The twins birth story
When Luke and I woke up on July 29th, 2014 we had
no idea our girls would be born that day. We had our 31 week doctor’s appointment
the day before and had talked about our birth plan. Planning for a delivery of
around 35 weeks we headed home and Luke worked until 11 PM on our bathroom
renovation which would be done by the time the girls were born. I got in bed and bid unsuccessfully on an ebay
kilim rug and watched about 4 episodes of Psych. No hospital bag was packed and
we didn’t have that many clothes for our girls as we were waiting to see how
much they weighed when they were born to buy preemie size or newborn.
Luke got up around 6 AM on Tuesday, July 29th and
got in the shower. I got up around 6:30 to pee (pregnant bladder) and started
bleeding heavily. We immediately called the doctor and our doctor happened to
be on call and he said come right in. Luke grabbed me some clothes and I
changed, after making him go back and get different teeshirts 3 times. JUST PUT THIS ON EILEEN ITS FINE. “No I don’t
want that one it’s not comfortable. Try again.”
We rushed in and immediately got on an IV drip while they
watched me for the whole morning. I had stopped bleeding at this time and our
doctor was thinking he would just keep me overnight and I would go home the
next day. We told our families to not rush down to Columbia I was fine and just
resting.
Around lunch I started having contractions every 30 minutes
or so but couldn’t really feel them so I got on medicine to stop the
contractions. I ate a lot of ice and we just hung out most of the afternoon. I started
contracting a lot more but didn’t know it as I thought I was just hungry. “No honey
that’s a contraction.” Ohhhhhh. At this point I was mainly just upset that I didn’t
have a hospital bag packed for that night and kept saying. “I just want some
socks.”
The contractions started speeding up and got to be 1 minute
apart and started to be more painful around 4 PM and our doctor came in and we
talked about our opinions and we made the decision to deliver. My body kept
contracting and we didn’t want to hurt the babies.
I was in the delivery room by 7:20 and the babies were born
at 7:30 PM. Both were healthy and about 3.5 lbs.
Earlier in the week before the babies were born I was
reading Psalm 139 where it says “[The Lord] searches out my path…He hems me in
behind and before.” Luke and I kept
saying that scripture together the day the babies were born and we both felt
such peace all day. Everything was taken care of, from the fact that my doctor
was the one on call to even on the way to the hospital when I was so scared I
felt the babies kick as if they were telling me they were ok.
In the delivery we
found out that one of our babies was in distress and if we had waited to
deliver until later and my water broke we could have lost her. There was no way
of knowing she was in distress as everything looked fine on the ultrasound. We
think the emergency delivery saved our baby girl. The bleeding I had that
morning had nothing to do with the babies but got us to the hospital so we
would deliver. Talk about the Lord protecting her.
Luke was planning on leaving for work around 6 AM that day
and was running late so he was at home when I woke up.
My brother who is in the Air Force was on leave and was on
the way to visit us the same day so he got to be there. It’s a 12 hour drive (which he made in about 10 hours ha) so
if he had waited until we were scheduled to deliver he would have missed it.
My uncle who has twins (my aunt also had an emergency
delivery) was randomly at our hospital that day and got to see us and helped us
make the decision to deliver.
Both babies were completely healthy, no lung issues and were
only on oxygen for 6 days. That is so rare for 31 week babies.
Everything was out of
our control and it was so amazing to see the Lord direct our path completely.
Emmy Carlisle and Drake still had a long road before they
came home and ended up spending 7 weeks in the NICU but were mainly just there
until they learned to eat on their own. They have been home now for 2 weeks and
each day is the hardest day and the best day. One thing about having a NICU
baby is when they actually come home you never take any day you can spend with them for granted after having to leave your child every night.They
are our hearts and we love them unbelievably more than I ever thought you could
love someone. Side note: you think you
love your husband the most you ever could and then you see him hold your
babies. Whole other level.
I’ll be taking it slow on the blog until I get my feet under
me but I’m not going anywhere. I don’t want to be one of those blogs that just
disappears without saying that they are leaving. Yes I’ll be taking it slow but
as the girls start sleeping through the night more and mommy gets some sleep I’ll
be back. I am sure I’ll be overgramming if you want to follow along.
(acreativedayblog)
So stick around. I’m not going anywhere.