I had my 36 week appointment on Thursday I was again dilated to 6-7 but not really contracting, both babies sounded good and IF's weren't here yet, they were planning on coming down Sunday. So the Dr. and I decided I was OK to go home and we would plan in delivering Friday sometime. I was going to go in around 1200 to get things started. I became a bundle of nerves as soon as I knew without a doubt that these babies were coming! It doesn't matter how many times I've delivered babies I always get super nervous! It doesn't help that we did a quick sono to see baby A's position and she had a foot presenting. That girl is so ornery! I immediately texted the IF's to let them know the plan and they booked their flight and hotel room quite promptly. The plan was for them to land at 9:45 PM get settled into their hotel and meet me at the hospital the next day.
I went home to lay down and try to keep the babies in long enough for the IF's to get here at least. I continued to have some contractions all day that were fairly strong but very far apart and irregular. I started worrying a little because of the GBS status being positive this time that I wouldn't make it in time to get antibiotics, but again the contractions were pretty far apart so I kept convincing myself it was fine. I finally went to bed around 9 feeling nauseous and contracting so I started timing the contractions again and they were every 4-6 min and fairly uncomfortable, not more uncomfortable than they had been but what they had been got me to almost a 7 so I again started to worry that I wouldn't make it in time for the antibiotics. By this time it was about 10:30 so I decided I had better just go and be safe rather than sorry and I texted the IF's and my friend and my Dr. to let them know I was going to go into the hospital. My friend came and picked me up and we arrived just barely before my IF's did. That put me in a room started my IV, checked my cervix, no change since the Dr's office but obviously I wasn't going anywhere dilated that far! So they gave me a dose of antibiotics and broke my water. I was then dilated to a 7 and baby A was frank breech AKA butt first, which is better than foot first! They moved me to the operating room and the contractions started, very slow at first, then more and more and more painful and I felt like something wasn't positioned quite right so I kept changing positions to try to fix it but it wasn't working so I had the resident check me and she said there was just a little bit of cervix left and I could probably push through it if I wanted so I did it hurt but it worked, here comes baby A's butt! By the way delivering breech hurts a little if you were wondering especially when it's the first baby! I thought it hurt last time when it was the 2nd baby, but nope hurts more when it's the first! so 2 good pushes and she was out all 5lbs 11oz of her (at least she had the decency to be the smaller one since she came out backwards!) Then a sono to see where baby B was, vertex (head first) that should be easier right? couple of contractions later he moved down far enough to break my water which he didn't care too much for because his heart rate dropped pretty dramatically for what seemed like forever, so with my next contraction I was dilated to a 9 but pushed through to get him out of there that also hurt pretty bad, but better than an emergency c-section under general anesthesia! And then there were 2! Baby B 6lbs 8oz I was so relieved to not be pregnant anymore I didn't even hear apgars or anything! I would have loved to get at least 1 more week out of the pregnancy for the babies sakes just because I know they do better the longer they're in there but they wanted out, or at least my uterus wanted them out! Baby B ended up in Special care nursery he was struggling slightly to breathe and had low blood sugars, eventually baby A also went to Special care for low blood sugars. Currently they are both still in special care but improving. I haven't visited them yet since I left that day around 12:30 but I'm staying up to date by text. I think I can no longer resist the urge to see them and will head up soon.
Currently I am very happy to be sleeping well, and on my stomach and back which has been impossible for months! I'm waiting for the breast pain to start so far I've been fine in that area, but I know it's coming and it sucks bad!
This uterus has closed up shop, no more vacancies CLOSED FOREVER!!
As tyrian would say "If I ever have another idea like that slap me in the face"
I have truly enjoyed my surrogacy journeys and I would not change a thing about any of them. I am so happy to have been lucky enough to give a family to 3 amazing families who deserved nothing less, but I've done my part now to watch them grow and see what life has in store for them all! I can't wait......
