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We found out that I was pregnant in April. The doctor gave us the due date of December 20, 1997. We were having a Christmas baby. Two days before my birthday in April I started with morning sickness. I'd have it really bad for 3 to 6 days. All I could do was lay on the couch and run to the bathroom to puke. Two weeks before our wedding I finally got over the morning sickness.
Our wedding date was June 28, 1997. On the Wednesday before our wedding Mark came with me to the doctor for the first time. All the times before my mom had gone with me because Mark was at work. This would be the first time Mark would be able to see his little one. (Our doctor did an ultrasound every visit.) There I was laying on the table and the doctor is doing the ultrasound. He got quiet for a moment. Then he said I see two heads. Your having twins. I just started laughing. I think Mark was going to faint. We had been joking all through the pregnancy that I was going to have triplets. (Mark has identical triplet cousins.)
I'm laying on the examing table and my doctor opens up the door to get the nurses to come in and see the twins. (Mark is white as a sheet by now). The doctor started telling me all the risks involved with a twin pregnancy. The big thing was "NO SEX". And we're supposed to be going on our honeymoon in 3 days. Oh well.
Mark made me drive home because he was in too much shock to drive. We got to my parents house and went out to tell my mom and dad the big news. I told Mom and see didn't believe me. She thought we were joking. Then she looked at Mark's face and knew that we were not joking at all.
After the intial shock of having twins, everything went smoothly until the 25th week. I came home from work (I was a waitress at Bob Evans). I just felt weird. That night I couldn't sleep and I had some pain. I told my mom about it the next morning (we lived with my parent's at the time) and she thought it was probably just one of the twins pushing on some organ. I went to work but at work it kept on getting worse. Finally I called my mom and she came to get me. We waited for Mark to get home from work and went to the hospital.
I thought I just had gas or something like that. I wasn't too worried. They put the monitor on me and I'm having contractions. The doctor comes in and tells me that I'm already 5 cm dilated. It was too late to give me any drugs to stop the labor. He wanted to CAREFLIGHT me to a bigger hospital but the helicopter was two hours away and I was going to have the babies before then.
I had no choice if I wanted a C-section or not. If I didn't have one then I could crush the twins' skulls as they passed thru the birthing canal. I had an epidural (I loved that). We had to wait for the NICU transport team from Children's Hospital in Dayton got there.
At 6:45 p.m. on September 11, 1997 I gave birth to Trevor Michael Hudson. He weighed 1 lb. 3 1/2 ounces and was 10 1/2 inches long. His lungs had not developed right and his body had deformities from the chest down. From his head up he looked like a tiny baby. He had a head full of black hair. A few minutes later Jordan Matthew Hudson was born weighing 2 pounds 1 1/2 ounces and was 12 1/2 inches long. He was healthy and crying when he came out. He also had a head of black hair and looked just like his older brother, Trevor.
They brought Trevor in and we were able to hold him and kiss him. Even his grandparents were able to hold him before he passed away in my arms. There was nothing that anyone could do to save Trevor. God decided to give us those few precious hours with him.
They brought Jordan in the recovery room in his incubatar and we were able to see him for the first time. He looked like a tiny person. Perfect as could be just tiny. I remember Jordan's Great-Grandma Pearl visiting him at the NICU with Mark when he was a day old. He couldn't believe how much he looked like a little person. He even had finger nails. I was in the hospital until the 14th of September when they released me so I could go visit Jordan in Dayton, 45 minutes away. I was happy to be with my baby.
Looking back I can't believe I remained so calm. I think I was in shock with everything that was happening. I knew that there was nothing that I could do to stop anything. I just had to let everything happen. The only time I remember being truely scared was in the operating room when they couldn't get the suction thing to work to suction out the amniotic fluid. I guess I had flooded the OR with it when they couldn't get it working. It's funny the stuff you remember and the stuff you forgot.
That's the story of the Hudson Twins' birth!
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