Our First Few Days

Our First Few Days…

March 2, 2016

Well it’s only been a few days since our little bundles of joy have come into this world and I couldn’t be more delighted. With my babes coming into the world a little earlier than they were suppose to, we are scheduled to stay in the NICU for a little while. Apparently, in the last trimester, the babes in the womb develop the knowledge that sucking, swallowing and breathing all happen at different times. Because they were born at 32 weeks and 6 days, they haven’t quite developed that particular skill.

They are big boys according to the nurses here, all they have to do is grow and learn those skills I mentioned above. This is such great news to us as we were worried something might be wrong or they may need more help but my babes are doing great and they mentioned moving us closer to home for convenience and the beds in this hospital may be needed for more urgent babes.

Speaking of this hospital, we didn’t plan on having the boys here as it’s not exactly the closest hospital to us. But by some miracle and turn of fate, the boys were born here in the exact same hospital that both the Mr. and I were born in.

We had planned to have them closer to home but it was discovered when I was 24 weeks pregnant that I had a shortened cervix and because of the situation, this was the best hospital for us as they deal with these types of things on a daily basis. We would come here weekly to get an ultrasound (after I was put on bedrest), to ensure that nothing had changed and that the babes were still growing. Week after week, we would come to my scheduled appointment and week after week we would wait for over an hour to get seen. We would always get the ok and to keep doing what I was doing as it was good for the babes and nothing had changed. Every week was another week the babes stayed inside to bake and we would get closer and closer to our goal of 32 weeks. This is when the babes are safest to come, should they come early. Their lungs have developed and they have a really good chance of no long term lung damage or issues.

They stayed in there until they needed to and I remember walking out of the hospital when I reached 32 weeks. The doctors said they didn’t want to see me again until it was time for the babes to come. They said the babes and I were healthy and to keep taking it easy, I thought we were good to go and that they would stay in there just 3-4 weeks longer. Little did I know 6 days later they wanted to make an appearance. Now here we sit watching them sleep, spending our days with them on us, skin on skin. Listening to them breath, watching for any noise on the monitor. They are just so precious to us and we are both so emotional that we can’t talk about how happy they make us without crying.  It’s just so amazing how much we love these two little men and yet we just met them.

It’s going to be a little while until we get to take them home and it’s a little overwhelming seeing them attached to the monitors but it’s for the best and they are in the safest place possible…second to my womb. I don’t know how long we will be here but we are going to enjoy spending every minute with them…even if it is in the NICU.