The Twins: Day 12

Two weeks home!! We got to play out in the snow with Isaac. He loved it!!!












We bunddled up the twins for a family picture out in the snow. They seemed to like it. Their snow suits were huge on them!!! Their feet weren't even long enough to fit in where the legs go!! Still so tiny. Noa is getting to be a little chunker though;) Elijah is growing just still so little.












My parents headed home today. Still snowy and icy out.

Whitney, Troy and Drew came over for dinner. I got a great nap in before they came over!!! Drew loves holding those little babies!!!

The Twins: Day 11

It's now Saturday. Snow still covers the ground. My parents spent the night. We all took turns with the night feedings. Just hung out at the house. And ate a lot. Jay got out in the snow to buy a bottle cleaner. Something much needed!!!! He came home with a new cell phone too.

The Twins: Day Ten

The big snow day. It started snowing this morning around 10. And just kept snowing and snowing and snowing. My parents came over to get snowed in with us and to help with the twins and Isaac.
Jay had to cancel Warmth in Winter for the youth because it snowed so much we couldn't get to Murfreesboro. So sad!!
Beautiful snow though!!!

The Twins: Day Nine

Melissa came over today and the twins had their first real photo shoot. We all realized how hard it is to take pictures of twins!!! It took 4 of us to do it!!!
Melissa got some GREAT shots!!!!!Thanks Melissa!!!

The Twins: Day Eight

Can't think of too much exciting that happened today.
Just a great day with the family!!

The Twins: Day Seven

We took all three kids to the doctor today. It was when we were in the weighing room with all three down to diapers that we realized maybe we should have brought Isaac separately. He did great but it was really overwhelming for all of us!!
We are those people now that you look at and say "Aw, those poor people."

The Twins: Day Six

Our first full day at home. It surprisingly went much better than expected!!





Isaac loves his brother and sister and he loves having everyone home!!

We have wonderful babies!!!!

The Twins: Day Five

We are going home today!!! Billiruben counts went up one point but still ok. Just waiting for all discharge papers.
Finally got home early afternoon.





Everyone was at our house waiting on us. Grandmama and Granddaddy and the Gainer's.

Isaac is on his way!!!







Great to be home!! Time for reality.

The Twins: Day Four

Great day just spending time at hospital with twins. They had their billirubin count today. It was a little high but not high enough to need to be treated. Both had the same count. Staying one more day to make sure billirubins stay down.

The Simpsons stopped by and all got to see the twins!! They took Isaac home with them for his last night away from home!

The Twins: Day Three

Starting to feel a lot better. Can't believe I had two babies, one of which was ripped out of my tummy!!
Jay went to visit Elijah early this morning and he was completely off the oxygen!!!! Yeah!! They said if he continued to eat well he could come up to the nursery. When Jay got back I went down to see him. I walked all by myself to the NICU. Which is not a short walk!! They let me hold Elijah for the first time. It was wonderful!!
We had a lot of visitors in and out.

We got a phone call from the NICU doctor. He said Elijah was ready to come up to the nursery!!! Yeah!! After a few hours, Noa and Elijah were reunited!!!!

































Isaac got to come meet his brother for the first time. Then Isaac and dad had a boys night. Buffalo Wild Wings and a night at home!!






The Youngs' Family of 5!!!

The Twins: Day Two

My morning started at 4 am when the tech wanted me to walk to the bathroom. I was like really it's 4 am. Aren't you suppose to be letting me sleep?? But looking back it was the best thing for me. It started my day off great. The whole day I was up and down. I walked to the nursery. And was able to go in a wheelchair down to finally see Elijah.

He was doing much better. We still could hold him though. I got to watch them feed him his first bottle. Before they were tube feeding him. He did great and took the whole bottle.
Noa continued to be doing great!!

Isaac got to come up and meet his sister for the first time. He loved her!!! He couldn't see his brother since he was in the NICU.
Drew and aunt Whitney brought Isaac so they got to meet Noa also. Whitney was able to get down to see Elijah.

They said in the NICU if Elijah can continue to progress and get off the oxygen over night he might be able to join his sister upstairs in the nursery!!!!

The Twins: the beginning...

So I thought it would be good to start blogging again. I'm going to try to write something everyday just to document our new crazy lives;)

The Day Before Day One:
So let's start with day one of the twins birth. On Tues. January 19th I went in to see my doctor for a check up in hopes they might keep me to have the twins. I had an ultrasound and Elijah wasn't growing as well as they would have liked for him to have been. So at that point they decided it was about time. I went upstairs to see Dr. Barrett to find out exactly when it would be. She sent me on over to the hospital to start the induction. YEAH!!! Well once getting there and after getting on my gown and all settled in my bed, I was sent home because I ate a full breakfast that morning and they were afraid I would get sick due to the anesthesia. In case they had to do a c-section. So they said to come back at 7pm that night and not to eat or drink anything. It turned out well. Jay was already home getting everything together. We were able to pick Isaac up from school and spend some time with him.

Finally it was time. We headed to the hospital. Of course had to wait on a room. Finally the nurse called us back and she said she had talked to my doctor and she wanted to start everything really slow for the night then crank it up in the morning. Of course we were like great, we had to wait even longer...

Day One:
At about 3am my contractions started to really pick up. At that time I decided it was time for the epidural. After 2 tries with the epidural they got it in. Of course 2 tries it's twins right?!? My sister and Jay were there at this time. After the epidural we all got a little rest. At 6am my parents got there. At 7am is the nurses shift change. Well I had told my nurse that I was starting to feel pressure. She didn't want to check me because she wanted the next nurse to check because they didn't want to check too often. When my next nurse came in I told her about the pressure. She went ahead and checked and said I was very close and she was calling the doctor. Of course my parents had left to go get breakfast. Whitney and Jay are trying to call them to let them know it was time!!
Dr. Barrett came in and said it was time. She had me push three times then said yep your ready. They brought scrubs in for Jay. Since I was having twins they had me deliver in the OR just in case they had to do a c-section they would be prepared. My parents got back and shortly after they rolled me off.

Once we got in the OR it wasn't long before they had me start pushing Noa. They were constantly monitoring both babies.
Noa Winter was born at 8:35am weighing 5 lbs 13 oz. After Noa was born they started to figure out how Elijah was potitioned. Dr. Barrett said he flipped because she felt his feet. But Dr. Crow was watching him on the monitor and she said no his head is still down. He just folded in half when Noa came out. Dr. Barrett was trying to repotition him but in a matter of seconds his water broke and his umbilical cord started coming out. She said we have to do a c-section. As soon as that was said the room was full of people, they jacked up my medicine and litterally ripped me open... Elijah Ryan was born at 8:44 am and weighed 4 lbs. 2 oz.

Jay took both the babies to transition. They noticed that Elijah was having problems breathing. They sent him to NICU and sent Noa to the nursery. Noa had to be I'm the incubator for 8 hours to keep her tempeture up. Elijah was on a separate floor in NICU. They did an xray and discovered his lungs were fully developed they just didn't get the last coating to help him breath better. They gave him some medicine to coat his lungs and started him on oxygen.
All day Jay was going room to room checking on me, Noa and Elijah. On my way from recovery to my room they took me by the NICU to see Elijah.
That night they brought Noa to our room.
I was completely out of it all day!