I was rolled into the OR at around 2 am on Tuesday morning. Thirty minutes after the initial "we will have babies in the hour" statement. Tripler's labor and delivery just got some new operating rooms and they were nice and bright..and seemed so small! I imagined a giant OR that would be big enough for tons of people to be running around, but really it was freezing cold and looked pretty tiny. Also tiny was the table they wanted me to get up on! I got up on the table without Justin in the room, which also freaked me out. I asked my nurse to hold my hand while I got the spinal put in. I was talked through the whole procedure which was nice because I was visibly shaking and about to cry. I can now say having both an epidural and a spinal, the spinal was less painful. It was done and next thing I knew the doctor and my nurse were hosting my legs, which I could still feel pressure on, but not my actual legs up onto the table and someone was taking my head backwards. I had been so concerned I would be able to feel the pain and the spinal wouldn't work! I asked how I would know if it worked and they asked me if I could feel some thing and when I said no they said then it worked!
About that time my face started itching, I felt like I was going to be sick, and more people were coming in. Except Justin.
The doctor put up the curtain and said "see you in just a little bit". I was still asking where Justin was at this point and the curtain in my face was not helping me. I heard them say that they were starting and then Justin finally walked in with my music I so desperately needed so I wouldn't be thinking about my guts being sprawled across the table. I had also informed them I didn't need to hear what they are doing so don't worry about talking loudly :) At one point I heard a doctor say "I lost suction" I knew (thought!) I was about to die and then she started singing to my music. Holy moly these people didn't know I was about to lose it behind the curtain.
Soon after I heard Dr. Squires say "uterus" and then "team Twin A are you ready?" and then it was time at 2:41 am Kennedy was out! The anesthesiologist told Justin to stand up and look and he did. He also told him to snap some pictures- which I will keep to myself because they are lovely. I saw one of the NICU doctors walk by with Kennedy and then we heard her sweet little cry. I felt some tugging and pulling, again not nearly what I had envisioned in my head. Then at 2:42 am Dr. Squires said "team Twin B are you ready?" and there was Kinley. They cleaned them up got their initial stats and headed to the NICU. Justin followed the girls and I was left with the doctors, nurses and anesthesiologist to sew me up!
Between my music and making small talk with the people behind the curtain it really didn't take long to sew me up. In about 30-45 minutes I was free of the curtain in my face and being rolled over to a recovery bed. They sat me up and started wheeling me out when I started telling them I was going to be sick. The very kind nurse got me a tiny kidney shaped thing and told me I'd be fine it was just from rolling around and the medicine. Nope it wasn't. I got sick. It was glamorous in the middle of the hallway.
Luckily, Justin had left me my phone so I could make our important phone calls to let everyone know they were here. I was high on babies and drugs and I felt great- minus the few waves of getting sick. Justin was with the girls until I texted him asking him where he was and then he ran back to me because he thought something was wrong! He walked in on me Skyping my dad in China to tell him that Kennedy and Kinley were here. Gotta love technology. I really wanted Justin to come back up to give me the report on what was happening with the girls- not to freak him out. We were in recovery for about 2 hours and then got wheeled down to the mother baby floor where I was ready to go meet these girls I'd felt moving around for 33 weeks. Unfortunately, I was told I'd have to wait until I could walk to my wheelchair without throwing up.
Our friend and photographer Brenda came up and Justin took her down to the NICU to snap some pictures of the girls. She was supposed to be there when the girls came, but again, there were other plans in the works for these two and they came rather fast in the middle of the night. They came back and I got to see some pictures and videos of the girls and that held me over for a little bit...but I was still ready to get down there.
My friend Serena had come to the hospital and I told Tan, my nurse, to load me up because we were going down there. Justin and Serena were speed racers plowing down the hallway of Tripler and I started getting sick again. We didn't tell Tan. Justin was already a frequent flyer in the NICU so he took us through the hand washing station and the doors to go see Kennedy and Kinley for the first time. They were/are in separate rooms in their little isolates and getting plenty of help from all the amazing nurses there. I usually get freaked out by seeing little babies hooked up to monitors and having breathing machines around, but theres nothing scary about what they have going on. We are so lucky these little ones grew so good inside and are a good weight and far along. They had a CPAP on mainly to keep expanding their lungs with a little oxygen. That trip was wearing me out and after about 20 minutes I had to go lay down. We promised we'd be back with a big sister in a few hours and went to nap.
November 27th had a crazy start to the day, but it ended up in such a sweet way with all our babies meeting.
That's the next post :)
**I realized later that it was a good thing that I didn't send Justin home to sleep on Monday night like I had thought about because there was no way he would have gotten back in time.
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