![]() ![]() Twice the cutie, booties, and baby babble.ĪHHH but just as you're approaching the middle of your second trimester, a new reality hits. They'll match, and goo goo gaga at each other. Then a period of elation and fantasizing about all of the wonderfully cutesie mischief your twins will engage in. Ok, let me just start this grand entry by saying, "momma did NOT say a single word about days like this." There is no warning, no training, no preparation involved in this fetus-induced captivity that we call high risk pregnancy.įirst it's, "we're having what?!". They are there to learn to grow and take bottles, then they will be coming home to be with us, and start the whirlwind of our life with Twins! Matthew was 3lbs5oz and 16 1/2 inches longĪs I said before, they are still in the NICU because they are preemies but we are blessed in that, they are perfectly healthy. Nathan was 4lbs5.5oz and 17 1/2 inches long ![]() I wish I could tell you the rest, but as the giant worry that had weighed on us for so long, was lifted, I drifted off. The one we knew was smaller and caused our six week stay in St Louis A's fine facilities. The one who ran from monitors for six weeks and dipped his heart rates long enough for us to worry. I concentrated on his cries to get me trough the pushing and tugging of the upper part of my stomach, where they dug out our little trouble maker. I remember a pediatrician telling me that since they are going to be so little, they may not cry when they come out, and for us not to panic.Ĭue doctors, test numbness, get some cold air on my face, shed a few nervous tears, and feel the beginnings of pressure from them extracting Baby A, who became Nathan Randy. Pretending to be brave, so I would breath. Things got numb, and just as I started to panic, my husband came in, clad in his surgery suit. Next thing I know, I'm leaned over a table with a giant, VERY uncomfortable needle getting inserted into multiple parts of my back. Finally, they came and grabbed us around 3ish. And wouldn't you know, just as I'm getting pumped, emergencies started rolling in, one after the other, pushing my surgery farther and farther away. I remember that ten o'clock rolled around and I was starting to panic. My surgery was scheduled for noon with a friend of mine, that i met in the hospital, scheduled right before me. Did I mention that he is excited?Įverything went so slow and fast at the same time. And as my husband would put it after having twin boys around our nation's celebratory day of freedom, " 'MERICA!!". They are still in the NICU, though, we will get to that later. We are just so incredibly blessed to have two very precious boys who are healthy. We have defintely had our hands full driving back and forth so much and juggling work, house, and big brother, but it is such an amazing blessing that we hardly notice all of the in and outs. It may have been put a bit more extreme, like, "once you have kids you can say goodbye to sleep, your marriage, your hair, your body. Wow, you parents weren't lying when you mentioned not having time for much when you have babies. ![]()
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