Leading up to the Birth

July 3rd: 6am, Shawnah woke up to her water breaking, though at the time, she did not know what was happening. She cleaned up the bed and changed and went back to sleep. But it happened again a couple hours later, in which TJ came home and took her to the hospital. By this time the water/fluid was not running out. The doctors did five different tests to see if Shawnah was in labor, but all the tests came back negative. The doctor then sent us home.

By the time we got home, it was uncontrollable. The fluid was just pouring out of her and we then called the hospital to get the doctor on the phone. She said to come back in and we would be admitted to be observed all night. Which is what we did. (By the way, the drive to the hospital is about 45 minutes, not just an easy task to do!)

After being monitored all evening and having a bunch of tests done, the hospital decided that Shawnah was in labor and the water had broke. There was a possibility that they can stop the labor from happening, because the fluid reproduces itself, but they wanted to monitor the babies all night to make sure they can handle the situation. So, Shawnah had to lay completely still all night and have the babies hearts on monitors to see if there were issues.

By morning, the doctor came in and told us that one of the babies' heart was fluctuating. The weird part was it was Baby B, whose water had not broken yet. Baby A was doing fine being in there. The doctor then told us that he would rather have the babies out where they can be worked on and monitored out in the world instead of inside me. He asked if it was ok to do a C-section. We did not hesitate on the decision and within twenty minutes, Shawnah was on the operating table.