First off knowing we were planning on going in on Monday for labor Induction we went out for dinner with a good group of friends. 

Thanks Bea, Don, Nick, Kim, Jonathon, Dena and Darby for joining us on our last childless night out.

 

Well from the begining things did not go how we had thought. 

 

We woke up Monday morning the 26th at 7 AM.  My first thought was whoa we slept in.  First words out of my were "why did you let me sleep so late?" Carolyn said "I thought you were sleeping so well why wake you?" I said "Hello its time to meet our boys lets call and get in there!"

 

So we called Labor and Delivery and they said hey we are busy we will call you later in the day to come in.  WHAT! I thought we were going to get the ball rolling.

 

So we started our day by running errands. Yes at 40 weeks a 5 days we were out running errands.  We had just really gotten going with our errands - sending packages, getting gas, Home depot, Costco......Then we got the call time ti head in. Come in sometime in the next hour.

 

So we headed to the hospital.  We are getting started!!!!! or so we thought........................................

 

We got to the hospital around Noon, got checked in got to our room. The room rocks!! Big enough for us and friends and a view of the UW Stadium!!! Go Huskies!!!

 

 

The rest of the day was in the room just hanging out with the monitors on.  Which as we found out means Carolyn must stay in the room.  Because they have no mobile monitors that can handle twins.  Which we found out after carolyn asked to be able to walk around. They went to get things and found out they do not have the mobile monitoring fro twins.  All teh nurses were surprised.  The quote was "We have ever had a twins monther wanting to walk around when here".  Well my honey wanted to walk because she is AWESOME!!!!!

 

So the afternoon went along with the monitoring and Carolyn standing beside the bed, in the bed and on the birthing ball.....

Here is a picture of Carolyn on the ball not exactly happy that her husband has a camera pointed at her.

This basically went on untill we started to wind down around 8:30 to get soem sleep.  We had forgotten that my parents were on there way and just as we started to wind down the parents showed up full of grandparent excitment and energy.  It was great to see them and share the time but wow did the energy level go sky high for awhile. The parents took off around 9:00 and we got finally got to try and sleep around 10 PM.

 

Some pictures of the arrival of the granparents.

 

Carolyn basically got no sleep till atleast midnight because of the monitoring. I on the otherhand didn't get good sleep but did sleep alot. Caorlyn got a little sleep from midnight till 2 when they woke us up to check things.

 

From 2-3 carolyn was free from mointors and got to roam free for awhile and get into the tub for a few minutes.

 

Then we had a long discusion on next steps with the doctors.  About 3:30 AM they went forward with a Foley bulb which was not easy but Carolyn made it through.  The staff all were amazed at how well she did.  Then they let Carolyn not start anything else so she could try and get some sleep before we start pitoson.

 

Well we slept kinda from 4 till about 7 AM. Not great but some rest.  Then they checked Carolyn at 7:30 and the foley bulb came out meaning she made it to 2.5 centimeters dialated. Awesome we say some forward progress yippee!!!!!!!! Which means we have atleast got things to move a little. So now we are starting pitoson.

 

We started that around 8:15 and slowly progressing with that.  The family is back at the hospital and we are chatting as the contractions are picking up a little. 

We will see how it goes!!!!

 

So it has been a crazy yet wonderful ride sofar.  Very excited to meet these guys!!!!

 

 

Till Later.