It seems like every time I say my life can't get better, it does. Josh and I have been married for almost 7 months, and I'm about to give birth. I was really shocked though when I went to the doctor during my 4-month check-up. I'm a twin, and I knew there was a chance that I could have twins, but I always heard that twins skipped a generation so I thought it would be fine. Boy was I wrong. I am now 9 months pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. Talk about a lot of changes, I just hope we can make it through everything. I should probably tell you where I am right now. I'm in a presidential limo on my way to the hospital to give birth. Right now Josh keeps yelling out girls names, since the boy is going to be named Noah Nathaniel.
"Jessica?"
"No."
"Becky?"
"Nope."
"Angie, Marie, Amber?"
"No, no, no."
"Donna, I'm running out of suggestions." Josh says as he runs his hand through his hair.
"Well I'm sorry for your inconvenience."
"Um, well, Morgan?"
"No."
"How about Emily." The first lady says. Did I forget to mention that she was here as well? You should say hi to Zoey while too.
"Emily, Josh I like that." I say with a smile before another contraction hits.
"That's a good name." He says after he thinks it over.
"Emily Alison Moss-Lyman." I declare
"Sounds good," Abbey says as we pull up to the hospital, "Now let's have some babies."
"Yes, please get them out." I scream as I'm helped into the wheelchair in the middle of a contraction.
"Soon enough Honey, we just have to get you to fill out some forms." The nurse says as she wheels me into the hospital and stops at the front desk.
"What's your name?" She asks as she grabs a stack of papers off the desk and hands them to Josh.
"Donna Moss-Lyman." I answer before gritting my teeth.
"The one who got married on CNN?"
"Yep, and I really want to give birth now." I say as the contractions get closer and closer together.
"Of course, let me get you into a room and you're husband get fill out the paperwork. Who's your doctor?" She asked as she wheeled me into the closest room
"Doctor Lassiter. We called her before we got here." Josh answered as the orderlies helped me into the bed. Abbey and Zoey excused themselves and were going to start making phone calls, and then only Josh and I were left in the room.
"Are you okay?" He asks as he walks over to the bed
"Joshua I am about to squeeze 2 watermelons out of something the size of an orange, so don't ask stupid questions." I grit as my contractions come about 30 seconds apart.
"Hello Donna. How are you?" Doctor Lassiter asks as she walks into the room.
"Just peachy Doc." I reply sarcastically
"Call me Brittany please," She says as she walks over to the bed, "let's see how your moving along shall we."
"Well, looks like you're about 9 centimeters dilated, we're almost there." She says as I squeeze Josh's hand through another contraction.
"Can I push now, please let me push now." I beg as the pain becomes unbearable.
"Listen to me Donna, it's too late for an epidural now, but if there is time between the first and second baby, we can give you some anesthesia."
"I don't know if I can take it. It hurts." I say as the pain gets worse and worse. She checks again and announces.
"You can push now Donna okay." I just nod my head and Josh grabs my hand.
"You can do this sweetie. You're strong and I know you can do it." He says as he wipes my hair out of my face.
"Okay, let's go."
"On the count of three I want you to push for 10 seconds okay?" I nod my head and she begins to count.
"One, two, three, and push." I push for ten seconds and then fall back to the bed.
"I want you to take a few deep breaths okay. Then we're going to push again."
"You're doing great sweetie." Josh says as he kisses my cheek.
"One, two, three, and push." I push again and pray for this to be over.
"I can see the head, only a few more pushes." We continue the cycle until a loud cry enters the room.
"Congratulations, you have a daughter." She says as she holds up little Morgan. She's so beautiful.
"Donna, she's amazing." Josh says with a look of total adoration and love.
"Hi Emily," I say after Josh cuts the cord and she's placed on me, "I'm your mommy and this is you're daddy."
"Donna, you're back down to 5 centimeters, so it might be a little longer for the second twin." Brittany announces.
"Is that safe?" Josh asks right away as he brushes a hand over Em's little wisps of brown hair.
"For now it's okay, but we want to monitor him for the time being. We need to take Emily and clean her up, then after her check-up we can bring her back in." Brittany says as the nurse takes her and carries her out of the room.
"Can I get the epidural now?" I ask quickly before she leaves.
"I'll have the anesthesiologist come in a few minutes, just relax as much as you can between contractions okay?"
"Okay." I answer weakly
"Are you okay honey?" Josh asks as I begin to feel weak and dehydrated.
"I don't feel so good" I say before everything gets dark.
"What happened?" I ask groggily as everything goes comes into focus.
"You passed out from the strain, it happens sometimes. I have someone I'd like you to meet." Brittany says as Josh comes into view as well.
"Donna meet Noah, Noah this is your mommy." Josh says as I see the tiny bundle in his arms.
"He's so beautiful." I say with tears in my eyes, "But how?"
"After you passed out we performed an emergency C-Section to insure the baby's health." The doc explained
"Where's Emily?" I ask looking around.
"Good Afternoon Donnatella, I take it you're looking for this little angel here?" President Bartlet says as he walks into the room holding Emily.
"Sir, I hope she wasn't trouble." I say as I struggle to get up.
"Donna please don't get up. And may I say she is a well-behaved young lady. And beautiful too." He says as he hands her over to me.
"Hey sweetheart." I say as I kiss the top of her head.
"Would you like to hold Noah too?" Josh asks as the little bundle starts to squirm. I just nod my head and the nurse helps me sit up and places a baby in each of my arms.
"They have you're hair Josh." I say as I notice their brown tufts of hair sticking out form beneath their little hats.
"Yeah, but I bet at least one has you're eyes." He replies kissing me softly on the lips.
"You have some visitors, is that okay?" A nurse asks as I see Sam, Ginger, CJ, Toby, Leo, and even Ainsley standing outside the room.
"Yeah." The gang piles in the overly large room they put me in and smile at the sight.
"They're so adorable." CJ says as Noah latches on to her finger.
"I'd like you to meet Noah Nathaniel and Emily Alison Lyman." Josh says as everyone coos over the now sleeping babies. After about 20 minutes of congratulations and baby watching, the doctor orders everyone out except Josh and we say goodbye.
"You did good Sweetie." Josh says after the nurse shows me how to nurse both children at the same time.
"This almost doesn't seem real." I reply as the twins are taken to their little beds in the nursery.
"It is real and I'm thankful for every minute of it." He says as he lies down with me on the small bed.
"I love you." I say simply as I lay my head on his shoulder.
"I love you too." He replies as he wraps his arms around me.
Can life get any better? Wink