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squishies winter is now weighing in at 7lbs 9 oz that s up 2lbs 9oz from birth weight she doesn t cry much unless she s hungry or needs a new diaper although she has started getting upset during the witching hours between eleven at night and one in the morning she is our talker she makes cute noises all day long and she still smiles much more than her brother usually right before she poops haha we are in love with her cute personality and can t wait to see more of it griffin is weighing in at 8lbs 9oz up 2lbs 12oz from birth weight he is our whiner he likes to almost cry and make little whining noises even if he s content it s hilarious he also likes to toss his head back dramatically and flail his arms around like a little velociraptor bent at the elbow hands and forearms waving up and down it makes the whining even more humorous to watch and a bit more pitiful haha he is definitely a boy he likes to be moving all the time if he s awake he loves to be on his back all limbs flailing he will also cry if he s tired which winter hasn t really done yet he does smile usually right after nursing and it is a giant gummy grin i predict he will be the first to walk but she will be the first to speak in full sentences we ll see if i m right as for me i feel great i hope it doesn t come across as bragging because i had nothing to do with it but after about two weeks my tummy and most of the rest of me looked back to normal i was wearing my pre pregnancy clothes what little i have anyway at that point and found out quickly that many of my dresses and tops don t accommodate my chest anymore time will tell if it s just pregnancy nursing or if it s a more permanent change most of my day is spent nursing or pumping and since they were so little when they were born we have to supplement them a bit with formula so i still have the joy of preparing and washing bottles after each feeding as well hopefully now that they are bigger we can start to drop bottles here and there and eventually switch to exclusively breastfeeding not that i m against bottles it s just expensive i ll be doing a post on my must haves for these first weeks with twins and a more full update on the twins at two months soon so look forward to that love sam posted by samantha tingey at 7 30 pm no comments thursday may 7 2015 twin s birth story a lot of my friends have done this and although i know it s often tmi for most people i think there s something to be said about reflecting on going through childbirth and allowing your children to read it later as well i never knew a lot of things about my mother s experiences with her own five labor and deliveries until i was going through it myself and i think i would have liked to know a bit so here goes twins usually come earlier than 38 weeks which is the absolute cutoff that most doctors will let you go because of the risk of stillbirth my twins did not and not only did they not come early they showed no signs and neither did my body of wanting to come out at all at my 38 week ob appointment the nurses were all shocked that i had made it that far i thought that i should at least be progressing somewhat but no my cervix was completely closed and so high up the ob couldn t even find it awesome so we decided that because both twins were head down we would try a few things to get my body to go into natural labor before opting for a c section we scheduled my induction for a thursday afternoon at around six p m a nurse came in and administered cervidil a cervical ripening agent the next twelve hours were spent hoping my body would get the hint so we waited and waited i felt nothing we stayed up all night wishing for actual contractions to begin and although i often felt braxton hicks as i has been feeling for weeks nothing new seemed to be coming of the medication at six a m the next morning the nurse came to check me and said i was barely over 1 cm dilated which then begged the question would that be enough the nurse said it was a close call and that we needed to choose whether we d try to go natural still or opt for the c section after careful consideration we decided that a c section would be our best option since my body obviously didn t respond well to induction meds we let the nurse know and she informed my doctor when he arrived for the day she returned and told us the doctor wanted to check me himself and then chat with us a bit ten minutes or so later my wonderful experienced doc came in and after checking me gave his informed opinion that i was actually a full 2 cm dilated and 70 effaced he was confident that with help from pitocin and breaking twin a s water i would be able to deliver within eight hours without much time to decide i asked if he was sure that i would be in the clear for a natural delivery and while he reassured me of that he went ahead and broke my water i was a bit in shock here i had already mentally prepared myself for a c section and all of a sudden the plans changed i think the nurses realized that i was overwhelmed and reminded me that i could still choose to do the c section at any time once i calmed down a bit i was of course thrilled to be doing a natural delivery which is what i had wanted from the beginning they started me on pitocin at around seven thirty in the morning and told me to let them know when i was ready for my epidural my doctor had discussed with me that he felt that i should get an epidural no matter what to make sure that if things went unfavorably he could easily transition me to a c section at around nine thirty my contractions picked up and i decided it was time the anesthesiologist came in and the epidural was placed in minutes unfortunately i guess i wasn t hydrated enough because my blood pressure and baby a s heart rate plummeted t was scary to see five nurses rush in give me an oxygen mask and put a monitor directly on baby a s head i had no idea what was happening because the blood pressure drop made me super groggy but i could see the look on thomas s poor face he was terrified luckily the problem was easily rectified by pumping me full of fluids and all was well things steadily progresses for the next several hours and finally i was close to six centimeters dilated and almost 100 effaced i was happy that things were going well until i stared feeling a lot of pain again the nurse told me that was normal but if i wanted an extra dose in my epidural they could call the anesthesiologist to come give me a boost i told her to pleas do that haha he came in and asked me if i was feeling sharp pain or just pressure and i said while it wasn t necessarily sharp per se it was very painful he gave me the extra meds and left about an hour later the extra meds hadn t done anything and i was in more pain than ever due to the fact that my sciatic had begun spasaming with each contraction ouch they called the anesthesiologist back in where he did a few tests and realized that my epidural had completely failed he felt kind of bad that he had doubted me earlier so he was very nice this time and assured me that he would do whatever he could to make me more comfortable we decided that instead of trying to see if the existing epidural could be used we would go ahead and redo it he came in very quickly with the equipment and after a grueling ten minutes of me sobbing on the bed trying to sit still as he pushed on my shoulders which made my sciatic very angry to get me into position the new epidural was