I've tried to write this story many many times, but it never comes out as eloquent as I would like it to be. The girls birth wasn't a beautiful birth and I wasn't graceful about it, but it was a quick section with two babies determined to come into this world and make an outstanding appearance. While during my pregnancy and after I had the girls I was, “not wanting to put my life out there.” You are prolly thinking to you self right now, “lady you have a blog that everyone can see, how were you not already putting it out there.” Well I mean the serious details. Everything I went through pre and post pregnancy having these two bundles of joy. I painted a picture of just the “need to know things” and not so much the birth story, during pregnancy, and right after. As you all know I got pregnant, not married and been dating my babies daddy for 1.5 years. I was the girl that used to look at other girls who got pregnant out of wedlock as “kinda trashy,” yes I said it, and then I became one of them. But you know what, I WOULD NOT CHANGE IT FOR THE WORLD. I love these girls like I can not even begin to describe.
Well here it goes: I was seeing a high risk doctor since 16 weeks due to genetics and me having TWINS. Any time you have more than one baby that is a risk. As your body only knows what to do to have one, Not two. Genetics? We have MD in the family. So we had to have some counseling on this. Thankfully and so blessed that the girls were clear of this, but it was a very SCARY thing. I worried about it day in and day out during my pregnancy. Knowing that no matter what I would love my girls, but it was a hard thing to swallow. Hard to think and talk about and hard to make our loved ones bring up the past and talk about it. Hard? Yes, we conquered it and now we all have two beautiful babies to love.
Before having babies I always thought to myself aww, look at her she is pregnant, when is her baby due? What is she having? Not one negative thing crossed my mind. I thought c-sections were by choice, I pretty much thought babies walked out of you and you went back to your normal size and life went on with a beautiful bundle of joy. Sleep? Never thought about any of that, or things to worry about, complications with mom or baby, hormones, all the baggage. Granted some women do have this easy of a time. They barley gain weight, have no complications, pop out their baby with no drugs, loose all their baby weight on the delivery table, and their babies are STTN at 3 weeks old. Well…ladies not all of us and that’s not how smoothly it goes.
Around 16 weeks when I went to see my high rish doctor (Dr. Fuller) who I love love love. He could not be more wonderful. I wish he could have been my OB. That would have been fan-freaking-tastic. I worried worried worried. What is there to worry about? Twin to Twin transfusion syndrome, MD, both sharing the food and gaining weight, zoey’s fluid, etc. I saw him every 4 weeks and got a growth scan and I was seeing my regular OB in between. Besides my psycho worrying everything was good til about 25 weeks when I got really swollen and my BP was up and down. They just associated it was twins, that is common. But then it got worse and worse so they tested me for pre-e, told me to slow down my activity. Around 31 weeks I was put on strict bed rest, aloud up to pee and shower, eh! Awful! Thankfully my sister was still on maternity leave with keagan so she came over everyday. That was GREAT. I was huge. (that is something that I regret, I wish I took pictures along the way.) WISH WISH WISH) so ladies even if you don’t want too, just do it and you can have them, and if you don’t want them after you give birth than you can throw them away. But atleast you can not regret not taking pictures if you want them. See I am going off on a small tangent. Back to the birth story.
From 31 weeks on I went to the doctor every week, either my OB or my High risk doc. I got bigger and bigger and my BP levels got worse and worse. I had pre-e and PUPPS. What is PUPPS, may you ask. Its basically when your entire body feels like there is bug bites all over it, I think I blogged about this topic. It was horrid. I cussed some, or a lot when I had this. I used Grandpa’s tar soap, (supposed to ease the pain) yes it does smell as bad as it sounds.
Here I just googled it: this is what ya get
Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPS) is a rash that affects approximately one out of every two hundred pregnancies. It is the most common of all pregnancy related skin rashes and is most commonly compared to hives. It comes on suddenly and can be extremely itchy. PUPPS starts in the stomach region but can spread to the extremities. Thankfully, PUPPS has never been found to have any lasting effects to the mother or her unborn child. The worst thing about this disease is that it is more of nuisance than anything else. It is ugly, itchy, and uncomfortable.
How do you get rid of PUPPS?
Sorry ladies but you have to wait until the baby is born and the rash will go away on it's own. You can learn tips and tricks for soothing the pain.
So between swollen feet, (I could not even tell my feet were feet if it were not for my toes) and PUPPS, I was feeling pretty lousy. I got a blood pressure cuff and was monitoring my blood pressure once a day. I could no longer sit up in my own, shave my legs, sit down or stand up by myself. Get in the car by myself, much less drive, not allowed to leave my house unless I was going to the doctor. Bored. Yes. Hormonal. VERY! I did this for 4 weeks. Until’ the next chapter my friends….booya.
