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Greetings blogland! Smoking Hot Roommate did a fine job of filling you in on the big details of the big day, so by now you have all of the particulars.

Now, some more of the specifics... Mommy actually had kind of a rough go of it...turns out that I developed pre-eclampsia right before Thursday (maybe even that day or the day before). Also learned how to actually spell it;-). When they checked me in, my blood pressure was a little bit high, but we all kind of assumed that it was just the stress and excitement, as I still felt great.

The operation went great, too...it was kind of surreal and trippy, but not the least bit uncomfortable, and The Boy and I chatted the whole time. Once I was prepped, they let him in the room and sat him next to me and started cutting. About ten minutes later, they held baby #1 up over the sheet for us to see, and a minute later, the second. Twenty fingers, twenty toes and absolutely 100% perfect!!!

They cleaned them up and The Boy held them next to me while they sewed me up (incidentally...he defied all of the advice he was given and peeked at he when he walked around the curtain to see the babies. He said it looked like they had a brisket laid out on my stomach:-)).

Then shit started to go sour. I got nauseous near the end and threw up in the OR. Then, as they were wheeling me to the recovery room, I felt like someone was driving a spike into my forehead and everything started spinning. By the time we got down the hall, I couldn't open my eyes because I was super light-sensitive and everything was spinning and gyrating. I could hear all kinds of doctors talking but I couldn't even open my eyes to look at them. And I couldn't even look at my new little girls!!!

Meanwhile, my original blood and urine tests had come back and they had the proteins that indicate pre-eclampsia. My blood pressure had also spiked and wasn't coming down, so they were pretty sure that was it. So I got all kinds of new drugs which made me feel terrible (Magnesium Sulfate...good at stopping seizures, bat at making you feel like you are not the subject of an episode of Intervention).

I didn't end up going up to my room until almost 9:30, when I finally got a chance to cuddle with my two perfectly adorable baby princesses:-). That made me feel much better! But not totally better, and my headaches and nausea and high blood pressure remained throughout the day on Friday, so I was on the horrible medicine until Saturday morning. Once they took that off, though, I started to feel much more like myself, and by Saturday night I was back to almost normal. That is when I noticed that my stomach really hurt:-).

That, however, is totally manageable. And now it is a complete zoo!!! We came home Monday and have been feeding, burping, changing, holding, wiping up spit-up, pumping doing laundry and repeating pretty constantly!

They sleep pretty well, and we have both done pretty good so far with getting enough sleep. Having The Boy's Mom around is absolutely fantastic...she has spent most of her time cooking and doing laundry and stuff...just things to make our lives easier and to let us be with the babes. She is now officially and permanently St. Mother-in-Law from here on out:-)

True to form, I started writing this at about 9:00 yesterday and just finished it now...I guess that is just how we are gonna roll in these parts for a bit!!! Thanks for all the well wishes, and I will get back to regular writing as soon as I can!!!