Rome William Brummond

Getting ready to go to the hospital!

Waiting for lil Ro.....watching the biggest loser haha!

Chubby Bunny! (After he started breathing of course)

He has arrived!!! Hallelujah! Now that my little man is 7 weeks old, I have a smidgen of time to blog his birth story. He was born at 4:47 pm, weighed a whopping 8 lbs 5 oz, and was 20 inches long.  After arriving at L&D at 7:15 am, they started me on the pitocin.  I was still only dilated to a 3 and the pitocin was moving me along at about 1/4 cm per hour haha! My Doc came in and tried *yes TRIED* to break my water at about 9 am...tried, and failed. OUch. So they kicked up the pitocin and decided to keep waiting.  Well they kept kicking it up and up because I wasn't dilating hardly at all...until I started to feel like I could literally not breathe! So then we had to put the breaks on it...and try breaking my water again.  My doc came back at about 1:30 and was able to break my water, and Wow, I forgot how weird that feels haha!!! Things started to speed up and by 3:45 I was at a 10! Then I had to wait for my Dr to come back...she took forever! I decided this time around I wanted to watch in the mirror, and I'm glad I did cause it was awesome! I thought it would totally freak me out, but it was so cool to see him be born.  After a few pushes my dr started looking worried...he was a little stuck.  He was a big baby, so clearly the birth canal was a tad small for him.  He started to stress...as did I when I watched my dr tugging on his neck to help him come out! She literally pulled him out.  She set him on my stomach and I was so in love.  He was so beautiful.  This time around Will actually got to cut the cord, which was way cool for him :).  He was smiling like a fool the whole time, he was so fun to watch because you could just see how proud he was! After he cut the cord they took him over to the table, and the nurses started getting really quiet and talking on their little walkie talkies and I kinda started to freak out.  They told me he wasn't breathing and thats why he wasn't crying yet.  The nurse had to bag him and breathe for him-it was the scariest thing I've ever experienced.  I just wanted to hear him cry so bad.  My sister Chauntelle was video taping him, and the nurse turned to her and told her she needed her to shut it off....which I'm really glad I didn't hear because I think I would have freaked out even more!!!! I watched the nurse flicking his feet really hard trying to get him to breathe, and he still wouldn't.  She had to give him some shots, and she said "this will get to him cry and breathe"....well it still didn't. So she kept bagging him.  All the while I am craning my neck to try and see what is going on, and they are just telling me, he's ok, he's ok.  And all I can think is, if he's ok he would be crying! After what seemed like an eternity, they got him to breathe on his own and I got to hold him.  They let me feed him and snuggle him for about 45 minutes, and then they took him to the NICU to run some tests and watch his breathing for about 30 minutes while they took me the mother and baby unit.  I was so so worried about him, because after all of this he still had not cried.  He came back from the NICU and they said everything was great...he was jaundiced, but breathing well on his own.  They let me eat, and I have to tell you...I don't think anything has ever tasted better! I had chicken and rosemary potatoes, green beans, and blueberry cheesecake..........I was a happy camper! Maybe because they had starved me for a full 12 hrs...nevertheless...I loved it.  Can I just say how much I love being at the hospital haha! They bring you yummy food, pain killers, take your baby so you can sleep...its so nice! I did not want to leave! I loved watching Will give Rome his first bath, it took me back to when Ry was born...which seems like yesterday.  He is such a good Daddy, and was sooo proud! The whole experience was amazing. The poor little guy didn't have enough lung strength to cry for the first two days...but boy when they brought him back from his circumcision, I think my heart broke in a million pieces to hear him cry.  We got to take him home that same day...which was bittersweet because I didn't want the hospital experience to end, but I was DYING to see my little Ryann.  Because its flu season, they weren't letting anyone under the age of 14 visit the hospital, not even siblings! She couldn't even come up the elevator to look at us through the glass, they told us we could bring her to the gift shop to do a skype call....and I thought to myself...hmmm...my little 18 month old is going to feel real great seeing Mommy on a computer screen holding a new baby-NOT! So the poor girl had to stay at home for 2 days, and then have Mommy reappear with a new baby.  She would not even look at me for the first 5 or 6 hours I was home, and her little brother was not even a blip on her radar. She was not having it.  It broke my heart to have my little best friend upset with me, but by the end of the day she warmed up to me :).  On the other hand, she did not even look at her brother the first two days he was home haha! It took her a bit to warm up, but now she is the BEST big sissy ever! She is so sweet to him, she gives him sooo many kisses everyday, pets his head, rubs her face on his, tries to put his binky in his mouth for him, rocks him in his bouncy chair, and gets mommy every time he cries! She is so good to him! I am so blessed to have such beautiful healthy kids, I love them both more than words can describe.  I can't imagine not having them in my life-being their mother is the most fulfilling and joyful and hard thing I have ever done, and I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Proud Gramma

