I was 18 years old and a senior in High School when I discovered that I was pregnant. I wasn't the type of girl that slept around but as they say it only takes one time to get pregnant. When it became clear to me that I was pregnant, I had no idea how to tell my Dad and Step mother that I thought I might be pregnant so I hid it for 5 months until my Step mom took me into my bedroom and asked me how long it had been since I had had my cycle. Imagine her surprise when I told her it had been 5 months. Thankfully she was the one to tell my Dad. She made an appointment for me with our family Doctor. I went in and he sat me up on the examine table. He felt around on my stomach and then put his stethoscope to my stomach. It was at that time that he heard a heart beat and confirmed that I was very pregnant. I told him that I thought maybe I was having twins. He assured me that he only heard one other heart beat besides mine. So, off to the OBGYN I went. Not to long after that appointment, I went in for an ultra sound.
About 2 days after my ultra sound the mid-wife contacted me to tell me that I needed to be on a very strict vitamin supplement plan and that she could no longer be my mid-wife as I was going to have twins and that put me in a high risk catagory. Not long after that, the journey began. I had decided some time before I discovered that I was having twins that if the baby was a boy that I wanted his name to be a biblical name. I had always liked the name Joshua and as for his middle name I wanted his middle name to be Adam after my Great Grandfather Richardson. Well, when I found out I was having twins, I had to come up with another name. The ultra sound tech tried to tell me that I was having a boy and a girl but I just told her that I knew I was having two boys because I felt it and I couldn't find a girls name that I liked. So, the name search for baby # 2 was on. Because they were boys, brother's and twins I wanted their intials to be the same. After looking in the bible I came up with the name Jacob, I struggled to find a middle name that started with an "A" that I liked. It was my Dad that gave Jacob his middle name. Andrew and so it was Joshua Adam and Jacob Andrew. The boys were not due until Sept. 18th of 1988 but my body had different thoughts on the subject. I was admitted to Vancouver Memorial due to the fact that I had toxemia. I went from bad to worse rather quickly so they transferred me to Emmanuel Hospital and on July 29th they started to induce labor. They stopped the process so that I could get some sleep that night and started up again bright and early on July 30th. At 2:36 p.m Joshua Adam was born weighing an entire 3lbs 6 oz. Then my body once again decided to make things difficult so with a lot of effort on the Doctors part and my part Jacob Andrew was born at 3:13 p.m. weighing 4lbs 11 oz. The boys had to stay in the hospital until the 16th of September when they finally got to come home. This is the history of his beginnings now let me tell you about my beautiful son that left this world and my arms far too soon....