This morning I woke up feeling a little weird. I had pains in my stomach, but I wasn’t sure if it was just regular pains or labor pains. I thought labor pains would feel like the braxton-hicks contractions, but just stronger. But these were completely different and they didn’t tighten my uterus, so I just assumed it was something else. After an hour or so, I noticed that the pains started becoming regular. I woke Michael up from his very deep “sawing logs” type sleep and asked him to time it for me. The contractions were about 1 minute to peak and 5 minutes apart. After timing a few of them, the doctors and nurses swarmed in, and they were a little peeved that we didn’t call them right awayl. We had no idea that I was in labor though. Anyways, the doctor checked me and I was already 3cm dialated and 60% effaced. That was kind of surprising. I did my best to concentrate on relaxing (what an oxymoron) and let my body take over instead of fighting it. We also had a great nurse, Lisa, who birthed her children using the Bradley method. My labor progressed really nicely and quickly, and before I knew it, the contractions were about 2 minutes apart. The doctor checked the babies with an ultrasound and I was sure that baby B turned head down, but the baby was breech. I was around 6cm dialated already and we would have to make a c-section decision quick. Michael and I asked the doctors and nurses to leave us alone for a few minutes to think about what we should do. It was a really nice 5 or so minutes, just the two of us, making a really big decision as I’m breathing through contractions. We decided to do the c-section, because of all the risk factors involved. After we made the decision, everything went pretty quickly. I was rolled into the operating room and given a spinal. I was shivering throughout the whole procedure, it was just cold. There were a million people in the OR, since there was a team for each baby. It was a very surreal experience, and I was a little sad that I couldn’t really hold the babies right after birth, I could just touch them. Michael was so cute because he brought over the 1st baby to me and we were both all smiles. Baby B needed more attention since breathing was difficult, and they were getting ready to transport the little one to Children’s. Michael followed both babies and I went back to my room, trying to call my parents. Their line was busy the whole time, I thought it was my dad on the internet, but it turns out that Michael got a hold of them before I did and so they were calling all of Hawaii. I was still under the influence from the spinal, and it was weird to send signals to my feet to move, but not getting a response. After about 6 hours, the drugs wore off and I could move. After the drugs wore off, the transport team stopped by to let me visit with baby B before they went to Children’s. The poor thing was just covered in wires and tubes and strapped down. After that, I went to see baby A. It was an amazing thing to finally hold my baby! Sooooo, here’s the info for what you’ve all been waiting for! Our twins are fraternal boys, Baby A is Rowan Muir Stanton and Baby B is Elijah Michael Stanton. We will post pictures as soon as we can.