Hailey + Hunter's Birth Story

August 26, 2014

Michael called it all along; that I'd make it all the way to the 38 week mark and our planned c-section date. We both of course were excited the night before, but did manage to get a few hours of sleep. We took a moment to realize how blessed we are when we walked through the maternity doors at the fact that most people do not have this type of experience prior to meeting their baby/ babies; especially twins. 

As we were checking in at the front desk, a nurse came down asking for Sarah. We start walking down the hallway and she asks if we were excited to meet our little one which of course we reply and say, well yes we are very excited to meet our little ones, emphasizing that we have two babies and not one. She looks at the chart and realized she had the wrong Sarah. Go figure. After a few more minutes of waiting, our nurse came along asking for us and I was so happy for the nurse change because she just gave off a better feeling than the first nurse. 

We got into our hospital room (which was huge because of having twins). I had an IV started after changing into my fancy hospital gown and we waited until our surgery time.

The time seemed to fly with all of the nurses coming in and out of the room and next thing you knew, we were walking to the OR to meet our doctor. We were definitely getting anxious now that the gowns were going on!

Here's us with our fabulous nurse and Dr. Morell right before we went into the room! 

Michael in his cute scrubs:

I was pretty nervous for the spinal because of never having surgery before. They had me bend over as far as I could and I felt a small prick in my back. Two seconds later they were laying me down and I was shocked that I had already had it! The IV hurt way more than that! After the spinal things started moving very quickly. I wasn't too fond of not being able to feel below my chest, but Michael helped keep me calm by running his fingers through my hair and reminding me that we were about to meet the babies. All the sudden the drape in front of us went down slightly and Hailey was born at 9:55 A.M. weighing 6 pounds 12 ounces.

As quick as they whisked her away to check her out, I looked back towards the sheet to see her brother! Hunter was born one minute later at 9:56 A.M. weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces.

Michael had been such an amazing supporter. After the babies were born (before I was able to see them), I started getting nauseous and he stayed next to me until the babies were cleaned off and brought to us. The staff later mentioned how much love they noticed we had for one another and how they were grateful to have shared the experience with us. 

What adorable little faces!

Hunter Lee

Hailey Lynn

After the surgery, I was wheeled back to our room and Michael walked back with our little bundles of joy! Right when we got back to the room, I was able to get skin to skin contact while Michael and I enjoyed their first few moments of life together alone in the room. OK, I think there were nurses and other things happening, but all I could focus on was my family. 

Happy Birthday Hailey and Hunter! We are so thrilled that you are finally here and now our family is complete!