26 week twins birth story

They are here! Saying this makes me want to cry and dance at the same time. This is gonna be long and may bother some people to read. I'm gonna start off with a few things for history.

My son, Ashton, was born January 13, 2019. My pregnancy with him was a dream! No morning sickness, no symptoms really, didnt ever need to buy maternity clothes, I worked up until I went into labor at 39 weeks naturally. With him it was a precipitous labor. In other words fast and painful! My water broke with him at 5 AM and then he was born exactly at 11AM. It was a difficult labor to say the least only because most the staff didn't believe me that I was ready to push and was more mentally difficult than anything because they gave me the epidural to help calm me down because there was no way I was anywhere near close to having him since I had only been there a couple hours and I was too tense and needed to relax. Well soon as the epidural was placed and meds were being pushed they checked me and could see his head. I had him out in 15 minutes.

I was nervous but estatic when I found out I was pregnant again in June of this year! Very early on I could tell my pregnancy was different. At my 11 weeks appointment it was confirmed it was different. I was carrying twins! With no family history of twins we were petrified but even more estatic! Hearing this news of my pregnancy I stopped all my psych meds and started therapy vigorously. I wanted to give them their best chance. But in turn I had anxiety, every week I would thank God for making it another week not that i have ever had a miscarriage before I just was scared of losing my babies.

Fast forwards to 21-22 weeks I began to have contractions so I went in and they had no idea why I was contracting but I wasnt dilating or thinning so they told me to just rest and take it easy and I was released from work early to rest. They gave me yeast infection meds as a just incase it was that.

Now a little history bout myself, I and my husband are active duty military and stationed in Okinawa japan. We had a courthouse wedding a year and a half ago and planned for our ceremony for this november stateside so we took the whole month of November off to fly home and have our ceremony. I had everything planned, had a dress, and was excited to see family! My only concern was if my dress would fit with my twin bump.

Ok on to more of the actual birth story. We flew out November 1st, our longest flight was 11 hours long. Difficult flight even when not pregnant and especially with a 10 month old. I felt fine for the most part just the normal discomforts of pregnancy. We stayed with my mom and dad till the 13th. On the morning of the 13th I got out of bed and could very easily see my belly was different and I had dropped, I could breathe, eat, and had a lot of cervix pressure. I mentioned it to my mom and she told me to go in, but I put it down as twin pregnancy symptoms. This had my hubby concerned as well though because I hadn't dropped till later in pregnancy with my son. So I told my mom and hubby I would get checked when we reached the big city. My parents lived in a small town of 500 people.

So I kept my promise and next morning my husband and I had a beautiful breakfast around nine then we headed to the L and D. I went in thinking I would be checked and discharged. I had just pressure no contractions and the pain I had felt more like round ligament pain nothing serious.

I explained to the triage nurse what was going on and she was the sweetest thing I loved her as my nurse so much! She listened to my husbands and I concerns with true compassion! Initially she struggled to find the heart rates which no problem! I wasnt concerned as I could feel them both moving. She finally found the heart rates and went and talked to the on call doctor to see what they wanted. She came back shortly and said the doc wanted her to just check me for dilation and effacement then wait an hour and check again. No problem! Or so I thought.. she checked me I was a loose 1cm. I was still connected couldnt feel any contractions just the pressure. The loose 1cm and couldnt get a good effacement, it all caught me a little off guard as I had been thick and closed 2 weeks prior but then just figured oh well I have given birth before. An hour and a half goes by my 10 month old is being a little monkey and tired of the hospital but daddy and I kept joking around and talking while trying to entertain little man. The nurse comes in and says she is gonna check me again, I get in position and her hand goes in as soon as I felt her hand touch my cervix I knew it wasnt good. She had a shocked expression on her face I was almost 3cm dilated and felt a baby move through my cervix which means i was effaced. She goes and tells doc. I'm still in a triage room three nurses come back in and they explain that because I was below 26 weeks I needed transferred to a different hospital for a better NICU if things went south. But they begin my IV and blood and other labs so the next hospital can just do what they need to. They gave me an antibiotic for something I forget now, i think for possible GBS or infection or something but just as a preventive measure. My husband had stepped out to grab something from the car and to let the nurses work in the small room. That didnt work I went into anaphylactic shock after just 1 mL of the antibiotic. I threw up everything in my stomach turned bright red, hives covered me, my body went numb... I see my husband come in as they are racing to stop my allergic reaction. Then I saw my nurses face go pale and she motioned to the charge nurse to look at my belly which was turning purple. And I felt like I had ome continuous contraction. One second later literally ultrasound was on my belly and then an emergency light was pulled and they began pushing my bed and charge nurse shouted emergency Csection. I looked at my hubby still feeling horrible and cant breathe and he shouted why!?! And they shouted back at him we dpnt have time to explain. I was in the bright OR , people flooded it and I was beginning to lose consciousness they kept talking to me trying to get a response of any sorts so I would move my arm or grunt. My abdomen still contracting this whole time. My beautiful nurse held my hand that whole time and was praying the whole time, I had told her I was Christian as well. The anesthesiologist came to my shoulder told me to try to breathe as I barely could. And someone shot me with EpiPen in my back. Then I fell asleep... mentally that's all I wanted was to get into the deep sleep. I woke up an hour after babies were born. My hubby came in so quickly and told me what had happened. Both babies needed resuscitated, Baby boy had lost a lot of blood and needed a fusion, babygirl was alright for the most part. At one point they had all three of us intubated because I stopped breathing, my blood pressure went to 60/40, and my pulse shot up to 200s. Only baby boy needed compressions though. I just looked at my scared husband. He had thought he was gonna lose all three of us. What made Csection emergent and my belly purple was complete placental abruption. This is where the placenta completely detaches. Baby and I lost a lot of blood.

We are now all stable, I hurt a lot but otherwise feel fine I have gotten to sit in my twins room for an hour just watching them breathe and kick and flail their little legs and arms around. My wedding ceremony is Saturday and it will go on lol i will most likely just facetime to the ceremony ❤ but they said I've been really strong and may release me so I can at least sit at my wedding and do my vows.

The twins are critical and will be in the hospital they said at minimum till their due date in three months.

One blessing has come from this all and it is they are cutting my tour in Okinawa and I can stay stateside to have help from my family. I am so blessed to have a family with so much love! And my nursing staff and doctors have been beyond amazing. My first nurse cried with me when I couldnt hold myself emotionally after all my visitors left. It was a nightmare. EVERYTHING I was afraid of happening happened. She gave me a hug when i was being pushed away to my new hospital and she told me she would hold me in her prayers and hoped by chance she would hear how I was doing at some point!

All my nursing staff have said they never have seen someone go from just fine to that critical that fast. And I was definitely a case they wouldn't forget. They asked if they could bring my case before the hospital as a learning thing for L and D staff. I of course gave consent.

I am struggling mentally with this all. I want my babies close not down the hall, I wanted a sore vagina not a hurting abdomen, i wanted to do the golden hour not a crying hour, i wanted to feel my children suck from me not the pump....

I was a female who didnt listen to her body, and almost lost my babies and self. But I listened to others concern about me because in all reality they knew me best they knew when I was hiding pain or discomfort or emotions. Dont just listen to your own bodies but if you have concerns for another voice them as it may just save their life. Thank you for reading my story here are my babies!

Akiah John Goblish

216 pm

2.1 lbs

Aspen Jacinta Goblish

216pm

2.1 lbs

Lengths unknown.

Baby boys footprint compared to my thumb the transport team gave me this after I gave birth to give me faith and hope and they said.