With his Auntie Chauntelle

Sweet boy

With Uncle Britt

With Grampa Ken

With Auntie Joce

With Uncle Matt

Proud Papa Randy

Papa Jim, Nana Sue, Auntie Anna, and Uncle Mike

Getting Ready to Go Home!

This is about what the first two days were like...lol

With Auntie Natalie!

With Uncle Trent

Snuggling with Daddy and Big Sissy!

So grateful for my New Angel!!!

Finally!

Well, I am sitting here in Labor and Delivery...yet again.  But today they are inducing me, so I am not leaving babyless this time!!! Wahoo! I am so excited to meet this little boy, man he has made me work for him~2 1/2 months of contractions every five minutes....wow I am ready for him to get here.  He's gonna be the sweetest cutest little thing that hit this planet since Ryann...they will have to share the award for most adorable kids ever.  I love them both so much! Sad I don't get to see Ry for a while....and I hate sitting around waiting, but I can be patient. I think I can I think I can..... :) Wish us luck!!! Next time I post, I am gonna have a cute baby boy :D

Getting there....SLowly but Surely.

Had a Dr appt. yesterday....after 2 months of braxton hicks every 5 minutes, I am finally dilating! Holy cow. Its about time.  I'm at a 2, and 60% effaced.  My Dr says she is going to strip my membranes on Wednesday, and hopefully he will be here by this weekend.  Lets hope, cause she is leaving for a week. A week! Not trying to complain or anything, but she also left for my whole 39th week with Ryann...wth. Ryann was born the *night* before she left.  This week she is leaving Friday afternoon-so lets pray we get lucky. P.S. does anyone want to borrow an 18 month old DIVA for a month???? If so let me know. Anyways, I've been trying to keep myself very busy to take my mind off of this waiting game, and yesterday I finished his car seat canopy! Will says its kinda girly, so I added a little owl to the corner of it, and he still says its pretty girly-but I don't care. It matches my diaper bag, and he's a baby boy-not a man. 

Oh Sure...

As if I needed another cute boutique to fall in love with and get addicted to....I stopped in this "scrapbook" store between Logan and Smithfield called Carolee's Creations. Oh my. MG. Wow they have such cute purses, clothes, jewelry, hair accessories, scrapbook stuff, and my favorite: their new line of fabric! Will is not gonna be happy about this...

yeah. Nice. So here's their website: Adornit/Carolee's Creations
And here's her blog: Adorn It Blog

Booty Rockin' Everywherrre!!!

 Oh THIS girl...she kills me.  She's just standin there watchin tv, swingin her booty back and forth, round and round...I don't think I've laughed so hard in a month! She just does the funniest little things-shes just a ball of personality, her own little person. AND I CaNt GeT EnoUgH of IT!!!

Camillionaire~

So my brother's WONDERFUL g/f Camille let me use her beautiful face and gorgeous hair to take photos of some of my Astoria headpieces! It really helps to see what they look like on! So KUDOS to her!!! XOXO

 

Oh Baby...Braxton Hicks!

