1 Month!

Happy One Month Birthday Baby Love!!!
I can't believe that my little girl is a month old already! It really doesn't seem possible, how can I have already been a mommy for a month?

We had Brynn's 1 month check up last night and she is doing great!!! 9lbs 11oz and 20.5" Long. The Dr was very very happy with that. I'm not looking forward to her next appointment though. It is her first appt with vaccinations. :( Thankfully I scheduled it for a time J could come so I don't have to hear her cry on my own. I don't think I could do it.

Monday we had our her newborn/first month photos taken. I have only seen a preview of a few so far but I L-O-V-E them! and I mean LOVE!! Our Little B is so cute!! As promised this post is going to be loaded with pictures! Oh and to celebrate Little B's 1 Month Birthday I am going to see Bon Jovi tonight! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And I will be having a margarita! Oh how I'm looking forward to that.

Let the viewing begin!
Little Miss Attitude



Wearing an outfit from when my sissy was a baby





Cousins! Chance and Brynn



Baby Feet! Oh I love Baby Feet!!!



Trying to eat her Seahorse

Brynn and my Grandma - Her Great Grandma

Chance and Great Gram - Can't believe he is now 4 months by the way!!

4 Generations

My Baby Love using my baby blanket that Gram made me.

A Preview of Pics from Monday!
















I can't believe how much I love my Little B. I'm truely blessed.

Brynn's Story Part 2

Well I left off just as our families were coming into visit and to meet their granddaughter or niece.

It was awesome introducing everyone to her and we got tons of pictures of everyone holding her. My mom and sister made her a birthday cake decorated in red white and blue. After everyone had been in the room for a while I started to get really hot and feeling like I was going to throw up. My blood pressure was spiking even higher and then I got sick. That was the worst pain I have EVER felt in my life. Even with the long acting morphine that they put in my spinal. I was miserable for about 5 minutes, like wanted to die miserable but then after I got sick I felt so much better so quickly it was great. Though of course my blood pressure was still up, and continued to be the entire time we were at the hospital. They monitored me several times a day the whole time we were there.

All of our family members got to hold Brynn and love on her. And beg us for her name, which we still hadn't decided on at that point. We got pictures of everyone with her and it was such a special time watching everyone with her.
My Mom and My Baby!

My Dad and My Baby!

My MIL

My FIL

My Sissy

My Brother


My dad made me tear up like 3 times. My mom got me a necklace I have wanted my entire life. When I was born my dad got her a necklace that has a mom and a baby that form a circle and I always told my mom when I had a baby I wanted one of my own. I also told Jeff I always wanted one and we looked and looked but all of them that I had seen were ugly and not my style. I wanted simple and silver just like my moms. She found me one. It has a tiny little diamond right under the baby and I LOVE it. I haven't taken it off since we got home from the hospital.

After everyone left for the night Jeff and I got to spend more time snuggling our little one and we couldn't have asked for a better thing. Neither of us or any of the nurses could stop talking about how beautiful she was (and I still can't!) Since I was stuck in the hospital bed not able to get up, or even move too much we sent our baby to the nursery that night and had the nurses bring her back when she needed to eat.

Around midnight we heard some noise from the other room, it was the fetal monitors and someone was in labor. We both commented that we thought it was crazy that we could hear that quiet sound. We got up a few more times during the night between feeding baby girl, getting pain medicine and having vitals taken. Which reminds me I forgot to mention that baby girls Apgar scores were 7 and 9!

The next morning when I checked my phone I had a text from a friend asking what room we were in..... turns out she was the person in the room next to us! She had a healthy baby boy at about 3:45AM. Her labor progressed so quickly that she didn't have time for an epidural and was worried that we had heard her screaming. It was crazy that we didn't because I was up at the time she was delivering him!

Her husband came over to visit around 10 ish that morning and she came by shortly after. Finally around noon I had my catheter removed and was able to get out of bed! It hurt so so bad!!! Every little step hurt. Turning to the side hurt, bending my legs hurt. Even with the morphine and the other pain meds. UGH! I wasn't happy about that.

