Thursday May 5th started as any normal day, get Claire ready for school as best I can with the help of Bellah who has become my mini helper now that movements are minimal and its hard to walk.
The pressure I've been feeling the last day or so on my hips is still there but to an extreme, I'm putting it down to the position a baby is sitting as thats what i was told at my ante natal appt the day before.
I went over to my neighbours house for a chat and a coffee and to get Bellah out of the house, whilst there I went to the toilet and had my show which continued on through out the day. As its a multiple pregnancy I was told to call the hospital if/when i get any changes including my show.
So I called the hospital and they said to go in, so rang DH he came home and next door babysat and off we went. When there I was told I wasn't in labour and didn't think I was at that point either but living out of town they thought it best to keep me in.
DH and I were both told after a VE that there was no way I'd go into labour that night as the cervix was still high and closed and not thinned out. So DH went to work, he doesnt get service where he works, but he was assured nothing was happening.
At around 1am the contractions were really noticeable especially in my hips i wasnt feeling so much pain in my belly but my god my hips hurt! Another VE and the same response from the nurses your not in labour theres no change to your cervix. I knew different these pains werent BHs I knew and remembered these from labour.
But they know what they are doing right?! Take this sleeping pill with this painkiller and you'll be right til morning is what I was told. I didn't sleep, I kept getting pains until they were almost on top of each other. Then they decided to do another VE even though I was told again I dont think there will be any change and your just not in enough pain for it to be labour.
Well low and behold what response do you think we got this time .....
Oh my you are contracting, your 4 cms dialated and his bums on its way out .... well THANK YOU! More proof that a woman knows her own body.
So now the mad dash to get a hold of DH he had no service, hes at work over an hour away, I have no option but to call his boss who races out there to get him.
I have to have a c-sec because of positioning of the babies and a low heart rate on one teamed with my high heart rate. Im prepped up, numbed up and wheeled into theatre. DH still isnt here, im scared, im in tears because i dont want to do this alone, why did the hospital assure him it was ok to go to work NOTHING WILL HAPPEN so why am i in this theatre alone?
He makes it in the very last minute just as the surgeon had instructed to close the door.
The rest is a little bit of a blur. Lleyton was born at 7.07am and Jackson at 7.09am I didnt get to see them yet they had to be whisked away to SCN and Lleyton had to be hooked up to CPAP. I didnt get to see them until almost 8pm the most agonising hours of my life.
I learnt a lot from my labour although it went well I learnt to trust my body, if it were up to those nurses I would have had the twins up in that bed because I wasnt in labour in there eyes, every labour is different and doesnt progress the same way, Im glad I had the courage to stand up for my body and tell them what was going on and demand to be checked. I dread to think what may have happened if I had let it go and thought they are the doctors they must be right.
Anyway that is the birth of my twins, nothing flashy just hospital drama!
Thanks for sharing darl, I followed some of it on FB, but didn't hear all of it, you really didn't get treated very well there, and you are right - you know your body and trust it to tell you what is happening because someone else doesn't know what you are feeling and what is happening.
They are absolutely gorgeous boys, and you did so well to carry them for as long as you did with everything that was happening.
Enjoy all those precious snuggles! (and the BF's when you get them!)
Welcome to the world Lleyton & Jackson! You did a fantastic job Nikkie, trusting in what your body was telling you even though the nurses didn't! I'm so glad your Dh got there just in the nick of time! What a lovely mummy's day you must have had! Congratulations to you both!! xx
Congrats on the safe arrival of your boys! What a great gestation to get them to as well, after all your scares.
I hope they are both in your arms soon & home not long after.
Lleyton & Jackson - 6th May 2011
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