The babies lasted a good 3 weeks until I went into labor. It really came out of nowhere. It started in the middle of the day and I felt it the pains get stronger. I remember calling the nurse and telling her she basically thought I was imagining pains because she put the contraction monitor on me and it wasn’t picking anything up so after 5 minutes she removed it but the pains got stronger. It was making me so mad that she wasn’t listening to me. I waited for the next shift of nurses and I was already in tears because it was hurting so bad. I had to wait on the doctor who was in a c-section at that moment. So I waited some more by the time the doctor came I was already at 8 cm they rushed me into the operating room.
I couldn’t deliver vaginally because they were too tiny and one was head up and the other was head down if they had to go in to turn the one it would have caused a brain hemorrhage. They put me to sleep because they couldn’t get the epidural in and they delivered the babies and rushed them to the NICU. They were so tiny, one was 2lbs 4ozs and the other was 2lbs 10ozs. A miracle, two miracles, after all their bloodwork was taken I was told everything was the same with them. The surgery worked. They spent two months in the hospital gaining weight and learning to do things on their own without machines.
I did have a scare with one of the babies. After two weeks she suddenly stopped urinating and she was swelling from the fluids staying in her body. Two days went by I could not stop crying they couldn’t tell me what was happening. They kept giving her medicine to help her. It worked! She finally urinated and the swelling started to go down. Then her lungs started filling up with fluid they got it out in hopes it wouldn’t come back but it did then they had to put a tube through her mouth to help her breathe. She hated it she would get so worked up whenever they would touch her they would have to give her a little more oxygen. The fluid kept building up so they put a tube in her chest to help drain it. I hated it, I hated everything they were going through because I couldn’t be there every day and I couldn’t take the pain away. The toughest two months I ever had to endure. Eventually the fluid stop building up and she got stronger and right before thanksgiving they came home. I was so happy. The babies are so big now you would never know that they were preemies. My miracle, my life is their life, Ava, Laila and Leah. Crazy where life takes you but I thank God he brought me here and he kept my babies safe and helped them to see a year. Thank you God for all 3 of my angels.
Ashley Wilson 