The Big Day!!!!

Here is a run down of the big day. Of course Abby had a fever the night before, Wednesday night. We already had the hematologist appointment and OB appt scheduled for 9 and 10 Thursday morning. I had been joking that I hope the Dr. would send me over to have the babies. Who knew!!

Thursday, August 20, 2009
8:00am- Leave to take Abby to my parents house since she was sick and could not go to school. We stopped by McDonald's for breakfast and dropped Abby off. (That was all I got to eat that day, bacon egg and cheese biscuit).
9:00am- Arrived to get my blood drawn at the hematologist. I started to feel real crappy. Couldn't decide why. My platelets were at 96,000 when I left. We had to hurry downtown to see Dr. Tsaltas because appt was at 10.
10:00am- Arrived at St. Mary's. I was feeling REAL crappy by then. They took me back and did the ultrasound. Both babies were head down again. Blaine had once again flipped. I was feeling so sick on the table. They then went and hooked me up to listen to the heartbeats and monitor contractions. My least favorite thing to do, except I like to hear the heartbeats. I was so sick I thought I was going to throw up. They checked my blood pressure and it was high for me. I always have to convince people that it is high for me (it was like 133/82 or something). The nurse practitioner came in while I was hooked up to take a look at me. I had never met her, but she said I looked pretty bad. She went to get Dr. Tsaltas. He came in and said, 'You look like hell, let's go talk'. The nurse practitioner told me she never said hell just bad. That's Dr. Tsaltas for you. Pretty much he told me I had preeclempsia (sp?) and I was going over to the Women's Pavilion. He said unfortunately he had a big meeting or something and the C-section would have to be at 7:00pm since I had eaten at 8:30am. So we headed over.
11:30am- (or so) I had been admitted to the hospital and got a room- Room 25. They hooked me up to be monitored and took some blood for testing. They hooked me up to 1 IV. I was not looking forward to being hooked up till 7 that night.
1:00pm- They got my blood work back and my platelets had dropped to 77,000. I told the nurse I was concerned and she was already talking to Dr. Tsaltas. They had mentioned to me they may have to do general anesthesia. I knew the anesthesiologist working and he came to talk to me. He said he could do a spinal and wondered why I had to wait till 7pm. He talked with Dr. Tsaltas and the c-section got bumped up to 4pm. Lots of phone calls going out and craziness.
4:00pm- They were ready to wheel me back. It was more like 4:15. Dr. Broussard (anesthesiologist) did the spinal (he is the dr that I have known for awhile) which I trusted him completely. I also had a nurse anesthesist in the room. It was reassuring to have so many people in the room. Ben was in there taking pics which the nurses said Dr. Tsaltas doesn't like that. They were talking cameras as he was cutting me open. HELLO!!! Anyway, I will always remember him taking Blaine out, it was my first deep breath in I don't know how long. Then I heard Dr. Tsaltas tell Ben to come take a picture of this. I had no idea what he could be taking a picture of. It was Christian's hand pushing through the sac where you could see it as plain as day. Blaine was born at 4:46pm, 5lb 9oz, 19.5 inches. Christian was born at 4:47, 4lb 15oz, 19inches long. They were both crying beautifully. Dr. Broussard kept coming to me and asking how I was doing and was watching the boys. He then told me he had to run out and tell my mom about the babies. (My mom has taught all of his children piano). It was amazing. I then got wheeled out holding both of my babies in my arms. What a miracle!!! God has truly blessed us.

What a day!!!!!! Happy Birthday to Blaine and Christian!!!!!!