MY BABIES HAVE COME (birth story)

Evee30 · January 2014

Well ladies, I was induced at 38 weeks. The labor was long, hard and annoying. With that, I must congratulate the women who deliver without medication, I was quite certain I was not going to survive as I waited for an epidural (I don't know how women go through that more than once!). Anyway, I labored about 3 hours before the epidural came. Before then, I had been on Pitocin for 12 hours and hit the highest dosage and didn't feel a thing. Suddenly, shortly after they gave me the pitocin, I lost my mucus plug and my water broke (WHOA wasn't that a surprise! lol) Once I got the epidural I began to shake uncontrollably, that lasted for hours! Baby B didn't like the epidural and her heart rate began to go crazy, it would drop severely then shoot up really high! This happened multiple times within the hours. The staff was concerned that her cord was wrapped and stopped my contractions in hope she would rest and recover. Unfortunately her heart rate dropped and rose again 2 more times and it was decided to do an emergency C-section. After 4 hours of active labor I had a c-sec and delivered 2 beautiful, happy, healthy babies!! Christopher Robert Alexander was born 12/28 at 3:35am, weighing 6.5lbs. Keira Marie was born 12/28 at 3:37am, weighing 4.7lbs. She is so teeny, but mighty! No NICU time, they came directly to the room with me and stayed with me the entire time. They are amazing and beautiful and it is so funny to see their personalities outside of the womb! Hopefully the pics attached! I've never tried to upload a pic to this forum