The Twins are here!!!!!

Here is the short story: I went in to Labor and Delivery with high blood pressure and signs of mild pre-eclampsia last Monday, 5/10. I was monitored for a few hours and then sent home, though my headache never really got better. By Tuesday my headache still would not go away so i decided to call my OB again ad he sent me off to L&D again. Only this time, i was told i was going to stay overnight. Wednesday morning i had a talk with my OB while in the hospital. He said he knew i was uncomfortable, but wanted me to be aware of the risks of me delivering at 36 weeks. He said i was borderline pre-eclamptic, but not worried enough to deliver the babies yet. He said that if he sent me home i would likely be right back so he suggested i just stay and try to make it to 37 weeks. If i waited to get to 37 weeks he had no issues delivering me. He also said if i got to the point while in the hospital where i just could not take it anymore that i had the option of him doing an amnio on me to check the babies lung maturity. If they were mature, he would deliver. So, we mutually came to the decision that i would wait it out at least a few days in the hospital and see how i felt and then we could go from there. Meanwhile, i am having contractions that show up on the monitor a lot. I was given 6 shots of terbutaline up until Wednesday afternoon, where he said Enough is Enough and said if my body went in to labor that he would not stop it. I continued to contract all of Wedneday night and early Thursday morning. They were getting pretty intense, and i was feeling pretty bad. I had decided that morning that i was going to tell my doc that i had reached my breaking point. Luckily, i didn't have to! He came into my room at 7:00am and told me that things had changed a bit. My headache was not going away, despite taking all sorts of drugs, AND I was having contractions every 2-4 minutes on the monitor. So, he said if he kept me there i would go into active labor very quickly.. and then he said.. let's go get these babies! I could hardly believe it. They wanted to do the C Section right the but i asked if we could wait because my husband had gone to work that morning and it would take him an hour and a half to get to the hospital. So, the Section was scheduled at Noon. I was a bundle of nerves at this point. All this anticipation and my babies would be here so soon. I was so glad to see DH when he finally arrived at the hospital! The walk to the OR was scary to me, and then came the time to get the Spinal. This, is not, a fun experience. Not at all. They asked me to slump my back and relax my shoulders. I immediately held onto the wonderful nurse in front of me. When it was over i kept thinking my feet and legs would go numb, but i could still move them. It was really starting to freak me out. So they got a sharp stick thing and poked my arm where i could feel it and then poked my leg and stomach. I kept tellig them i could feel it. At one point i started to cry, i couldn't hold it in any more. It was scary. I kept thinking they would cut me and i would be able to feel everything. My OB asked how i was doing, and i told him i was scared. They decided to try the Spinal again. They did the whole thing i the same spot and it didn't work. So, they had to do it again.. a third time, and it finally worked. The surgery itself seemed like it took forever. Apparently i had a lot of scar tissue so it took them awhile to get through it. Before i knew it they had Corban out and he had a great cry. Not a minute later Katelyn was born.

Corban Jay weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and 20 inches long

Katelyn Elaine weighted 5 pounds, 3 ounces and 18 inches long

They are beautiful. Perfect. Precious. They look NOTHING alike. It is really pretty funny. Katelyn looks like the rest of my brood (my husband) and Corban is the lone ranger, the only one that looks like me. I love it. They have done so well, have been in an open air bassinet since being born and i have been able to feed them every 3 hours since birth. They will be able to go home with us either tomorrow or Monday when we are discharged. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your support throughout this pregnancy.. and in the end it was all worth it. I wouldn't change a thing!