Twin D-Day, “o” 800 Hours

If things had gone according to plan, today would have been an early day!

We were scheduled to arrive at the hospital at 6:15am, and to be induced only a short time later. With such an early morning appointment, we thought that we might even have the babies by dinner! Piece of cake.

Well, we’re still hoping for a piece of cake, but we’ve been delayed a bit. Around 9pm last night, the hospital called and said that they were full. We were invited to call back at 9am this morning to see if they’ve made room.

Yuk.

On the good side, we all got to sleep in. I’m normally out the door for work by 5:45am, and Will usually wakes the rest of the house up between 6am and 6:30am. Today, he decided to let us enjoy our last opportunity to sleep in and waited until 7:15am to wake up. I’m calling that a win.

(He woke up asking for Grandma. Alexa and I made it to his room first, and he still asked for Grandma, angry that we were not, in fact, Grandma. We’ve been replaced.)

We’re a little bit bummed. Alexa could have been delivered as early as 38 weeks, and we planned for around that time to preempt some of the difficulties that come with delivering twins. Today is 38 weeks and 4 days, and we picked it because our fantastic doctor is on-call today. If we get bumped, then… we might as well have had the babies four days ago!

At the last ultrasound where they took measurements, both babies were around 8 lbs, +/- 1 lb. Those are chunky kids for (at the time) about 37 weeks (Will himself was almost 9 lbs). Given that, it feels like it may be good to get this whole delivery thing started.

I’m still hoping for a quick delivery, but no matter what, it’ll work out. Alexa is one hardcore gal.

About a year before Will was born, I was in a car accident that broke my wrist and thumb. I got to wear a thumb spica cast for months (one that went all the way up to the tip of my knuckles). It was a major bummer.

We went on a scheduled cruise about a month later, and as luck would have it, we got a flat tire on the freeway on our way to southern California.

With my hand like it was, I was effectively useless.

But remember how Alexa is hardccore? She totally changed that flat tire solo. All by herself. Single-handedly.

Because she’s awesome.

So I have no doubt that this twin delivery will be a piece of cake. When it actually happens. Hopefully today.