The Twins

April and Agnes were born in 2008. We did not find out that we were having twins until our 20 week ultrasound. I must say we were quite surprised by this, when the technician told me there were two tiny heads in there I began crying, she asked me if I wanted my husband to come in and of course I said YES. When I told my husband it was twins and two girls as well he just about fainted.

There were no complications in this pregnancy until about the 30th week, after we moved from Gagetown to Petawawa, when I thought that I was in early labor. We went to the hospital near us and they took my stats and decided that they couldnt take care of both me and the babies if they were to come then, so they carted me off to North Bay, where they gave me the nitro patch to stop the contractions. I was there for 5 days. It was hell, I was there by myself as my husband had to stay with the boys. After I got home I called my mom and she and my dad came and picked up the boys and took them to their house until after I had the girls.

At 34 weeks and 6 days my water broke. I told my husband and he asked me if I was sure because we had already had false labor once. He asked me if I peed my pants LOL, I told him maybe but I dont think so. I got up from the chair and as I was walking to the bathroom the fluid was dripping down my legs but I made it to the bathroom and as I sat down the rest of the water broke. I yelled at my husband to come and help me, so I hopped in the bathtub had a quick rinse off as my husband was getting things ready in the van, we hopped in the van and made it to the hospital only to have them keep me there for over 6 hrs while waiting for Ottawa to call them back and let them know if there was space for me and the babies to stay. After they got the okay they called the helicopter and ambulance. I was airlifted to Ottawa and my husband could not go with me, so he had to drive there, thank god it was only 2hrs away LOL. As soon as he got there they took me to the OR and he was dressed in his hospital greens (which were actually blue) and after they started the spinal, which hurt like hell, the babies were born.

April was 6lbs 2oz and 18in long.

Agnes (Aggie) was 4lbs 15oz and 18 1/4in long.

They had to stay in the NICU at Ottawa General for 10 days. April was eating fine but Aggie decided to be a little bugger and not eat, they had to put a ng tube in Aggie to get the food into her belly. After we brought them home everything was fine for a few days. Then Aggie got her days and nights mixed up, she would sleep during the day and be up all night, April would sleep at night and be up all day. Needless to say I didnt get alot of sleep. Scott (my husband) was away for a course, he was suppose to be gone for 5 months. Well, about a week or so after he left, I had my breakdown. I was at the drs office and she was worried and asked me to check in the hospital for a few days, I told her that I needed to go home and feed my four kids. I took off and she called the police to come and take me in, they called it resistance.

Anyway, I was there for 2 days and they started me on Luvox, I was on that for about 2 months, then I went back to the dr and she asked me how I was doing, well it wasnt all that great. She started me on Effexor and we ended going all the way up to 150mg a day and it was working for a while, after that we added in WellButrin, and that worked for all of 6 months, then we tried Cymbalta and again it worked for awhile but we had to go all the way up to 120mg and I am still on the 450mg of WellButrin, the other day I decided to stop pretending and told the dr that it wasnt working, so she put me down to 90mg of Cymbalta and the 450mg of WellButrin and she added in Zyprexa 2.5mg. So far that is working, but with all the added stress with everything going on with Chase, I may need to go up on the Zyprexa, we will see, it has only been about 2 weeks.