Here it is Friday, January 25,
around 7:00pm, and I just realized that my last blog post was almost 7 weeks
ago…is that really possible? This time I have a really good excuse for not
writing in a while…THE TWINS ARE HERE! Yep, they came early!
Baby Girl and Baby Boy were
born on Saturday, December 29th at 4:33 and 4:44. Baby Girl was born
first and was 4 lbs 3oz and Baby Boy was 4 lbs 13oz. They are perfect in every
way and did not have any medical complications; they didn’t even need oxygen!
I wish that I could go back
and document in detail what happened in weeks 33 & 34 of my pregnancy
(seeing as how my last post was about week 32) but the past 7 weeks have kind
of been a blur. I will attempt to give some details that stand out to me. If
you all remember, my blood pressure has been high off and on throughout this
pregnancy. I also have had bad headaches and upper right side abdominal pain;
all indicators of pre eclampsia. I also consistently had strong contractions
that began to shorten and dilate my cervix, along with funneling. All of these
factors sent me to Labor and Delivery (L&D) about 5 times in the past few
months. And every time I would go my blood pressure would either be normal or
barely high and all blood tests would come back normal (no pre eclampsia).
This was so frustrating to my
husband and I because L&D was an hour away, there was a co-pay every time,
and they always sent me home. I began to feel so silly every time my doctor
insisted I go in for evaluation. Wednesday of week 34 my blood pressure was
still high, then Thursday it was also high and we found out that Baby A (girl)
had developed asymmetrical growth restriction which meant that her abdomen had
stopped growing in order to deliver all blood to her brain development. This
meant that she basically could not grow anymore and her abdomen size was in the
1 percentile. This was not life threatening but it wasn’t particularly good,
thus the doctor did not order me to be delivered.
Well, Friday night my blood
pressure had shot up to around 142/99 which was super high for me. After being
sent home from L&D so many times, my husband and I were leery about driving
all the way out to L&D; plus, we both were paranoid that we were taking my
blood pressure incorrectly because we kept getting such high results. I was so
worried that if I didn’t go to the hospital something bad would happen…but on
the other hand I was tired or “crying wolf” and being sent home. We decided
that we would wait until morning and go to a pharmacy to have them check my BP,
and if it was still high we would drive to L&D.
Saturday morning rolled
around, and oh, did I mention that we got a big storm Friday night that was
still raging Saturday morning? We went and got my car inspected because my
inspection would expire in a few days and then got my BP checked and sure
enough it was still high, so off to L&D we went. Of course over a couple of
hours at L&D, my BP never exceeded 131/90 and they were going to send me
home so they let me have a snack. This whole time my OB had been trying to
reach my perinatologist to get Thursday’s report but had been unsuccessful. I
finally reached him on my cell phone and told him about my BP being low. He
asked if I was sitting up when they took it, I wasn’t, and he said that if I lay
down my BP would automatically be lower.
While I was on the phone with
him I sat up and the machine took my BP again and sure enough it was really
high. My peri then said he would call my OB because he wanted me to be
delivered THAT SAME DAY…surprise to us! He didn’t want me to develop pre
eclampsia or have any harm come to the babies due to my high BP. Have I
mentioned that my husband and I hadn’t even showered yet that day? We thought
we would just be coming back home for a lazy Saturday. Since the nurses had allowed
me to have a snack my OB said I would have to wait about 4 hours for delivery.
My OB informed me that although both babies were head down we would be doing a
c section because I was not very dilated and my BP was climbing. Then we had
another surprise; my OB apparently changed his mind about the time and was on
his way; they immediately took me to the OR and began to prep me for surgery!
This really was all a whirlwind. It happened so fast!
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