The Girls Birth Day!

Because of being away from home a month before the girls were born most people did not see how incredibly large I got.  I have avoided putting these pictures on Facebook because I look horrible/miserable but for the sake of the blog I thought I would indulge you in just what it looks like to carry two babies in your tummy at one time. 

The ones of me in the purple dress were about two weeks before the girls were born.  In that last two weeks I gained about 10 more pounds from the extra fluid build up that was around Zoey.  I'm sure you can all just imagine how miserable I was. 

Their Birth Story:

I had been going to the doctor twice a week since I had moved up to Fort Worth.  My blood pressure just kept creeping up and up and I kept getting more and more swollen at every appointment that I went to, but we kept trying to hold out as long as we could, we were trying our best to make it to 36 weeks.  I had gone for a doctors appointment on the Thursday before the girls were born, and everything checked out normal.  My mother-in-law was with me for that appointment and since my next appointment wasn't until Monday and I was scheduled for my C-Section on that next Wednesday I begged my mother-in-law to take me home for the weekend. 

The weekend was pretty uneventful until about 12:00 a.m. Sunday morning.  I started experiencing pretty bad pain in my abdomen, but decided I would wait it out and see if maybe it was just a false alarm...I held off until about 5:00 a.m. when I finally decided to let Stewart know that I had been up in pain all night.  He rushed around to get all of my stuff together so that we could head back up to Fort Worth.  He was pretty panicked because it was an almost 4 hour drive.  Half way there I ended up falling asleep and the pain had almost completely gone away.  When we arrived to Fort Worth however, we decided to go ahead and go on to the hospital just to make sure everything was ok.  They hooked me up to the monitors and it turns out that I was having mild contractions, but my doctor took one look at my incredibly swollen face/body and decided we were going to wait no longer, it was baby time! 

(This was me that night after having the girls, I guess none of us really realized until afterwards just how swollen I had gotten in those last couple of days)

They got me all prepped for the OR and by 3:00 I was headed back to have those babies! 

Abbey Beth Williams

Born at 3:10 p.m. on March 11, 2012

5lbs 8oz 19 inches long

Zoey Ann Williams

Born at 3:11 p.m. on March 11, 2012

4lbs 9oz 18 3/4 inches long

The two most beautiful little girls I have ever seen blessed our lives on March 11, and they have been such a great blessing since.  We could not imagine our lives without them.