The Birth

Oh what a day, I guess night is more like it. We had been waiting for this day for about three weeks. Our Due date was Feb 6, that would make it 40 weeks. Well, if you don’t know the Full term with Twins is 37 weeks and usually if you can make it that far it is great and everyone is tickled pink. Well with u,s like a previous post of my wife’s we prayed for and asked the Lord for FULL term 40 week babies. And that is just what we got. We had been told by our Midwife and Dr. that we needed to come straight to the hospital when my wife started labor. Due to the "high risk" pregnancy, and our history with our first son. We didn’t come to the hospital until my wife was at three minutes apart and fairly dilated. So the medical team made it very clear that we were not to wait around again. We explained to them that we would come when it was time, and not to worry. Well, that night could not have come any quicker. I guess it is true when they say that your second comes quicker than you first. But for us we checked into the hospital at 5:00pm and had our first son at 8:30pm, so how much quicker could it have been. Well the actual labor part was extremely fast. I woke up at around 3 am as my wife had woken up to some strong contractions. If you have been down this road before you know that sometimes contractions can be brought on by numerous things. So as the man I was basically in the dark. Trusting my wife that they were significant, but not wanting to call it the "real deal," in fear to disappoint, I waited. She had been having similar contractions about the same time each night but they went away after a little over an hour. So we decided to wait just a little to see if these contractions were the real deal. About an hour went by and we decided to make out way to the hospital. Now I had looked forward to this moment for a long time. I had the best excuse to just haul, fly, speed to the hospital. But, because my wife was so uncomfortable, we drove a nice easy 67 miles per hour the whole way. Oh well, I’m sure I can find other times to put the pedal to the metal. Anyway, we should up to the hospital and went in, making our way back to the labor and delivery. Now, our midwife had explained to us that the nurses on staff sometimes get a little up tight because they don’t know the whole situation and have not gone the whole journey these nine months with us. She explained that all they know is twins full term, to them this is screams "HIGH RISK." Therefore, when we checked in at 4:45am and told them that we were the couple with full term twins we got their attention. Although we peaked their attention, I remember that our nurse, her name was Hope, she was just amazing. She was so relaxed and easy going. I remember telling her that we liked her name because that was a big theme for the night HOPE. I also remember saying something that, on the flip side is pretty awesome. Sometimes when you have bought into something and are all in it makes you over confident and seem cocky, possibly saying things that may seem a bit over confident. But, you have to understand that my wife and I were all in. We had trusted the Lord to and thru this pregnancy we were not going to stop now. So I asked the nurse Hope if she was going to be there for the whole birth. Not realizing that some births take 20 hours she kind of unsurely answered I’ll be here till 8. I told her "Great because you are in for an amazing night. This is going to be awesome and you get to be present for it. I told her that it may seem rocky at times but it is going to be an amazing thing." looking back it is awesome because I was so bought in to the Lord coming through there was no other option. The nurse said "awesome" and we continued the checks. It wasn’t until she asked if she could check to see if my wife was dilated, that the situation got serious for her. I remember her saying "oh crap you’re an eight and I feel his head is right there." Then yelling call the doctor as she sprinted out of the room. Within minutes we had the doctor, our midwife, and another team or nurses there. Let me go back and explain another thing, just for bragging purposes. My wife is the ultimate woman. She is a woman among women. When we checked in the medical staff, I think by law, gives you every possible pain management or pretty much what every you want to speed up slow down, erase, or eliminate the pain. But, MY wife decided long ago that the Lord made her to bare children. He orchestrated these boys inside her, and He was going to be faithful to bring them through this birth. What that means is there is no need for medical intervention. So she did this Birth ALL natural, not medical intervention. Sorry I just wanted to put that plug in because I am amazed by my wife and how amazing she it. So once the Dr. got there they did a sonogram to see where the babies where. We knew that Baby A was head down. But what you don’t want is Baby B to be breach. Due to the possibility of him not coming head down. Then Medical intervention must take place, most times second baby is a c-section. I remember being at the head of my wife while she braced through the contractions, like a might warrior. I overheard the Nurse say to our midwife after finding out that Baby B was in fact breach. In a moment of breaking The nurse said "D I’ve already had two emergency C-sections tonight I don’t want to have another one." Then amazingly my wife piped up and said "guys don’t worry Baby B will go head down." The nurse and the midwife just looked at each other. Well as time progressed, i think probably like an hour or 2, which felt like forever, it was time to push. Now as a man, a husband, loving my wife more than anything on this earth. I really mean that, I love my wife more than anything on this earth. I may have disagreements from people but I love Mommy first. Before my kids I love Mommy, she was there before and after. She is the other half of me that makes me whole, so I love Mommy most. It is incredibly hard to watch her go through birth not being able to do a thing but speak life and breathe over her. This is why I am so glad we have heavenly Daddy to lean on. During this time any man will be stretch. I watched my wife go through this intense situation and all I want is to do it for her. To make the pain the everything go away. Buy I know that she can and that this is what the Lord intended. Therefore, if you have never been stretched like this and completely stretched to the limit of yourself into complete dependence on the Lord you don’t know him like I do. I am not saying that out of arrogance but in amazingness of how He tends to your wife and is there the whole time, comforting, tending, speaking, helping. With that being said Jacob was born at 7:31 am on Feb 5, one day before exactly 40 weeks. Not only that but he weight 9.01 lbs. He was a huge baby, one of the biggest twins that I have heard of or read about. Remember my wife is 5'3'' 110 lbs and just gave birth to a 9lbs baby, can you say miracle. The craziest part that I would tell any twin parents during the birth is that when your baby is born you want to celebrate. You are so overwhelmed and excited because you baby is here, healthy and "it’s over." But, with twins that is not the case, you can only celebrate for a moment and then you have to be ready for number two. So you remember how baby b was breach. Well within a few minutes when the Dr. went to do the sonogram to see where baby b was her ran the sonogram across her stomach and guess what? Baby b was head down. I remember our midwife saying “I think I’m going to cry." Nine minutes after his brother, Malachi was born weighting 6 lbs 15.8oz. If you haven’t read the other blogs this is pretty significant that he was less than 7 lbs, even though it was only .2 oz under. My wife heard the Lord tell her that these babies were both going to be over 6 lbs. And of course they were. But later as we talked about it we realized that if Malachi was 7lbs. then the Lord would have said both were going to be over 7lbs. but that is not what HE said. He told my wife they would be over 6 and they both were, but not both over 7, it was truly amazing. Both babies were born healthy and whole, complete. Just as we had been promised by the Lord. Both babies were great, amazing. they latched onto momma for their first feeding and we all took a big sigh of relief. It wasn’t until after the birth and after everything got settled down that we really examined how awesome this pregnancy was. The next day we got to see Hope again post Birth. I asked her what she thought when we came in and my wife was 2 min apart, 8 cim. dilated and she felt baby A's head? In her words she said “I was like what the F..." She explained the severity of the situation that it is very dangerous for Twins to be born with no medical intervention. She explained that most times it’s c-section on baby B. Because Momma is so tired from pushing her uterus won’t push the second one out. Plus it is dangerous for the mom, because of how tired the Uterus is sometimes it is so fatigued that they fear mom bleeding out. None of these things were things that we had to come up against. This birth was just how He promised Natural complete and Whole. Out nurse Hope told us following our birth that she was going to school to become a teacher in the nursing field and that we were definitely one of the stories she was going to tell. It was truly a amazing day. I can’t begin to put into words what a miracle it was to see my beautiful wife bring these two tiny blessing into the world. And how thankful I am to the Lord who never fails us.