This Sunday will be an extra special first Mother's Day for Hannah Green, who wasn't expecting the arrival of her twin boys until later this month.
Alec and Wyatt were born six weeks ahead of schedule at Mater Mothers' Private Rockhampton on 14 April, weighing 1.710kg and 2.055kg respectively.
Their mum, from Capella, 300km west of Rockhampton, said that despite the twins still being in Mater's Special Care Nursery, she couldn't imagine a better way to spend Mother's Day.
"I'll be here with them and there's nowhere else I'd rather be," she said.
"Their due date wasn't until 26 May, so the fact I even get a Mother's Day is amazing."
The 26-year-old nurse learnt she was having twins during her eight-week scan, but since then has had a challenging journey.
"I had some bleeding at 13 weeks and 16 weeks, and my obstetrician wasn't keen for me to go back to Capella or back to work due to the risk," Ms Green said.
She moved to Rockhampton for the remainder of her pregnancy, while her partner, Darcy, remained at Capella working on a property.
"I'm very lucky that both my parents and Darcy's mum live just out of town – we have a lot of friends in Rocky – so we weren't short of support. We wouldn't have been able to do this without them," Ms Green said.
At 34 weeks, she attended her routine, fortnightly appointment with her obstetrician, Dr Tanya Davenport.
Ms Green had mentioned that she thought she may have ruptured her membranes that morning.
"During her examination, I could palpate the contractions she was having and then examined to check there were no ruptured membranes," Dr Davenport said.
"I knew 'twin A' was the presenting twin (and also the smaller twin) and breech, so I performed a physical exam, and found Hannah was four centimetres dilated.
"That was at 10.30am, and due to 'twin A' being breech and small, time was not on our side to wait for Hannah's partner Darcy to arrive."
The boys were born at 12.36pm and 12.37pm that day.
Ms Green said it was such a whirlwind there was no time to think about what was happening.
"The most stressful part was that Darcy was three hours away and out of phone service," she said.
"I had to call the owner of the property he was working on to get the manager's number and ended up calling the manager's wife … so it was a roundabout process to get hold of him."
Darcy joined his family as they were returning to the ward.
They hope to return home to Capella in the coming weeks.
