The Wednesday before, was my birthday. I had an appt. and was very scared that I was going to go to this appointment and something would happen that they would keep me and the babies would be born on my birthday. I would love to be able to say that I would happily share my birthday with them, but really...to be totally honest, I didn't want to share my birthday. So selfish of me, but true.
So at the dr. appt. I had an ultrasound, everything looked good, both babies were estimating to be in the 5lb range and higher. I had a non stress test, had a few contractions, but things were good. Then met with my doctor. She checked me and when she told me I was dialated to a 5, I knew I wasn't lasting much longer. Add that to the fact that they babies hadn't grown much since my last ultrasound and I knew it was time for them to be born. The good news is my doctor. didn't act like I needed to stay and do it that day. (Although she did say she later questioned the decision to let me leave there that day.) My family were freaking out that I was at a 5 and they let me leave. So my doctor asked when we wanted to have these babies and Shane said we kind of wanted to have them on Saturday because then their birth date would be 9-10-11. My doctor just happened to be on call that weekend so it was scheduled for Saturday morning!
The next 2 days I literally sat at home on the couch and did very little. Saturday morning we had to be at the hospital at 4:30am....talk about not getting any sleep. I think I slept for about 2 hours max. We got there and got all settled, IV started, etc. I was having pretty regular and painful contractions by then but I knew it was almost over. About 6:15am they walked me into the operating room, and gave me my spinal block (it hurt but wasn't too bad, just made me flinch and although I tried to hold still, it made my back arch away a little.)
Then the team got all set up, I could see the 2 nursery beds, my doctor walked in and we got started. We even listened to some music at the request of Shane. She talked through a lot of it what she was doing so I knew when it was getting close. Sure enough all of the sudden I could feel a big release of pressure and a minute later cute Siena appeared over the curtain at me before they whisked her away to start cleaning her up and look at her. I couldn't believe she was here and yes I did cry a little, such an emotional moment to meet your daughter. 2 minutes later, little Aria's face appeared and my first words were 'oh my gosh, she's so small.' There was a very obvious contrast between Siena and Aria, and when they weighed them it was confirmed. Both of them had some good lungs and it was crazy to hear them both crying at the same time. They both cried for several minutes and I remember just sitting there thinking how much I loved hearing them cry. They worked on them and me for a while longer while Shane went over and took pictures of the girls. They cleaned them up, fed them a little and pretty soon I got to meet them again. They even put 2 different color hats on them so we knew who was who.
I don't really have a good answer as to why we named which one which...just that when I looked at them one looked like Siena and Aria looked like Aria to me.
They wheeled me to my room as I held both of them, such an incredible feeling holding them both in my arms. Soon they took them to the nursery to bathe them and take a closer look. From there the rest of the day is kind of a blur. My parents and Jennifer showed up shortly after and then it was determined Aria had to go to the NICU. Shane spent a lot of the morning in the nursery and the NICU and then coming back and updating me. I wasn't able to see Aria in the NICU until I was able to get up from bed which was that evening I think around 10:30pm. So the rest of the time Siena stayed with us and then we would go to each of Aria's feedings and feed her and hold her.
We are still thrilled with our little girls and the joy they have brought to our family! Here are some pictures of the day.
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Such cute and sweet little girls and the parents don't look too bad either!
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