THE DAY

The Day...

So Friday September 8th, 2006 will always be Allie & Brooke's birthday, it will also be the day that a couple became a family is a very big way.

Mom had been checked into the hospital on Wed. September 6, 2006 for a routine 48 hour observation. Mom had been diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes. No harm, no foul. So we thought!!! Dr. B told her she was good to go home on Friday so she could enjoy the weekend and the shower that was being thrown in her honor on Saturday.

Around 2:30 pm on Friday, Dr. B came in and said some sentence with the word "deadly" in it. I don't remember anything else after that word was spoken. She was getting HELLP Syndrome, Google it! So we were informed that we would be having our twins today...not on November 2nd as Dr. B wanted so he could get our girls out and into the world before his big fishing trip!

To make the day more comical, we were told that Plano Presby had no NICU beds and that we had two options: 1) Have the C-Section at Plano Presby and the twins would be careflighted to Medical Center but Mom would have to post-partum at Plano Presby so Mom and children would not see one another for 5 days or 2) Mom could get careflighted to Medical Center and Mom and babies could be together from minute one.

BTW - Did you know that you can use Careflight and not get a ride in a helicopter? When Mom took option 2 above, I thought she was going to take a helicopter ride. How cool is that. Nope, just a run down ambulance. I digress.

Events Timeline before the birth:
1:30pm Mom was going home from her 48-hour observation.
2:30pm Mom and Dad are being told that Mom and Babies are about the get REAL sick.
3:00pm Mom is getting prepped for C-section by not eating or drinking.
4:30pm Dr. B tells us that the are no NICU beds at Plano Presby.
5:30pm Dupped out of a helicopter ride to Medical Center.


Events during and after the birth:
6:50pm Mom gased and given a general and ready for C-section.
6:50:33pm Dad FREAKS for about 13.4 seconds!
6:55pm Mom's innards exposed to me. No vomit produced. Making babies is alot more fun than having them.
6:57pm Dr. K and fellow "scrubs" talk about their next marathon while placenta hits my shoe.
7:01pm Though Mom is out cold, she shakes violently from Dr.'s ripping away at her belly.
7:05pm Allie is born.
7:07pm Brooke is born.
7:10pm Dad and Twins taken to NICU.