Piper and Averi's Arrival

Just leaving for the hospital with one last shot.

The boys getting ready for the big event.

Me during the c-section.

Poor Averi, this is what she looked like hooked up to everything, it was so sad.

Piper right after she was born, I think she looks so pretty even before her bath.

This is Averi once we brought her home. I think she looks pretty here.

Piper once we got home.

Averi in the hospital, this must have been right before we left. So sweet!

Once they took the lines out of Averi's umbilical cord we could finally hold her.

My first time holding her. She had so many monitors on that she couldn't even wear a shirt.

This was their first time together once they were born, they just turned that close to each other on their own.

I know that we told everyone that we were having the babies Monday the ninth, but my Doctor was going out of town and said we could do it the Saturday before. So that's what we did. I didn't think I could be pregnant for two more days, so it worked out good.

We woke up took some last belly shots, and headed to the hospital. I was so nervous for my IV and spinal. Neither were bad. Then right after they gave me the spinal they just layed me down and put a sheet up. The doctors came in and I talked to him for a second and he said that he had been up since 3:00 worrying about my c-section and pregnancy. He knew I was in a lot of pain and my belly was so big. I told them that there should be a lot of amniotic fluid so we got started. Then when they broke my water both of the doctors were just so surprised about how much fluid there was. They suction up the water into these containers, a normal pregnancy fills one and mine filled 3, plus it was everywhere too. They both said they had never seen anything like that before. It was so nice having the pressure relieved, I could just breath for once!

The babies were born about 1 minute later. They were born at 8:04 and 8:05. Piper was born first, she weighed 6 lbs. 5 oz. and Averi was 6 lbs. 8 oz. Piper was breathing fine, but they were kind of struggling with Averi. So they hooked her up to Oxygen right away.

They added morphine to my spinal and once that kicked in it kind of made me feel miserable and loopy. I was itching and couldn't really focus my eyes and a million people were trying to explain things to me about Averi and asking me stuff. There were also a ton of visitors and I can barely remember who was there. That day was kind of a blur once the morphine kicked in.

Then by the afternoon I still hadn't seen Averi, and they were saying that she had a lot of air in her belly and she was breathing really rapidly. So she ended up being hooked up to Oxygen, she had an IV, she had two lines running into her umbilical cord, monitors all over her chest and feet, she had a see pap machine (sp?), a tube running into her stomach and another into her lungs. It was so sad! Matt spent most of the day with her that first day. Then at around 4 the Doctor said that they need to send her down to Utah Valley, and that I wouldn't be able to see her until wednesday. I about died. My brother was on his way to the hospital with his family and once they got there Matt and Greg went in and gave her a blessing. At 6:00 the life flight crew came and put her into a little box to transport her. Then they made a few phone calls and came in our room and said that within the last hour and a half her stats had really improved and they aren't going to take her to Utah Valley after all. What a blessing! We were all so happy and she just really started improving quickly after that. They moved her to the level 2 nursery and she stayed there the rest of the time, and I couldn't complain about that!

Because she had been through so much Averi really just slept the whole time in the hospital, well so did Piper, I guess all new babies do though. On Monday they started turning down her IV and her blood sugar stayed up then Tuesday the did the same with the Oxygen. By Tuesday morning she was completely off of Oxygen with just one scare. I can't even remember what happened now, but they still let us all come home together on Wednesday morning.

We've been home now for a couple days and are just having fun with these babies and trying to adjust to having 3 kids. I can't think about when Matt goes back to work and I'm here by myself with all 3. The jump from one to three has felt really over whelming to me but hopefully I can get used to it soon.