Comments on: What Your Wife Feels Before and During a Twin C-Section

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:13:48 +0000

@Yamila – good luck in the final weeks of your twin pregnancy!

By: Yamila

Yamila — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:16:14 +0000

Hi, I also found your site. I’m 27 weeks preggo with ID boys and I’m totally freaking out by the C-section. This brings me a bit of sense of what I could expect. Thank you!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:13:44 +0000

@Sarah – you’re welcome!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:25:21 +0000

Stumbled upon your site and I must say this is a great resource for both side of a csection. I had my twins via cesarean at 39 weeks and just reading this flooded back so many memories. Thank you!

By: Joe - DadsGuideToTwins.com

Joe - DadsGuideToTwins.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:20:13 +0000

@Tom – You bring up a great point. Everyone’s delivery is different. Especially with twins, things are more likely to not go according to plan.

@Jacqueline – I’m glad this was of help. I hoped to share some of my wife’s feelings so that it could help other parents, like those you work with, be prepared for c-sections.

By: Jacqueline Masullo

Jacqueline Masullo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:57:03 +0000

Thank you for sharing your personal story. I work with parents expecting twins. Having a c-section may be frightening for women who have never had one before. Your experience may give them a sense of preparedness.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:38:14 +0000

This is good, but there is another side of this event: emergency twin C-Section. My wife’s water broke at 29 weeks and 2 days. They held of labor with medication, gave steroids to the twins. When she finally went into labor, one twin was head down, one was laying across. The call was made for emergency C-Section at 29 weeks and 6 days.

My wife was wheeled away. I got on the bunny suit. I didn’t get to take in a camera (video or still), as it was emergent surgery, not scheduled. I was able to watch the internals taken out of my wife, and then the kids. We also didn’t get to have the twins bundled up and carried. They were wheeled over to us in a warmer. I didn’t get to hold either of the twins for weeks. The twins were then whisked away, worrying about whether they were ok. I got to go see them with my MIL. My wife got to go see them after 6 hours (as soon as the hospital would allow), still in a wheel chair.

As the readers should know, my twins spent a total of 6 weeks in the NICU (I wrote http://www.dadsguidetotwins.com/how-to-survive-preemie-twins-and-the-nicu/).

It’s still hard for me to write about this, 8 months later. I’m still having flashbacks. It’s one of those traumatic things you never forget.