Christmas (December) Babies 2018!
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Sushai - eeeek!! Are contractions coming?? Mine never started right away after it broke... I had a whole other reply coming but now I'm anxious to see how it goes for you. I saw another one of our ladies had her daughter today in the facebook group. Keep us updated!
I was saying earlier is that I learned a lot more about bf from other mothers, more than I learned from the lactation consultants I met with. I'm still bf my younger two but they don't care for the colostrum, and always comment on how there'll be more milk when baby comes.
I was saying earlier is that I learned a lot more about bf from other mothers, more than I learned from the lactation consultants I met with. I'm still bf my younger two but they don't care for the colostrum, and always comment on how there'll be more milk when baby comes.
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Yaaaay I am so excited for you! Good luck, soon you'll have your girls out with you and not feel like a beached whale (lol).
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Omg it is happening I am so excited I can't wait to hear how your birth goes... I'll be checking all afternoon (only 2 PM here).
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Eeeek Sushai!!! So exciting how all the babies are starting to come! 
I’m looking forward to your updates!
I have been busy busy all day getting final things done around the house, packing dd’s bag so she can stay with my parents tomorrow night and while we are at the hospital, etc. I feel like we are ready now! I can’t believe he’ll be here so soon!
I’m looking forward to your updates! I have been busy busy all day getting final things done around the house, packing dd’s bag so she can stay with my parents tomorrow night and while we are at the hospital, etc. I feel like we are ready now! I can’t believe he’ll be here so soon!
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Hope it goes fast for you, already at 2 cm, so exciting!
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almost there!
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Wow Sushai! Amazing news. I hope all is going well and that you meet those little angels soon.
MarksWife- you are getting so close too.
Good luck to you both
I saw my Midwife yesterday. Baby is low...and engaging. Curious to see how long it takes now.
She was concerned that it doesn't appear that baby has grown any in about 4 weeks.
I'm being scheduled for another u/s next week to check growth. I am going to try to not get worked up...baby has dropped some so I am hoping that's all it is...that it just appears to be no growth. Only next week will tell though.
Excited to hear all the labour and birth stories. So many of us are going to be going to be finishing this amazing journey so soon.
MarksWife- you are getting so close too.
Good luck to you both
I saw my Midwife yesterday. Baby is low...and engaging. Curious to see how long it takes now.
She was concerned that it doesn't appear that baby has grown any in about 4 weeks.
I'm being scheduled for another u/s next week to check growth. I am going to try to not get worked up...baby has dropped some so I am hoping that's all it is...that it just appears to be no growth. Only next week will tell though.
Excited to hear all the labour and birth stories. So many of us are going to be going to be finishing this amazing journey so soon.
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Introducing Maryam (the one with the bright pink beanie) and Zahra.
Maryam - twin A
Born at 325pm
Weighing 1.91kg (4lb 2oz)
Measuring 45cm
Zahra - twin B
Born at 341pm
Weighing 1.99kg (4lb 3oz)
Measuring 46cm
Will give a better update later on
Maryam - twin A
Born at 325pm
Weighing 1.91kg (4lb 2oz)
Measuring 45cm
Zahra - twin B
Born at 341pm
Weighing 1.99kg (4lb 3oz)
Measuring 46cm
Will give a better update later on
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They're so lovely, congratulations!
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They are beautiful Sushai!!! Congrats!!!!
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My birth story.
I’d been having quite a bit of pressure in my bits on Saturday night but didn’t think anything of them. I’ve had increased discharge and lost bits of mucus plug over the last few days, the biggest chunk coming out on Thursday. Anyways I woke up as usual to go pee, came back to bed and lied down going through my phone early Sunday morning. I started feeling quite wet down there, so I decided to shift positions and a small trickle came out and it made me wonder if it’s my waters. I stood up and there was another trickle, I woke my husband by telling I thought my waters had broken. He was up in an instant. I went to the bathroom and nothing, stood up and another trickle. I went and got the kids ready, gave them breakfast and changed them. Whilst fixing breakfast there was a bigger gush that went down my leg, so definitely my waters. This all happened around 7am.
I called the hospital who told me to come into maternity assessment unit.
In this time I’d had just one contraction at 8am on the dot. I got no more after that just waves of pressure in my bottom every 10 minutes or so.
At the hospital they hooked me up to a ctg machine. Babies were doing great and I was the given a VE, they took a swab and told me I was 2cm dilated. After about 20 minutes on the ctg they decided to move me to the delivery suite. I was once again hooked up to the ctg which they had trouble with as Zahra decided to hang out underneath Maryam. All confirmed by a quick ultrasound the doctor on call gave me. A midwife tried putting in a cannula and she failed miserably leaving me really sore. So the doctor then did it on my other hand and it went in no problem. I was put on antibiotics as babies are considered preterm. Not long after the anaesthesiologist came in and spoke to me about the epidural which I consented to as I was just scared of the maybes after delivering twin A. The local was the most awful pain ever. The first thing he said to me was to not flinch and that’s exactly what I did the next second. Once the local had settled I didn’t feel anything on my back. By about 20 minutes my legs started going numb but more so my left than my right. It pretty much stayed that way for the rest of the time. I was then hooked up with some fluids as not long after getting the epidural I had a hypotensive episode followed by a very sudden headache. Once the fluids were up and running the headache started to ease up. I was then given another VE to check dilation and to hook up Maryam with a clip to get a better reading on her heartrate. I was then told I was dilated to a 6. At that time dh had stepped out with the kids as he managed to get a family friend to pick them up and take them.
