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My Twins are here! Crazy birth story inside!
Born at 36w 4d on Jan. 6th, 2010. Isaac Richard at 10:59pm, 6 lbs. 19.2 inches long and Emily Jane at 11:07pm, 5 lbs. 9 oz., 19 inches long.
The best single word to describe my labor & delivery story: FAST
Here's the timeline.
9:15pm--I was lying on my couch, reading, when my water breaks, but I didn't really realize it at first. I felt a sort of like suction cup type popping. I thought, "That was weird" but nothing happened right away--no liquid gushing or dripping or anything like that.
9:25--I feel first cramp like contraction. I thought, "Maybe that WAS my water breaking" and decided to stand up. GUSH of fluid. I ran to the bathroom to take care of it.
9:35--DH walks back in the door from church choir practice. I say, "Call Chris (my brother who will watch our 2 year old). My water just broke and I'm having contractions" (my 2nd contraction started about now).
9:50--My brother walks in after hightailing it out of a work party, taking a cab from downtown Chicago to my house on the north side. Record time! He said he told the cab driver what was up and the guy hightailed it for him. Contractions have been every 3-4 minutes.
10:00--DH and I are in the car, and pulling off for the hospital, which is luckily VERY close to our house (about 8-10 blocks). DH drops me off and goes to park the car. My contractions are every 2 minutes in the car.
10:15--I'm at the check in desk in L&D, they move me to triage and start asking the basic questions. Waiting on a doc to come w/ a u/s machine since my OB was not on duty and they were trying to decide if I could go vaginal or not (Isaac was head down, Emily was breech.Regular OB is very comfortable w/ breech extractions w/ 2nd twin, some others aren't...this would prove to be a moot point). In the meantime I am having CRAZY fast contractions (a minute apart) and LOTS of pressure.
Foggy on exact times here but basically this is how it went.
-Dr. and Midwife come in, do a u/s. They now decide to check my cervix. Dr. says, "She's complete and the baby is RIGHT there". I tell them with my next contraction that I feel like I need to push. Everyone says, "DON'T PUSH YET"...easier said than done when basically no pushing is necessary! I also say, "So...I guess this means no epidural???" The Dr. says, "Um, sweetie...you're having these babies NOW. You'll be fine."
-They get an OR room set up for twin delivery, get me out of triage and in the OR. Isaac is pretty much crowning right now.
-I help shimmy my @rse over to the OR bed. And have to immediately start pushing.
10:59pm--Isaac Richard is born
-Dr. reaches up and Emily has flipped head down, yay!! Have to do a few pushes to get her in position, then she starts coming out fast too.
11:07, 8 minutes after her brother, Emily Jane is born. -----------------------------------------
Let me just tell you, while I did want to delivery vaginally, I FULLY planned on getting that epi, I was not in the "med free delivery" camp. LOL! But when you arrive at the hospital complete, well....life just laughs at your silly plans then!
It was not so bad as I imagined it would be. The contractions were way worse than delivery, IMO, especially after initial crowning. And the 2nd was much easier than the first b/c he'd paved the way, so to speak and she was smaller. But it all happened SO fast. Less than 2 hours start to finish!! It still blows my mind.
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Both kiddos are great, and will go home with me today! It was 36w 4d that they were born. They are having a little trouble nursing, but are getting better. Isaac is actually turning into a champ, Emily is having a tougher time, but she's getting there.
So! That's my story. I still can't believe it went down the way it did, but now i've got quite the tale to tell and 2 beautiful additions to our family!
Isaac is on the left, Emily is on the right.
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Re: My Twins are here! Crazy birth story inside!
Twin boys born too early at 17w4d and 18w2d in February 2010
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DS born at 35w1d in February 2011
Twin girls born at exactly 36w in February 2013
fantastic! so glad you had a easy and fast delivery. I hope mine goes as smoothly!
Twins are beautiful! Congratulations!!
Congratulations!
Wow! I can only hope that when it's my time it goes so smoothly!
How big were they?
Sorry! I added it in late.
Isaac was 6 lbs., 19.2 inches
Emily was 5 lbs. 9 oz, 19 inches
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o.m.g. how crazy!
congratulations!
WOW! That is some birth story!
They are gorgeous and give me hope that my 36w2ders will possibly get to come home with me without NICU time. Congrats on your beautiful babies!
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THIS! Congrats and Good Luck!
That is an amazing story! And your babies are adorable!
Congrats!
WOW!
Congrats X2 and how amazing was that birth story!
Thanks for sharing!
Steal my kids picture or pretend they are yours, I will find where you live and ship all of their dirty diapers to your doorstep. Promise.
Congratulations! I'm glad everything went so smoothly! They're beautiful!
congrats!! Glad it happened so fast- and safe
hope big brother loves them as much as Griffin loves his twin brothers!