Last Year at this Time....

2 weeks prior to the babies birth

Wow has time flown by, okay it has also dragged on and on and on especially when you are sleep deprived! So I am going to take a little trip down memory lane to last year at this time. I had been on bedrest for 11 weeks, laying flat, eating while laying flat, drinking while laying flat, I was huge, sore, tired and achey most of the time! I woke up on a sunny Monday morning at my normal time since being on bedrest, which was 10:30am. I got up to go to the bathroom and something seemed not quite right. Hmmm, was my bladder not working right now or was that my water breaking?!?!? So I waited for a bit to see if it continued, it did, so I notified my Husband and my Dad (who had just came into town to help care for me while on bedrest, talk about timing!). I called my doctor's office and they said get to the hospital ASAP! We gathered all of our items and as we were getting ready to leave my dog decides that now would be the perfect time to have a Seizure. So now we have to get his seizure meds, administer them and wait out the seizure. We eventually get on the road and make the 1 hour drive to the hospital. Once we arrive they do an exam and determine that it is amniotic fluid. The doctors were debating whether or not to try to stop labor or just let it happen. My doctor decided to take me off my meds that stopped contractions and see if I go into labor, well I DID and so it was baby time! The spinal block was so nerve wracking for me, it was the second one I had, the first was when I was 19 weeks pregnant, I had to have a cerclage placed to prevent labor. So the spinal block was taking a little while to take effect, which was freaking me out, and there was talk of putting me under general anesthisia if I kept feeling them pinch me. In the end it worked and all went well. The delivery was long and stressful. Man they are not gentle on your body when they are pulling out three babies, I could feel them pushing and pulling, plus my husband/their daddy kept telling me how violent it all looked. Thanks hunny! All the babies came out within one minute of each other and they cried briefly. I didnt get to see them, unfortunatly. They were quickly worked on and then taken to the NICU. Their Daddy did get to see them, take some photos and cut the cords. He also got to follow them down to the NICU. The rest of that day is a little bit of a blur as I was highly medicated after that. The NICU nurses did take some pictures of the babies that my husband brought up to me, so I was glad to be able to see them. The next morning I was able to make the journey down to the NICU and see my babies for the first time.