Twins in time
by Stephanie
(Saint Paul)
Matthew and Brian frst day home, after 3 weeks in the NICU
Our twin boys were born at 32 weeks 1 day at 840 and 841pm.
After going in to the hospital for labor pains on Sunday August 23rd I received a few shots and some pills to stop the contractions, I was released at 3am to go home. My contractions had stopped but only until late morning the next day. by 6 pm on August 24th my contractions were 3 minutes apart and 1 minute long!
They had been going strong since noon and I was in quite a bit of pain to the point that with every contraction I could not complete a sentence...
When I got to the hospital I was 4cm already with baby B still breech and for being so preemie the doctor insisted on a Cesarean section so as to not add stress to already stressed babies.
The procedure lasted 40 minutes from spinal block to last staple and both boys were born at 4lbs 4oz and 17 inches long.
We spent 3 weeks in the NICU, eating and growing. We hit some bumps along the way with abnormal tests and some nursing challenges. It was tearful for joy, and fear and stress between home and hospital, and even more stressful when Brian(baby B) was discharged but Matthew was not well enough yet.
Both boys have totally different personalities and grow, eat and sleep differently, but it is so much fun and I can't keep my eyes off of them.
I'm sure it will get more stressful as they become more active but I can't even bring myself to shut my eyes even when they are sleeping.
I've had help so far but when the help goes away I can only imagine it will be a bit more hectic feeding and changing and bathing them and balancing my own tasks.
