Brylee Jaye

It's been almost 3 weeks since she was born.....and I finally have a second to post an update.

My due date (September 7th) was a frustrating day. It is a bad feeling when you wait for that day for 9 whole months and it passes by with no baby. It was a fun day though. We spent the day with our family. We had a cookout at Mom and Fred's house. I spent the day with my cousins and Granny playing geezer golf and jumping on the trampoline.

The next day I went to the doctor and there was still no sign of a baby. He told me it would be a week before he could induce me. I cried. That night, Craig and I walked 4 miles. I was determined to make myself go into labor. That night I had my first REAL contraction.

September 9th came along and I woke up early, cleaned the house, and went on a walk. I walked another 4 miles. When I got home, I was having contractions about 8 minutes apart. Within 2-3 hours, they were 3 to 5 minutes apart. I called my doctor and they told me to head to the hospital. I called Craig and he came home from work and we went to the hospital to have a baby at about 2:30. We were both nervous and excited....and ready to have a baby.

At about 5:00 they moved me to the delivery room and gave me an epidural. (The epidural was amazing! It made me so relaxed.) Everything was running smoothly up until this point. Not long after that, my doctor came in and broke my water and they started the pitocin. As soon as the doctor broke my water, the baby's heart rate started dropping REALLY low every time I had a contraction. The nurse started to act panicked and put me on oxygen to see if it would help her heart rate....but it didn't. The doctor came in and told me they were going to give me about 20 minutes longer, and if there was no change we would have to do an emergency c-section. This made me pretty upset, but I knew that there was something going on with the baby and I just wanted her to be healthy.

Not long after this, my epidural stopped working and I started to feel the contractions. They were SOOO strong. I can say, without a doubt, that those contractions caused me to feel the WORST pain that I have felt in my entire life. It was awful. You can't even describe pain like that. Luckily, they came in and checked me and fixed my epidural. When the nurse checked me I had dilated from a 4 to a 9 in thirty minutes. It was time to push. (Thank goodness my epidural had started to kick in at that point.)

The doctor came in, I pushed about three times, and there she was. Our baby girl. You can't even describe the feeling you get the first time you see your baby. It's crazy. I bawled. It was obvious Craig felt the same we. We couldn't stop staring at her.

The next 5 days were even more crazy. They were probably the most emotionally and physically draining days of our entire lives. There were still a lot of problems with her heart rate dropping really low. She had low blood sugar. She had Jaundice. She was floppy. Her oxygen levels kept dropping really low and she turned blue all of the time.

After being told that there was something wrong with her, brain scans, EKG's, ecocardiograms, and many many other tests, we found out that we have a perfectly healthy little girl.....with acid reflux.

We are so glad to finally have her home. We love her so much. She is our Brylee Jaye. :)

Being parents is hard work and very tiring...but we wouldn't change a thing.

We are happy to finally have her home.

Break Water, Break!

It's kind of depressing when it is two days past your due date and there is NO sign of a baby!

8 weeks to go....

So....we are down to being just 8 weeks away from having our little girl (who still has NO NAME). I talked to Granny and Aunt Kristy last week who talked me into putting some pictures of myself up. Right now, according to What to Expect when You're Expecting, our baby is about four pounds and 18 inches long. Maybe this is the reason why I feel like a whale!

Anyway, we had dinner at Mom and Fred's house on Sunday and these are some pictures of us hanging out in the yard after we ate.

We had an exciting weekend because we bought a crib, dresser, and bedding for the baby's room.(After Driving to every Babies R Us in the state of Utah...literally). It is starting to feel very real and that is a little bit scary. I'll have to post some pictures when we get the room decorated.

For the most part, we have just been working, going to school, and trying to get as much done as we can until the baby gets here. Nothing too exciting has been going on. This year is FLYING by.

Our Little Girl......

So...I FINALLY put the ultrasound pictures on a disc so I could upload them to the computer and share them with everyone! Here is our little girl! Some of them are a little hard to see...but in about 12 weeks we'll have much better pictures of her!...

This is her profile. This is the best profile shot we have.

If you look right in the middle of the picture (under the word feet) you can see her feet. This one is kind of hard to see, but she's got her feet together. I think one is kind of on top of the other one.

Here are her two legs and feet. She's got her knees bent and it's almost like you are looking down at her. Her knees are right at the center and her legs are on the left side.

Last but not least.....It's a Girl! There's no doubt about it!

It only took me two months to get these posted. Oh well, better late than never!

I'm getting really excited for her to get here...but there is so much to do before we are ready for her. She still doesn't have a crib! Her bedroom is our project in the next month. It's going to be a lot of fun to decorate a room for our little girl! Craig has a ton of cute ideas and we are excited to get started. We just have to find time to do it!

We still haven't thought of a name for her. The girls at work have given me lists of names...so we are working on that. I never thought it would be so hard to come up with a name. It's such a big decision.

This little girl has been growing like crazy! She is moving and kicking CONSTANTLY! You can see my stomach move. Also, when we push on my stomach we can feel her. I'm scared she is going to have a bad attitude because whenever you put your hand on my stomach, she'll kick it. She likes to be rubbed, though. The last few nights, Craig and I have laid in bed and rubbed her. She comes up closer to our hands. You can feel her little back and bum.....sometimes her feet or elbows. It's hard to tell which body part is which....but it is so cool.

She hasn't been getting much sleep though. (At least not while Craig is home.) He is already teasing her. Whenever she is asleep he shakes my belly until she wakes up and starts moving around! Poor girl!

We can't wait to meet her and have our little family!

Our little head of cauliflower.....

So...there is this website I look at every week and I think it is pretty funny. Every week it compares your baby to some type of food to get an idea of how big it is. I am at week 27 and here is what the website says:

How your baby's growing:This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds (like a head of cauliflower) and is about 14 1/2 inches long with her legs extended. She's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing her eyes, and perhaps even sucking her fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While her lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning — with a lot of medical help — if she were to be born now. Chalk up any tiny rhythmic movements you may be feeling to a case of baby hiccups, which may be common from now on. Each episode usually lasts only a few moments, and they don't bother her, so just relax and enjoy the tickle.

Anyway....pretty soon she is going to be a watermelon. Only 13 more weeks!

School....

I don't think school is a good place for pregnant people. Especially the Summer semester classes. My Chemistry class is about 2 hours long and I sat there for an hour watching my belly move and wondering what she was doing in there. She was either kung fu fighting or playing soccer with my bladder........ And I sat there for the last hour dreaming about mozzarella sticks from sonic! Needless to say, I didn't get much out of my chemistry class today.

Craig and I have been SO busy. I have pretty much been in class from about 9:00am and getting out of work around 9:00 pm with no break in between. Business has REALLY picked up for Craig and he works 10 to 12 hour days, Monday through Saturday....and then he comes home, works out, and makes dinner so that we can eat when I get home at 9:30.(He takes good care of me!) We usually go for a walk around 10:15 and come home and go to bed. We just try to enjoy every minute we have together.

I can't wait until we're finished with school!!!!!!!!

Time Flies!

I just got home from the doctor. This was the last visit of my second trimester! Crazy! Time flies. I can't believe in 15 weeks we will have a little girl!