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Birth Stories<next story>..<previous story> The day my triplets were born I was 33 weeks. I was expected to reach 36 weeks, there was no way I could be in labour, but I was in agony. After "suffering in silence" all night long, by the morning the pain was even worse. I tried having a bath but that just didn't help at all. The pain wasn't going away, but I refused to believe I was in labour, it was a bad case of self-denial. In the end I had to phone an ambulance, I phoned my partner and told him I would let him know what they said at the hospital, but not to worry I was fine, and just had a water infection or something! (That's what I thought for a while!) The ambulance arrived and I was asked where my bag was. I hadn't even packed a bag! He told me that I was going to be a mum today, I didn't believe him. I was given gas and air in the ambulance, it didn't make the pain go away. Once at the hospital, I was left in a room for about 2 hours. I was crying by this stage I was in so much pain and couldn't even sit down on the bed. I knew something was wrong by this stage. It was scary, as I was all on my own. I suddenly thought I am in labour! To be then told by a doctor "I don't think so, but we'll get someone to see you soon". Ten minutes later, a doctor examined me. They found I was fully dilated, and rushed my down to the operating theatre for an emergency caesarean. I was so scared, I could hardly keep still for the epidural, I kept shaking and my teeth kept chattering, I wasn't ready. I soon calmed down. I was awake during the operation and aware of everything going on around me, there was about 20 people in the room. All I could think was please let my babies be OK and healthy weights. I wanted them to weigh at least 2lb each. I could feel each baby being lifted out of me (Jack had been called in the meantime and rushed to the hospital, just to see the last one born) They said, "it's a girl", "it's a girl" and then I said "and it's another girl"! I just knew it, and I was right. I got a quick glimpse of them before they were rushed off. I didn't need to worry about their weights, Kyla was 4lb 1, Shenelle was 3lb 12, and Courtney was 3lb 7. I was over the moon. I was told they were all perfectly healthy. What I wasn't prepared for was me being ill. After the birth, I couldn't keep anything down. I was so thirsty, I was drinking loads and loads of water but throwing it back up again. It was discovered that I had pre-eclampsia! I was very ill and was given morphine. Once the drugs wore off I started to feel the pain. It was not much fun. I always worried about the girl's being all right, but never thought anything would happen to me. But I survived it. The girl's were born at 12.47, 48 & 49. I didn't get to see them till 9.00 that night but it was worth it. I was overwhelmed and still couldn't believe that these three tiny babies had come out of me. I had a little hold with each of them but not for long, it was heartbreaking, I always had a dream of having a baby and holding it in bed and having it at the side of me in the hospital but it wasn't like that. I was then taken back to my bed. The next day I was told that the girls would have to be taken to another hospital because there wasn't enough care at the hospital where they'd been born, they then told me that I had to stay-put as I wasn't yet well enough to travel. It was awful although I was so drugged up it hadn't all sunk in properly, I just felt like I'd been run over by a bus. Two days later I got to see my gorgeous girls, all curled up together in one incubator (there was a picture of them too in the local paper) I will never forget the way they looked then and how tiny and how precious they were, and always will be to me. I wish I could have them that small again, just for one day. Julie, Mum to three beautiful girls, Shenelle, Kyla and Courtney. Born 30/04/01 weighing in at S 3lb 12, C 3lb 7 and K 4lb 1! At 33 weeks |
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