November 29, 2011 Babies Birthday.
We went to MUSC hospital in downtown at around 9am to check in for my scheduled c-section. Got in the room around 10am was supposed to start surgery at 11am but the nurse was more concerned with getting me hooked up to monitor the babies then starting all the meds I was supposed to get she also messed up other stuff I don't think the Dr's carried for her much either. It took forever to get in OR and I was starving. Not sure what time we got in the OR but it was freezing in there I got my spinal and hubby got to come in and they got started.
They went around the room and said who everyone was and why they were there. No joke there were 4 anthologist, 3 or more nurses, the dr and several residents I think there were at least 10 people in the OR and then each baby had a team of 3 people waiting for them in the next OR and the triage room between the OR's so all in all I think there were over 20 people there for my delivery.
At 12:11pm they pulled out Baby A little E she weighed in at 4lbs 5oz and I think 17in long they held her up said it is a girl and off she went I can't even remember if she cried I was to busy trying not to puke. At 12:12pm out came Baby B our big girl A she weighed in at 5lbs 2oz and 18in long they told us girl again, no idea if cried. Last out at 12:13pm was baby C the little man M was 4llbs 11oz and 17 1/2in when they pulled him out they said girl R and I both looked at each other and said WHAT???? They then corrected and said "oh wait boy boy sorry" lol.
E had to go to the level 2 nursery just because of her size she was to small to go anywhere else they showed her to me and took her away. A got to come see me and she went right to the level 1 nursery cause she was and healthy. When I was on the table at this point being put back together I heard the Dr telling someone "no no you have to put it back in the way it came out" I was a little scared that I was going to be put back together wrong lol thankfully it appears I was put back together right. R was with the babies during all this and once I was taken to recovery he came in I asked why I had no seen M yet and he told me he was having some trouble breathing and was being taken to the NICU. They wheeled him in the recovery room so I could see him before he went upstairs to the children's hospital. I had to stay on IVs for 12 hours I was taken to the postpartum unit and told to eat but I felt to sick from the meds and ended up getting sick and then just sleeping.
They brought A to my room to see me and she nursed well and was helping me to get my milk in she had to wait till I saw her sister to get names. Around midnight I was able to get out of bed shower and then head to see E and M. As soon as I saw E I knew who was who and went ahead and named them. E had some issues with her blood sugar so she was on an IV which was in her head and heartbreaking to see. I got to cuddle her and get information about what was going on with her, we stopped in next door real quick to see her sister and tell her what her name was. Then we went upstairs to see M if E having the IV was heartbreaking M ripped my heart out he had an IV in his head and a CPAP in his nose and he was so tiny and we were not allowed to hold him every time we touched him his heart rate would drop so we could not even touch him.
Two days after he was born M was moved down to the level 2 nursery with E they were in the same little unit it was great. I was pumping every 3 hours day and night for them to try and get my milk to come in for them. A was able to nurse and on day 4 her and I were discharged to go home. There is nothing harder then leaving the hospital after giving birth with out your child I was going to have to leave 2 there but was lucky enough to take 1 home with me.
M is a fiesty little boy he decided he did not want his IV any more on day 3 and tired to pull it out he did pull out his tube for feedings and when he was in NICU he pulled out his CPAP. He pulled his feeding tube again on day 8 and they never put it back and he was home with us on the 10th day of his life which happened to be the day before his big brothers bday party.
E was a little slower on the whole coming home thing she would not take her feeds she did not care she would take like 1-2cc and be done and the rest of her feeds still had to be done by tube she had no other issues at this point aside from learning to eat. She was all set to go home on day 15 of life she was supposed to be on O2 for feeds it helped to keep her awake long enough to finish her feed. We went to N christmas show at school and came home to change and feed A&M before going down to pick up E when I got the call she would not be able to come home after all she had a Bradycardia and would have to stay for 3 extra days to make sure she was OK. So we waited and finally on day 18 we got to bring her home she still had to be on the O2 for feeds but that was it. We finally had all our kids together and then the fun really started.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Triplet Pregnancy
All right so now it is time to wright about the 8 months I was pregnant with the trio. This might be a little hard to due since I don't remember a lot.
I had a pretty easy pregnancy with the trio as easy as it can be when you carrying 3 babies in a 5ft 3in body. I did not start really showing until around 18 weeks I was the same way when I was pregnant with N. R deployed when I was around 13 weeks along so it was N and I till Sept that made for one very tired mommy.
