Our birth story

The night before our scheduled c-section I had contractions again the whole night, all between 2 and 5min apart, drove me crazy!
So eventually by 6 the next morning I was exhausted and hubby said we should just head over to the hospital earlier than planned.
We got there and as usual the contractions stopped just as they started monitoring them, so they gave us a room and said we could just wait there till our planned c-section at 3pm.

It turned out to be a lazy morning with us dozing most of the time, babies kicking every now and again, loads of hiccups from our one little man. We chatted with most of the family on Skype and took some silly photos of mommy and daddy to be ...lol
The one thing I remember is being sooo thirsty and not being allowed to drink any water, needless to say I drank a bit every time I went to the loo...lol

An hour before the time I got my IV lines put in.
And before I knew it I was wheeled into the theatre

Met the anesthetist, lovely dr, and just waited for Dr R to come.
Before my spinal block, they administered a local anesthetic and then went ahead with the procedure, it really didn't hurt at all, maybe a bit uncomfortable but that was about it.

I lay down and just kept thinking that I could still feel my toes.
DH came in all smiles camera ready and dressed in his scrubs, I felt a lot of tugging and I kept thinking I can feel my toes and I wonder when they gonna cut, when my hubbies eyes lit up and he looked at me.

I heard a gurgled little cry and saw the nurses rush past my head, I kept looking and asking my hubby if the baby was ok, he just smiled and said he was fine.
They where working on our first born behind my head so I couldn't really see anything and I had to rely on DH to tell me everything.

We waited a bit and then I heard dr R call for forceps. Scary moment as I had no idea what was going on. Our second LO's head was tilted so far back that they couldn't reach it. Then Dr R instructed the nurses to push down on my stomach, aparrently our little boy was tucked up quite high. A few seconds later a Nurse rushed past me again and it felt like an eternity before I heard my boy's little cry, I laughed and cried at the same time. But mostly kept asking if he was ok. I think I asked the same question about 10 times...

My hubby moved between me and the boys the whole time, camera forgotten around his neck...lol
Eventually he just said that he couldn't take photos as all of this was just to precious to miss.

While I got stitched up I started feeling a bit weird, felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest and my neck muscles went into little spasms, really not nice

Fortunately they brought over my boys at that time and I got to see my precious angels for the first time.
They where beautiful and perfect in every way and just sooo gorgeous!

Our first little man was born at 15.49pm and weighed in at 2.4 kg, 46.5cm tall
Baba nr 2 was born at 15.50pm and weighed in at 2.9kg, 51cm tall

Both babies did so well, and the pead was happy to let them stay with us.

We got wheeled into recovery and a little while later we got to all go to our room together where I got to nurse the boys for the first time .

Our birth experience was special, but not nearly as special as meeting and spending time with our boys, it's amazing how you can just stare at these little humans and love them more than anything. How your love for them is just all consuming and complete...

After our first 2 nursing sessions the boys sugar levels got tested, unfortunately it kept dropping so we had to supplement their feeds with formula.
We tried over the next 3days to just get them to only nurse from me but every time we did, their sugar levels would drop, so formula was the only way to keep it up.

All I can say is that we are blessed!
Our boys are gorgeous and perfect and we are so in love, it's so much more than we ever expected, it's just heavenly!
And to see my husband love his little boys... Well it's amazing!!!

Xxx