....were born at 37 weeks on 20th February!
Toby was born at 00:42 weighing 2660g, 46cm and Leo was born at 00:43 weighng 2480g, 45cm!
(the name Leo was suggested by DH, fit perfectly and has no relation to my MN name, just coincidence!)
... and for those of you that want to know the details....
The last few weeks of the pregnancy started to get really tough, I was feeling house bound as I couldn't walk more than about 100m without crippling ligament pain, Toby had been engaged since about 33 weeks, both babies had been head down in a good birth position for weeks and i had been having on and off contractions but nothing seemed to be happening....you know the feeling when you think the pregnancy is never going to end!
Monday night I was laying in bed with ds1 reading him his bed time story and felt a big pop inside followed by a lot of pain. DS gave me a kiss to make the pain in my belly better , dh got me a towel and when I stood up a flood poured out.
We (me calmly, dh panicking) finished packing hospital bags and ds's bag to go and stay with dh's sister. Contractions were coming nicely.
We got to the hospital, handed ds1 over to dh's sister and were taken for an ultrasound. The doctor couldn't find Leo's head where we expected it to be and to everyone's surprise, my huge shock it seemed that he had found enough room to turn breech in the past 2 days without me realising it ! I was so shocked and terrified of having a cs that I shook uncontrollably from this point on all the way through until the babies were born, comfortably nestled up with me and feeding.
Following this we were moved to a delivery room to monitor the babies heart beats, they couldn't find them (I was shaking too much), I panicked, they got the ultrasound to find them. Babies were doing great. I was prepped for surgery, the anaethetist (sp?) came to do her bit, unfortunately because my belly was so big I couldn't curl up enough for her to get the needle in so we had to go through the whole thing again.
After baby was born the midwife brought them to me to see, kiss and smell before they were taken for checking, the two moments were magical.
I spent a week in hospital which was really bad because I missed ds1 so much, but was really great as it gave me time to really concentrate on Toby and Leo and recover myself. I had fantastic help with breastfeeding and so far so good... both boys are being fully BF!