We had a few visitors that day and I LOVED it. My mom, sissy and one of my aunts and little nephew came to visit, though we knew Chance couldn't come back to see us. :( They were all excited to see her and love on her some more. 3 of our good friends came to the hospital that day and they hit the jackpot since they got to meet 2 new babies in one shot! :) My very best friend and her husband (the other new dad's cousin) came up that afternoon and were bouncing back and forth between rooms. Some of our friends family stopped by to say Hi! and before I knew it we had tons of people in our room and got pictures of both new babies together. It was really such a cool experience. I'm so glad we got pictures of it!

Me, Brynn and our friend and her baby boy!

The Babies

My BFF! She was soooo excited!


While my BFF was there is when we decided on her name, at least her first name. The way we decided for sure was because I didn't think she looked like an Ellie and Jeff didn't think she looked like a Ryleigh (our other name choices). So Brynn it is! :)

That night went great and we had baby girl in our room most of the time because she was cluster feeding A-L-L day and night.

The rest of our stay at the hospital was great we spent lots of time snuggling our little girl and visiting the people that came to see us. Friday morning my mom came back up because Jeff had to go to a DR appt for his back and neck. Then that evening my aunt and cousin came to visit and Jeff's parents as well. Saturday Jeff's BFF and his wife, one of my good friends came to meet our little girl.

It was around 6 that night that we decided to go home that night instead of staying until the 4th.
Us leaving the hospital,

I'm so glad we went home when we did! Jeff was in so much pain and I was just ready to be home. Plus..... Brynn got to see her first fireworks display that night!! Our town does fireworks every year on the 3rd and we got home about 1/2 hour before they started so we walked out to our fence line for a few minutes to watch them. I was very happy about that.

Our first full day home was my favorite day of the year. The 4th of July! Brynn had 3 4th of July outfits that she had to wear so her outfit was changed multiple times that day!




Oh and introducing her to the dogs went much better than expected. Gus is very very curious about her and always wants to be near her.

For the next post how about I just overload you with pictures?! I like that idea!

Introducing Little B

I am so excited to introduce Brynn Gracelyn!!! She has made me happier than I ever thought possible.

Tuesday the 29th was our last day before Little B was scheduled to make her appearance and we spent the day hanging out running errands and going to dinner. We went to the restaurant that we went to the day we first saw her on the ultrasound. A very yummy Italian place pretty close to home. We were going to go to the place we got married but I was having TONS of contractions.we decided to play it safe since we were so close I didn't want to go into labor and have to rush into surgery. After dinner we stopped by the InLaws house for desert since we were about 5 minutes away and they called tempting me with strawberry shortcake! ;)


Afer we were home we spent the night cuddling and talking about what was about to be the best day of our lives! And I continued to eat and eat and eat. I wasn't allowed to eat after midnight and I knew I would be starving in the morning so I ate as much as my stomach allowed as close to midnight as I could. ;) We had to be at the hospital at 10AM for the big event. ......... This is my 40 Week Bump Picture. Yes it is a little blurry but its the best I have.


We got up on the 30th at about 8:30 both showered, Jeff loaded up the car with all of the things we needed and put the car seat into the base and we were off! As we got to the hospital Jeff could tell my nerves were starting to set in and I was getting anxious to get going. But he was AMAZING. He made me stop and take a minute to breath. He told me how much he loves me and was so happy that we were having out little girl that day. Then he said a quick prayer for all of us, for a quick and easy surgery for both our baby and for me. I of course started crying because I was an emotional wreck at that point. I love that man so much it is unbelievable sometimes.

Once we got up to the hospital we checked into the Outpatient area and they sent us straight over to Labor and Delivery. We were greated by all of the friendly nurses. 2 of them being the nurses that took care of me during our over night stay the week before. They were joking around saying how they couldn't believe I was just about to have the baby and she should have been here a week ago.


They put us into a L&D Triage room to get prepped for surgery and that is where we spent the next 2 hours getting vitals done and going over paper work. During that time they also got my IV started and let me just say I.HATE.IVS. HATE them! I have bad veins and this time was terrible it took 3 trys to get one going and I got super hot and weak. Yeah maybe I'm a sissy but I can't help it. Then they got me hooked up with the catheter. And then our families came into visit. They all wanted to say HI before surgery. Then the DR came in and kicked everyone out to do a last minute UltraSound to see if she flipped. At that point after being there for 2 hours, going through all of that with the IV and getting a catheter if she flipped too dang bad they were cutting me open anyway. I was not about to leave that hospital without my baby girl. Thankfully that wasn't an issue she was still all cozy with her butt down.


