Labor and Birth Day

Now that one week has passed, I figure it time to post this story for our blogger goers:

March 19, 5:30am, awake to water breaking... This is what my belly looked like then!!

March 19, 7:30am- my sweet husband has a wheelchair ready to take me to the hospital. No pain yet.

We wait all day and all night with contractions only slightly increasing.

At 10am March 20th, they administer small doses of oxytocin to increase natural contractions. By 1pm, I am in full labor.

First touch: they honored us by placing the babies directly on my chest after the birth. But after delivering Sophie, there was still a baby to go! The emotions involved in this were unexplainable...

Meet Sophia Lee Schafer, born March 20th at 4:49pm. She was 5.5 lbs.

Saying hello to Sophie while waiting for Sol.

First time as a family of four!!

Papa saying hello to his little boy.

Meet Solomon Levi Schafer, born March 20th, 5:19pm. He was 4.7 lbs.

This experience has been more than we could have ever asked or prayed for. Seeing the Lord come through this to BLESS us has been overwhelming. To think that we didn't even have a doctor or hospital up until the Monday prior to delivery! Amazing...