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Abby and Theo's Birth Story

Abigail Aleth and Ignatius Theophorus were born on September 7th, 2018 at 38 weeks gestation via a planned cesarean.  Abby was born first at 6:11pm, weighing 5 pounds and 13 ounces. Theo was born second at 6:12pm, weighing 6 pounds and 8 ounces. The primary reason for a cesarean birth was the babies' positions.  Abby was breech, and although Theo frequently changed between breech and cephalic through-out my pregnancy, he was transverse just before delivery.  I thought that I had had plenty of time to come to terms with the C-section, but once the day finally came I realized how not  ready I was.  Emotionally, I was terrified. The hospital told us to call them at 5:00am, so after a restless night of little sleep we called them first thing at 5:00.  They told us they would call us back at 8:00.  Court went ahead and dropped the big kids off at school, then we waited for the call.  It didn't come, so we called them again.  They said they were having a busy morning an