{"id":3529,"date":"2013-01-04T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2018-02-09T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T17:51:17","slug":"introducing-the-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2013\/01\/introducing-the-elves.html","title":{"rendered":"Introducing…The Elves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One month ago today I was 35 weeks pregnant and headed to the hospital for a non-stress test and ultrasound to check on “Baby A” due to concerns about restricted growth.\u00a0At my appointment I was swollen like a balloon and had a blood pressure of 180\/110 and “3+ protein” in my urine (in other words, I would have made a super easy USMLE question on classic presentation of pre-eclampsia<\/em>). \u00a0I was sent straight to Labor & Delivery – no time to even go home and pack a bag (which my husband may or may not have so kindly asked me to do the weekend before)! My abdomen was somewhere along the lines of ginormous when I snapped my last “belly picture”…<\/p>\n

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We got all ready to welcome The Elves, who would arrive late in the evening of December 3, 2012 (by c-section because Baby A was trying her hardest to enter into this world feet first).
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\nIf you follow the blog<\/a> you know we had opted out of knowing the babies’ sexes before the birth, so the delivery was all sorts of exciting!<\/p>\n

SURPRISE! It’s a girl!<\/h3>\n

Baby A\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DOUBLE SURPRISE! It’s another girl!!<\/h3>\n

Baby B<\/strong><\/p>\n

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They were 5 weeks early and having some trouble breathing, so they headed off to NICU after kisses and hugs from their dad and I. The next time I saw them, 12 hours after they were born (because I was busy enjoying the lovely side effects of magnesium sulfate – every horrible thing your patients say about that drug is true), they were hooked up to all kinds of wires and breathing with CPAP assistance.<\/p>\n

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They were rockstars, though and did awesome in NICU! After a few days they were able to reunited for the first time since birth.<\/p>\n

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And just 5 days later we were able to go home as a family of four (+ 3 crazy canines!). The girls each weighed about 4.5 lbs when we left the hospital – if putting a four and a half pound baby in a carseat isn’t terrifying, I don’t know what is!<\/p>\n

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Happy one month birthday, Elves – you bring an unexplainable joy to our life.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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