Here is the birth story of Payton and Sydney: On Friday July 11 my doctor called to tell me that he wanted to bring me in for delivery on Sunday. I was kind of surprised but very willing at that point to get the babies delivered. Due to my 3 blood clotting issues and the lack of heparin, we needed to have a delivery under controlled circumstances. My doc wasn't comfortable allowing me to go into labor because of that. So it was going to have to be C-section. I had really wanted a vaginal birth but baby B had historically been breech or transverse so the doc wouldn't go for it. I was a bit disappointed but just wanted the babies to have the safest delivery possible. They then told me that because of my blood issues I would have to have the C under general anesthesia. I was so disappointed because that would mean that Bill couldn't be in the room and of course the recovery period would be much longer. So on Friday night I did my last shot of Lovenox (long acting anti-coagulant) and we showed up at 7:45am Sunday morning for a C-Section. After reporting to L&D, they drew my blood to run clotting tests and of course started and IV and monitored the babies for a while. We just waited for the 10am scheduled start time. It was then that we got some great news, my blood panels were fine and I could have the spinal instead of general! I was so happy and relieved. DH was given the paper scrubs to change into and we were ready to go. The actual surgery got pushed back to 11am and at about 11:10 I walked into the OR. They did the spinal and layed me down. Because my belly was so big I immediately started to feel sick and like I couldn't breathe. My pressure fell but was ok. Eventually they got me stable and DH came in. It felt so good to have him there holding my hand. They started work and at 11:45 Payton was born followed a minute later by Sydney. Payton had some trouble transitioning, that made me so scared... I didn't hear her crying! Sydney was yelling right away and they gave her to DH and I got to kiss her. It was beautiful moment. I was still very worried about Payton but after a few minutes and a bit of suctioning, they had her breathing just fine and we were able to see her and hold her. Dh followed the babies to the nursery to be weighed and cleaned while they finished up my surgery . He met me in recovery a few minutes later. After the hour in recovery I was moved to my room and they brought us the girls and I was able to nurse them right away. It was wonderful. We were on cloud nine for sure!
