Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Patrick and Payden - The Birth Story

By the end of my 37th week, I realized that I probably would make it all the way to my scheduled C section date. On Saturday, Jan 23rd, Christian and I planned out "last night out" and enjoyed ourselves at The Cheesecake Factory. Yum the food there is great!

The rest of their birth is best related by a time line:

2:30AM (Jan 24th) - I awoke and used the bathroom.

2:31AM - I laid back down only to have moments later the worst cramping feeling I had ever had. I ran to the bathroom and while sitting, my water broke. I was amazed that there was so much!

2:35AM - I awoke my sleeping husband and told him that we needed to go to the hospital. In between hard contractions, I managed to pack the rest of the hospital bag as fast as I could

2:40AM - left the house - Christian broke every speed limit by 10-15 mph. I'm so glad we didn't see any cops on the way there.

2:50-2:55AM - got to the hospital and they checked me out. My contractions were 3 minutes apart and I was dialated to 2 cm. I overheard them talking about the volume of my water that broke and got the feeling that both bags had broken instead of just the one. Then they got the on-call doctor and asked how I would like to deliver the boys. We had already discussed a C section with my doctor and decided to just go ahead and have them that way.

3:00 --4:30AM - In this time period there was a hustle and bustle of activity. They put in IV in, shaved me, and prepped me for the impending C section.

4:41 AM (Patrick) & 4:42 AM (Payden)- heard the joyous sounds of our little boys being brought into the world. Both were screaming and I could tell they sounded healthy. The moment that I will remember well is my husband crying when we heard them finally being born. I thought it was incredible sweet and wonderful!

By far the worst part of this was that I wasn't able to see my little boys as soon as I wanted to. They brought Patrick to us so we could see him but Payden was having trouble breathing so they took him to the NICU for a few minutes.

Between 5:30-6:00 AM - they brought me to my room and the boys came shortly thereafter.

7 comments:

Bethany said...

Hooray! So glad everything went well and that you and the boys are healthy. What a nice long time to carry twins, too!

Emma said...

Love the birth story!! How are handling things without mom. Let me know if I can help. Can't wait to see you guys again!

Suzie-Q said...

Sounds like everything went smoothly for you and the babies. Hope you heel fast and get to start playing soon.

K Lind said...

I'm so happy the delivery went well! I'm so happy for you! They are absolutely beautiful!

Deanna said...

Congratulations! I am excited to meet these boys. When you get a chance, can you text me your address so that I can send the boys some baby gifts?

Melissa Ann said...

I love that you were able have a nice date and were able to have a surprise birth. I'm glad Patrick and Payden picked their own arrival date

John-n-Mel said...

Congratulations!!! Can't imagine how your life has changed and how busy you must be. We are SOOOO happy for you all. Thanks for sharing the birth story!!!

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