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| Last Belly picture!!! 36 weeks and 6 days. |
***Below is a detailed description of the birth of Maxwell and Isaac. Stop here and only look at the pictures if you don't want to know all the details!
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| Isaac on the left and Max on the right (All pictures are when they were 2 days old) |
I went in for a doctor appointment on 10/27 where they found high blood pressure and low levels of protein in my urine. The doctor was concerned because these are signs of pre-eclampsia. She gave me two options: go home and monitor urine protein overnight or be induced. I decided to monitor overnight thinking the longer the boys incubated the healthier they would be. We scheduled a recheck for the following day. The three of us did very well overnight (or as well as you can at 36 weeks pregnant with twins).
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| Maxwell John |
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| Isaac James |
Chris and I drove to the hospital (ok ok so we stopped for sandwiches because as soon as a pregnant women checks into the hospital for delivery they will only let her eat clear broth or jello) and got checked in. Eventually (hospital time is different than real world time), an IV catheter was placed and pitocin was started to help make the contractions stronger. It turns out that I was having contractions without realizing it.
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| Max (he likes getting his picture taken...Isaac not so much) |
This lead to two important discoveries:
First of all who knew that there was THAT much fluid around each baby-holy moly was I surprised. Second: the contractions when your water is broken start with a BANG!!! The best comparison that I have thought of is that I was standing near the pool watching people swim and someone knocked me into the deep end where I was suddenly drowning.
The contractions lasted approximately 45 seconds about 20-30 seconds apart. It was excruciating because there was no gradual build up. It was just--bam--here is a lot of pain. I was able to handle the contractions for about an hour before I requested an epidural. The anesthesiologist was my favorite person in that moment. Just an FYI: no one tells you that you will continue to have contractions while a doctor is placing a needle in your spine and you cannot move.
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| I love this one Max (left) has his Are-you-sure-you-know-what-you-are-doing look and Isaac is screaming. This pretty much sums up my life right now :) |
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| Our first picture as a family of 6! (4 of the human kind and two of the canine kind) |
Maxwell John Beesley was born at 1:21 am on October 29th, 2016 weighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Isaac James Beesley was born at 1:22 am on October 29th, 2016 weighing in at 5 pounds and 11 ounces.
I had a fair number of post operational complications, such as hemorrhaging--leading to the need for a blood transfusion, anemia that lasted for a month, severe pain episodes, the development of gallstones--leading to a future surgery (more on that later), and severe constipation.
We stayed in the hospital until November 1, 2016 allowing time for the blood transfusion and enough healing so that I could help Chris once we got home.
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| Isaac and Me |
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| Max and Chris |
It is so funny that even with all the complications and issues I have faced with the last month of pregnancy and the first month of their lives, I would do it all again in a heart beat in order to have these two in my life.
