Chloe and Thomas are 1 year old!

This past Saturday we celebrated my babies birthday. I really, really cannot believe they are 1. Thinking back to a year ago when I went into labour, I had just gone to bed, went to use the washroom and one of my waters broke. It was a saturday night and Colin had had a couple beers. I waddled my way downstairs, told him what was happening and he panicked. It was actually quite funny, he ran around the house in a panic and I had to tell him to calm down. We never thought the babies would arrive. I was 36 weeks and 3 days along and thought I would go to 40 weeks and they would have to induce me. So when it actually happened a couple weeks before, we were caught off guard. I packed my bag, called my parents to meet us at the hospital to take Jonathan back to their place, woke Jonathan up, got into the car (I was driving...) and off we went. I drove pretty quickly as I had no idea how quickly things would progress and there was no way I was delivering; 1 - on the side of the highway and 2 - without an epidural.

The great thing about having twins and one of them being breach, is that they give you the epidural early in case they have to do an emergency c-section, with a pump, so any time I felt a little twinge, I pressed that button and the pain went away. So at 3cm I was given one and was in heaven. Mind you, I still couldn't sleep but Colin curled up on the sofa and the nurses kept bringing him warm blankets. Around 10am in the morning on September 27, 2009 things began to happen, I was feeling pressure, I was ready to go! I had a fabulous team of dr's, my only wish for delivery was to try as hard as possible to not have a c-section, even though Thomas's head was in my ribcage. Chloe came out first with one little push at 10:46am, weighing 6lbs 80z. Thomas was a little trickier. The dr had her arm in me all the way up to her shoulder and was doing some fancy maneuvering in there to get Thomas out without cutting me open. Thomas was finally born at 11:00am, weighing 6lbs 2 oz and was bruised all over. Poor guy. Both babies were very healthy and did not have to spend any time in the ICU.