In a land not too far away in a town called Orlando a Fairy Princess and a Dragon were born. Princess Taylor is the fairest princess in all of the land and smiles all day long. Her brother the Dragon (AKA Aiden) makes red squishy faces all day and growls. He seems to be a little temperamental and hates to be messed with, but he sure is cute.
For those of you that don't know the story I delivered Taylor and Aiden on April 27, 2009 at 6:41am. They were born 4 seconds apart...they were both eager to greet the world. I ended up having an emergency c-section due to my high blood pressure. I woke up on the 26th at 11:30pm with a horrible headache and my face and ears were hot. I took my blood pressure and it was 159/100...yikes!! I took it 3 more times and it was still extremely high, so I called the after hours nurse who called my dr and off to the hospital we went. I was very fortunate that my OBGYN was on call and waiting on us when we arrived. We would have delivered the babies as soon as I arrived at the hospital, but on the way to the hospital I ate a granola bar and had some water...I was starving. Clearly I was in denial about delivering the babies that day since I ate on the 5 minute ride to the hospital. Kane and I both thought that I would just be admitted into the hospital and deliver later that week...on no that was not the case. Since I did have a little snack on the way to the hospital we had to wait 6 hours before they could do the c-section, so at 6:41am our little ones were born. Aiden was born first and weighed 5lbs 8oz and Taylor weighed 6lbs 2oz.
We are now all home and getting settled. The twins were 4 weeks yesterday (Memorial Day) and doing great. They are busy eating and gaining weight...I wish I were losing weight. I will say that I am not sure my stomach will ever be the same...Kane is optimistic as a good husband should be...I say keep lying to me it is good for the self image. I still can't believe these little guys were inside of me just chillin' for 8 1/2 months...no wonder I measured 46 weeks pregnant when I was only 35 weeks and 3 days when I delivered. I will say surprisingly I only have 12 lbs to go before I am back to my prebaby weight...unfortunately I have more jiggly bits now.
Kane and I are doing great. He is an amazing Dad and has surprisingly changed more than his fair share of diapers...including poo ones. I do have to say I have heard a few "Oh my God's" being yelled from the nursery when Kane is in charge of changing...I just sit a laugh. Also, we have all gotten peed on by Aiden (including the wall and the floor). That boy has quite a stream. We are having fun adventures in Baby Land and loving every minute of it.
We can't wait for everyone to meet the twins. We love our little family. And we are happy to report that Luke has adjusted to the twins as well...now if we could just get him to bark less.
Well, it is time to feed a baby, so I must go...
Love,
Meg, Kane, Taylor and Aiden
PS - The picture attached is of the babies at the hospital in their going home outfits.
