The twins had their own birth plan.

The birthing of our twins was happening faster than I could think. I was only 32 weeks and I didn’t have a plan B. My carefully thought out natural twin birth plan was now useless.

Not only was this not what I expected but my doctor was also not gonna be delivering my twins.

I had only a few minutes to decide who I wanted in the delivery room with me because the doctor said only two people could come inside because it was gonna be tight quarters in there. There was a team in there for each baby.

I chose my hubby and best friend to be in there because they were by my side for the birth of our first two kids and I couldn’t imagine them not being in there.

I was wheeled into the operating room feeling confident that I was gonna be able to deliver both my babies vaginally.

As soon as I began pushing, the doctor requested pitocin and I popped my head up and said ” I don’t need pitocin, I can push my baby out”.

I did about five pushes and baby A was out, crying and breathing! It felt great, I did it! Immediately after baby A was out, it was quickly found that baby B had his feet hanging out of me. The doctor made a very painful attempt to turn him, but it was no way since his feet were out of my uterus.

Since my babies were preemies there were added risks to delivering the baby breech such as the concern of if the baby was breathing and the risk of the head getting stuck behind my cervix. The doctor looked at my husband and said “I’m sorry,”he did all he could to meet our wishes.

Prior to delivery my original doctor told me I could refuse anything I wanted, there was a form for me to sign for anything I didn’t want. They would discuss the risks with me and let me decide.

At this point I could have insisted that baby B be pulled out breech but seriously if it came down to me getting cut vs something harmful happening to my baby then I was definitely getting cut.

Baby B had chosen how he would come into the world and I was gonna have to be fine with that.

They quickly moved me over to the operating table and got baby B out. He came out crying and breathing as well! I never doubted that my babies wouldn’t be healthy.

I was aware enough to tell them not to put goo on my babies eyes, not to give them a vitamin k shot or hepatitis shot.

Unlike my first two non hospital births, the babies were not put on my chest but instead wheeled away to be checked for problems. My husband went with them and I felt great about that.

It was over, my babies were out and healthy. Then they quickly put a bunch of different drugs in my IV. They doped me up.

I’m naturally a very out spoken person and these drugs intensified that. I began asking the nurse attending to me very personal questions, I don’t remember everything I said but she kept asking me to close my eyes and go to sleep!

After an hour they wheeled me to my room and I began my recovery. I had a vaginal delivery and c section all at one time. My stay at the hospital was gonna be interesting but I was determined to make the best of it.