Our time to share ☺️ November 13, 2017

Good Morning! Wow it has been quite a while since I have been on here! Life has been keeping us super busy, or should I say, our two tiny humans are♥️ So it has been almost four weeks since my wife went into labor. I’ve been wanting to get on here and share our journey, but I think I just needed some time to process everything. Please be forewarned this May be extra long but bare with me...

It was Monday morning the 13th of November and We were exactly 35 weeks. We woke up and got ready to go In for a routine scan, where they check growth of babies and amniotic fluids and such. It’s important to not that Leading up to that week my wife (Oceanna) had started to throw up at night again and also that morning. We summed it up to morning sickness taking a full turn and her body just over being pregnant! Either way I told the ultrasound tech my concern and she said she’d have the dr come in after she was all done checking in the babies.

Well the babies looked great and the doc came in and said she was just gonna check blood pressure; to Rule out Pre-eclampsia and What not. Well low and behold her blood pressure was high. Dr put her right into a wheel chair and took us to labor and delivery where they wanted her and the babies to be monitored in triage. We were in triage from 8am-4pm.

First four hours they hooked her up to monitor blood pressure every 15 min and the babies and contractions. She was already showing contractions but not consistent and blood pressure wasn’t coming down. Tests came back with gestational hypertension. Dr checked her cervix And she was 3.5 cm dilated and 80% effaced.

Dr decided to hook her up to iv fluids in hopes to stop contractions, another two hours in. She assured us that we would probably be going home soon as Iv fluids would generally stop false labor. Well... they didn’t stop. Contractions began to come on strong and consistent all the while my wife, my super woman hero, not complaining at all. The Babies were fine the whole time tho and blood pressure seemed to drop a tad. So after the fluids were done they came in to check her cervix and holy hell, she was dilated 5 cm and more than 95% effaced.

It was now 2:30pm or so and the Doc looked at us and said “okay they’re coming you aren’t going home.” She told us the OR was ready at 4 so she started prepping us asap.

The c section went well. I was able to sit beside my wife and take pictures of our beautiful babies enter earth side! They were tiny, but perfect! I was able to cut the umbilical cords and hold them for a family picture next to Oceanna. I then followed out our beautiful babies to the nursery. Shortly after our OB came to find me to say it all went well, she closed Ocean up and they’re just cleaning her up to go to recovery. She assured us we would see her the following day! So Nurse came out and told me to meet them in The recovery room in 15 min. I couldn’t wait to tell her hw perfect our hunnies were!

15 min later I go out and she isn’t there. Halls are deserted and one nurse behind a counter. I ask her where she’s at and she looks at me and says, “oh they didn’t tell you?!” WHAT tell me what? at that point alarms go off and people are running into the OR. Our OB comes running thru the hall and says she doesn’t know what’s happening they called her back because of bleeding. I stood there in disbelief and horrified. What was happening?! An hour or two goes by, and still no word. Finally our OB comes out with a nurse and explains Oceanna started to bleed out after she was closed up. Apparently her uterus was “floppy” and wouldn’t contract on its own. She lost over 2 liters of blood and had to have a folly balloon inserted which is like a water balloon applying pressure against the uterus and pitocin to force contractions.

I left the babies with the amazing nursery nurses. They assured me to go and be with my wife and to come back after. It was awful. Blood transfusion and fluids had already started, she had tubes and Iv’s everywhere. She was white as a ghost. I almost fell apart. The dr assured us Ocean was doing well and stable. They sent us to the ICU around 9pm or so. At this point our son was allowed to leave the nursery and join us over to our room in the icu. He was strong off the bat, passed all of his tests, had a tiny bath, got bundled up, and they just handed him over! I’ll get more to his sister in a moment.... sigh...

In icu we had some complications. They couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t passing Urine through her catheter and drainage tubes. The fluids they were pumping her with weren’t going to her veins but instead her body limbs and lungs. Low saturation levels kept us in icu for quite a while.

They took balloon out next day because bleeding was minimal.

Also, baby girl didn’t make it to be with us for like 9 hours. She almost went to the nicu. But the nurses and even nicu dr were rooting for her and allowed her extra time in main nursery. She had excess amounts of amniotic fluid in her chest so her breathing was distressed. You could see her tummy retracting with every breath followed by a tiny grunt. Her color wasn’t quite right and yet We all knew she was fighting! They typically allow babies after birth up to 6 hours and if they aren’t ready to go to moms room they’ll send them off to the nicu. However, around 1130pm the Dr came to her and did forced oxygen for 15 min and Bam... she turned a huge corner and was ready! Came right up to us and has been so strong since!

The following evening, Tuesday November 14th my wife was downgraded from the icu to a family room! Yay! We were all finally together and safe and comfortable! There we were all well taken care of, the hospital was amazing, the nurses the dr’s, the volunteers, the Extra tlc. I am still blown away! Friday, November 17th we were discharged and everyone was allowed to go home! It was unbelievable. The fight and the love my tiny family portrayed has me floored! I am so proud of my wife and our children. So please, after such a long post, and for that I am so sorry... allow me to introduce:

Emory Knox Kahiau💙 5lbs 1oz 17.5 inches & Ellaia Monroe Anale’a💗 5lbs 1oz 17 inc

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