Once I found out I was pregnant with twins I had it in my mind that it was going to be nearly impossible to experience a true birthing experience of not delivering by c-section. As time progressed and I discussed options with the many doctors I had the pleasure of seeing I was soon reassured that a natural birth was possible if both babies cooperated. So at my last ultrasound Baby B, Emalie, was breech and my heart was broken.I was told to come to the hospital to be induced when I was 38 weeks and 2 days. Upon arrival at the hospital the nurse informed me that if my babies were breech or transverse then I would have to go home and schedule a csectino for the following day. My heart was broken but I prayed that Emalie had flipped once again and would be in the correct form to proceed with the induction. All was a go upon having an ultrasound performed so I was super excited! They inserted a cervidil to start the dilation process in hopes of having me in active labor by the morning. At 3am I knew that I was progressing. Upon getting checked I soon found out that I was 3cm! I was then started on pitocin...within two hours I was ready for the epidural because the contractions were getting very strong.
A couple hours passed and the epi began to wear off on the left side. They gave me four more shots which wore off after an hour or so. By 8pm I was almost fully dilated so they had me push in my room to see if I could push the rim through to become 10cm. I was successful so off to the OR we went to have some babies. I pushed through three contractions with Baby A and she was born at 9:17...I pushed through two contractions and Baby B was born 10 minutes later at 9:27.
Amelia was born weighing 5 pounds 4 ounces, and Emalie was born weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces.
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