Shakespear Shuffle

Emma & Justin

Awwww...we have TWO babies at home!!!!

Here we are awaiting the arrival of PIT

Proud Parents

Proud brothers (although I think Hunter prefers them at a distance and not crying)

Sweet babies!

So here's the story & I'll try to keep it short & sweet.

We arrived at the hospital Sunday night at 7pm and got all checked in. Turns out I was already dilated to a 4cm & having random contractions so they decided to give me just a small amount of Pitocin over a few hours. Then they took me off of it to see if my body would pick up on it's own but it didn't so after a few hours of that they gave me a good strong dose of PIT and within 20 minutes the contractions were terrible. So after a few of those I got my epidural around 6:30am which was AMAZING! Thank you whoever you were, my anesthesiologist! I didn't feel a thing and could finally get a couple hours of sleep. They checked me again around 9:45ish and I was 10cm and ready to rock & roll.

Because I was "high risk" I had to deliver in the Operating Room just in case. Everyone I talked to knew how much I wanted a natural (vaginal) birth & how much I wanted to avoid a c-section. There were about 10 other people in the room besides Jeremy & I, including a seasoned high risk labor & delivery doctor. So I started pushing at 10:22am and Emma Louise Shakespear was born at 10:27 at a whopping 7 lb 2 oz. Baby B's heartbeat plummeted in the 40's & stayed there, I pushed twice and they said I had one more push or they would have to do a c-section. I was pretty terrified so I pushed again and still nothing and they gave me one extra chance & Justin Taylor Shakespear was born at 10:31am at 6 lb 15 oz!!!!! He had a little help from a friendly vacuum. So they are 4 minutes a part.

We were able to go home the day after delivery & we are doing great. Really! They are sweet, sweet babies & sleep well & are doing their best at nursing. Today I even started nursing them at the same time which is going to give me some extra nap time I hope :) My Mom is here for another few weeks and Jeremy took the whole week off of school.

I just wanted to thank everyone for praying for us to have big, healthy babies & to have a natural birth. Those were the two things I was especially nervous about & we feel so blessed to have things work out the way they did.

More pictures to come soon (hopefully)

*********Our happy winners**********

Lyndsi Rivera guessed my tummy circumference right on the head at 45 inches!
(Before I measured I was right with all of you who guessed 55 inches and above)

Jon & Becky Tolman are our ecstatic winners by guessing a grand total of 14 lb 2 oz of total baby weight (our baby weight was 14 lb 1 oz)

Thanks to all for playing the game & we will get a sweet bag of chocolates your ways ASAP! (Lyndsi, email me your address!)