Then started our "long" walk to the OR. I say long because it was really short but it seemed forever away. With each step I got more and more anxious about the spinal. Our families were sitting outside taking pictures and wishing us good luck. I kissed Jeff and was escorted into the OR. EEKKKKK!!!!!!!


I got up onto the table and got more and more nervous The nurses were AMAZING. They made me feel so comfortable and helped me to relax. The anestisialogist was great too, he talked me through the whole spinal process and it was nothing!!!! One of the nurses helped me lean over far enough and whispered in my ear telling me when to breath and when to push back against the pressure. I felt 2 little pinches when the did the local to numb me before doing the actual spinal. That I didn't feel at all! I was soooo relieved. And instantly my toes started going numb and then the sensation started traveling up my body. It was crazy. Once they got me draped and my stomach prepped Jeff was brought into the room to sit by my head. I was very happy to see him. :)

Surgery started at 12:07 and I made him talk to me the whole time. It was so weird. I couldn't feel any pain but there was definite pressure and pulling. I felt like my body was sliding across the table with the amount of pulling going on. Then all of a sudden they said "wow she is a big baby!" They could see my little girl Right after they pulled her out the lowered the drape a tiny bit so we could see her before they took her to get checked and cleaned out. I could see her cute chubby cheeks and I just started crying! She was born at 12:27. The pediatrician then took her over to the warming bed to get checked out at that point she had not made a peep yet and I was starting to get a little nervous and then just as the thought hit me she let out a yell, thank god for that I was not wanting to panic. They then called Jeff over right away. Jeff was put on picture duty since I clearly couldn't do it! They had the bed positioned so that I could see her and see Jeff the whole rest of the time I was in there and I was sooo happy for that. Jeff swore up and down that he wouldn't cut the cord if it was an option but I saw him do it. He couldn't right away because the other side of the curtain was a sterile area but he did get to shorten it and he did it. He came back over to me a couple minutes later and showed me a couple pictures of her and I just couldn't believe she was ours! That was my baby I was looking at. Once she was all checked out Baby Girl was wrapped up and brought over for me to see her. I started crying again and told her Happy Birthday. It killed me not to be able to touch her and kiss her but I had to wait. Then Baby Girl and Jeff headed to the nursery while they finished getting me back together. While one DR finished closing me up the other DR called the nursery to find out how big she was. 8lbs 4 oz 20" long! The DR was surprised thinking she would be bigger. By 12:47 surgery was over and I was being wheeled to our room.
Her First Picture


Seeing my baby for the first time.

Getting Weighed 8lbs 4oz 20" Long

Family seeing her for the first time.

Her first hairdo




I then spent the next hour with 2 nurses who were checking my blood pressure and my ability to move my body every 10 minutes. It was the longest hour of my life. My blood pressure was even more elevated but my body was starting to return to normal. It was such a weird sensation. When my body started going numb it went from the toes up and when the numbness was going away it went from my belly to my toes.


At 10 minutes to 2 Jeff and the newest love of my life were brought into my room and I couldn't stop smiling!! The nurse brought her over to me and layed her in my arms and I started crying again. I couldn't stop telling her how much I love her. The whole time I was listening to Jeff talk about how things were in the nursery and I asked him if anyone else held her while they were there. And he told me that he hadn't even held her yet! I was shocked!!! I told him I wanted him to hold her and be with her while I couldn't be but he really wanted me to be the first one to hold her because he knew how important it was to me and how I was so sad that wasn't an option since I had to have a C/S. More tears! What an amazing man I married!!!
My first time holding my baby girl

Our First Family Picture

Jeff's First time holding baby girl



At that point I had him come and get her so he could hold our little girl for the first time. It was the best thing I had ever seen in my life. After a few minutes he gave her back to me so I could feed her for the first time. This may be TMI for some people but she took so easily to breast feeding I was so happy. The nurses helped me the first time and there were really no issues.


We spent about an hour and a half just the 3 of us. I could have asked for anything better. At that point our families came in and met our girl. I think the first question was "what is her name?" Of course we still didn't have an answer for anyone.

On that note I'm going to discontinue this post and continue it later. I figure this was getting a little long and I have quite a bit more that I want to say. More to follow during the week as my little squeakers allows me some time. But here are a couple other pictures just because I think she is so cute!!!!