Contractions started to slow down after a while and after another VE a few hours later I was only 7cm almost 8. So the doctor decided to put me on pitocin to make them pick up again. They sure did. They started coming much regular and I started to feel them in my pelvic area only but they weren’t intense thanks to the epidural. About a half hour or so later I was reexamined as I started feeling quite a bit of pressure with each contraction. I was finally full dilated and as the nurse was checking to make sure there was no cervix in the way Maryam decided to grab hold of her finger lol.
At this point the room started filling with heaps of nurses, doctors and paediatricians. I was told that I could push whenever I felt like it. So there I am spread eagled for all to see and all eyes trained on me waiting to see when I felt a contraction coming so that I could push. After about 5 contractions Maryam was born crying and just beautiful. She looked so tiny and covered in vernix. The doctors quickly jumped on me after delivering her making sure Zahra wouldn’t change positions and remained head down. After a bit of skin to skin Maryam was given to dh to continue skin to skin while I pushed out Zahra. Zahra was head down but still quite high up. So with every contraction I pushed and then the doctor said we might try a vacuum extraction unless you can push her out on the next contraction. Sure enough the next contraction came and I managed to get her head delivered, she came sunny side up. With the next contraction I birthed her completely. She was stunned, she didn’t cry and they were just saying that the paediatricians would work on her when she let out a big beautiful cry. Dh was in tears by this point, he was beyond happy. Zahra was then placed on my chest and she peed all over me as soon as she was put on me. I had some great skin to skin with her and then dh put Maryam on me too. He said that during his skin to skin time Maryam was trying to suck on his nipple lol.
It took awhile to deliver the placenta. They were fused but small. The cord for Zahra was quite short and she actually had it wrapped around her.
I then tried tandem feeding them. Maryam had no problems and fed really well. Zahra on the other hand kept unlatching herself and trying to get both her hand and my nipple in her mouth at the same time. She did manage to drink some.
After the feed both babies were weighed. The paediatrician then came to see me and said because they are under 2kilos each they would need to go to special care nursery. Their blood sugar levels are being monitored although the first lot came back normal. Policy here is that babies don’t get discharged until they are atleast 2.2 kilos. So it seems I’ll be getting discharged before them and this has really upset me as I can’t imagine leaving them behind.
Dh brought the kids back. I had a lovely shower once feeling came back to my legs. We were then moved to maternity ward, we quickly dropped off our things and were then taken to special care nursery so the kids could meet their baby sisters. It was so wonderful to see the excitement on their faces. The kept kissing and cuddling them
We are so in love with our tiny girls. I’m so grateful that my body responded and I was able to have the vaginal birth I’d been wanting. I’m honestly stunned that they are here already. My mind has been stuck on the 27th. When I told my kids this morning that the babies were coming my son was very quick to point out it wasn’t the 27th yet lol
If you made it this far you are awesome. I didn’t think I’d type out such a long birth story.
Zahra
Maryam
I’d been having quite a bit of pressure in my bits on Saturday night but didn’t think anything of them. I’ve had increased discharge and lost bits of mucus plug over the last few days, the biggest chunk coming out on Thursday. Anyways I woke up as usual to go pee, came back to bed and lied down going through my phone early Sunday morning. I started feeling quite wet down there, so I decided to shift positions and a small trickle came out and it made me wonder if it’s my waters. I stood up and there was another trickle, I woke my husband by telling I thought my waters had broken. He was up in an instant. I went to the bathroom and nothing, stood up and another trickle. I went and got the kids ready, gave them breakfast and changed them. Whilst fixing breakfast there was a bigger gush that went down my leg, so definitely my waters. This all happened around 7am.
I called the hospital who told me to come into maternity assessment unit.
In this time I’d had just one contraction at 8am on the dot. I got no more after that just waves of pressure in my bottom every 10 minutes or so.
At the hospital they hooked me up to a ctg machine. Babies were doing great and I was the given a VE, they took a swab and told me I was 2cm dilated. After about 20 minutes on the ctg they decided to move me to the delivery suite. I was once again hooked up to the ctg which they had trouble with as Zahra decided to hang out underneath Maryam. All confirmed by a quick ultrasound the doctor on call gave me. A midwife tried putting in a cannula and she failed miserably leaving me really sore. So the doctor then did it on my other hand and it went in no problem. I was put on antibiotics as babies are considered preterm. Not long after the anaesthesiologist came in and spoke to me about the epidural which I consented to as I was just scared of the maybes after delivering twin A. The local was the most awful pain ever. The first thing he said to me was to not flinch and that’s exactly what I did the next second. Once the local had settled I didn’t feel anything on my back. By about 20 minutes my legs started going numb but more so my left than my right. It pretty much stayed that way for the rest of the time. I was then hooked up with some fluids as not long after getting the epidural I had a hypotensive episode followed by a very sudden headache. Once the fluids were up and running the headache started to ease up. I was then given another VE to check dilation and to hook up Maryam with a clip to get a better reading on her heartrate. I was then told I was dilated to a 6. At that time dh had stepped out with the kids as he managed to get a family friend to pick them up and take them.
