Long Waits, but Happy Days

My twin sister, Becky, and John have dated since our freshman year in high school. Believe it or not, he was her first kiss. We all knew they would get married, and sure enough after almost 10 years of dating they did. Everything was perfect until they started trying to have a baby and nothing was happening. Thankfully, after 4 years, lots of tests, and three rounds of invetro fertilization they finally got some good news and were expecting. They decided to keep the sex of the baby a surprise since nothing else was! Anyway, ironically she was due on the day that her and John met, November 4, but that day came and went!

They decided to induce and she went in yesterday for some medicine to loosen her cervix. Her water ended up breaking on it's own and labor began. Unfortunately, there was maconium in her water, so they were hoping things would progress fast, but it didn't. She did have contractions and had an epidural, but when they checked her this morning she was still only 7 cm. On top of all that, the baby's heart beat was dropping drastically with every contraction, so they finally decided to do a c-section. The doctor said it wasn't an "emergency" but that since they had tried so hard for this baby and had finally gotten to this point they didn't want to take any chances.

His name is Grayson John, which was hard to come by too! They had settled on a girls name, but just couldn't settle on a boys name. I think it's adorable, though, and so is he. He has white blond hair and pale pink skin, just like my br0ther-in-law.

It's funny because Becky and I are identical twins and both of our husbands kind of look alike, blond and pale...both names are John too! :) I will be curious to see if our boys look alike since they share half the same DNA and their fathers have similar features too :)