 So, update on baby boy Brummond, he is a pain in my......RIBs, Back, Stomach, HIpS, Tailbone...etc.  Haha!!! Its just a good thing I love him so much already, and I know all this crap is worth it!!! Nothing the Drs gave me over New Years was able to stop my contractions, I literally have them all day everyday and all night every night. Most of them are not painful, however they are Extremely uncomfortable.  They seriously come every 5 minutes, sometimes less.  I would love love love for this little guy to come early, but I know that every day he is in there is a step in the right direction for him.  I love feeling him move around, its the most amazing feeling in the entire world (except when his movements are directed at my ribs)! I'm so excited to have a son... even more excited to have a tiny lil snuggly baby again!  Ryann isn't much for that stuff anymore... haha. So, for now, I am reminding myself over and over that patience is a virtue.  Plus I still have tons and tons of things I need to accomplish before his arrival-for example, he needs A NAME!!!!! Why are boy names so much harder than girl names!? Will and I are having a very difficult time coming up with something unique that we both love. So ANY suggestions are greatly appreciated!!! Other than that, he needs a quilt from his mommy, a bassinet, and diapers.  I'm thinking of trying the G Diapers, they are a cloth diaper with changeable liners, has anyone tried these? Any Positive? Negative experiences?  Well, thats all for now I guess, I'm gonna go start that quilt........probably. Haha~

Getting Better All the Time!

Sooooo!!! Lucky me, my Astoria Designs are finally starting to really sell! I think it might have alot to do with the new more vintage looking flowers I've been making, and I'm not gonna lie, I think they are pretty stinkin cute! On Everyone, not just babies! I've finally gotten stuff up on Etsy (slowly but surely!) as well as my blog, and I am so grateful for the person that invented PayPal! I love it haha! Have a look-see!!!

www.astoriadesigns.blogspot.com

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tbrummond

New Years Eve 2010 & New Years Day 2011

Well, my NYE was not quite what I had planned....I have been having BH contractions on and off all week, and noticed them getting closer and harder on Friday.  I know nothing about Braxton Hicks because I never had any with Ry. So I googled them (haha what don't I google?) and it said that if you feel more than 4 of them in one hour, you should go in and get checked. Well, I was noticing them like every 6-8 min. So I called in to the Dr.'s office, and they had me talk to the on call doc, and he said I should definitely go in just in case and have them check it out.  Sooooo.....I called Will and had him come get me and take me in to Labor & Delivery.  We got there and they hooked me up to the monitors, and I was having pretty good contractions every 5 min.  They checked my cervix, and said I was dilated to about 1/2 cm, nothing to be alarmed about.  Baby's heartbeat was great, and my blood pressure was normal.  So they monitored me for about an hour, and then decided to try giving me Nifedipine to stop the contractions. That did nothing, so they gave me another dose.  And after that did nadda, they decided to do a fetal fibronectin swab, which basically tests for the hormone that starts dilation.  That came back negative, and they said that pretty much guarantees I won't go into labor for at least 48 hrs.  Well, thats when my contractions started getting intense. They were a minute apart and starting to hurt.  The nurse told me, "Oh well, you're not in labor, so we are gonna send you home." I was like, seriously!? I am really worried, and this is not normal! She told me, "I send ppl home that are dilating and actually in labor having contractions like this!" And in my mind I screamed BS at her.  So she gave me a shot of terbutaline.  Wow, I seriously felt like I was going to die.  My contractions finally stopped, but I was practically having convulsions, and felt like I had just chugged 12 energy drinks and a box of sugar cubes!!! My head and heart were pounding soo hard, and I thought for sure I was gonna pass out, at this point my nurse walked back in and said, K you're not having anymore contractions so we are going to send ya home. So, although I felt AWFUL, I did not want to spend my New Years Eve in L&D with a nurse that didn't take me seriously, where not one DR was in sight.  We left and went to go get some chinese food, and before we even got home my contractions had started again.  They gave me a perscription for more Nifedipine, heaven knows why because it did nothing.  So I took it easy and watched Out Cold with Will & his bro Mike, and went to bed about 1:00.


