My Beautiful Life with Ryleigh and Reagan: The day R&R entered the world.

I thought I would start by writing a little about what has gone on in the past 6.5 months of Ryleigh and Reagan’s lives and share of few of my favorite pictures that we have of them so far.

First, the day they were born.

My water broke, and I went into labor around 7:30am on July 16th, 2010. It was kind of a traumatic experience involving a lot of blood and an ambulance, but everything ended up being ok, and I gave birth to my beautiful baby girls at 12:07 and 12:08 pm via s-section. I was 35 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Ryleigh and Reagan were born weighing a whopping 5 lbs. 8 oz. each, and they were both 17.75 inches long. Ryleigh had some breathing troubles the day she was born, but other than that, they were very healthy babies. They were in NICU at Plano Medical Center for 8 days until they were able to eat well and started gaining weight. They came home from the hospital on July 24th, which is also my birthday. This was, by far, the best birthday present I’ve ever received, but it sure didn’t feel like my birthday when I jumped head first into taking care of newborn twins! :)

When Ryleigh and Reagan were first born, everyone said they looked very similar. The only main difference people saw was that Reagan had a darker color hair than Ryleigh. Everyone had a hard time telling them apart except me. Matt learned pretty quickly, but he still got them mixed up every once in a while. Now? They look nothing alike!