My boys, Logan and Porter were also C-Section babies. I chickened out on the VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean for those of you not familiar with the vernacular.). After much reading I learned that the chances are really high with twins that one baby is delivered vaginally and the second ends up being a section anyway, so what’s the point? Like I need to be sore from the rectum to the navel?
The boys were induced six week early, due to the fact that my previous C-Section scar was reopening, and they were the largest preemies the NICU had ever seen. They weighed in at 7 lbs 1 oz and 7 lbs 2 oz. Logan and Porter’s closest NICU neighbor weighed in at 2 lbs 12 oz and had been there for three weeks already. The nurses said they weren’t even sure what to do with these toddlers! We stayed in the NICU for seven days while my babies learned how to breathe on their own and how to regulate their body temperature.
A fun fact: They say that the uterus was only meant to hold around eighteen pounds—that’s including the baby, fluid, placenta and such. My OBGYN said that mine probably was holding between 30 and 40 pounds. OUCH! That explains the stabbing pain I felt throughout the last six weeks of pregnancy.
Another fun fact: If my boys had gone to term they had the possibility of weighing over 12 lbs each! Burn, burn, burn. The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
The day the boys came home from the hospital was the day mine and my husband’s life changed forever. First, it was the day that sleep as we knew came to a halt. Breast feeding twins is a very time consuming project. Second, our family dynamic changed so radically that we didn’t even notice it had happened until years later. And finally, it successfully put an end to the idea of anything ever being easy again.
For example, thanks to our three kids and a multi-billion dollar industry designed to keep parents out of their stuff our house is now Fort Knox 
on the door knobs, padded corner covers
on the corners of all of the furniture, and brackets
keeping the stove and dishwasher upright. We also have locks on the toilet
and one on the refrigerator. All of this means we can’t fall down the stairs or put an eye out which is good because I can’t get into the medicine cabinet anyway. I also don’t have the combo to the fridge which is okay because we can’t get at the pots, pans, or plates. But if you want to put your head in the oven you don’t have to worry about it falling on you.
on the door knobs, padded corner covers on the corners of all of the furniture, and brackets keeping the stove and dishwasher upright. We also have locks on the toilet and one on the refrigerator. All of this means we can’t fall down the stairs or put an eye out which is good because I can’t get into the medicine cabinet anyway. I also don’t have the combo to the fridge which is okay because we can’t get at the pots, pans, or plates. But if you want to put your head in the oven you don’t have to worry about it falling on you.
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