New Years Day didn't pan out quite like I'd hoped either.  Will & Mike went snowboarding, which I was sooo glad Will got to finally go this year!!! And Ry and Hallie and I chilled at home most of the day.  I read alot of stories online about women who started having contractions at 33 weeks, and most of them basically said there was nothing I could do. So, being the weirdo I am about taking pills, I decided to call in and ask if it was alright that I stop taking the Nifedipine because it didn't do anything, and I would just deal with the contractions because I was anyways.  The on call doc told me I should just go in to L&D and have them check my dilation one more time, and if I wasn't that I could stop taking it.  Soooooo I drove my happy little butt back in to have them check me really quick.  Well, the good and bad news was that this time, I had a nurse that took what was going on seriously.  She hooked me up to the monitors and explained so much to me, called the dr like every 30 min. to keep him updated because my contractions were 2-3 min apart. Well, long story short(er) I was there for another 3 hrs being monitored, no changes in dilation, but discovered that I am between 60 & 70 % effaced. Yikes.  They wanted me to start taking terbutaline orally, and I begged them not to make me! So they sent me home with antibiotics just in case of infection, and more Nifedipine because they want to see if it starts working better after being in my system for 48 hrs. Bah! So here I sit, Sunday night, having contractions every 4-8 min (less than before, but still very worriesome to me), with a mondo headache due to all the medication I'm taking, and feeling crazy worried that my little boy is gonna try and come too early.  I am calling MY dr first thing tomorrow morning to have her assess the situation cause shes the only one I trust, and hopefully have her give me the betamethasone shots to help his lungs kick into gear just in case he gets here early.  I am so worried for him, so please pray for us to make it at least to 37 weeks!!! 

My 22nd Birthday

My day started out so wonderful, Will brought me breakfast in bed (Cereal just like I had requested ;)). He was so excited about the gift he got me he made me open it right then! He brought me a big beautiful red and pink VS box, and I knew he had made my dreams come true~vintage wash boyfriend sweats & jacket!!! Ahhh, I have wanted them forever, and he picked them out all by his one, and they are amazing. After he left for work, Ryann and I showered and got ready for the day, and by ready for the day I mean hair and makeup & sweats! I cleaned my house (which is therapy for me) and played with my baby girl. My amazing SIL Jocey showed up at my door with balloons tied to a Diet Coke w/Lime, and my favorite bavarian cream filled doughnuts! I thought my day couldn't get any better, until Will showed up at home early from work, and took me uptown to run some errands.  I had stuff to do at the post office, and he had "something" to go do really quick.  So he dropped me off at the post office, and when he came back, my Ryann had disappeared to a babysitter, and there was my favorite tall vase from our one year anniversary filled with black callas, pink lillies, curly willow, and pink and green hydrangeas! Oh man was I in heaven, or so I thought, until he drove me to my favorite italian restaurant Le Nonne!! So after devouring my crab raviolis and italian lemon creme cake, we headed to pick up some stuff from the Sprint store.  While I was waiting for him to finish some stuff up, I was talking with one of his customers that said, "oh you're Britt's sister! He said he had to leave to go to his sister's party, so Happy Birthday!" and I lit up and said, "Will! I'm havin a party too!!?" haha this poor guy, his face just dropped, and he kept saying how sorry he was to Will for ruining the surprise hahaha!!! It was hilarious!!! I didn't care, I was just stoked I was having a party! So Will took me home, and Britt and Camille and Ryann were there waiting for me with a beautiful red velvet cake and presents! It was seriously the best!!! My honey made it the perfect day, he is the most wonderful guy in the whole world, and I'm such a lucky girl to have him!!! Needless to say, my birthday was amazing, and everything I hoped for and much much more!!!