Pregnant Mum gives Birth at home, Only to Discover her 13-pound Baby is Actually Twins
When Meagan Peoples learned she was pregnant with her third child, she wasn’t surprised to learn her baby would be a bigger bundle than expected.
Her two previous babies had weighed over ten pounds. When she was told that her third baby would weigh 13 pounds, she wasn’t worried.
ᴄᴏʀᴏɴᴀᴠɪʀᴜs ʀᴇsᴛʀɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴs meant that her husband or any loved one was not allowed to be in the room with her for an ultrasound so instead of paying hundreds of dollars to do it alone she opted out of ultrasounds.
Meagan, from Minnesota, had ultrasounds with her other children, and everything indicated that her baby was doing well.
During the exam, her doctor sensed only one baby.
The couple was preparing for the birth of their third child, but in reality, there was supposed to be a fourth. Meagan said the babies were lying in a row right in front of each other, not on top of each other. Her midwives felt the front baby.
Meagan had a home birth in the presence of two midwives and welcomed the baby boy, August, but seven minutes later she suffered a shock.
“There’s two midwives when we did our home birth…and the second one looked down and she was like, ‘Oh lord, there’s another!’” Meagan said.
The couple has had a second baby, daughter Aria.
Since the now family of six received their surprise bundle, they have been home and safe.
“I’ve been at home for months, it feels like,” she said. “It made it really worth it when we ended up with two.”
