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Non-identical twins-vaginal birth at 35+1.
Naturally went into labor
One head first and one feet first
No stitches
6lb7 and 6lb4
Head circ 34 and 32.5
6 hour labor
Epidural and gas
Well where do I start....
Monday morning at 34+6 me and my DH DTD for the first time in over a month.
I felt fine all day, just the norm. Monday night tho, all night I had a constant periody type ache whenever I would get up to wee.
Tuesday morning it was gone, and I went into town shopping and visiting my friend.
I got home and felt really crappy and sore and took ages putting the groceries away, and kept complaining to DH and taking little breaks to lie down, the periody feeling was back and also my lower back was sore.
I didnt want labor then!
My MW was away, My DH's gran had died two days beforehand, and the funeral was two days later, and I had a 40th on the day after... I had too many plans for babies, plus I knew they weren't ready to be born!!!!
Then I started getting mucus in my knickers!
(the same thing happened the day before my last labor too)! So I had a bath and went to bed early, couldnt sleep, got up and paced around wondering if "this was it"! Then by 11pm I started noticing waves of stronger pain... 4 min apart...
I rang midwife, she said get to hospital (we live an hour away), and so when MIL arrived we left, and got to hospital around 1pm.
My contractions were not bad enough to think I was in established labor, and I was HOPING against hope that I was at least 3cms (I would have been so shamed out if my cervix was closed)!! and that I wouldnt be sent home!
So I was lying on the bed at hosp, was offered the gas so I had some of that and it made me act like an idiot, posing for photos and texting all my friends and cracking jokes that only I would laugh at!
A nurse came to check me, she looked at me strangely and kept checking and checking, I was thinking OH NO Im not dilated!! Then she said "you're 8-9cms"!!! She got a 2nd opinion from a doctor and she confirmed it!
I was STOKED! My Mum arrived and then the anesthatist came and gave me an epidural (second baby was breech and the epi is needed in case of emergency). They popped my waters, then the doctors all buggered off and went to theatre for someone else!! They told me to just hang out and wait for them to come back before pushing! So I sat there for two fricken hours at 10cms dilated, sipping Mizone water and talking to Mum and DH, and looking at my watch!
At 5 oclock they finally were back in the room and told me to start pushing! It was so weird not having the 'urge to push' like I did my last two babies. I felt like a normal person, not in pain or anything, and trying to push out nothing!
But I lay there and pushed anyway (conscious of the fact my Mum had the video camera zoomed in on my face with every contraction!) and after whinging and moaning for 1/2 an hour about feeling nothing, I all of a sudden felt a bulging feeling!
At 5:31 baby Weston was born in about 3 contractions, and for the 1st time I experienced the 'burning ring of fire'! (my last two babies were numbed, cut, and forceped out). They showed him to me quickly then took him away to NICU. 6lb4oz
The doctors all pounced on my belly and held twin2 in place, and scanned my tummy to see the position of baby. He was breech, and coming feet 1st! Then they popped my second waters, and they shot out and hit the wall and drenched the doctor! In one long hard contraction I pushed and baby Bentley was born! 6lb7oz. They showed me him and whisked him away too.
The placentas came out, then every one left and just me and DH were just left in the room for an hour alone till a nurse came back and asked what was going on, they had all forgotten about us!
I had a shower then was wheelchaired down to NICU (I could walk but my legs werent working as well as they should because of epidural).
It was quite sad seeing my little babies in the incubators all seperated and with wires and cords on them, and masks on their faces
They needed a little help with breathing, and also keeping their temperatures up. They progressed well and the main problem was getting them to learn to suck, and breastfeed without falling asleep after 2 minutes!
After two weeks of living at the hospital, away from my family, and spending all my time breastfeeding, expressing, topping up with bottle, and eating at the cafe all alone, I am finally home!
Im loving having them so much, and altho sleep deprived, I feel a million times better than being pregnant!
Babies are doing well, waking 3 hourly and taking good feeds off me with the odd expressed milk top up
Here are some pics of the birth and shortly after, then next five pics are their first few days, and the last ones are at about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks old
Non-identical twins-vaginal birth at 35+1.
