Nicole and Matthew Ziesemer are a couple from Michigan who were overjoyed when they learned that they were going to be parents.

Nicole and Matthew talked about their options for the pregnancy and birth process, and they decided that they wanted to go the natural route. They wanted “as little medical intervention as possible,” so they decided not even to get an ultrasound. The couple also called a midwife to help them with a home birth.

“This was my first pregnancy, and it was all new to me,” Nicole said.

Nicole and Matthew had no idea how much their plans were about to change.

Things took a turn when Nicole went into labor early, forcing them to ditch their plans and drive to the hospital in the middle of a storm.

“We called our midwife because we were planning on doing a home birth, but since the babies were less than 36 weeks, we couldn’t do a home birth,” Matthew recounted in a Facebook post. “So, we decided to go to Gerber Hospital in Fremont because they work well with our midwife and think more on the natural side of things.”

Nicole had contractions for 24 hours, and the couple was forced to not go through with their natural plans. Though Nicole was in pain, she refused to take any medications. It wasn’t until she was 30 hours into labor that she allowed doctors to induce her.

Finally, 40 hours after Nicole’s water broke, she welcomed their daughter Blakeley Faith at 10:06 p.m. on December 30.

When Dr. Megan Froshee went to check on the placenta, she was stunned to feel something that felt like a head!

“The OB stitched up my wife’s small tear and then started to work on the placenta and to EVERYONE’S surprise in the room she said there is a 2nd baby in there and we all crapped our pants and then all hell broke lose,” Matthew recalled. “The entire floor of the hospital was in our room it was packed just making sure everything was going to be OK.”

59 minutes after Blakeley was born, her twin brother Cade Matthew made his debut at 11:05 p.m.

“It was just a shell-shocker because no one was expecting it, everyone in the room thought they had seen a ghost,” Nicole said. “My first thought after delivering the second baby — ‘Oh crap! We need a second crib, a second car seat, a second everything.”

Matthew felt the same, admitting that their “whole house is prepped for one child.”

We wish this family the best of luck! Find out more about this in the video below!