Monday May 25th, 2009
Memorial Day 2009 seemed like just another day. Tony and Michael went to pick up Stephanie from her house and Thomas and I went grocery shopping for our Memorial Day cookout. We had Hot Dogs and all the fixings for lunch and then all sat down to watch the movie "Taken." We planned to go to the Littons house for dinner, so after the movie around 5:00 or so, I went upstairs to finish getting ready so we could leave.
After I used the restroom, I was standing in our bathroom in front of the sink and out of nowhere - my water broke! Talk about a shock! I started freaking out and ran to the bedroom door and called out to Thomas - I told him to go tell his Dad that my water just broke and to tell him that I said I wasn't kidding. A few seconds later, Tony came running into the bathroom. Needless to say, I was SCARED! I had to change my clothes and grab some extra towels, but then we were off to the hospital.
I think Tony broke several laws on the trip to the hospital, but we made it. Luckily I was not having any contractions or pain. Once at the hospital, they wheeled me up to Labor and Delivery and admitted me, hooked me up to several monitors and started an IV. Dr. Moss was on call, so they let her know what was going on. We met with Dr. Moss when she arrived and since I was only 33 weeks, she was hoping we could hold off doing my c-section for at least 24 hours, so we could do 2 rounds of steroids to help develop the babies lungs. After doing an ultrasound, she discovered that I had lost pretty much all the amniotic fluid around Emma and said that in her opinion it was not worth the risk to hold off on delivering the babies.
So, before I had time to get nervous or scared, I was being wheeled back to the O.R. and got my spinal. Tony had the video camera during the delivery - I can't wait to watch it. I remember most of it - I remember Emma and Logan being born and Dr. Moss showing them to me over the curtain. At 8:15, Emmalee Grace Cortez was born at 5lb 2.7 oz. At 8:16, Logan Vincent Cortez was born weighing in at 5 lbs 6 oz. They were both 18 1/4 inches long. They were both rushed off the NICU. Only three hours afer my water broke, the babies were delivered - talk about a whirlwind!
I fell asleep towards the end of the surgery and remember waking up to a lot of visitors in my recovery room. They had given me some anti naseau medicine in my IV during the delivery to make me sleepy because I had eaten Hot Dogs for lunch only a few hours earlier :) Trying to prevent me from getting sick! Luckily it worked! I was in and out of it the rest of the night and into the next morning - I was getting some good pain meds in my IV! I remember Tony asking me to read over something from the NICU and I read the 1st and 2nd item on the list and fell asleep - that happened several times - because I couldn't keep from nodding off!
Well, that's the story of how Emma and Logan made their grand appearance into this world! They sure gave Mommy and Daddy a big scare and had to spend some time in the NICU - I'll post a recap of the past three weeks soon.
Here are pictures of our precious babies:
