A long story short with the major happenings:
At 30 Weeks, I went into premature labor. I was at a routine OB visit when my doctor noticed I was 3cm dilated and sent me to triage. I was monitored for about 9 hours and was given several doses of Nifedepine to stop contractions and also Betamethasone in case I did deliver that would help the babies premature lungs develop before I was released from L&D and sent to an antepartum floor to be loosely monitored. I was put on bedrest for this monitoring of every 8hour fetal heart rate monitoring and was told to let them know if my contractions were getting more frequent or more intense - they were not. Thankfully, I was released 3 days later and was told to be on bedrest (still at 3cm dilated and with twin A at -1 station) at home until my next OB checkup (1 week and 2 days).
I was just about ready to go back to work, when I had woke up on January 19th (two days away from my 33rd week gestation) with fever and chills. I was told to come into triage again. There I was worked up to rule out an infection with my respiratory system and my GI system. Both ruled out negative. Although they also tested me and said my babies amniotic sac was not leaking or broken, they still were questioning the risk of the babies (since I was not having an upper respiratory tract or GI infection) and I was starting to have "real" contractions. Delivery of the babies was inevitable and they put an epidural in me and broke my water. One hour later, I went from 5cm dilated to 10cm dilated. I was taken to the OR to delivery my twins. The whole natural delivery of my babies only took a total of 36 minutes.
They were both quickly whisked away as fast as they were taken out of me. Evander, born first, had to be intubated and Madeline was not. They were rolled past me as I was being rolled out of the L&D room and they looked so tiny. I can't believe I had just delivered my babies and was feeling great. I was actually a mom!
