Brynlee's Debut Part II

Where was I...so we got to the hospital. Since it was early in the morning we had to go through the ER entrance. They didn't really believe I was in labor...shouldn't do that to a woman in labor! I assured them that I was and they called the Dr and sent a nurse down to get me. We headed on up and they weighed me and had me get settled in and then sent me walking while they were waiting for the Dr to come. The contractions started coming really hard then and we could barely walk around. After doing about 4 or 5 laps, they nurse said the Dr was ready to check me. I was at a 4, so he decided to keep me and see how fast I progressed. Isaac slept while I paced the room and bounced on a birthing ball. I was exhausted! I decided to try and go all natural with this babe. The nice thing about not having and epidural is I was able to get up and walk around, which seemed to hurt less when I had contractions. The birthing ball was a big help to. I actually dilated pretty quickly, faster than I have with either of the other two. So the decision to go all natural was not steadfast. If I got to a point where I didn't think I could do it, then I was open to and epidural. I dilated super fast and the next thing I knew was that they were calling the Dr because I was already to a 9. Since my babes come fast, they were worried that the doc wouldn't be there in time. They kept telling me, "If you have the urge to push DON'T!" Well, I didn't, so that wasn't a problem. The doctor got there around 9:30 and checked to see where I was at, still a 9. They had me start pushing. That hurt, a lot. I pushed and pushed for forever when after about an hour the Dr said' "Well, you're still at a 9. I thought pushing would flip this baby since she's POSTERIOR!!" So, seriously, for the last hour I wasn't pushing to deliver my little bundle of joy, I was pushing to FLIP HER! No fair! I was already exhausted. I hadn't slept in over 24hrs, and I had been giving every ounce of energy to FLIP HER! Even though that was super horrible, I had actually been coping with the pain pretty well on my own (a lot better than I thought I would!) so I decided to keep going, not like I could have had an epidural at that point anyway. They had me flip over on my hands and knees in hopes that would flip the baby. I had to stay in that position for 45min! By then the contractions were pretty intense. It was all I could do not to cry. I was so weak from lack of sleep and pushing that I could barely hold myself up. They went and got the Dr and let me flip back over. I was seriously so tired that I fell asleep between every contraction. The doc came back in and said it was time to start pushing. This time to hopefully have the baby! The contractions were incredibly painful at that point. I seriously was in tears. Because she was still posterior pushing was super painful. I pushed for a long time. I don't even know how long, but I'm sure it felt longer because of how painful it was. When she finally flipped she came out super fast- well except for the fact that the Dr wanted her to come out slow so I had to push, stop, push, stop...like 10 times. I think that was the worst part! (Sorry if that's TMI for some of you :) ) Having a babe all natural was seriously bar none the most painful thing EVER! That being said, I recovered so much faster than I did with the other two. I was up and walking within half and hour and actually walked to the recovery room. I felt a lot better after and wasn't in as much pain. Mostly I think that's due to the fact that I didn't tear at all this time. Thank goodness!
When Brynlee came out Isaac and I were both like, "Oh my goodness! She looks just like Madi!!" She really did look just like Madi did when she was born. It was kind of crazy. We joke about how we were probably supposed to have twins when Madi was born but Heavenly Father knew this mama couldn't handle it, so Brynlee had to come a little later.
I don't think I will ever forget the first time I got to hold Brynlee. Isaac brought her to me and she settled right down. I spoke and she looked right at me, and then Isaac spoke and she looked right at him. At that moment everything felt so complete. I gave her a little Eskimo kiss and she just looked at me. Ahh...my sweet little baby was finally here!
We love this little girl so much!!

(sorry, these are a little out of order)





Our little Sweet Pea :)

Brynlee's Debut

Finally...a post about the day Brynlee made her debut.
Okay, so for a little background info...Gabi and Madi are exactly 19 months and 1 week apart, Madi and Brynlee are exactly 19 months 1 week and 1 day apart. Not planned. At all. (the fact that they are almost the exact distance apart) What was completely planned was having little Brynlee. When Madi was four months old I felt very strongly that we were supposed to have another baby. You can imagine my reaction to this feeling. Nope. Madi was only four months old and only two months earlier we almost lost her. Nope. This mama couldn't deal with any more anything any time soon. But the feeling persisted for several months. We finally decided, when Madi was 10 months that we would go ahead and start trying since we knew another little babe was waiting to come. We didn't think much of it until...oh about a month later when we discovered I was preggo. So, there you go. Some think I'm super crazy, and sometimes I feel super crazy, but those little babes are so sweet and precious.
Alright, now for the much awaited story....
It all started- quite literally- the Friday before, the 20th of January. The 'ol doc stripped my membranes and told me I may or may not go into labor that weekend- I wasn't due until the 29th. The baby dropped alot that day and I was super uncomfortable, contractions were coming more often, but not at all regular. We decided to call my mom and see when she could come down from Boise to watch our other girls in case I went into labor. She was able to come down Saturday afternoon, and since I hadn't gone into labor yet Isaac and I decided to go walking. So we packed up the car "just in case" and headed to Twin Falls, where the hospital was located and also the mall. So we went walking in the mall (and shopping  :) ) for a very long time. By long time I mean probably a total of 3hrs. We stopped two times- once to eat and once to kick up our feet for a bit. Nothing. Bummer. So after getting our grocery shopping done, we headed home- about 20min away on the freeway. On the way home I started having contractions about 2min apart. Oops! They had told us to be careful with this being our third because the 3rd baby tends to come faster. Well, we got home unloaded the groceries and kept timing the contractions. For an hour the contractions were still 5min or less apart. So, we called the Dr and they said to come in. At about 2:22ish we entered the hospital...more to come tomorrow...


A picture of us on one of our breaks

Introducing... Brynlee Knight!

BRYNLEE KNIGHT

We are so excited to announce the birth of our third daughter, Brynlee Knight.

She was born January 22nd, 2012 at 10:52am in Twin Falls, ID.

She weighed 8lbs 0oz and was 21inches long.

She has dark brown hair, smiles and looks a lot like her sister, Madi, when she was born.

We are so excited to have her here and look forward to what the future holds in our growing family.

Thank you for all of the love, support and prayers, we couldn't have done it without you!

(More to come on the actual story :))