Twins? x2 carry the 1.. OMG! Pregnancy thru Birth
Ok.. so I finally mustered up the courage to take a pregnancy test Dec 10th 2004. It came up positive almost immediately… I didn’t believe it… so I waited and took another one later on that day… yup.. same result… HONEY!!!! GUESS WHAT!!!!
We had only just returned from Japan 2 weeks ago, and spent our time in San Diego getting him out of the USMC… Now this would explain why I felt so sick over there!
Well, things progressed.. We got to hear baby’s heart beat for the first time on February 14th, 2005. What a Valentine’s present! 2 weeks later, we went out and went baby shopping. We found a crib, dresser combo, car seat, stroller, etc. Wow.. that was expensive! We were just so excited, it didn’t matter… We had 2 weeks and we’d find out what color bedding we’d be able to get!
2 weeks pass, and we’re going for our first ultrasound. We’re excited, and can’t wait to find out if we’re having a little boy or girl… The U/S tech asks if we’d had any other U/S before this one… We both say “no, this is our first one”. She looks at us and just says “well, I’m not going to beat around the bush. You’ve got 2 of them in there.” … The look on Soon-to-be-Daddy’s face was priceless 
… I couldn’t have seen more “shock and awe”. The first thought was “x2, carry the 1, OMG we have to buy more stuff!”… I just laughed.. I was in tears.. I was so shocked, happy, scared, you name it.. I think I ran the gamut of emotions in the next 30 seconds… Then I got to see my little munchkins… They were perfect! They kept telling me they must be fraternal since they had their own placentas/sacs… Baby A was lower and on my right. Baby B was higher and on my left… they stayed that way the entire pregnancy… We saw Baby B was going to be a girl… but Baby A just wasn’t cooperating… she wouldn’t face the right way… We later found out she was going to be a girl also.. WOW… 2 girls.. 2 perfect little baby girls… and now to find names… We were so sure we’d have A boy.. never thought about 2 girls… ha ha ha.. OMG!
The rest of the pregnancy was very uneventful… I walked everyday… I started getting U/S every week. I was nearing the end, and just kept asking my OB.. when am I going to feel all these Braxton hicks everyone has told me about… She just laughed…
I went for my 37 week appointment, and the OB told me the girls were both breech, and all hopes of them turning were lost.. “There’s just no room in there.. So… let’s schedule you a C-section for… oh say.. Next Friday Morning?”.. All I could think was.. “No! I still have 2 weeks to prepare for them! We don’t even have Baby B’s name yet!” We had chosen Monkey-See’s name a few weeks before.. but we just couldn’t agree on one more girl’s name… Poor Monkey-Do was named the DAY BEFORE she was born…
Well, I was scheduled for my C-Section on July 15th at 8am. I was told to get there at least 30 mins prior to get set up… We were running so late that morning.. I just kept thinking all the way up there.. Great… what mom is late to her own children’s births? Unbelievable! We get there… they are all happy to see me.. my parents and my grandmother are there waiting for me… They send me back to triage, and get me hooked up on all the monitors… Slowly everyone who is going to be helping comes in to introduce themselves… They brought in an EMT who needed to see how a C-Section is performed- in case he had to do an emergency one in the field. They asked me if it was ok.. I didn’t mind… I delivered at UC Davis Med Ctr, so.. it’s a learning facility.. they often have people in their residency, and students there to help out… I was so excited… They were shocked I hadn’t had any contractions yet. I was 38 weeks to the day… and nothing…
They explained how we’re going to go into the OR, get the spinal done, and then they’ll bring in Sooner-to-be-Daddy… They asked if I wanted to see everything that was going on.. uh.. NO thank you! I walked over to the OR… just across the hall… and Soonest-to-be-Daddy gave me kiss… I was scared out of my mind…. The Anesthesiologist asked if I wanted him to show me what he was going to do… NOPE! I HATE needles.. just do what you gotta and warn me when it’s going to hurt… The nurse that stood in front of me was very calm and reassuring.. I was trying to be so brave.. I didn’t want to look like a cry baby in front of all these people… hahaha.. They got me numb, and brought Going-to-be-Daddy-in-5-minutes in… Put up the curtain.. and away they went…
Only a couple of minutes went by and he said they already had me open… ALREADY? Wow… He kept peeking over the curtain to give me a play by play.. He laughed because they were really tugging on Monkey-See to get her out.. .she was kicking her feet! I guess she was comfy in there… They got her out and I heard her first cry… I was just in tears! Then Daddy laughs again… and tells me Monkey-Do came out butt first… She was mooning the Dr! hahaha… THAT’S My girl! I heard her cry…. I cried even more… Daddy left to follow the girls around… they brought the girls back in one by one so I could get a quick picture with them… wow… I’m a mommy! Daddy ran back in to tell me he’d meet me in recovery.. he had to follow the girls to the NICU.. they just wanted to check on them.. and make sure they were ok… The girls spent 6 hours in the NICU… They had trouble expelling the fluid from their lungs, which is typical in a C-Section.. and Monkey-Do had trouble regulating her body temps…
Later on that evening when I got to see the girls for the first time.. they wheeled them into my room… I was a mess of tears… I couldn’t believe these precious girls were mine… we were there over the weekend.. and then went home Monday afternoon…
I guess I was very lucky… I never had any complications… My OB was amazed that I was walking around the mall the day before I had the girls… I didn’t have any “strange” cravings… all I wanted was fruit.. strawberries in particular… too funny…
After all was said and done, I found out that twins run on both sides of my family… They typically skip a generation… oh.. I was next in line gee … thanks for the warning family!
I still thank God everyday that I had no complications.. .now I just pray every day for the strength and patience to keep up with these 2!