I got 17P shots starting around 16 weeks till I was 32 weeks oh my word did those hurt i had to go in weekly to get shots in my butt very oil based shots that stung and left lumps in butt for weeks. The shots have not been proven to help when someone is pregnant with multiples but due to the fact that I went in to labor with N at 35 weeks they wanted the trio to bake as long as they could so they recommended we try the shots.
At 18 weeks I had the gender scan done and had them put the genders in an envelope since R was gone and wanted us to find out together it was TORTURE! He called me and when I opened the envelope there were 3 pieces of paper which I read to him. Baby A Girl! Baby B Girl (ok I admit I started to panic here that they would all be girls) Baby C Boy! (sigh of relief). We were very excited to know what they were and to start thinking about names.
Around 25 weeks I was told I had gestational diabetes it is very common with multiples and with my PCOS it is also very common I barley failed the 3 hour but none the less I was told had it and was told to start by going on diet of sorts with cutting out carbs well was not eating enough and I was starving all the time. I made the choice along with my Dr that the best option for me would be to take the pills to help control it I was able to eat a lot more and felt so much better.
At 27 my brother flew in to help around the house and to help with N when the babies came. R called me to tell me he was back from a trip and needed me to drive down to the base to get him. As I was driving down there I started to feel uncomfortable I got down to the base and went to bathroom thinking maybe my bladder was to full. I continued to have the pain when we were driving home I could not talk through the pain so I called the Dr and they told me to head in to labor and delivery. When I got there we found out I was contracting less then 5 mins apart and I was starting to dilate. So I got to be put on a mag drip and got the steroid shots for there lungs I was on the mag for about 12 hours and they were able to stop the contractions. I had to stay in the hospital from Thursday night till Saturday afternoon. I was then placed on bed rest till I was 33 weeks pregnant.
I was 33 weeks when we set my repeat c-section date for November 29th at 35 weeks 3 days. When I went to my appt on November 28th last appt before my c-section we found that my blood pressure was getting higher and I had hypertension. All in all I gained a total of 40lbs during it all which is low for triplets but still good. I will post up delivery later at this rate I will have first year done by time they start school lol.
I had a pretty easy pregnancy with the trio as easy as it can be when you carrying 3 babies in a 5ft 3in body. I did not start really showing until around 18 weeks I was the same way when I was pregnant with N. R deployed when I was around 13 weeks along so it was N and I till Sept that made for one very tired mommy.
I got 17P shots starting around 16 weeks till I was 32 weeks oh my word did those hurt i had to go in weekly to get shots in my butt very oil based shots that stung and left lumps in butt for weeks. The shots have not been proven to help when someone is pregnant with multiples but due to the fact that I went in to labor with N at 35 weeks they wanted the trio to bake as long as they could so they recommended we try the shots.
At 18 weeks I had the gender scan done and had them put the genders in an envelope since R was gone and wanted us to find out together it was TORTURE! He called me and when I opened the envelope there were 3 pieces of paper which I read to him. Baby A Girl! Baby B Girl (ok I admit I started to panic here that they would all be girls) Baby C Boy! (sigh of relief). We were very excited to know what they were and to start thinking about names.
Around 25 weeks I was told I had gestational diabetes it is very common with multiples and with my PCOS it is also very common I barley failed the 3 hour but none the less I was told had it and was told to start by going on diet of sorts with cutting out carbs well was not eating enough and I was starving all the time. I made the choice along with my Dr that the best option for me would be to take the pills to help control it I was able to eat a lot more and felt so much better.
At 27 my brother flew in to help around the house and to help with N when the babies came. R called me to tell me he was back from a trip and needed me to drive down to the base to get him. As I was driving down there I started to feel uncomfortable I got down to the base and went to bathroom thinking maybe my bladder was to full. I continued to have the pain when we were driving home I could not talk through the pain so I called the Dr and they told me to head in to labor and delivery. When I got there we found out I was contracting less then 5 mins apart and I was starting to dilate. So I got to be put on a mag drip and got the steroid shots for there lungs I was on the mag for about 12 hours and they were able to stop the contractions. I had to stay in the hospital from Thursday night till Saturday afternoon. I was then placed on bed rest till I was 33 weeks pregnant.
