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Charlie Sheen and his wife, real estate investor Brooke Mueller, welcomed twin boys — Bob and Max — Saturday in Los Angeles.

The new arrivals are the couple’s first children together.

On March 12, Sheen told Extra he was officially “on standby” for the twins’ impending arrival.

“What time is it?…It could be tomorrow, next week. We’re on standby,” he admitted. Prompting their heightened alert was Mueller’s overnight trip to an L.A. hospital last month after experiencing premature contractions, not uncommon in women carrying twins.

The couple — who met through Eric Dane and his wife Rebecca Gayhart in 2006 — said they had not yet settled on names.

“We’re still sort of circling Bob and Nik…N-I-K,” the actor, 43, told Extra.

Sheen and Mueller, 31, announced they were expecting last summer.

“Brooke and I are thrilled! She’s the best stepmom Sam, Lola and Cassandra could ever hope for,” Sheen told Us at the time, referring to his three daughters, Sam, 5, and Lola, 3 (with ex-wife Denise Richards), and Cassandra, 23 (with ex-girlfriend Paula Profitt).

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Charlie Sheen’s pregnant wife, Brooke Mueller, is apparently a quick healer following a trip to the hospital for emergency surgery.

Mueller, who is in her first trimester, had been dealing with mystery pangs for a month and, sources close to the couple tell E! News, had been fearful the pain was related to the baby.

Things got so excruciating that she needed to be admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center a little more than a week ago.

Doctors ultimately determined that Mueller required emergency gall-bladder surgery, an operation that can be risky during the early stages of pregnancy.

Mueller and Sheen’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, confirms that Mueller was successfully treated at Cedars and discharged late last week, stressing that it had nothing to do with her pregnancy.

Dr. Cherlin Johnson, who did not treat Mueller, explains that an infected gall bladder can be life threatening not just for the baby but also to the mother.

“Any kind of surgery in the first trimester carries a lot of risks given that this is an intensive time of development for the embryo,” says Johnson, an emergency medicine physician in Beverly Hills.

“You try to minimize medication to the mother during that time. However, if there is an escalating infection, that could be life threatening to the mother and therefore for the fetus as well.”

Mueller spent five days at the hospital and has been recuperating at home for the past four days.

She was well enough to attend last night’s Emmy Awards ceremony, where Sheen was in contention for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Two and a Half Men.

Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller’s summer of love, which began with their wedding in May, is closing with more exciting news: They are expecting their first child together, his rep confirms.

“Brooke and I are thrilled!” Sheen said in a statement Monday. “She’s the best stepmom Sam, Lola and Cassandra could ever hope for. Seeing her love and affection with those three, I know she’ll be an amazing mom. Unless I bat 100 percent, perhaps a boy awaits us.”

Sheen, 42, already has three daughters: Sam, 4, and Lola, 3, with ex-wife Denise Richards, and Cassandra, 23, with ex-girlfriend Paula Profitt.

“Brooke found out for sure on Friday and is thrilled to death,” a family source tells PEOPLE. “Brooke loves Charlie very much and has wanted a baby for some time.”

The pregnancy doesn’t come as a major surprise: The pair began talking kids right after their wedding, with Mueller joking that she wanted triplets. “Could you imagine if I really had triplets?” she told Extra in June. “He’d be like, ‘Whoa!’”

The couple were married in front of about 60 close friends and family at a private estate in Los Angeles in May. Earlier this month, Sheen, 42, reflected on married life with Mueller, saying it’s “fabulous.” He added, “We’re having a ball. I’m the luckiest man in the world.”

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