My good friend went into labour on Friday night… 39 weeks 2 days with breach twins…. she called me just when I was just leaving the mall and was heading home with Simon and the boys…

Her water broke and she was on the way home to relax a bit… and wanted me to come over for the night….

I headed back home (a 40 min drive) and then got Khéna to sleep and got ready to leave…

I got in the car at 10pm and just as I was leaving I got a call from her partner saying that the contractions had picked up and that they were on the way to the hospital…

I went fast…. faster than I usually go… and I actually got to the hospital about 5 min after them…

Going in there she knew that she would be having a c-section but she wanted to experience labour a bit before to get all some of the hormones going so that the babies would get the benefits…

She laboured for about 6 hours and then at about 3:30 she decided on the section…

Just before 5am, she became a mom…

There was a bit of time that everything was quite stressful… a lot of contradictory info and a very stressful time with the doctor and with the c-section… something that was really hard to see my friends going through and was very emotional…

But the babies are beautiful and healthy and so is mom…. they are all amazing!!!

Kai is a gorgeous little man who weighed in at 8 lbs 6oz and Zoe is a beautiful little girl who weighed in a 7lbs 7oz….

I wanted to make sure that nursing was going well before I left and it was going pretty well by the end of the day…

Anyway… it was a long night and then a long day yesterday without sleep… we all tried to rest but it was just hard to do it with all of the emotions and excitement and there were things to be done…

Though there were downs… there were also ups and it was an amazing experience that I feel so lucky to have been part of… I was able to support them and help them when they needed me…

I also feel so proud and privileged of being able to be part of the babies lives right from birth…