Naturally went into labor
One head first and one feet first
No stitches
6lb7 and 6lb4
Head circ 34 and 32.5
6 hour labor
Epidural and gas
Well where do I start....
Monday morning at 34+6 me and my DH DTD for the first time in over a month.
I felt fine all day, just the norm. Monday night tho, all night I had a constant periody type ache whenever I would get up to wee.
Tuesday morning it was gone, and I went into town shopping and visiting my friend.
I got home and felt really crappy and sore and took ages putting the groceries away, and kept complaining to DH and taking little breaks to lie down, the periody feeling was back and also my lower back was sore.
I didnt want labor then!
My MW was away, My DH's gran had died two days beforehand, and the funeral was two days later, and I had a 40th on the day after... I had too many plans for babies, plus I knew they weren't ready to be born!!!!Then I started getting mucus in my knickers!
(the same thing happened the day before my last labor too)! So I had a bath and went to bed early, couldnt sleep, got up and paced around wondering if "this was it"! Then by 11pm I started noticing waves of stronger pain... 4 min apart... I rang midwife, she said get to hospital (we live an hour away), and so when MIL arrived we left, and got to hospital around 1pm.
My contractions were not bad enough to think I was in established labor, and I was HOPING against hope that I was at least 3cms (I would have been so shamed out if my cervix was closed)!! and that I wouldnt be sent home!
So I was lying on the bed at hosp, was offered the gas so I had some of that and it made me act like an idiot, posing for photos and texting all my friends and cracking jokes that only I would laugh at!
A nurse came to check me, she looked at me strangely and kept checking and checking, I was thinking OH NO Im not dilated!! Then she said "you're 8-9cms"!!! She got a 2nd opinion from a doctor and she confirmed it!
I was STOKED! My Mum arrived and then the anesthatist came and gave me an epidural (second baby was breech and the epi is needed in case of emergency). They popped my waters, then the doctors all buggered off and went to theatre for someone else!! They told me to just hang out and wait for them to come back before pushing! So I sat there for two fricken hours at 10cms dilated, sipping Mizone water and talking to Mum and DH, and looking at my watch!
At 5 oclock they finally were back in the room and told me to start pushing! It was so weird not having the 'urge to push' like I did my last two babies. I felt like a normal person, not in pain or anything, and trying to push out nothing!
But I lay there and pushed anyway (conscious of the fact my Mum had the video camera zoomed in on my face with every contraction!) and after whinging and moaning for 1/2 an hour about feeling nothing, I all of a sudden felt a bulging feeling!
At 5:31 baby Weston was born in about 3 contractions, and for the 1st time I experienced the 'burning ring of fire'! (my last two babies were numbed, cut, and forceped out). They showed him to me quickly then took him away to NICU. 6lb4oz
The doctors all pounced on my belly and held twin2 in place, and scanned my tummy to see the position of baby. He was breech, and coming feet 1st! Then they popped my second waters, and they shot out and hit the wall and drenched the doctor! In one long hard contraction I pushed and baby Bentley was born! 6lb7oz. They showed me him and whisked him away too.
The placentas came out, then every one left and just me and DH were just left in the room for an hour alone till a nurse came back and asked what was going on, they had all forgotten about us!
I had a shower then was wheelchaired down to NICU (I could walk but my legs werent working as well as they should because of epidural).
It was quite sad seeing my little babies in the incubators all seperated and with wires and cords on them, and masks on their faces
They needed a little help with breathing, and also keeping their temperatures up. They progressed well and the main problem was getting them to learn to suck, and breastfeed without falling asleep after 2 minutes! After two weeks of living at the hospital, away from my family, and spending all my time breastfeeding, expressing, topping up with bottle, and eating at the cafe all alone, I am finally home!
Im loving having them so much, and altho sleep deprived, I feel a million times better than being pregnant!
Babies are doing well, waking 3 hourly and taking good feeds off me with the odd expressed milk top up
Here are some pics of the birth and shortly after, then next five pics are their first few days, and the last ones are at about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks old
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