placed and i finally had some relief after that ordeal i was ready for a little rest but soon after the epidural kicked in i was dilated to a 10 and fully effaced the nurse went to check with the doctor to see if i was okay to push and he agreed this was at around 10 15 pm on friday night i had been in labor or trying to go into labor for over 24 hours pushing was so nice because it finally felt like i could do something productive my contractions were every few minutes so we pushed with them for two hours straight at around 12 15 baby a was still not quite to the point that we could be transferred to the operating room where they were going to do the actual delivery and my contractions were beginning to dwindle like one every six or seven minutes we continued to push for another half hour but baby a was stuck just behind my pelvic bone and the contractions were too weak to really be of any help so the doc took us into the or and decided to use forceps to help get baby a out we were wheeled into the or and not fifteen minutes later baby a a boy we named griffin shae was born he came on april 18th at 1 03 a m 5 lbs 13 oz 19 inches long shortly after he was born they broke baby b s water and used a vacuum to help deliver her baby b a girl we named winter rose was born at 1 13 a m she was 5 lbs even and 18 inches long both babies were healthy and screaming and i got to hold both of them right away they were perfect i was in love winter was crying before thomas set her on my chest and then she immediately stopped when she heard my voice it was a moment i ll never forget now the fun starts the doctor had been massaging my stomach this entire time trying to get my placentas to release no dice they took the babies from me and the doctor began to look worried apparently if your placenta doesn t come out quickly enough you are at high risk for hemorrhaging and other nasty things like infections no bueno i didn t know this at time so i didn t understand the gravity of the situation until at this point i will warn you it gets a lot tmi if you want to stop reading the doctor put his whole arm inside me literally he started manually removing ripping the placentas from my uterine wall this was uncomfortable to say the least even with a functioning epidural it was excruciating to the point that i begged him to stop they called that poor anesthesiologist down he gave me enough pain medication to do an actual c section but instead of going into effect immediately it took over ten minutes to have any effect on me after that i don t recall anything but apparently i was told later they ended up putting me into twilight sleep like when you get your wisdom teeth out because i was in so much discomfort i woke up two and a half hours later being wheeled back into my room where my sweet terrified husband had been doing a fantastic job of keeping it together and doing skin to skin with our precious newborns i wasn t allowed to sit up to nurse them because they had doped me up so much that my blood pressure was dangerously low but i held onto those little bundles as much as i could until they gave me the all clear to sit up and nurse after that it was smooth sailing my recovery has been a breeze due partly to the fact that they spent so much time scraping out my poor uterus i know gross later the doc and the anesthesiologist both came in to check on me and explain exactly what had happened to me after i knocked out we were all very grateful that we had decided to re do the epidural as without it they probably would have had to put me completely under anesthesia which would have been much more dangerous and had much worse effects for me we were released on sunday night and life has been crazy and wonderful ever since posted by samantha tingey at 12 26 pm 2 comments sunday may 3 2015 life as of late i know i am terrible at blogging but this is kind of like my online journal and right now i feel the need to capture the moments before they re just a distant fading memory so this is my attempt to document the last nine months pregnancy was pretty easy for me i didn t get sick i just got more tired than i though was humanly possible i wanted to sleep through my entire first trimester i could easily sleep twelve hours a night and still take a three hour nap after work at the time i was working full time the the mtc as a cook and although it wasn t strenuous i would often just collapse into bed at the end of my shift as i entered my second trimester i had found a different job working as a sandwich maker at a little family run place in provo and i loved it it was less demanding on time and energy and i was grateful for the change from a huge operation serving 400 600 people three times a day to feeding just a lunch rush the third trimester was probably the worst but really i have no reason to complain i did have my bouts with sciatica and general uncomfortableness but by large and part i wasn t really suffering from anything but lack of sleep thomas as always was a champ despite being in school full time and working full time to support us he always made time for his suddenly very emotional wife that man is a saint he frequently went to the store wendys chik fil a cubby s when i wanted something in particular and always made sure i had plenty of chocolate so as far as the pregnancy part of babies that wasn t too hard my body did really well carrying our two little munchkins a little too well actually but more on that later as for the rest of life lately things are going well thomas is done with school for the summer so other than a few easy online classes he is just working i love it i am so excited for the day that he can be done with school and we can have hubby daddy in the evenings and on the weekends after thomas graduates next april we have pretty much decided to stay in utah and job hunt here there are a few reasons for this one being that surprisingly utah has become quite the tech hub in recent years and another being that when we decide we are ready to expand our family being in close proximity to the u of u will be so much easier than having to come in and out of the state for several weeks at a time of course life has a funny way of messing up the best laid plans but for now that s what we re looking at doing in the near future we are settling into our new roles as parents now and look forward to updating everyone on the twins as much as possible stay tuned posted by samantha tingey at 8 35 pm 1 comment monday september 22 2014 a new beginning i think most of you know now that our first round of ivf was successful we are expecting twins and my official due date is may 1st 2015 needless to say we are ecstatic we hoped and prayed and fasted with all of our family for this outcome and we are so excited to start our family i hesitated to share the news too publicly as i am only 8 1 2 weeks right now but with so many people following our journey up until this point i figured i would share so far i haven t had any morning sickness which has been a real blessing the nurse who helped with my first sonogram was impressed that i wasn t sick at all especially considering that i m having twins my main symptom has been fatigue i feel like i just want to sleep all the time luckily i get to take a nap most days but on the days i don t i really struggle through the afternoons my insides also already feel like they ve shifted a bit and things feel funny i am so paranoid about everything after what we went through to get t...