3 Weeks

Brielle is 3 weeks old today. She has been such a sweet addition to our family. She still sleeps quite a bit. She definitely lets us know when she needs something. Her cry is much louder than Alivia's was. She has started to make little noises and has also smiled a couple times. At her two week appointment she was back up to her birth weight and was the same length.

More pictures birth - 2 Weeks

Here are some more pictures from the hospital and then a few weeks after that. When Brielle was almost two weeks old we ended up taking her to Primary Children's emergency room because she had blood in her stool. We had talked to our neighbor who is a nurse and she told us it definitely stool and basically said it would probably be good to take her in. So we did. It was hard for us to make the decision to do that, but we felt like it was better to find out what was wrong if there was something wrong. I didn't want her to go through a lot of pain to find out it was nothing so that was hard for me. It ended up being a tear in her bum so it was good we went in cause we were able to find that out and get some cream to put on it. 

In her Christmas jammies

love those little smiles

just chilling late one night waiting for this little one to get tired

At primary children's hospital

At the dr waiting for the results from her biliruben test

Introducing Brielle Liberty Buckway

 Here are some pictures of Brielle and welcoming her into the world. She was born at 7:03 pm on December 10, 2013. Sharing a birthday with her aunt Lyndsey! Weighing in at 9 lbs and 21 inches long.

All ready to go home. 

She is here!!

My due date of December 6th came and went and still no baby. I was scheduled to be induced on December 11th if she didn't come before then. I really didn't want to be induced because I was going to go natural and give the water birth a go. So I was hoping she would decide to come before that. December 10th rolled around and I woke up at 2:30 am feeling some weird feelings and had to go to the bathroom. I realized I was actually having contractions. I didn't really remember what contractions felt like with Alivia and I never had any contractions at home with her either so this was different for me. The contractions were not intense or very long but were about 3-5 minutes apart. To go to the hospital they like your contractions to be pretty intense and about a minute long and 3-5 minutes apart. They were uncomfortable enough that I couldn't sleep. Greg woke up around 4:30 and I told him " I think this is happening today." He went to work for about an hour to finish some things up. I was scheduled to have a prenatal visit that morning at 8:45 am, I decided to go to it because my contractions weren't extremely close together so I figured they could at least check me and see how far dilated I was. My mom came and picked Alivia up around 8 and then Greg and I headed to the hospital shortly after. I was dilated to a 4+, but my contractions had pretty much stopped since we left for the hospital. The midwife encouraged me to go home and get some rest if I could and then come back when my contractions were closer together and stronger. She thought since I was a 4+ it would go pretty quick once they started up again. I got excited and we decided to go home and try and get some rest. As soon as I stood up in the room I had another contraction and they continued to come until we got home. When we arrived home they were coming closer together and there were a few more intense ones. I was just uncomfortable and couldn't rest very well so after about a half hour I told Greg I wanted to go to the hospital. We arrived there between 10:30 and 11:00 am and they admitted me. I told them I wanted a water birth and figured they'd start filling the tub up, but they didn't get to that real soon. Well to make a long story shorter, I labored for a couple hours, they checked me and I was only a 5. So I had been having more intense contractions for a couple hours with not much progression. Suddenly I felt a little de ja vu. I started to feel a bit discouraged, but continued laboring after a bit we decided to have my water broken to help things progress a little. When the midwife went to break my water she discovered meconium in my amniotic fluid and she said there wasn't really a sack to break, so my water must have broken before without me knowing. So with the meconium a water birth was no longer an option. I still wanted to labor in the tub though to see if that would be more relaxing. So I labored in the tub and by this time I was having a harder and harder time coping with my contractions. I was getting discouraged  because I felt like this was taking a long time. They checked me a few hours later and I was at a 6 then I eventually got to an 8 1/2. It was getting harder and harder and I was growing tired. I got stuck at an 8 1/2 for awhile and they started talking about giving me pitocin so my contractions would be stronger and closer together. The baby was also turned a little bit so that made things a little harder and weren't progressing very well. I told them I didn't want pitocin cause I couldn't deal with harder contractions. I ended up getting an epidural because things just weren't progressing, I was tired and I wanted to enjoy the birth of my baby. I got the epidural around 6 pm and felt so relieved after and I finally got some rest. The midwife was going off her shift at 7, and she really wanted to see this baby be born since she had been there the whole time with us. So she checked me about 6:50 and I was ready to go. So I pushed and she was born at 7:03. I was so relieved that I got the epidural because I felt the midwife pulling and tugging on the baby. She had to help her out quite a bit. Then I ended up tearing and bleeding quite a bit so it was nice to not worry about all that pain. I saw my beautiful little girl and was so happy to finally have her here. They immediately put her on my chest and I held her and was filled with this intense love and gratitude. She was beautiful. I thought she looked just like Alivia, but then later realized how she was her own person with her own little features and actually looked quite different. She is now almost 3 weeks old and time is going so fast. We are loving having this sweet babe in our family.

37 Weeks 4 Days

I still haven't taken anymore pictures of the baby bump, but I am now 37 1/2 weeks. Things are going well. I am sleeping much better this pregnancy than the last. I'm still kind of in shock that I'm going to have another baby in less than a month, but I'm also really excited to hold this little babe.

About a month ago I decided to switch from my doctor to a midwife. I've just never felt that connected to my doctor and I started thinking about my birth plan and what I wanted. I really want to give it another go at a unmedicated birth and I didn't feel like she was on the same page as me. So I switched to the midwives at IMC. So far I have loved it. It is a little different because it is just a group of them so you don't meet with one specific one, but so far I've enjoyed each one that I've met with. We are also going to have a doula. I haven't felt as prepared for this birth and I heard really good things about this doula so I figured it would be good to have her there to help me through the labor. They now have an option for laboring and giving birth in the water at IMC and I am going to try that. I'll at least try laboring in the water and see how that goes.

Sometimes I don't feel ready at all for this baby to come and other times I just want her here right now. It is hard not knowing how it will all happen and when it will happen. We are excited though and I think Alivia will be a great big sister.

24 Weeks

Well I'm actually now almost 27 weeks, but Greg took a couple pictures of me at 24 weeks so I figure I should post them on this blog. I'm really not thrilled to ever have my picture taken at this point in my life, but I do think it is good to document things. So here are just a couple pictures of me at 24 weeks. Currently things are going well with this pregnancy my only complaint is at night time I have a hard time sleeping. I think I have a little bit of restless leg syndrome so I have a hard time falling asleep at night. I'm going to try to do more exercising and see if that helps. Other than that things are great. I'm excited to meet this little one and see what she looks like. It will be nice to have a newborn again in so many ways. I'm sure it will be difficult but I am looking forward to it.

It's a Girl!!!

We found out on July 18th that our second little bundle of joy will be a girl. We are excited to add another sweet girl to our family. The only bummer for me is if it was a boy I was looking forward to having to buy more clothes. During our ultra sound they focused a lot on all the important body parts and kind of skimmed past the girl parts. She asked us if we wanted to know and we said yes and so she got a picture of the legs and said "looks like a girl" and then moved on to some other body part. So it wasn't as exciting to find out and I wasn't totally convinced so I asked her again at the end if she thought it was a girl for sure and she said "yep looks like a girl". Anyway they had to have a dr come in because they couldn't get great pictures of the heart. He still couldn't get them so they said I needed to come back in about two weeks. When I went back I asked them to double check if it was a girl cause I wasn't really convinced by the other sonographer. She showed me and said yes it is a girl. I was finally convinced.