Welcome to the world Baby Roemer’s.
It’s been a little busy the last week and a half here at the Roemer’s, but we are adjusting quite well. I will start from the beginning;

February 15, 2010 “Monday the big day.”

We arrived at the hospital around 7:45am. We were both very nervous but overwhelmed with excitement to finally meet baby A and baby B. They started by checking my cervix which I was still 4cm dilated and now 90% thinned. I don’t think my body would have made it another couple of days on its own. My doctor came in and broke my water to start things along. She brought in the ultrasound machine just to double check the positions of the baby’s. I informed her that on Friday, just 3 days earlier both babies were head down. Well to our surprise baby B had turned in the breech position over the weekend. When and how this little creature could have done this was mind boggling to me. So we now had the tough decision to try for a vaginal delivery or just do a C-section. Wow I was not expecting this. Much to my surprise my Doctor was willing to go for a vaginal delivery. She told us worse case is baby A would be born normally and baby B would be a c-section. So we decided to go for it.
Things that morning went very smoothly. The Anesthesiologist came in (the man I called God) to give me the greatest drug of all, my epidural. Yes I am a drug seeker when it comes to having babies, give me all you can so I feel no pain. After nine months of carrying twins the last thing I needed was to feel more pain. Things were moving along really well and before we knew it I was 9cm and ready to move over to the OR (c-section room) for delivery. People started moving in and out of the room, Paul was getting dressed into his bunny suit and I was getting super nervous. Because of this I started to shake uncontrollably. The nurses were informing me that it was completely normal and to just try to relax. Holy Moses, relax, how can someone relax when you’re about to deliver twins. When everything was all set-up, doctors in place, the game was on I was 10cm and ready to go. I gave one good push and to our surprise baby A’s head was out. The cord was around her neck twice so the doctor needed me to hold off the pushing for a moment. Then when all was clear I gave another hard push and our precious baby Girl Allison Jennifer Roemer was born at 2:32 pm. Paul and I were both crying, we were blessed with a little girl. She weighed in at 5lb’s 8oz and was 18 ½ inches long. But we knew things weren’t over. While the room was busy with nurses and doctors, my doctor was working on turning baby B into the head down position. I won’t go into details on how they proceeded to do this but I’m surprised my husband hadn’t passed out by now. Finally we were ready to go and with 4 pushes our precious baby Boy Clayton Edward Roemer was born 14 minutes later at 2:46 pm. He weighed in at 6lb’s 5oz and was 19 inches long. What a blessing to have two healthy babies. It was at that moment that I knew our family was finally complete and God has given us the greatest blessing of all, four healthy children.

February 15, 2010 "The Big Day"

It's 5:30am and we are just about ready to walk out the door. NO contractions, no water has broken but it's time. We scheduled the induction for 7:30am at Aurora West Allis Hospital. I'm 37 weeks and 2 days pregnant and hopefully by the end of today this will all be over. So we can finally welcome our 2 little ones into our lives. Thank you all for all the prayers and love. It's been a long 9 months, but a healthy one.

We were finally able to get a 4D picture of baby A last Friday. She or he finally came out from hiding. Oh.,., and on top of all our craziness we accepted an offer on our house this weekend. So yes we are going to be homeless in 2 months. As I've always said we have faith that this was meant to be and everything will be just fine...!

36 ½ weeks
Exciting news but uneventful….!!!
So I went in yesterday for my regular Dr.’s appt in the middle of the wonderful snowstorm. Yes I just fired up that old GMC threw her in 4WD and away I went down to West Allis. Thank God for Grandpa Frank being retired and coming over to watch the boys. If he only knew when I left that morning that he was going to have them all day he may have reconsidered.
I knew come hell or high water (or snowstorm) I was not going to miss this appt. they were checking my cervix for the first time and I needed to know how close we were to delivery. Well the good news is I’m dilated 3cm, the bad news is nothing else is happening at this point. My doctor wanted me to come back that afternoon to get checked again. She just wanted to make sure before they sent me back home that nothing else was happening. Well I spent 3 hours in Labor and Delivery last night hooked up to monitors watching my two peanuts heart rates beating away. I was having mild contractions but nothing consistent. They wanted to keep me over night because of the storm but I insisted on going home. I was stuck in a room with no TV, no radio and no cell phone reception, I just wanted my bed. It took only an hour to get home and it was worth it when I hit my head on my pillow last night.
So all is well and here I sit, waiting and waiting …for anything to happen. I go in on Friday and we are going to talk induction. So hopefully we will know when the big day will be..!