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Here we are from a Family of three to our new wonderful Family of Four. Brynlee is so cute and keeps counting us. (She makes sure to make herself the number three each time since that is how old she is. ) We are so excited to start this new adventure with Presley in our lives. She had a Doctor apt. yesterday and is already back up to birth weight. She is so precious and I love watching Brynlee explore Presley's little hands and face and hair with her soft hands. She tries to be so careful and you can tell she is happy to be a big sister!
We are not sure who she looks like yet, but we were really surprised at her dark hair. Ryan and I were both toe heads. I got to say that no picture does her justice. You just got to see her in person! She is so cute!
Here is my Beautiful new daughter Presley Noel. She weighed in at 7lbs 6oz and only 20inches long. A lot smaller than her big sister. She also has really dark hair and her eyes are already a darker blue. So they may go brown like mine. She is so precious and we are so overjoyed to have her in our family.Ryan won the name game. He would not give in to my favorite name of Addalyn. So she is Presley and I love her no matter what her name is. :)I am so happy to be a mommy again. She is just wonderful. She is a good nurser who made my milk come in on night two of her birth. We are so excited to get to know her personality and see how she changes. We love her so much! I really love the soft side of Ryan babies bring out in him. He turns to mush and it is so adorable!
I realized today I haven't gotten any shots lately of my enormous belly. So I decided with the recent talk of my Doctor moving my date back to the 27th of January, that I better get on that! Yep, Doctor Oldroyd said he is feeling up to it, so yesterday they called me and told me he wants to do my c-section on Jan 27th when I am 39 weeks along!!!! I am so excited and so grateful for prayers! This has been such a long journey to get this little girl here. We began this process way back in December 2009. We have had many ups and downs, but they are all worth it. Yes, she still doesn't have a name, but we are ready for her to come join our family!
So Brynlee was three days over due and weighed in at 8pounds 11ounces. What are your guesses on what Baby number 2 will be. I of course feel huge!Also tell me what you think of a few names. We are still debating and do not know what it will be. We can't agree. So don't be mean if you hate a name, but tell me which you like the best.Addalyn, Brielle, Hartley, Presley, Mckenna, Ashlyn, Jordyn, Riley, Sophie
So, I have tons I need to catch up on. We had a great Thanksgiving in Vegas and a wonderful Christmas with Family. I will have to post pictures later.The bummer news is that with a c-section your second birth is always a week early and planned. The Doc has been telling me this whole time either the 27 or 28 of January will be the big day. But when I went in the end of December they told me the Doc was having knee surgery and would be out all of January and that I am scheduled for Feb. 2!! That is one day before my due date! So if I happen to go into labor, I get who ever is on call for him that day. One of the Doc's I know because I grew up by him. So no I really don't want him to do the surgery. The biggest problem is that neither Doctors will know any of my history and know if things look good or bad compared to my surgery I had last February. It is pretty upsetting for a woman this far along in the game! They are hoping I don't go into labor because they do want to see inside me to compare. I never did go into labor with Brynlee, so who knows if I will this time. I really don't want to go into labor either, because then it does become more of an emergency c-section and more rushed than the other way of being planned. I know all women go through the craziness of not knowing exactly when it will happen, but I went eight months thinking I knew the exact date only to have it taken away!Plus can I say how extremely exhausted I am of trying to come up with a name that Ryan and I both like. I have my fave and he has his. The problem is we do not like each others names. Maybe we need the extra time to agree on one! Anyway, now I got that off my chest!On a high note, we got the baby crib bedding and set up the crib finally so I feel a little more prepared for our little girl coming, and Brynlee is so excited to become a big sister. She keeps asking me how much longer before she comes. I love when she comes and kisses my belly and say hi to her sister.
Since I was a little girl we always got to go over to my Grandma and Grandpa Denning's house on Christmas Eve for dinner and the highlight of the night was always Santa visiting. Well, now that we are older, we always meet earlier in the month, but Santa still visits. This year we meet on my Birthday, so we didn't stay long, but we went just so Brynlee could tell Santa what she wanted. She was so excited to tell him what she wanted. She told me all day long that she was going to be brave and not scared of Santa this year. So when he came in and she ran towards me, I wasn't surprised that she was all talk. She did however surprise me when he called her name and she jumped right off my lap to go sit on his. She was brave and did tell him what she wanted. It was funny that he heard "Hippo Car" instead of a guitar. She laughed at that and thought he was pretty funny. Children are so much fun!I'm so glad our family still does this every year. It is so much fun.
Brynlee was so cute doing her dances. She made her mommy very proud. I thought it was the cutest thing ever! I know she wasn't exactly perfect or anything, but it was still really cute to see. She just seemed so big to me. :) I loved it.
Brynlee before her Dance Recital.
