July 23, 2009

Baby Blake


Baby Caroline

So in January, my mom emailed my cousin and asked her if she was pregnant. She just had a feeling that she was. She's strange that way. Andrea didn't confirm nor deny it (so we knew right then that it was true!) She didn't want to tell anyone until she went to her first doctor's appointment. I told my sister, I bet it's twins! And it's a boy and a girl! (I've always been able to guess the gender of all of my family and friends when they've been pregnant. I've never been wrong. I guess I'm strange like my momma) Well, it was a Friday that she went to the doctor. She wasn't supposed to go until the next Monday but she was in a lot of pain so her doctor told her to come in. She was pregnant with twins!! She actually had triplets (with no fertility treatments, which is crazy to me!) but the third one didn't make it past about a week I believe. Well, it was kind of a stressful pregnancy because there were signs that one of the babies (we later discovered it was baby Blake) might have downs syndrome. She started contracting and dilated to 3 at 30 weeks. So she was in and out of the hospital several times trying to get the contractions to stop. Well, today she had the babies at 35 weeks with NO problems!! They are both very healthy babies! Blake was born at 12:02am (weighing 6 lbs 1 oz which is what Emma weighed when we brought her home from the hospital. And as far as I know don't show signs of downs syndrome) and Caroline was born at 12:04am (weighing 5 lbs 6 oz) and not by c-section!! She is a baby delivering machine! They already have 2 little girls and these 2 are going to be their last babies. We are so excited for them and excited that my cousin got a little boy of his own!