What an eventful 24 hours!

Twin pregnancy hasn't been what I expected and the last 24 hours have been no different!

Yesterday at work (around 9:45), my water broke. I think I was the excitement of the plant for the day! Protocol for someone's water breaking at that plant is to travel by ambulance to the hospital. The ERT (trained like EMS folks) at the plant were so fantastic! they had my vitals taken and were quickly able to hand me off to the EMS. I don't think I have been in the back of an ambulance since I was little and they came to elementary school. Needless to say, I'm hoping to not have to do one of those again!

John beat me to the hospital and joined me as they brought me in. The goal for yesterday was to keep me pregnant and stop contractions. They put me on steroid shots to help the babies lungs, antibiotics to keep me from getting any infections and magnesium sulfate to slow the contractions as well as help with their brain development.

Ultimately, they weren't able to keep me pregnant or stop contractions. I headed back to the OR right around 3:30 and had both kiddos before 4:30. Luckily for me, we didn't have to do a C- section. My doctor was on board with letting me try normally and that worked for both kiddos. Hooray for not having to recover from a C- section or even both types of birth! Here are some quick baby stats and pictures:

Finley John- born at 4:16am, 2 lbs 16 oz,  15.25 inches

Magnolia Kay- born at 4:22am, 2 lbs 11 oz, 15.15 inches

Today has been a busy day for us! Both babies are on CPAP machines that are helping to regulate oxygen levels and helping remind them they have to breathe on their own now. Both have leveled out for the most part. They each have little episodes where they forget to breathe or have a lower oxygen level, but that is to be expected likely for the next couple of weeks.

Just to give a little perspective on how tiny they are, here is a picture of the diapers they are using in my hand. Such tiny little munchkins!

As far as how I'm doing- I'm certainly hanging in there. John and I both had a good nap today, which was much needed. I'm definitely sore, but overall my recovery is well on it's way. I will likely get to hang out in my room until Saturday. That is great for both of us because there is a queen bed in there and it is quite in comparison to the kiddos room. We are heading down shortly to call it a night and will come back to see the kiddos in the morning. Hopefully we get a bit more rest tonight!