Imagine giving birth to twins eight weeks early while both yourself and your spouse are suffering from COVID-19. That's exactly what happened to Jennifer and Andre Laubach.

When Jennifer first entered her third trimester, she started feeling symptoms of the novel coronavirus. A short time later her husband Andre also began to feel ill.

At just 32 weeks, and awaiting COVID-19 test results, Jennifer's water broke and she went into labour. 

Jennifer's husband was so ill at this time that she had to leave him at home, call an ambulance for him and drive herself to the hospital.

She was put into a special room at Beaumont Hospital in Michigan where doctors and nurses took every precaution possible to keep everyone in the room safe.

The boys, Mitchell and Maksim, were born the following day on April 3. Mitchell weighed in at 3 pounds and Maksim at 4.

Both Mitchell and Maksim were whisked away quickly to a special room where they were quarantined. They, fortunately, tested negative for COVID-19.

It was 20 days before the Laubach's were able to meet their children in person, but the entire family is now home and doing well.  

Today on Connections Jennifer will share her story with us and how life is today for the family of four.