Recap of April 23rd

Ian and I got to the hospital at 10am. We were preped for surgery & went in at 11:45. Ian came in & watched them remove the girls. Karis was born at 12:24 & Kelsie at 12:25. They showed me my miracles for a brief moment & then Ian went with them to the nursery while the doctors finished stitching me up. The twins were perfectly fine & healthy, but complications arose with me. My uterus was not contracting and I was losing a lot of blood. I felt very hot & threw up in the OR. After they stitched & stapled me up, the shakes set in. Even though I felt extremely hot, my body temperature dropped to 96. They let me see & hold the girls briefly before transferring me to ICU. They piled warm blankets on me to raise my temperature & Doc came in to let me know that I had lost over half my blood and said to thank the Lord for my anesthesiologist because he knew exactly what to & saved my life. After my 24 hour stay in ICU, they transferred me back to postpartum where I could be with Ian and the girls. Though very weak, I was on the road to recovery. I ended up losing 2 liters of blood. Where a normal persons hemoglobin levels are at 13, mine are at 8. Doc says the recovery time to build back the blood loss is 6 weeks. My instructions are to lift nothing but the twins, sleep, eat, drink, & keep my feet up. Ian has been amazing through it all!! He is a rock and I can't imagine what I would do without him. Even though I didn't really get to enjoy the girls birthday, April 23rd was a very blessed day! As far as we know, Karis & Kelsie are identical. They have A+ blood like their Daddy & are looking more & more alike daily. We are proud parents of 2 little angels!!!