Mom's funnny...

I barked to get the dogs attention and Brenna thought it was hilarious... so I kept barking and she kept laughing!

We can sit up!

Brenna can now officially sit up by herself. Everything online and in the books say "once your baby can sit up straight by themselves for more then 30 seconds to 1 minute" they can sit up from there on out!! Brenna did an impressive 4 minutes a few days ago and since then she has done so well.

Baby food!

Brenna had her first tastes of baby food, it was very exciting..probably more so for mommy! She loved the green beans, sweet potatoes, and bananas..but wasn't keen on apples! We will try peas, squash and carrots later this week!

I took a video, it is rather wobbly, but Dave's video of the green bean eating was even more of a disaster, we got more shots of the inside of his nose than of Brenna eating! lol :)

Brenna chatting in the mirror on her swing

Brenna's birth story.

On January 30 we had been having some very unusually warm weather...like 60 degrees! So I of course started my walking - I did so every day trying to get Brenna to "move her little head farther down". I walked over three miles that day and I felt ok, just achey hips like usual, I went to bed expecting everything to be normal, but of course hoping something would happen! Dave's alarm went off at 5:15..he snoozed it a couple times and finally I got frustrated with the alarm going off so I rolled over to get away from the noise and I suddenly felt very warm down there... I sat up and turned on the light and told Dave I either peed the bed or my water broke. So I stood up, and sure enough a gush of fluid (luckily the bathroom is connected to our room!) My water broke at 5:34 AM! I told Dave just go to work, I needed to shower, shave, and blow dry my hair before going in to the hospital.

  We got there at 8:00 AM - turns out my Dr. wasn't and wouldn't be there all day :(.. Since contractions hadn't started by themselves I was started on pitocin around 9:30 AM, contractions started by 10 and were just mild. By 2:00 I was in a decent amount of pain and the nurse suggested an epidural, so I said sure let's do it... I felt great for about 45 minutes to an hour and it's like the epidural faded away - and of course the contractions were even stronger at that point.

   Meanwhile during all of this, Miss Brenna didn't like the fact that I had such strong contractions and no amniotic fluid left - her heart rate was dropping with every contraction. We were put on oxygen and had an intrauterine catheter to flush more fluid in. They kept mentioning a c-section if things didn't get better.

   Around 4:30 -5:00 I was in so much pain I couldn't talk during contractions and felt exhausted in between...I wanted the anesthesiologist back up there to give me a second dose to see if it would help. 2 hours later when I was 5 minutes from pushing he came up with the second dose. I barely remember him being there, at that point I was crying. The pain subsided a bit after 10-15 minutes and after another 15 minutes or so of pushing out came Brenna Grace at 7:00 PM exactly weighing 7 pounds 2 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. I was in shock that everything had just happened, seeing her for the first time was just as wonderful as everyone says :) She was my perfect little girl.

   All the pain faded away and didn't matter anymore - you're kind of on cloud nine! :)

Eyes already wide open!

Sweet girl

After bath fun

 She really enjoyed being bundled up in a big towel and getting to stay undressed for awhile! :)

Brenna this morning!

She looks like a little doll in this sweater! Love it.

Brenna's smile's and coos!

Brenna is a smiley little girl now a days!! 

Brenna is 3 months old! So big

Brenna weighs 11 pounds 2 ounces now and is 23 inches long! She lifts her head very well, but doesn't like tummy time very much..she does it only when she wants to! She got her first taste of rice cereal, which was a good time..she liked it :)

Below is Brenna with the rice cereal.. her impressive head lifting and her cute self smiling :)

3rd trimester

Well I am now in the 3rd trimester-home stretch! I am pretty happy to be here and getting more excited to meet this little girl!! :) I get a 3-d ultrasound on December 20th...so that should be fun, it's a month away still, but something to look forward to :)

20 weeks til now (at 25 weeks)

Everything has been going pretty smoothly since 16/17 weeks. No more nausea or migraines :) Went to the 21 week appointment on September 30th and had our second ultrasound done to check all of the baby's body parts and we found out it was a girl! I was very excited (Dave said he already "knew" it was a girl). I am thrilled to have a little girl coming, I would've been perfectly happy with a boy too, but how much fun is it to look at girly things? :)

 

  Now at 25 weeks I am just starting to get a little bit uncomfortable, I can feel myself growing!! I'll give  a little run by of my "bump" pictures.

12-13 weeks

19 weeks

21 weeks

24 weeks

I haven't taken a 25 week picture yet..but I'm guessing it's about the same or bigger :/ I feel like I am growing rapidly. I had a little scare last week with those braxton hicks contractions..had waaay too many in a short period of time, so called the doctor, who is three hours away, they said go to the er and get checked out to be safe. Turns out I had an infection as the main cause..not fun, but very glad they found it and I am on antibiotics to become infection free! :)

Wedding

I have to bring this up to speed to October..so August 27th we got married! :) It was a wonderful day.

:) <3

Beginning.

So, we found out on June 3rd we were expecting. First appointment was on July 6th and we heard the heart beat for the first time, 174 bpm, and got to see the little bean, which is exactly what she looked like :)  

I can't say the first trimester was very smooth, but it wasn't horrible either. I never got sick, just felt like it all the time with migraines :(  The heart rate was pretty consistent at the 13 week visit and the 17 week visit, mid to high 160's!