The twins debut- part 2

The c-section was so quick and before I knew it, both babies were out and had a team of doctors working on them.  We were very pleased with their birth weights, especially to be 11 weeks early.  Miller was a bit bigger and was crying a little bit, so they let me see him.  Lucas needed a little extra TLC so I wasn't able to see him until later that night.  I knew they would immediately take the babies to the NICU but I was so sad not to be able to hold my two new sons.  I stayed in the labor and delivery room for an hour so they could monitor my immediate recovery.  I was thankful that Tom was allowed to be in there with me.  The rest of my family wasn't allowed back there at this time though.

After the first hour, I was taken to a postpartum room for the rest of my recovery.  I had to stay there for another 4 hours before they would let me go down to the NICU to see the boys.  Those 4 hours felt like eternity.  All I wanted to do was see my sweet boys.  Finally, around 10:30 that night, they let me go to the NICU to see Miller and Lucas.  I was not at all prepared for what I saw.  They were so tiny and had all kinds of cords and IVs and monitors hooked up to them.  I got pretty choked up and emotional seeing my babies like that.


                                                            Lucas                                               

                                                                                              
                                                        Miller

After visiting with the boys for a little while, Tom and I went back up to my room and got probably the worst nights sleep ever.  I couldn't stop thinking about Miller and Lucas.  And I was in a lot of pain from my c-section.  In fact, much of the day they were born and the day after seem like a blur to me.  I was running on basically no sleep, had a ton of pain meds from surgery, and was super stressed out.  The day after the boys were born would turn out to be one of the most stressful days of our lives.  More on that with Part 3 soon.