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[2boyz4us]

Oh boy oh boy . . .
Nathaniel Grayson Thrush (5p 2oz) & Charles Alden Thrush (4p 10 oz) -- Nat & Charlie to their friends :) -- arrived via c-section on July 2.
We just got home today & it is utter, wonderful chaos. They are beautiful, joyful boys & dh & I are totally in love. Somewhere in my objective mind I know that they look like alien chickens but to us they're gorgeous.
Been tandem feeding since Day 2 in hospital (nurses were impressed, but less helpful than I would of hoped; nobody could fix their shallow latch -- wee babies + big boobies=sore nipples; we're working on it).
I've got about a million hospital stories, most of them bad or sad, but funny. Here are the headlines:
Telling the anetheisiologist I really wanted to leave after seeing babies over the drape (they sedated me for resst of op but doc said my leg kept falling off the table . . . I was dreaming about dancing :-) )
Bursting into tears in front of pediatrician re: supplementing
Telling my ob to SHUT UP when he said bf doesn't always work for twin moms (DUH, it doesn't always work for any mom. DO NOT say this to a woman whose milk is coming in while she's got a possibly jaundiced baby at her breast)
The weird roommate
The excellent roommate who is my new best friend
The nursing staff nightmare due to pre-July 4 inductions, c-sections a.k.a glad I wasn't bleeding to death when I hit that call button again & again & again
AND the winner is . . .
Watching the Macy's July 4 fireworks from our room with a view of the East River.
It was like a front row seat. Babies slept right thru it . . . it was their first gift to mom & dad!

[Laurie13]

Congratulations!
The fun has just begun and remember to log all those stories to be written down somewhere if you have time. The time flies by and it will be fun to look back!

Welcome to this crazy wonderful world Nat and Charlie!
Congrats Mom!

[zel+two]

Congratulations, Diane! I'm so glad things went well and your boys are healthy and happy. Those weights sound pretty impressive to me considering they were really worried about their sizes. Sounds like even though you had some rough times in there (aren't hospitals the worst place in the world to be...and I work in one) that you kept your good humour. Another bedrest graduate!! They are coming fast and furious now. I'm so happy for you and your family :) Welcome to the world, Nat & Charlie!!

[2boys2girls]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

What a wonderful way to spend the fourth of July!!!! Welcome to the world Nat and Charlie!!!!!

[Momma to 3 Wonderful Boys]

Congratulations Diane!! I've been waiting to read the birth story. I'm glad things are going well. Way to go on tandem feeding. My boys get cranky when I try to do that. :rolleyes: About sore nipples, I had that too. Use lansinoh or purelan (maybe you already are), it helps a lot. Also, it seems to be better around ten days old. Congrats again and welcome to Nat and Charlie!! :D

[Truffles]

Congratulations, Diane!

Welcome to the world, little Nat and little Charlie! :)

[Keeler5]

Diane~
Congratulations on the safe arrival of you babies. I am scheduled to be c-sectioned on the 14th. I would love to hear about some of your stories in more detail. Please keep us posted on how the babies are doing. Congratulations again!

[emma]

Congratulations!! I was wondering how things were going and if the boys were here yet. Glad you are home and hope you are recovering quickly from the C-section! Congratulations on the tandem feeding.

I thought I was right behind you but now my doctor wants to hold off on a C-section and see if I go into labor naturally between now and 40 weeks. Please please I hope the temperature drops.
Best, Emma

[oneplusII]

Congratulations and good luck on the breastfeeding!!!! The fun is just beginning!!!:)

[Media]

Diane, I almost missed your post as I am literally falling asleep at the computer and abt to head to bed--
but before I do, I'm so happy that you had your babies... we were thinking a lot about you on the bedrest thread. What a treat to see the fireworks! Not quite the yankee doodle babies we anticipated, but close enough (me neither by the way...tho I'm hoping soon: being induced Wed if I don't do it on my own beforehand).
WHen you have a minute, pop in and tell more stories and keep up the good work!

