It was Tuesday, August 31st and I was not expecting the boys for at least another week; I was 35 weeks pregnant exactly. I was on home bed rest because I was having a difficult time controlling my blood pressure. It is amazing what a little bit of rest will do! The day had started out pretty normal, but the events unfolded pretty quickly:
10:00 am - I was starting to feel off. I was so dizzy; lying down did not make the room stop spinning. I took my blood pressure and it was 160/110. Dangerously high!
10:30 am - I called Jonathan to ask him what he thought I should do, but he was busy so I just called my doctor.
11:30 am - I hear back from my doctor's office that he wants to see me right away.
12:15 pm - Jonathan and I arrive at the doctor's office. My doctor (Dr. Sandmann) was not in the office that day, so I saw Dr. Luciani from the same office. He took my blood pressure and we listened to the boys. My blood pressure had returned to normal and the boys sounded fine, but Dr. Luciani felt like it would be safer to go over to the hospital and monitor me for a little while. After we got over to the hospital, Jonathan called his sister, Jennifer, and asked her to come out to McKinney after work. We still did not think we were going to have the boys, but we thought "just in case".
1:30 pm - I get hooked up to two baby monitors and of course a blood pressure monitor. They continue to watch me and the boys for an hour or so. Thank goodness neither of the boys were in distress.
2:30 pm - Dr. Luciani comes in to talk to me. He asked me if I was having contractions and I replied no. Dr. Sandmann had described contractions to me and I had not felt anything like that. Dr. Luciani then informs me that my contractions were every 2-4 minutes and I had dilated to 3 cm. He had discussed the situation with Dr. Sandmann and they decided there was no benefit to trying to keep the boys in. He told me the nurses would be in shortly to prepare me for my C-Section. All we were waiting on was Dr. Sandmann to show up. Now we started calling all of the family that wanted to be here when the boys arrived and they all started coming this way as soon as they could.
4:30 pm - They had me ready and we were still waiting on Dr. Sandmann to arrive. The time seemed to pass so quickly and I also remember thinking it was taking Dr. Sandmann forever to get there. I told Jonathan it was a good thing I didn't have time to prepare for this day because I was a little nervous about the C-Section.
5:15 pm - Dr. Sandmann arrives and they wheel me back into the operating room to start the C-Section. Not only do I have my doctor, but Dr. Luciani was also in to help. I am pretty sure the total count of medical professional in the room at this point was 8! It took a long time for the spinal to really make me go numb. It was cold on my skin when he cut me open. I am not saying I felt it, just a cold sensation.
5:36 pm - Jacob arrives and I hear his first cry. There is no better sound in the world when you have spent the past 8 months worrying about this little person.
5:37 pm - Caleb makes his grand entrance, reluctantly. As soon as Jacob came out, Caleb flipped and was breach and he moved up into my uterus as far as he could. Caleb let out a good scream and relief washed over me. Both of my boys were out and I knew they were breathing.
At this point time had no meaning, so I cannot tell you what time it was when the rest happened. I got to see both of the boys for a brief moment after they had been cleaned up a little. Unfortunately, the pain of sewing me up was really starting to affect me and Dr. Sandmann knocked me out with morphine. When I woke up I was in the recovery room with Jonathan. Jonathan told me that he didn't know where the boys were; he had gone to the nursery several times and couldn't see them. This is when we found out the boys were having trouble breathing on their own and they had been moved into the NICU. On the way to my room they pulled me up to the window and I could barely see them. All I wanted to do was hold my boys. I couldn't sleep that night, I still had not been able to touch them so when the night nurse came to check on me at 1:00 am, I told her I wanted to go see my babies! She wanted to make sure I thought I could stand up to get to the wheelchair. I could have done anything they asked me to do in order to see my children. I am sure any mother out there in the same position would tell you the same thing. She wheeled me in to see them for a few minutes and I could have stared at them all night! I could not stand up next to them yet because they didn't want me to fall in the NICU, but they got me close enough to see them better! They are the most incredible things I have ever had a part in; they are my little miracles!
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| Caleb at 1:20 am 9-1-2010 |
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| Jacob at 1:15 am 9-1-2010 |
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