They're here!!!!

Our babies were born on Wednesday, February 23rd.

Tuesday night Justin asked if I wanted him to take my 36 week picture. My response was "in a little bit". Later he headed up to bed and I slowly started up the stairs and realized we never took that 36 week picture. Oh well, I thought - we'll take it a day late.

Once upstairs, Justin was getting into bed and I headed into the bathroom to get ready for bed. A few minutes later I called out "My water just broke." Justin's response was "Are you serious?"

He put his regular clothes back on and went downstairs where my mom was still working and said "Looks like we are headed to the hospital - Julie's water just broke." My mom's response was the same as Justin's - "Are you serious?"

It was a long night of being on baby monitors and starting contractions before the decision was made to NOT proceed with a C-section and administer petosin to speed things along.

At 1:10 pm Joel Michael was born weighing 5 lbs 14 oz and measuring to be 19 in long.

At 1:13 pm Jeremy Mitchell was born weighing 5 lbs 10 oz and measuring to be 17.5 in long.

It was a traumatic birth for both babies (and for mommy), but definitely more so for Jeremy since he was breech and ended up being both pulled out by his feet while the 2nd doctor was pushing him out by putting all her weight on my belly.

Joel and I are definitely being discharged tonight and hopefully Jeremy will be as well (his bili levels were high and he has been under the lights all day today).