Newborn Pics

When the boys were ten days old, we were able to get a newborn photo session done at a place in town. Will wasn't super cooperative, but we still got some good shots!

Not these ones... lol

Happy viewing!

Henry

Henry

Charlie

Charlie

Henry

Henry

Henry

Charlie

Charlie

Charlie

Charlie

Henry

Charlie

Twins

Now that the twins are three months old (today!), I suppose it's finally time to blog about them.

So, to be honest, the end of my pregnancy was pretty rough. As you can see, I was huge. None of my maternity clothes were long enough anymore. I was seeing my OB every week, going to the specialist every three weeks for ultrasounds, and getting non-stress tests at the hospital once a week. The doctor started checking me at 30 weeks and I was already starting to dilate, so he put me on partial bedrest. Basically, I was supposed to stay off my feet and relax as much as possible. No walks allowed. I didn't mind that much though because I was pretty tired, my stomach and back hurt all the time, and I had contractions every time I had to walk up the stairs to our apartment. The rest was definitely needed.

Anyway, 36 weeks came along and I had my final ultrasound with the specialist. He said I should deliver by 37 weeks at the latest. So we passed the info along to the OB at my weekly appointment, which was on a Thursday, and he said, "Why don't we do it tomorrow?" So we scheduled an induction for 36 weeks 5 days.

The next morning we got up bright and early, left Will home with some friends, and headed over to the hospital in town.

They told me to be there around 6:30 and we got there right on time. It took a while to get us checked in, and then they started me on IV fluids. After a couple hours of that, the anesthesiologist came in to give me an epidural, and then we had to hang out and wait for epidural to kick in before they would start me on the pitocin.














I have to say, having a working epidural makes a big difference! With Will I didn't get one long enough for it to work, but this time I didn't feel a thing! When I came in that morning I was already dilated to a 3+. They started me on pitocin around 11 a.m. and I was fully dilated before noon.

Because I was having twins, prepping for delivery was kind of a big deal. I had to deliver in the operating room just in case something happened with the second baby. Getting me wheeled in there with all the cords and wires on me was quite the ordeal. Then they had to get the OR set up all around me and prep me as if I were having a c-section.

Physically, delivering was a breeze. I only had to push a couple times with each baby, and they came just four minutes apart. Baby B just slid right into place for his turn. Because of my epidural I really barely felt a thing, and I didn't tear at all. Mentally, delivery was a little bit tougher. I felt like I had no idea what was going on around me, I was strapped down to the table so I couldn't see anything, and I had to wear oxygen so I had a hard time hearing what people were saying to me. It was a very different experience than what I had with Will. Even though it was a lot less painful, I think I preferred being able to feel when to push and knowing what was going on.

So, welcome to the world Henry and Charlie! Henry James was born at 12:18 pm weighing 5 lbs 11 oz and measuring 18 1/2 inches long. Charles Dean was born at 12:22 pm weighing 4 lbs 14 oz and measuring 18 3/4 inches long.

Neither baby had great apgar scores, and they were both pretty small, so I didn't even get to see them for about two hours. The nurses assured me that everything was fine, but it's really stressful not being able to hold your babies! Luckily, both babies really were fine. They were both having a hard time keeping their temperature up, so they had to be double swaddled and hang out under a warmer for a day or two, but they were healthy enough to come home when I was discharged. They let us go home on Sunday morning, after they decided that my blood pressure was low enough and the babies looked healthy.



Will wasn't sure what to think about the babies, especially after we left him home for two days while we were at the hospital, but he's learning to love them!

Happy Holidays

This year was our first year celebrating Christmas on our own. We had originally planned on flying home for Christmas, but my doctor won't let me fly at this point with the twins, so we were stuck in Texas.

Even though we couldn't go anywhere, we were all pretty excited for Christmas to come. We put up our tree right after Thanksgiving and Will loved helping decorate it.

He had a really hard time waiting for me and Adam to tie the strings on the all the ornaments so they could be hung up, and starting just putting them wherever they would stay. Once we got all the ornaments ready to hang, Will got to put them on the tree again!

Will was obsessed with the tree for about a week. Every time we turned on the lights he would say, "Wow, beautiful!"

We also started watching Christmas movies to get Will ready, and he learned pretty quickly who Santa Claus is. Even though he was really excited about Santa coming to our house, he wasn't so excited about going to see him.

Even though Will requested mutiple times to go see Santa, he chickened out both times we tried to take him. He absolutely refused to sit on his lap or even look at him!

We had a little bit of a long month waiting for Christmas.  We found this hat that my mom made for Will last year while we were going through some baby stuff, and Will wore it every time he saw it. He would wear it around the house and say, "ho ho ho, merry christmas" and would ask me "is it today? presents?" He was very anxious for the big day.

He also became slightly obsessed with our stockings and had the hardest time staying off the fireplace. He just wanted to be close to them!

Finally, Christmas came. Will, of course, was ecstatic and had a blast opening all of his presents. And all of our presents.

He got some really fun presents and had a bit of a hard time focusing on unwrapping presents when there were so many new toys to play with! Eventually he got through them all though.

After opening presents we made some red velvet crepes for breakfast and devoured them. We had a hard time getting our crepes to turn out this time, but learned that it really doesn't matter when you have delicious food to put on them!

Will thought they were kind of questionable at first, but once we put some whipped cream and chocolate sauce on them he didn't care anymore.

 We spent the rest of the day making candy, skyping with family, and just relaxing. Our friends the Wilcoxes invited us over for dinner at their house, and we had a really nice time eating and chatting while the kids played.










Between Christmas and New Year's, Adam had a lot of time off work for us to have a nice, relaxing holiday. It was hard being away from home and we missed being around family, but we had a good time hanging out here. 

For anyone wondering about the babies, everything is looking good! We had another ultrasound a week ago (30 weeks) and both boys were head down and weighing in around 3 1/2 pounds each. Will was only 6 lbs 9 oz when he was born, so I officially have more baby inside of me now than I ever did with Will!

Here is a little photo comparison of me at 29 weeks with Will (left) and the twins (right).













The picture on the right is me a couple days before I had Will (you can tell that he had dropped already but the twins are still high).

And here are some random pics and videos of Will from this month! 

Will was convinced that the guy behind him was a pirate! Lol!

 And if anyone feels the need to watch more videos of Will you can check them out here!
https://www.youtube.com/user/jennainge/videos