I wrote this post while in the hospital, but I was pretty loopy on the medications they were giving me, plus I was trying to write it on my kindle which does not have a real keyboard so I waited until now to proof read it and then post it.
I'm so happy to be able to post that the boys were born yesterday morning around 10:30 am. It was an amazing experience that has made me a better person. Karen came into my room last night and talked about how when she saw her husband holding their babies, their lives had changed in an instent. The parents arrived at the hospital around 7:30 yesterday morning and while we were talking Chase asked the dad if the last two weeks while they were here in Provo waiting for the babies to be born were the longest two weeks of his life. He responded by saying since he had come to Provo that he had been filled with peace. He told Chase that on his first day here he went to the gym where he met a returned missionary from Taywan who gave him a Book of Mormon in Chinese. He said he has felt lots of peace here.
The dad has been so fun to watch- the mom has been very involved as well but I haven't been able to watch her first hand with the babies. But the dad was watching the nurse's feeding the babies and then burping them by patting their back. He said- you hurt them! The nurse assured him that they were not hurting them and showed him what to do. He was very excited to learn. The babies didn't open their eyes very much on Sunday and I guess he was very concerned about that. De asked the nurse "we open their eyes?" and made gesture with his fingers. The nurses told him that it wouldn't be a good idea for him to open the babies eyes and by Monday he was delighted to see them opening their eyes and looking around.
For those wondering how I am doing with "letting the babies go", I have been so blessed to feel peace and to watch how much the parents love their babies. I miss being with my family while I have been here at the hospital and I wish I could leave. I'll write a post about my c-section later this week. It was different then what I expected even though I tried to research as much I could, but I feel like I am recovering well.
I wrote this part today:
I have been amazed at how well I am recovering. This has been a much easier recovery then my delivery with Landon, and probably with Collin but I just don't remember as well. I bought a compression garment- it's just a belt that I wear around my waist and it keeps everything nice and tight around my incision It has been SO helpful- coughing, laughing, walking, stairs- none of them hurt as long as I am wearing this belt. My milk came in while I was in the hospital, but it hasn't been too bad. It's felt tight, but not painful. I'm off my percocet which means I can drive. My two biggest complaints would be that I still have acid reflex and very very swollen feet. I was really hoping they would go away once I gave birth- especially the swollen feet- but no such luck.
As far as the actual c-section, I told Chase if I could choose I would choose regular delivery with a c-section recovery. Because they gave me a spinal instead of an epidural it was a much larger dose, and I was way more out of it then I am when I get an epidural. I got pretty sick, which I do with an epidural, so I was expecting that. But I felt like my whole head was numb. I was taken into the operating room and they started right away. I can remember what was happening, but it's like remembering a dream. It's all a little fuzzy. The doctors and nurses were just talking and laughing and I just kept thinking What is going on?? They allowed Chase to be in the room with me by my head, and the Liu's were also in the room sitting down by my feet with an interpreter that the hospital provided so they could understand everything that they doctors were saying. They had a sheet up by my head and the anesthesiologist asked if I wanted to pull it down when it was time to deliver the babies. I told him yes, I would like to see that. So when it was time then he came over and pulled the sheet down and lifted my head. Once the first baby was delivered he put the sheet back up until it was time for the other baby- the one way up in my ribs. He pulled the sheet down again and I watched while they pulled him out by his legs. It was actually really funny, more so for me because I was loopy. They put the sheet back up and started working on fixing me up. This was insainly painful. I was not expecting that since I was so numb, but I didn't feel like the numbness went low enough. The Liu's brought the babies over for me to see, and I remember trying to smile and tell them how beautiful they were while I was trying to not cry from the pain. After they took the babies back out of the room I just held onto Chase's hand and closed my eyes tight just waiting for the pain to end. Chase was really surprised and asked if I could feel what they were doing. I told him yes, and he called for the anesthesiologist (his name was Ja and he was crazy awesome) who gave me a nice big shot of morphine. It didn't kick in as fast as I would have liked, but I did feel better within just a few minutes, and then within about 10 minutes they were wheeling me out of the room. I went back to the recovery room and drank TONS of water. I was still pretty sick, but within the hour I was feeling better and able to drink some juice. I thought I would be on a liquid only diet for a few days, but by Monday morning they advanced me to the full menu. I was able to get up and out of bed by myself by Monday afternoon, and was able to take a shower and walk around the hospital floor with my mom helping me. I went and watched the babies through the nursery window. It was great to be able to get out of bed and walk around. I stayed until Wednesday morning, and was home by about 11. It was very nice to be home- the boys were very happy for me to be home, and I was very happy to be there too, the hospital was getting to be very boring. I was able to rest, something I hadn't really been able to do at the hospital. I couldn't lay my bed flat at the hospital and by Tuesday night was only getting a few hours of sleep. Sleeping in my own bed made a huge difference. Wednesday night trying to get out of bed after being more active was a little more painful, but by Thursday night it wasn't hard at all to get out of the bed at night. I am being very careful to not pick up either Collin or Landon, or anything over about 10 lbs.
I'll post pictures later tonight or tomorrow.
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