Hooray!

[Kirsten James]

Diane - it was great to see and read your story this morning! Congrats on the boys and their arrival. I'm so glad you got to see fireworks! Hang in there with the BF - I'm saying that because I know I'm going to need ALOT of encouragement when I get there. I love your story about wanting to leave - LOL. Please post some more when you have time (hmmm- when will that be?). Anyway - so glad to hear all went well. Take care and keep us posted!

Kirsten, 32w4d with boy/girl twins
C/S scheduled for 8/8 - 37 weeks!

[2boyz4us]

Thanks so much everyone for the well wishes. We are hanging in, trying to deal with day/night confusion.
Here's how the birth went in some more detail:
The day started with an 8 am u/s for growth, which meant I ate my breakfast at 6:30, a puny bowl of raisen bran (this will be important later :b )
Sure enough the boys had only gained a little -- their weights were good but the rate of growth was concerning my overprotective doc. So he said, today's the day mom. And he said a c/s was best because A was still oblique & B had turned breech at the last minute. He said if they were bigger he woulda tried to manipulate them into better positions, but this was risky for 5 pounders.
So I was sent to labor & delivery at about 10 am. Birth could be any time from 12 to 10 pm . . . depending on what else was going on.
Well, what else was going on was that every preggo in the tri state area was being induced or c/s prior to the holiday . . . I was taken to the same monitoring room / storage closet (no joke, bed, monitor & supplies that random people kept coming in for) that I had spent 8 hrs in on Friday waiting for results of lung maturity amnio. This room was about the size of a prison cell & had no a/c so we had to keep the door propped open with my bag. Anesthesiology was gonna come by any time now to set up my IV -- but they were very busy, natch.
Meanwhile, I am tied to the bed because of the monitors. If my sunny SIL hadn't been there I probably woulda lost my friggin mind. Anesthesia didn't arrive until 3 pm -- so I've had nothing to eat or drink since 6:30. The faculty doc insists on doing my IV himself. A very perky competent looking nurse offers but he says "no, I'm very good with IVs" -- of course he has to stick me twice in the hand w/ big guage needle. I went white as a sheet and almost fainted. But at least I was getting hydrated now.
The c/s preggos were lined up like planes at LaGuardia & because I was both not an emergency & not scheduled, I was low priority. I didn't get prep for surgery until 7 pm. Then the anesthiologist let a resident try my epidural -- u guessed it -- had to be redone by other doc (thank god not the same one who f*ed up my IV -- I'd been thru several shifts by now you see).
Utter weirdness -- The OR had the most beautiful view of the East River & 59th Street bridge. I was watching people get onto party boats as they were sticking needles in my back -- I wanted to go get on a boat!
Anyway, after all this I proceed to freak out on the op table. I'm shaking uncontrollably, and just wanting to get out of there. That's about the time that they gave me Valium or something in the IV. I have just the vaguest memory of seeing only one baby over the drape then I went to sleep & had the dreams about dance class. It was later that the doc told me my leg kept falling off the table! And so they had to up the meds so I'd stop moving.
I woke up at 10 pm in recovery room with my two darling babies being held by dh & sil . . . it was wonderful. But I was ready to be in a real bed & dozing by 11. When did I get there, 2 AM !!!! Which su*ked for us & also blew for my poor, strange roommate with a serious case of PPD.
Anyway, believe it or not the hosp stay gets worse from there because now all those ladies who were giving birth had to be taken care of at the same time. The nurses talked about getting t-shirts that said "I survived July 4,2003 at NYU Medical Center" -- I felt sorry for them but sorrier for all of us mommies!
Anyway, I'll stop here & hope that I haven't scared anybody. It was really circumstances that were bad, my actual med care was fine & I'm healing well.
Thank you to everyone on this board. What I learned here really got me thru the whole experience & helped me get going on the b/f ing.
Good luck to everyone who is right behind me & honestly as bad as it was it is no big deal compared to the outcome. I have to force myself to remember it to tell you all about it!