Birthday - May 20, 2009

At 9:00am we started our voyage into parenthood as we left for St Luke's Hospital. What a lovely day it was today, sunny and warm about 80 degrees already.



Sophia Marie Gayser was born at 12:38pm, weighing in at 5 lb 2 oz, and 17 inches long. She came out crying but quickly calmed down. Brianna Mae Gayser was born at 12:39pm, weighing 4 lb 14 oz, and also 17 inches long. She too came out crying and she kept crying for a while while Sophia laid next to her not quite sure if she also needed to cry or was just crying because her sister was crying. Either way, it was a chorus of crying and had everybody in the OR cracking up! Jeremy was a bit in shock when called over to help clean them up but he did and loved it! There would be no passing out today! Brianna's blood sugar was a little low, so they had to give her a few sucks of formula and it worked. Within an hour both babies were with Denise in the recovery room where they stayed for a few hours.



Now we are all upstairs in our private room relaxing. Both babies are doing their best at trying to feed, they are close to figuring it out, maybe tomorrow! Brianna is watching the basketball game with daddy, she looks very interested :)





Denise is very sleepy but is doing great. Jeremy is on a few cups of coffee and just changed his first diaper. So far we are shooting for a Saturday departure, let's cross our fingers!

36 Week Appointment

Sophia weighs 5 pounds 11 ounces and is in the 29% (good for twins)
Brianna weighs 5 pounds 12 ounces and is in the 30%

Neither of them like being upside down so C-section will be the way of delivery. I am now officially on the books for May 20th if they do not decided to come before then. Dr. Dryden thinks there is a 50% chance that I will make it to the 20th as I am already 3-4CM dilated and 80% effaced

35+ weeks and still waiting

So the girls should be now over 5lbs each. We will find out on Thursday with our next ultrasound what they are exactly (10% error range). - Assuming they wait on our appointment- They have gotten more active, either that or since I have rolled off my client and am working from home I notice their activity more.

The Houston newspaper just reported something that I knew for a long time - the Ike Baby Boom. I am technically due June 11th. I think it is cute but we are already seeing the impact on wait list at day cares. Oh well it is nice to have so many other ladies that I know pregnant at the same time. See the story below for them Houston Newspaper

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6419430.html