So, as always things are not ever perfect. The baby wouldn't give a really good look down below. What the tech saw looked like girl. She didn't see that tell tell boy. So, she said she is 85% sure it is a girl. The baby gave some other really good side profile shots though that made me so happy to see her little body moving inside me. She also had her hand up like she was waving. Very cute. Then she looked like she started to suck her thumb which surprised Ryan cause he didn't know they could do that this young. I love that modern technology has evolved so much that we can see every thing and know that the baby is doing good and is developing right on track. Another girl will be easy because yes, I do already have a lot I can reuse. The only problem is that they will be born in opposite seasons, so I will have to still do some clothes shopping. Oh Darn. :)
So when I went to the Doc this Tuesday I asked if I really had to wait till I was 20 weeks to find out what I am having. She said she would let me go early as in one to two weeks. So when we made the appointment I was very happy to have one the very next week. On September 1st I get to go have my ultrasound to make sure everything is going good with the baby and see what the sex of our new bundle of joy will be. I am so excited! So you will have to vote fast for what you think it might be! I can't help you out. I don't have any feelings one way or the other..
Ryan's youngest Brother Cameron just got home from his mission to Samoa, so we took some family pictures the day he spoke in church. It was lots of fun. Their are a lot more pic's but I'm not going to post them all right now. I think they are kind of cute though.
Brynlee loved her Birthday! She got spoiled with Dora the Explorer. We just had a BBQ at our house, but I know she had a blast! She is already talking about her next birthday. I just can't believe she is three. The only bad thing is that now that she is three, she sure has been a bit more naughty. She has been throwing more fits and just not listening as well. I know she wants to be more independent, but I hope to have her behavior under control before the baby comes or I will be in big trouble. She moves up a class in school at the end of this month. I hope she sees that she can be a big girl and still listen to her mommy! :)
So three years ago today was my due date for Brynlee's arrival. Those who know me well knew what a struggle it was to get pregnant with this little miracle child. So of course I was so disappointed when this day came and went with out her arrival! I was so nervous that something might go wrong. But three days later with the help of the Doc doing a c-section I finally got to meet this beautiful little girl! I was beyond happy. I found out their was way more damage than anyone thought to my reproductive parts so that too was a blessing. It also showed me how Heavenly Father can do anything! Even though the Doc had no idea how this beautiful little girl could have come to be in me at all, she made it. She is perfect too. I never could have imagined her any better than she is. She has changed Ryan and I's world for the better. It has been the best three years of both of our lives. So Happy Birthday on Sunday July 18th Brynlee Boo! (sorry I couldn't find my disc with Brynlee as a Baby, so you get to see her 1 year old pic and her just a few days ago on her slip n slid. I love that pic!)
We do know how many babies are inside me. The magic number is 1! Can you believe it. I'm a little shocked after we put in three eggs. I really had a feeling it might be twins, but as usual I am wrong. I am still super excited though and I guess that is why I felt like we needed to put in all three. We are very lucky to have this blessing. Thanks goodness for prayer to Heavenly Father and modern technology to let this even be possible for us. The due date it Feb. 3, 2011!!! I waited to post this till I saw the heart beat, but we have known for a week now. I am so grateful that we get to add to our family, this has been a dream of ours for many years now, and we are just ecstatic!! To tell you the truth, I don't even care if we get a boy or a girl. I love having a girl and wouldn't mind another, but we would definitely love a boy too. So what ever happens is great!Thank you all for all your many, many prayers on our behalf!!!
So of course you all know what I did on May 16! The embryo's were transferred. Well, my sis-in-law works for my gyno here in I.F. I called her Monday to see if I could do the test early as in Friday instead of Saturday. Well, my gyno said I could do it as early as Monday if I would promise not to be upset if it was negative because that is still early. Well, it has to be at least a 10 to be a positive. On Monday it was 21! Yay! I was really excited but still scarred. I told my In Vitro nurse the good news when she called me back. She said to get tested again Thurs and Saturday to make sure the number keeps going up. Well, I did go on Thursday and she didn't call me back until this morning. The number shot up to 147!!!! She said that is a good strong number. Now I get to go back on June 5 to see how many are in there. Most people do not even know they are pregnant this early, so I am really lucky they let me find out early. I'm not even two weeks since the transfer. Ryan didn't want me telling anyone because so many things could still go wrong, but I'm sick and tiered of all the bad news I get to post on here. This is so exciting!!! We are both ecstatic and pray that everything stays on track and we get a baby out of this. We have really experienced so many little miracles in this long process. I know God has heard our many many prayers as well as all of those offered by all of you! A while back I posted that I had got some really bad news from the Doc I wasn't going to talk about yet. Well, he had called to tell me that my endometriosis had depleted my egg reserve and that I may not have any eggs. He wanted to talk about egg doner with me. I decided to just go ahead and try and see what we got. Well, the Doctor was shocked when we got 5 eggs and of the 5, three had fertilized. He told me that he had never in his 20 years seen anyone like me get results like that. I knew that was a huge miracle that Heavenly Father blessed us with. Part of the reason I really wanted to do In Vitro was so I could see what Ryan and I mixed genes would look like in our children and so I could be the one controlling all that goes into my body. The option to adopt is still on the table some day down the road, but In Vitro was now or never.Keep those prayers coming, they do truly help us. Thanks you guys for sharing all your love and support with us too.
