Wow what an amazing week. I am delighted to share that on the 15th of May 2013, Mike and I welcomed our twin babies into the world. Bailey Ann Beckett weighting a very healthy 7lbs and Blake George Beckett weighting an also Healthy 6lbs.
The experience of getting to know them this last week has been more wonderful than I could have ever imagined. I really do love them both more than I thought possible and it grows ever day.
Here is their birth story. We where booked in for C-section on 13th of May 2015 and where counting down the days until their arrival. I couldn't wait to see them but also not to be pregnant any more. I grew massively in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy and everything was so uncomfortable. I was on complete bed rest and felt guilty for doing so much as visiting the kitchen to make a cup of tea. my breathing was quite laboured and I had to catch my breath after doing a simple task like turning over in bed.
So on the day before we where due to get the babies out we where very excited. Mike commented on it being like Christmas Eve when you where 6. Unfortunately, on the morning of the 12th we where informed that the nicu of the hospital we where to deliver in (City hospital ) was closed and therefore the operation had been cancelled until further notice. This was bad news for us but we had to keep things in perspective and wish all those tiny babies in the nicu a quick recovery. We went to visit out truly amazing doctor,
Dr Amir Nasseri and he gave us the options. Due to some risk factors of keeping the twins in my tummy any longer he did not want to wait a week to get them out at the hospital we had planned. So we could either swap doctors and swap hospitals or we where given the option of going to a brand new hospital which had only been open 3 months and our doctor would get an emergency licence so that he could deliver there. I was not prepared to loose my wonderful doctor at this stage, I have been seeing him regularly for the last 18months and I really believe he is one of the best. The way he handled this situation also went above and beyond what you would expect of any doctor. He made sure we felt comfortable, sorted out our insurance company who where not fully covering the new hospital choice and did his research and picked his A team for the operation. I was worried about delivering in the new hospital we would be the 11th and 12th babies delivered there and the first set of twins. The equipment in the hospital is state of the art and no expense had been spared but to me it was much more important that the people operating this equipment had practiced and where competent.
All was set and we had booked the Caesarian for 4pm on 15th of May, I didn't get too excited as we had already experienced things didn't always go to plan. So I told 3 people that we had a confirmed time and we went to the hospital.
Once I was in my room in the hospital I started to get excited surely it would go ahead now. Mike and i waited in my room and before we knew it I was being taken down to theatre. Mike went off to get scrubbed up and I was wheeled into theatre. I heard Dr Amir and felt much happier. I was given a spinal block and as my legs started to go tingly and numb mike was called in and the cutting began. As mike walked into room we heard a nurse say 'ut oh', Dr
Amir said sternly to her no 'ut oh' in the operating theatre. We don't know what that was about and don't care to know.
As the operation progressed I felt lots of pulling and tugging and as they pushed the babies out of my tummy some real breath taking moments as they must have been pushing hard down on my lungs to release the twins. Dr Amir pulled Bailey out and lifted her up to show me. I could only see feet and she was taken to the warmer to be assessed. Blake was born one minute later. they where both assessed for what felt like a whilst but I could hear crying so I wasn't worried. I was anxious to get skin on skin time, they did bring Bailey over and try to put her on me but It was hard with the screen up so it was abandoned. We where told that no need to nicu but they would be taken to special care baby unit for a few hours just to regulate temperature, I tried to say no the best way to regulate temperature was to give them skin on skin with me. But they insisted they take them. To be honest by this stage I was shivering and starting to feel sick from drugs so I know it was better that I get rest in recovery and then see them.
There is so much written about the importance of skin on skin time I did feel a bit bad but then we had plenty of time for that after I had recovered and was back into our own room. When I eventually returned to the room it was still quite unbelievable that I had 2 babies and they where here. That first night we where barely left alone for 10 minutes with people coming in checking on me trying to take blood pressure, give me injections etc. And also help me with feeding, Bailey was a natural at this but Blake took a day to get himself in the swing of things. Doctors where telling us that if he didn't feed he would be topped up with formula or taken to nicu but I was very confident that that wouldn't be necessary, and it wasn't. We also found that some of doctors and nurses where quite keen to take the babies and put them in the nursery. I wasn't keen and felt they where at times shocked that I wanted to keep 2 babies with me all the time.
The day after the operation I felt terrible like I had been sawn in two . I needed 3 people to help me get out of bed. By the end of the day I had managed to walk to the end of the corridor and then the next day I felt a hundred times better and now 8 days after the operation I feel nearly recovered. I may have been lucky and also had some help with some good vitamin supplementation, including placenta smoothie but all in all a c section recovery so far hasn't been as bad as I expected.
4 days after the operation we came home and that's where we have been since blissfully happy with our beautiful son and daughter. totally in awe of their cuteness and loving them more and more every day.
