Thursday we has a regular check up at our doctors followed by out weekly non-stress test (NST). i was 37weeks/3days and i joked with dr. addlestein "why am i still pregnant?" before sending me to the hospital for my NST he called his high risk special list for advice about what he would do in this situation- he would induce me, our drs typically would not. at the hospital another dr from the practice saw me (dr. macfarlane- a christian) they ordered extra lab work to make sure i wasnt pre-clampic.
at 2 pm the labs came back very unfavorably high but my body was- for mixed company- "moving along nicely"= 80% effaced .5 cm dialated. so we decided to stay use some pitocin to really get the party started and check on the progress of things.
at 4 pm ish progress was made, 100% and 3cm, so they broke elyse's water to try to get that and the pitocin to work together. and the dr. felt that babies could come by mid-night and i opted for an epidural because the pain was insane.
at 7ish i was at 100% and 10 cm, and we felt like it was a good decision to get the drugs, and i started pushing. dr trip was now on call and was physically checking my pushing progress. by 9 elyse had not moved anywhere and i was having terrible back pain. he let me go a little longer and then at 11:30 told us that i needed an emergency c-section.
at just about 12 am we went in for a c-section, the girls were born at 12:58 am on 7/28/2012. it was very scary. after the surgery the dr. pushes on your stomach to make sure your uterus contract. every woman gets some blood to come out. however mine was to the excess and i learned this morning that i almost needed a blood transfusion.
both babies were born healthy and with out complication. elyse needed a little more care and attention than tamsin.
today we are all doing well and we plan on taking some photos of the 4 of us.- the above is why you dont see me in any of the photos. its just dan. check the blog later for this post and photos-fabfeeneyfour.blogspot.com
God did a lot of other cool things that i will mention in another post but i have to get back to relaxing and eating bon bons.
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