Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Twins are Here!!!

Before the C-Section, September 28th 5:00 am at 37 weeks and 4 days. This is officially as big as I got! I was so tired and so miserable, and nervous, didn't sleep the whole night, don't know who could the night before your scheduled C-Section.
We had to be at the Hospital at 5:30 am to be prepped for the C-Section. Which wasn't bad at all by the way. After the few complications, with them not gaining enough weight, and them both being breech. And after some of the awful contractions I realized that Lydia (Baby B) was getting the worst of it, as her poor head was up in my rib-cage and taking the brunt of the contractions, so after knowing for a week about the procedure I started to like the idea much more.
Surgery was so fast! I had a Spinal-Tap which was much better than the Epidural, as it took on much faster and wore off a lot faster too. The whole thing was over in about 30-45 minutes. Jacob watched the whole thing, and found it fascinating. It was just as (if not more due to two) awesome and spiritual as any delivery! And of course the surgery wasn't completed without the topic turning to cars... story of my life.
I mixed the pics up, and would fix it but I have two babies crying at me right now.... this is Baby B (born at 7:59 am) or Lydia Jo, she was 4 lb 13 oz. And she screamed (in a very high pitch might I add) from the minute they pulled her out and all while I was getting sewn up.
Here is the Baby A (first Baby) Alyssa Jo, (born at 7:57 am) she weighed 5 lbs 5 oz. She didn't cry she was just gurgling, because she swallowed some amniotic fluid. They held her up over curtain she had both fists under her cheeks and was just looking at me contently with her eyes wide open. Alyssa had to spend a few hours in the NICU with oxygen on and she had a few x-rays of her chest to make sure she was okay. Thankfully she was alright!
Kaylie and Lydia Jo. Kaylie was in Heaven! Her face says it all! So we gave them both the middle name Jo because they were born on my mom's Birthday. (My mom's name is Jodi). And "Jo" means sweetheart. So we found it fitting. We debated for a few days because we didn't want it to be weird that we gave them same middle names. Kaylie's middle name is Jane because she was born on Jacob's mom's Birthday and her middle name is Jane. (P.S. Aaron was born on my sister's Birthday too.)
From Left to Right: Alyssa, Aaron, Kaylie and Lydia, I just love how Aaron was so fascinated with how tiny the babies are.

11 comments:

markandjenny said...

Congratulations Krista! They are beautiful. So grateful everything went well and everyone is doing ok. Love ya girl!

Paige Flamm said...

They are so adorable! Your family just got 2 times cuter! We can't wait to see them this weekend!

Sarah d' said...

Double congratulations! You did it! I am so proud of you, Krista! Hopefully you'll be up for visitors soon and I can come and see your gorgeous bundles!

Heidi said...

Krista, WOW! They are so beautiful! What an amazing blessing to have them both arrive healthy and happy. We are so happy and excited for you and your little family! Congratulations! I hope you are feeling much better now. :)

ashley said...

congrats! what beautiful little ladies!

Traci said...

They're so beautiful! I'm so glad everything went smoothly. I hope all the adjustments your family will have go smoothly as well!

Brittany Rigby said...

Yeah! Congratulations!!!!! I am so excited for you and hope you have a speedy recovery. Love Ya!

Katy said...

Yeah!! Congratulations! Glad they got here safe and sound and so glad your little one's lungs are doing better! Good for you for going as long as you did! I remember how miserable I was at the end!

So so happy for you! Hope everything is going well and that you are settling into your new normal with four kids (yikes!) The next months are going to be hard, but having twins is really so fun. Hope you are getting lots of help and lots of sleep (well at least some!):)

Amber T. said...

I'm so excited to see pictures, I've been thinking about you guys. I'm glad that everything went well, and hope they're good babies!

Summer Mortensen said...

Oh my goodness they are so beautiful!! I have been thinking a lot about you guys and have been waiting patiently to hear when they got here! Glad everything went well with the C-Section and that they made it here healthy and safe! Can't wait to see them! Hope you are doing well and feeling a little better than before! ;)

Rachel said...

I thought I already commented on here, but let me just say congratulations!!! Your twin girls are adorable! And so healthy!! Great job momma! You and Jacob are wonderful people.