I was 33 weeks when we set my repeat c-section date for November 29th at 35 weeks 3 days. When I went to my appt on November 28th last appt before my c-section we found that my blood pressure was getting higher and I had hypertension. All in all I gained a total of 40lbs during it all which is low for triplets but still good. I will post up delivery later at this rate I will have first year done by time they start school lol.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Can you count again? (finding out triplets)
WARNING Some bits are graphic about how they do selective reduction!
On April 20 2011 I got the best news ever a positive pregnancy test. I went on April 22 for a beta test to check my pregnancy hormones they were 238 kind of high for 13 days after ovulation but not to bad. I went back on April 25th 16 days after ovulation and my number was 1091. Ok for anyone who knows about this that is kind of a fast doubling time at about 33 hours they want it to double in 48 hours.
On May 12, 2011 6 weeks 5 days R and I took N to my RE's for our first ultrasound. Before the tech came out the nurse was asking Nate how many babies were in mommy's tummy N told then 8 we said ha ha very funny. I got undressed and on the table and the tech came in to do the unfun kind of ultrasound women you know what I am talking about lol. The tech was very quite when she started all I could think was that we lost another baby. The tech then asked me how many eggs I had, I told her 1 I know of why? I was thinking oh she found twins wow. She then told me cause there are 4 sacs in here. 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT??????????? At this point Robert asked that she please count again cause she must be wrong.
We were then told there were 4 sacs but only 3 of them had babies with heartbeats in them so far. So we had at least triplets maybe quads. The Dr wanted to sit down and talk to us about our options. R had to take a call from work when the Dr was talking to me but she told us about reduction. Basaclly we would have to go to NYC to have a Dr do genetic testing on our babies and then if one had a issue they would inject something in to that babies heart to stop it or if all were healthy they would pick the baby closet to the cervix. I knew right away there was no way in hell I could even think about doing this. I did how ever want to give R the chance to make a choice. After that the Dr told me to follow up with regular OB. We went out to lunch at this point to talk about our options I explained things to R and he said nope not an option for him either.
I called my OB before we even left Columbia and she had me set up with the high risk Dr for 2 week later to check on things and start my care. We also called our moms from where we were eating and told them they were soon having 3-4 more grand kids boy were they shocked and excited.
The next night I started bleeding and went to the hospital on Saturday they did not find the reason for bleed but figure that is when I lost baby D. When I went for next appt we found that the sac for D was almost completely gone and nothing left. We will never forgot our forth baby. I will give more info on the rest of the pregnancy in another post.
On April 20 2011 I got the best news ever a positive pregnancy test. I went on April 22 for a beta test to check my pregnancy hormones they were 238 kind of high for 13 days after ovulation but not to bad. I went back on April 25th 16 days after ovulation and my number was 1091. Ok for anyone who knows about this that is kind of a fast doubling time at about 33 hours they want it to double in 48 hours.
On May 12, 2011 6 weeks 5 days R and I took N to my RE's for our first ultrasound. Before the tech came out the nurse was asking Nate how many babies were in mommy's tummy N told then 8 we said ha ha very funny. I got undressed and on the table and the tech came in to do the unfun kind of ultrasound women you know what I am talking about lol. The tech was very quite when she started all I could think was that we lost another baby. The tech then asked me how many eggs I had, I told her 1 I know of why? I was thinking oh she found twins wow. She then told me cause there are 4 sacs in here. 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT??????????? At this point Robert asked that she please count again cause she must be wrong.
We were then told there were 4 sacs but only 3 of them had babies with heartbeats in them so far. So we had at least triplets maybe quads. The Dr wanted to sit down and talk to us about our options. R had to take a call from work when the Dr was talking to me but she told us about reduction. Basaclly we would have to go to NYC to have a Dr do genetic testing on our babies and then if one had a issue they would inject something in to that babies heart to stop it or if all were healthy they would pick the baby closet to the cervix. I knew right away there was no way in hell I could even think about doing this. I did how ever want to give R the chance to make a choice. After that the Dr told me to follow up with regular OB. We went out to lunch at this point to talk about our options I explained things to R and he said nope not an option for him either.
I called my OB before we even left Columbia and she had me set up with the high risk Dr for 2 week later to check on things and start my care. We also called our moms from where we were eating and told them they were soon having 3-4 more grand kids boy were they shocked and excited.
The next night I started bleeding and went to the hospital on Saturday they did not find the reason for bleed but figure that is when I lost baby D. When I went for next appt we found that the sac for D was almost completely gone and nothing left. We will never forgot our forth baby. I will give more info on the rest of the pregnancy in another post.
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