but when he came in he kicked it out of the way. He wanted to see every part of the births. We talked through the entire surgery. I only remember parts. I could feel pretty much everything, except the pain. I knew when they had started and I felt when they were using retractors, so weird. I remember daddy telling me when a foot was out and things got hectic then. Baby A (Megan) was stuck and it took the doctor some time to get her out. She was delivered at 11:19 PM. When they broke Baby B's (Olivia) water sac daddy wasn't expecting it to be like it was. She was born at 11:20 PM. They had 2 sets of neonatologists and nurses ready to start working on the girls right away. They were both alive and strong and kicking. They couldn't cry at this point though.