Well we had our girls today. Everything went well.
The stats are:
Alexis Marie Frei:
4lbs 8oz.
17 inches long
12.5 inch head
Born at 1:06 pm 3/30/2010
Samantha Lee Frei:
5lbs 8oz.
18.5 inches long
12.75 inch head
Born at 1:08 pm 3/30/2010
Tomorrow at 10am we are scheduled to go to the hospital and have our twin girls Samantha Lee and Alexis Marie. I can hardly believe that the time has finally come to meet those sweet little babies that I’ve been carrying for the past 37 weeks and 2 days. 7 weeks and 2 days ago, my doctor placed me on bed rest due to Edema (swelling of the body, mainly in the extremities and face). Thank goodness she did because I began to see the swelling go down as I spent my days in my la-z-boy recliner with my feet up watching what became my regular routine of daytime shows. Usually I’d catch the oldies but goodies real early in the morning like Saved By The Bell and Fresh Prince of Bel Air before Ellen came on at 10am. From there I’d normally surf around until Jeopardy! or Family Feud came on. It became really difficult to get around about 2-3 weeks ago but thankfully I had my Mom, my Dad, my sister Carolyn, my best friend Bobbi, and my father-in-law Ron to occasionally come visit me during the day whether it was to bring me lunch, help with the housework, or just keep me company so I wouldn’t be alone all day. Of course Dan came home on his lunch break from time to time as well to bring me food and check on me as well but mostly tried to leave work sparingly because of all the time he took away from work to go to almost every doctor’s appointment I had. He wanted to make sure that the babies and I were OK and always had questions for the doctor asking how he can help make me more comfortable, what signs of labor he should look for, and any other details I may not have thought of at the time. Dan has been a blessing through this whole pregnancy. I’d sit in my chair and ask him to get me water, chocolate milk, bake me a cake or cookies, whatever I wanted, then on top of that he would clean the house, do the dishes, take out the trash, feed the cats, clean the cats’ litter box, and still find the time to sit with me and cheer me up when I’m bored or feeling nervous about the birth of the girls. But tomorrow, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, right around this time 10:15am Dan and I could be looking at two perfect little angels from heaven that will be here to join our family and enrich our lives forever. We both can hardly wait…
Well, on Tuesday we received a phone call from the doctor. She wants to deliver the babies on Tuesday, March 30th at 10am. They will be delivered at 37 weeks and 2 day. Jackie’s blood pressure has been high and the doc thinks it will be best to have them before things start to get real dangerous for Jackie. We agree. On Thursday we had our appointment and Alexis appears to be attempting to come out first. She has placed her feet in front Samantha’s head, placing her in the number one position. What this means is our choice for a natural birth is simply out of the question pending a miracle. That aside, we are really looking forward to finally bringing the girls home. Their room is ready and so are we. We have both been looking forward to this day for a while now, it almost seemed like it would never come. So pending Jackie’s blood pressure making it into the danger zone the doc specified over the weekend, you can all expect an announcement sometime Tuesday afternoon. Stay tuned for the show. Rest assured we will have pictures.
Well the color is pink. I have to admit, it was a little bit of pink overload when we first found out we were having 2 girls. Jackie and I had immediately headed over to Baby’s R’ Us and I about had a breakdown. I didn’t know what I was going to do with all the pink. Well, I embraced the color and between Jackie and I we made a very pretty room for our girls. The theme was a garden. We liked this idea because it gave us the opportunity to use just about any color. The primary color is still pink though. Here are some pictures
As most of you reading this may know, Jackie and I have a few little ones on the way. Twin girls by the name of Samantha Lee and Alexis Marie. Because of this significant life altering event, I thought it was time to change things up a little bit with my site. My personal website started off as a simple html web page on Geocities nearly a decade ago. Shortly Kage showed me how to code in HTML and I made version 2 under the site of DanFrei.com. Then came dynamic programming languages like PHP and I discovered Wordpress. This site started the beginning of what was ChiliFrei.NET which became version 3. Since Wordpress, I have gone through 3 changes in designs. Each one completely different from the rest. But none of those changes are as big of a change as what is happening now.
That’s right. This will no longer be my “personal blog” where I post things, rants, update. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter will be my avenues for those. For those of you who actually frequent my blog, you would have already realized I don’t update it that often anyways. But now this blog will be used for both Jackie and I to share the stories of our lives as we depart on our journey as parents of twins. The old ChiliFrei.net has been moved and will cease to be updated. If you require data from this site, you can find it under the links section on the sidebar –>
I have taken only a couple posts from my previous blog, the ones telling the stories of when we found out we were having a baby, when we found out they were twins and an update of after a doctors visit. We hope to post more fun and exciting information. I am actually going to try and get Jackie to post some things up here too.
