Jeremy and Bethany's Story

Each one is a blessing and it's really cool just to get to know them and to have that to cherish your whole life. Just those relationships with your kids, there's nothing like it.

We have three boys, ages 8, 7 and five. And we just moved up to Ohio in May 2013, right? And when we moved up we were actually pregnant. And we, then in July we found out we had miscarried. About 16 weeks?

Miscarried again in December 2013, at 13 1/2 weeks. So we were at the point where we were like, we're done, no more babies. You know? It just kinda. It was a hard road.

Bethany had three deliveries in a row and then two miscarriages. Two miscarriages are very emotionally dramatic. Thoughts that run through your mind. Will I ever be able to be pregnant again? Can I ever have a full-term baby? Is it, am I doing something wrong?  Is there something wrong with me?

They put me through all this testing and try to figure to figure out you know, how do you have three , fine. You know, no issues at all and then all of a sudden your miscarrying late into the pregnancy. You know it's not a seven week miscarriage.  

We try to treat everybody as an individual. Not everybody is the same but give everybody the same high-quality care we can. I always say to myself, I like treating patients, if I ever have a tough medical or ethical decision I look at it and say, well if this was my daughter how would I want her  treated?

The staff at atrium were really very instrumental in comforting us through all of that. In, in helping us to see, you know that it doesn't, we don't have to stop trying to have babies. That it's okay to keep going, but it's also our decision.

So the ladies doing the ultrasound and you know we see one baby. Bethany and I, I think both saw 2, but we are not certain at this point. So she's like, here's your baby, talks a little bit more and then she's like here's your other baby. So we look at each other and you know I'm just tearing up at this point, and we are both overwhelmed. It was, it was really a miracle.

Twins, we feel, are safer not going past 38 weeks of gestation, which is two weeks before your due date. We feel at that time babies are safer outside the womb than inside the womb.

I started having some contractions. And so the doctors had me come in and they ended up. It did look like I was going into preterm labor.

Contractions in a twin pregnancy are quite common but you have to differentiate whether these are minor, every day, non-issue, or is this a major, major problem. And if it's getting worse, we’re headed for babies being born prematurely that could have real difficulties.

So they admitted me to atrium. I was there a few hours. Oh no, I had spent the night there. And then the next morning it did show that I was progressing. And so they, he's on his way back from Montana and they transferred me up to Miami Valley.

We gave her a treatment that made the contractions go away and had a very successful outcome. She went home in two days. We were able to tell her husband that things are alright. These deliveries are not going to happen right away.

Her pregnancy went very very well. But she got to be 38 weeks pregnant and it was time to have the babies.

Our nurses at the delivery, I felt like I had known them my whole life. You know, I felt like my two best friends were in the room with me. You know, it was just a really, I mean the minute they walked in, it was just like, you know, they were friends they weren't just nurses. You know, and that was to me, awesome.

What really differentiates our hospital from others is, I feel, is our nurses. Our nurses, I feel, it's almost a calling. These people do it because they love it, they talk about it. All their life they wanted to be labor and delivery nurses.

The feeling when your babies are finally in your hands. There aren't words really that describe it. For me, it overwhelms me emotionally. I mean with every, every delivery it was like that. It's just, it's a miracle, you know having a life that was, you know, in the womb one minute, and then in your hands another is, there's just no way to describe that.

Yeah, in my 33 years of delivering babies this was one of the most beautiful deliveries I've ever seen.

This is Madison Anaiah Brown and this is my only and youngest daughter. And this is Matthias Samuel and boy number four.  

Just thank you for not letting us give up. You know I think it was our first reaction, was to give up. And just the encouragement from all of the, because I saw all of the doctors, all of them there, it's just, I would say thank you because we wouldn't be sitting here if they wouldn't had and encourage us to keep on going. And then, at atrium I just, just for the way that they made us feel like, like I said before that we weren't just patients, you know, it's almost like we were family or that we knew each other and you know, like Jeremy had said, their best interest, or our best interest was what they wanted, you know, and they had nothing else but that in mind.

You do your best at that moment in time every minute of your day. And you know what you do tomorrow? You do your best all over again.