Kiley and her indentical twin sister Chloe were born on March 25th, 2011. I was 37 weeks along and was going in for an ultrasound and a non stress test. For about three weeks I had been getting ultrasounds to track the girls growth rates. My doctor told us that since I was getting close to the end of my pregnancy and the fact that I personally am not a very big person that there was a chance that I stop producing the adequate amount of blood needed for both babies. So we started doing weekly ultrasounds. Well, at this one Kiley had not shown any form of growth at all. They always sent me up to the birthing floor the NST right after the ultrasound. So during this NST, my doctor comes in tells me that the best thing to do was to take the babies. I was 37 weeks along and ready to have these babies! So, my husband made a few phones calls and we got ready for an emergency c-section. And less than hour later our beautiful girls were here. Kiley was born at 9:00pm weighing only 3 pounds 14 ounces and was 16.5 inches long. Chloe followed two minutes later at 9:02pm weighing 5 pounds 6 ounces and 18 inches long and both just absolutely gorgeous.
This day or anytime soon would we find out about Kiley's heart defects. We did spend 8 days in the hospital though. The girls were born on a Friday night, the doctor released Chloe the following Wednesday. We didn't separate them the hospital let us all stay until Saturday when Kiley got released. A few weeks before the girls were born we moved about an hour away. I liked my OB, he had been the only doctor I seen during my pregnancy and knew that when it came time Chloe was breech so our plan was for me get a c-section. So we decided we drive that hour for my last few visits. Other than the toll it took on our gas tank, the hardest part of being at the hospital for a week was that we had three more kids at home. Yes, we have 5 kids.
The reason we were told Kiley couldn't be discharged the same day as Chloe was because she wasn't eating the amount per feeding the doctor wanted her to. Which was only an ounce every four hours. At that I knew nothing about heart defects since neither one of us have any family medical history of any heart related issues. I see the poor feeding problems now as I look back on it, but then I thought nothing of it. Finally when she ate so that ounce for so many feedings Kiley was released and we got to go home. We left that day, in the doctors words "two perfectly healthy baby girls, they are just a little small".