Contractions started to slow down after a while and after another VE a few hours later I was only 7cm almost 8. So the doctor decided to put me on pitocin to make them pick up again. They sure did. They started coming much regular and I started to feel them in my pelvic area only but they weren’t intense thanks to the epidural. About a half hour or so later I was reexamined as I started feeling quite a bit of pressure with each contraction. I was finally full dilated and as the nurse was checking to make sure there was no cervix in the way Maryam decided to grab hold of her finger lol.
At this point the room started filling with heaps of nurses, doctors and paediatricians. I was told that I could push whenever I felt like it. So there I am spread eagled for all to see and all eyes trained on me waiting to see when I felt a contraction coming so that I could push. After about 5 contractions Maryam was born crying and just beautiful. She looked so tiny and covered in vernix. The doctors quickly jumped on me after delivering her making sure Zahra wouldn’t change positions and remained head down. After a bit of skin to skin Maryam was given to dh to continue skin to skin while I pushed out Zahra. Zahra was head down but still quite high up. So with every contraction I pushed and then the doctor said we might try a vacuum extraction unless you can push her out on the next contraction. Sure enough the next contraction came and I managed to get her head delivered, she came sunny side up. With the next contraction I birthed her completely. She was stunned, she didn’t cry and they were just saying that the paediatricians would work on her when she let out a big beautiful cry. Dh was in tears by this point, he was beyond happy. Zahra was then placed on my chest and she peed all over me as soon as she was put on me. I had some great skin to skin with her and then dh put Maryam on me too. He said that during his skin to skin time Maryam was trying to suck on his nipple lol.
It took awhile to deliver the placenta. They were fused but small. The cord for Zahra was quite short and she actually had it wrapped around her.
I then tried tandem feeding them. Maryam had no problems and fed really well. Zahra on the other hand kept unlatching herself and trying to get both her hand and my nipple in her mouth at the same time. She did manage to drink some.
After the feed both babies were weighed. The paediatrician then came to see me and said because they are under 2kilos each they would need to go to special care nursery. Their blood sugar levels are being monitored although the first lot came back normal. Policy here is that babies don’t get discharged until they are atleast 2.2 kilos. So it seems I’ll be getting discharged before them and this has really upset me as I can’t imagine leaving them behind.
Dh brought the kids back. I had a lovely shower once feeling came back to my legs. We were then moved to maternity ward, we quickly dropped off our things and were then taken to special care nursery so the kids could meet their baby sisters. It was so wonderful to see the excitement on their faces. The kept kissing and cuddling them
We are so in love with our tiny girls. I’m so grateful that my body responded and I was able to have the vaginal birth I’d been wanting. I’m honestly stunned that they are here already. My mind has been stuck on the 27th. When I told my kids this morning that the babies were coming my son was very quick to point out it wasn’t the 27th yet lol
If you made it this far you are awesome. I didn’t think I’d type out such a long birth story.
Zahra
Maryam
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I am so excited to have read your birth story, and so happy you got to do the vaginal delivery as well. Hoping they gain up where they need to so you can take them home soon. They look so cute and tiny though lol. Thank you for writing down your story, too, I was pretty thrilled to read it first thing. I'm just so happy you're all doing okay! Fingers crossed for you and recovery goes well.
Did you get any stitches?
Did you get any stitches?
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Who, in the FB group had her baby girl?
Sushai!!!!!!!!!!! How wonderful to come on and see all of your excitement. You all must be over the moon. Your girls are beautiful. Hopefully they won't have to stay in the hospital for long. I'm so SO happy for you!!!
Who, in the FB group had her baby girl?
Sushai!!!!!!!!!!! How wonderful to come on and see all of your excitement. You all must be over the moon. Your girls are beautiful. Hopefully they won't have to stay in the hospital for long. I'm so SO happy for you!!!
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OMG omg omg au can’t believe you’ve had your babies sushai and I’m so pleased you got the chance to have them naturally, they are beautiful and glad you are recovering well too. I hope they gain a bit more weight so that you can all be discharged together. Thank you so much for your story and pics.
Markswife I’m glad all the pre birth stuff went well and I’ve got everything crossed everything goes smoothly for you tomorrow.
I think all these babies are going to start coming thick and fast now whoo hooo
Markswife I’m glad all the pre birth stuff went well and I’ve got everything crossed everything goes smoothly for you tomorrow.
I think all these babies are going to start coming thick and fast now whoo hooo
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