We have started this blog so that everyone that wants to know what's happening, can! and for those that don't want to know we don't make them sit in pain listening to the stories.
The tale begins with Tuesday may 28th. Kim is at home waiting on the movers to come and load up the blacksburg house, so we can move to Durham. They arrive and of course notice the huge belly. One guy was quick to comment, 'are you sure you will make it to Durham??' Of course she laughed it off and explained that there was twins and she had a month to go still. As they packed, she called the Dr to mention that her right foot swelling never decreased last night like it had done every night for the last week. The nurse wasn't too concerned, so neither were we. The nurse said she ask the on call nurse and call back. An hour or so later she calls back and says come in and get your vitals checked to just reassure everyone. Kim asked if she should rush or can take an hour or so until marcus comes home from his half day at work. The nurse suggested its always best to go as soon as can. So she left her mom in charge of the movers, called Janice, Marcus's mom, and asked if she wanted to come since she understands medical things way better than kim.
She arrived at the hospital, they noticed that her blood pressure was elevated and wanted to monitor for awhile. They also ran a test to see if she was likely to have pre term labor. When they did that they saw some dilation. They freaked out because that hospital didn't have a nicu. So they very quickly put her on a truck to roanoke. Once she arrived in Roanoke, they weren't concern that she would go into labor, they were more concern by her blood work and vitals. The doctors said that she could quickly turn pre-eclamptic, so they needed to monitor her. If after monitoring they saw no signs, then she just need to rest lots to keep the kiddos in. If pre-e signs showed up we had 48 hours to deliver kids to ensure their safety and hers.
So the monitoring began. They took away water and food, which nearly killed her, she really wanted water. They began a steady dose of magnesium sulfate to prevent pre-e issues, like sizeures. They made her save all urine samples for 24 hours and draw blood every few hours. She stayed the night at the hospital. At 20 hours the Dr came in said that with the blood results everything was dropping. She was definitely showing signs of pre-e. So at 3pm May 29th, they started to induce. Kim said that she only wanted to deliver one way, either vaginally or c-section. Dr said that she would be having the Dr that specialized in breech birth delivering her so it looked pretty good to deliver both vaginally. The pitocin took a long time to work because the magnesium they kept her on was counter acting it. By midnight on May 30, she had progressed enough, they wheeled her to the operating room. All twin birth's here are done in the OR so they can quickly change plans if an emergency arises. According to marcus all of Roanoke was awake and in the OR with us. We had probably 20 people in there. 4 nicu nurses, handful of students, and the rest doctors. They broke C water before going into the OR room and the nurse said that was more fluid than see had seen in some time. Apparently, Kim likes water and so does her kids...
kim's contractions were still very far apart, so she have to push and wait a few minutes. The doctors would just sit there and talk about the latest hospital gossip as they waited. After 5 solid contractions, C was born at 12:55am May 30th at 17 in and 3lbs 14ozs. He came out crying nice and loud. The nicu nurses took him and the doctors began to twist and push and pull on Kim's stomach to move G correctly. The breech specialist was able to get one foot but they could never get the other one. She had her hands doing everything possible. Finally, she admitted defeat. She said in all her year this is only the second time she had to. She truly felt awful. They were able to break G water, but the Doctor stopped them because she like her shoes. She asked the nurses for her to find boot covers cause she could tell that this was going to be a big water break and her shoes were in for it and as she said, "I like these too much to stand in them wet the rest of the night." They quickly transition and prepped for a c-section. They went in to grab G, but he was having none of it. He was hiding his arms behind his back and doing all he could to stay in. In the haze of everything, Kim overhears the doctor talking about how long its been since she gotten to do surgery on such a small person, Kim could not let this go. So she pipped in with, "I don't think I would consider myself small, but most likely average." Marcus told her then she clearly has not looked at the rest of America recently and thought about the people that would need surgery cause they were not healthy. They decided to cut kim further, and finally G arrived at 1:40am May 30th at 18in and 3lb 12ozs.
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