Baby Story

Hi everyone,
I am getting the nitty gritty details out here about the DeRosier Baby Story (for those that watch TLC).
I went in for a regular check-up on Wednesday morning with my doctor. My blood pressure was NOT GOOD and I also had other symptoms of pre-eclamsia. Let me tell you, they don't mess around with that for the mother of babys' sake! Due to the rain storm that had moved through the pressure change caused lots of ladies to go into labor! They had to kick some poor woman out of a room and clean it before they could admit me. We were admited about noon on Wednesday. They started me on antibiotic and meds to lower my blood pressure through an IV. It only took them four attempts to get an IV in - now that made my eyes cross! I guess just talking about it scared my body into action because I start going into labor and contracting on my own. They didn't want me laboring long without pain meds because they worried it would shoot my blood pressure through the roof again. I got an epidural quite early but I was ok with no pain.
The epidural naturally will decrease your blood pressure but with the combo of the meds and that, mine crashed way too low. I was a total zombie and couldn't open my eyes, talk, etc. Troy was watching me closely and the nurses quickly stepped in and gave me meds to bring my blood pressure back up - how ironic, huh? I was in the vegetative/zombie state for about 4 hours. It was almost like I was having an out of body experience and was watching myself sleep but couldn't bring myself to. I got some good rest! Between resting one of the IV meds gave me nausea so that brought on bouts of fun 6-8 times.
By 10 p.m. we were ready to rock. I was just rousing from my zombie state and thought something was wrong the way the team was scurrying around and getting the operating room set up and ready. I was totally pain free and they nurse had to tell me when I was having a contraction and I should do a "practice push". I had two contractions and pushed three times and Mr. Bennett appeared! Troy was excited to be able to cut the cords this time since he missed out with Allison. They put the ultrasound wand on my tummy to watch her and she came down, they broke her water and I had one contraction, pushed twice and Ms. Delaney was born. The entire team stood there in awe of how quickly everything happened. By 10:40 p.m. I was back in my room.
Troy was an excellent coach and advocate. Thanks for the barf bucket, ice chips and cold wash rags honey! You were just as much a champ in the process as the rest of us.
Troy went with the babies to watch the nursing staff do their tests, scans on them. God blessed us with two healthy, beautiful babies. They were in the Level I (regular) nursery and never saw the walls of the Level II (high risk) nursery. Over night they took turns under the warmers because they were struggling to maintain their body temps but by Thursday morn they were both in the room with us and have been ever since.
Bennett is a very laid back little boy. He is a lazy eater and we don't see too much of his eyes - only his eyelids.... Delaney is our little time keeper. She is religiously hungry every three hours on the nose.
Allison was so sweet when she came to visit on Thursday morn. Her first words were, "Mommy, the babies are out!!" She went right to wanting to hold Bennett. I asked if she was holding Bennett and she said, "No mommy, this is my baby boy and that one over there is my little sister." (We haven't figured out they have names quite yet) but she quickly adapted into calling her Laney for short. She hasn't wanted to leave either time she has visited.
A big thank you to all our visitors so far. It has been fun to show them off but really funny to watch people's faces when you say you had twins. A special thanks to Matt, Jen and Brecken for house sitting and having a sleep over with Allison and Freckles.
We are staying an extra night at the hospital to make sure both are eatting well and maintaining their body temps consistently - being released Saturday around lunch time.
We can't thank everyone enough for their thoughts, prayers and well wishes throughout the process - they certainly kept me going and made a big difference. Let the real fun begin.
Feel free to come and visit if would like!
Love,
Melissa, Troy, Allison, Bennett and Delaney DeRosier