The Babies Are Here-Born January 28,2009 at 34.3weeks

Well first off Im sorry this is so late but here it is-Our Birth Story!

So it all really started Tuesday January 27th when Kierra , my mom and Clyde all had the stomach flu all day. Alexzander had it the week before so I decided Alex and I would hide out in the bedroom all day hoping to avoid the germs. Everytime I left the room Id wash my hands a cpl times and spray some lysol and then pray I wouldnt get what they all had. By 10pm I was starting to feel kinda sick-I didnt even want to drink because I didnt want to get sick. So at 3 am when I got Clyde up for work I knew it was over- I was sick! I threw up twice between 4am and 6 am and I couldnt drink anything without feeling sick. I got up to get Kierra up for school at 6:30 however thanks to the horrible snow and ice storm school was cancelled so I decided to lay back down until Clyde came home and was hoping Id feel better then. So around 8:30am Clyde finally rerturned home and I couldnt take it anymore, I was so sick and I was really dehydrated at this point so we decided to call Dr Baird and ask her what I should do. Dr Baird said she didnt want me dehydrated and that I should go into Labor and Delivery and get hooked up to an iv for some fluids and to check in on the babies. So Clyde called his mom over to watch Kierra and Alex and by 9am we were off to the hospital.
The roads were really crappy but we managed to get to the hospital by 9:30 and once we arrived we realized it was going to be a long day since the place was packed. Every room was full and I had to take a bed in triage, this tiny little bed, in this tiny little room and we had to fit 3monitors for the babies and an iv and Clyde in there-it was cramped. In fact the nurse kept knocking things on the floor lol. So the nurse got me hooked up to the 3 baby monitors and the contraction monitor and got my iv hooked up-by now it was around 11am. Finally the meds and fluids started kicking in and I started feeling a little better. Clyde then decided he wanted to multitask so that he didnt waste a day sitting in the hospital when I was just gonna be there getting some fluids for the flu and he decided to call my mom to come and sit with me while he went to go van shopping. My mom was there by 11:30am and Clyde left. During this time The nurse was having a really hard time getting the babies to stay on the monitors and she was trying everything to get them to show up. Around noon the dr finally came in and checked me out-I wasnt contracting (says the monitor) and I was still closed so he decided to help the nurse focus on getting the babies on the monitors. After almost an hour of trying to locate them with the monitor and the ultrasound machine-he decided he would call Dr Baird and ask about sending me over to the high risk Dr down the hall to get a good look at the babies. Finally around 1:15pm we were wheeled down to the high risk Dr and they started getting an ultrasound. The dr said the babies looked great and estimated they weighed between 4 and 5 pounds each and all of their heatrates were fine so he sent me back to labor and delivery to wait for Dr Bairds orders.

We got back to my room and they finally had a room open for me so they had me move into a bigger room and they hooked me up to just the contraction monitor since they knew the babies were ok. At this point I was starting to feel really sick again but they didnt want to give me anything until Dr Baird said so. The nurse told me that Dr Baird was on her way to the hospital for a delivery anyway and she would come to see me after that. So I decided to try and rest for awhile. Clyde called just after 3pm and said he was going to let his mom go home since the roads were so bad and he would just sit with the kids until we got home. Then around 3:30pm I started feeling some really light cramping that kept getting stronger-I asked my mom which monitor I was and when we looked it showed I was having contractions...I was stunned! My mom went out to get my nurse to come in and verify that I was having contractions and sure enough I was-they werent very strong at this point but they were coming every 1-3 minutes. I decided we should call Clyde and have him come back to the hospital just in case-however when we called his mom had just gotten home and he no longer had anyone to sit with the kids. Poor Clyde was freaking out-He was lost, he was running around trying to find a sitter while trying to get my things together to bring to the hospital. Finally he got ahold of Kierras Nana and Papa up the street and they said they would watch the kids until Olma could come and get them. So after calming himself down a little bit he dropped the kids off and made it to the hospital by 4:30pm. Just before he got there Dr Baird came in to see me and she was also shocked to see that I was contracting-they had slowed down to 2-4 minutes apart however they were really strong at this point. Dr Baird didnt want to just rushinto delivering the boys if I was just contracting from being sick and dehydrated so she decided we would just watch and see how things went for the next hour or so. She let me know she had to leave though and her partner would be there just in case we needed her. Around 5:45 the on call dr came in to check on me and the contractions were back to every 1-3 minutes and were coming very strong- I was definatly feeling them at this point and I was starting to get uncomfortable. The dr decided that we didnt need to continue watching and making me uncomfrtable and he said that it was time to have some babies. He told us to get ready because we were going to have our babies in the next hour.

Sure enough within 5 minutes our room was full of nurses and dr's having us sign papers and getting us all ready for our c-section and by 6:45 they were wheeling me down to the operating room. Clyde waited outside while I got my spinal put in and they got everything ready and then he came in and sat with me. I was feeling really sick and just a littel scared at how being early would affect our babies but Clyde was calm and helped me relax a little. The spinal was making me really sick and I started getting sick again so they gave me some meds and withing a cpl of seconds I was feeling better and was able to relax just in time to hear my first baby let out his first cry-Baby A (Now Known as Noah Anthony) made his entrance into this world at 7:22pm on January 28th 2009 and he weighed 4 pounds 9 ounces-he was our first born and our biggest baby. It all happened really fast and both Baby B (Nathaniel Robert) and Baby C (Nicholas Henry) were born at 7:23pm. Nathan weighed 4 pounds 7 ounces and Nicholas weighed 4 pounds 3 ounces. All 3 boys came into this world crying and breathing on their own-it was the best feeling ever. While they were getting the babies weighed and ready to go to the Nicu and while I was getting all fixed up, I told Clyde I was amazed by how different I felt-even though I couldnt feel anything I could tell how much lighter my stomach felt-both him and my nurse laughed at me. The nurses brought Noah and Nathan over to say goodbye real fast before they went to the NICU and Clyde got to go see them off while I had my cerclage removed and by 8pm it was all over and I was in recovery resting. Clyde and my mom got a cpl pictures and so I got to see those while we waited for my spinal to wear off and for the NICU to get the babies ready for us to finally meet them up close. We were in recovery for over 2 hours and I was getting really anxious- I was really missing my babies and couldnt wait to see them and get to know how they were all doing...and then at 10:50 the nurse came to take us to see our Baby Boys! They rolled me on my bed down to the NICU and since room was limited I only got to see and touch Baby C (Nicholas Henry) but it was amazing. All 3 boys were doing well. Noah was the only baby that needed just a little assistance and they put him on a hood so he could get a little extra oxygen...they said he had a tiny hole in the lungs and they would check him by x-ray in the morning to see if it improved. They told us they expected the babies to only be in the NICU for about 2 weeks or so...mainly to learn to eat and grow....we were so happy to hear that news. They let us visit and get some pictures for about 15 minutes and then it was time to say goodniight and we were wheeled to my room to get some sleep. My mom helped get me settled and then she went home to get a lttle rest and By 11:30pm both Clyde and I were passed out-It was a really long day for us both but it was definatly one of the most amazing days of our lives!

So there it is- our very long birth story. Thank You for taking the time to read about how we welcomed our newest members into the world and I will post an update about how they are
doing really soon.