Morgan Miller shares Instagram video of incredible twin home birth—here’s why

Last year, Bode and Morgan Miller welcomed identical twin boys into the world, and now the couple is giving us a glimpse into how things went down on that fateful day by showing the story of their twin home birth.

“Presenting…Birth Story with Bode,” Morgan wrote in an Instagram Story (it’s in her highlights). “I’m sharing because…our bodies are beautiful. It’s a scary emotional ride but d*mn, we are capable of so much more than we even know.”

But in order to really tell their birth story, the couple had to go back to nearly a month before their babies came into the world. Bode predicted the babies would be born on his birthday, October 12, but the day came and went with no signs of labor. Instead, Morgan carried the babies until November 8. They chose to induce on that day and they were prepared to proceed with a home birth as planned.

However, Morgan had a sudden change of heart. “You said, ‘I don’t want to do this today. I’m going to the hospital. I want to get an epidural,'” Bode recalled. “I said, ‘Well that’s not going to happen. That window has passed.'”

And so a home birth it was! Right before the midwives arrived at the Miller family’s home, it became pretty clear that the babies were ready to make their big debut. “You went over to the other side of the bed and said come push my hips… and within like three contractions I could really feel them going apart when I was pushing them together, which means that baby’s head is really getting low down in there and pushing apart your pelvis,” Bode said, adding that he felt the baby’s head emerging.

Both boys were born quickly, before the family’s medical team could arrive.

“They were like, ‘Oh my god…what are you doing?” Bode recounted. “I was like, I guess having babies? I don’t know.”

Bode and Morgan named their twin boys Asher and Askel. They join big brothers Easton, 13 months, and Edward, 4, and Bode’s children, Samuel, 6, and daughter Neesyn, 11. They also have a sister in heaven—as you may recall, Bode and Morgan tragically lost their daughter, Emeline, to a drowning accident at just 19 months.

While the twin birth was certainly dramatic, the couple couldn’t be happier with how it all unfolded. “It was literally ideal,” Bode said. “[It was] a lot for everybody to experience, you couldn’t have had it be cooler for everybody involved.”