Taking it easy !

Oh well, I forgot to mention that last Sunday I end up at the emergency room. When I woke up that morning I noticed that my face was weired and I was not speaking properly. At the e.r. room, I was advised that my condition was due to stress and its called "Bells Palsy" (the right side of my face was paralyzed)..... little that I knew but it was even worst..... I went for a follow up with my doctor and since I also have the presence of high blood pressure, my condition was Preeclampsia Postpartum.
I was put in hospital again to control my blood pressure and empty stomach for 24 hrs, having to take an iv of magnesium.
Now I am much better but still doing therapy to restore the mobility of my face.

Growing and learning....

For the next weeks and until they leave the hospital...... they will have to increase the eating amounts, drink from the bottle, keep the weight, and be breathing without incidents (heart rate dropping or forgetting to breath).

Aaron... he is very strong, he took the iv off on his 1st day of life

Priscilla.... she can get very loud

Matilde.... dislikes to be bother with the light, loves to sleep

Joel.... my laizy one, always needing extra attention.

Isaac..... the happy camper!

On the News!!!!

The hospital invited the tv stations as well as the Houston Chronicle to cover the story...... the doctors were excited to announce that even though I just carried them for almost 30 weeks.... the weight on each baby was "appreciably more than quints typically weight at birth", and their are healthy given the prematurity.

Before we went for the interview.....

My husband Enrique with Isaac

.... kangarooing Matilde!

......all cameras recording

My aunt Mayra, sister Grecia and my Mommy

with Matilde

I was a bit nervous.... good thing that Moni was there with us!

Fernando..... feeding Mati.

Thanks to everyone to be there with me..... Mom, aunt Mayra, Grecia, Viviana, Monica, and Vanessa (who barely arrived to Houston from Austin that day)

More pictures....

Nothing much to say.... I just want to share picture from yesterday taken by my sister Vivian and some I took today that I got up from bed!!!!

As a preventing medicine, the pediatrician decided to put them on c-pap to help with the breathing...

....by the end of the day 4 were off the c-pap!!!

Aaron Enrique 7/31/10

Priscilla Sofia 7/31/10

Matilde Elizabeth 7/31/10

Joel Santiago 7/31/10

Isaac Emanuel 7/31/10

 Sure.... it was very hard to get up from bed but once I was up, I took a shower and went to see my babies. The pictures are in the order they were born and weight...

Aaron  (2.15 lbs)

Priscilla  (2.08 lbs)

Matilde  (3.03 lbs)

Joel  (3.12 lbs)

Isaac  (2.14 lbs)

Welcome Babies!!!!! July 31st., 2010

To tell you the truth, it took us all by surprise.... Everything happened so fast that it was a bit hard to assimilate it... but, Yes, the quintuplets were born! The delivery occurred yesterday between 2: 23 and 2: 25 pm by c-section and the babies were sent to intensive care.
Yesterday morning I was with my sisters Grecia and Viviana, my cousin Denisse, my mom and my aunt Loli. I was feeling contractions but I was not worry because I thought that I was dehydrated (as it happened the previous weekend). I wanted to take a shower first and then call the nurse, and while I was giving it a thought, I told my family to go home to rest and to bring me watermelon upon their return! Only Viviana stayed with me "just in case".

This is how i looked that morning.....

(my sister Viviana is in the back, also taking pictures)

After they left, I decided to call the nurse first and then to take a shower. The nurse that was monitoring my contractions called the doctors on duty because i was having contractions every minute but I just felt the strong ones. When the doctor came and checked me, (20 minutes after my mom left to go home) she told me I had 4 to 5 inches of dilation then a second doctor came and said that I was actually 7 centimeters dilated.  Immediately, my sister called my husband which was helping a friend two and a half hours far from the hospital and also called my sister Grecia to come back with my mom.
My nurse took me to the surgery room to prepared me (I felt crucified with all the needles and the I.V.) and my mom arrived just in time!
The surgery took like 30 to 40 minutes, but the babies were born within two minutes. There was a large group of nurses, pediatricians and doctors taking care of us and I am very grateful for the attention but above all thank God that everything went well.

This is their 1st picture (taken at the delivery room)

Can you see the letter on their hats??? So funny...

Baby D: Matilde Elizabeth

Baby B: Priscilla Sofia

Baby E: Isaac Emanuel

Baby C: Joel Santiago

and

Baby A: Aaron Enrique