The 9 Month Journey

After nine months of hormones, cravings, heartburn, maternity clothes, mood swings, hot flashes and of course a growing belly

We welcome our beautiful angel

Brynley Lynn Campbell
Born Thursday July 9, 2009
Weighing 7 lbs 2 oz
21 inches long

The story:

Last Thursday night I woke up at 1:30am and had to use the restroom. While in there, gush, my water breaks! Half awake and confused I go into the bedroom and wake Zac up letting him know that I thought my water broke. So after a couple minutes we were both fully awake, we grabbed our bag and we made our way to the hospital. I was admitted at 2:30am and I was only dialated to 1cm so we held off the epidural. The contractions weren't too unbearable. By 4:00am I asked for the drugs...by this point the contractions were bringing me to tears! By 4:45am I was as numb as ever and just enjoying the early morning! My doctor came in to see me at 7:00am and he predicted that Brynley would join us around dinner time. By 8:00am I was dialated to 3cm. Then they checked again at 10:00am and I was up to 7cm. My nurse said we would most likely have her around lunch time. They checked me again at 12:00pm, I was at 10cm. Yay! I started to push at 12:20pm and after a short 40 minutes of pushing, Brynley was born at 1:02pm! She was so beautiful! What an amazing experience everything was! It's incredible that this sweet baby was inside of me all of these months. She truly is perfect! The labor and delivery went extremely well for me. Can I just say how wonderful epidurals are? I can't imagine giving birth without one. I didn't feel a thing the entire time and the pushing was a breeze for me. We were all shocked at how quickly everything went. Brynley has been so much fun for me and Zac. She makes us laugh all of the time and already has such a fun personality! She is definitely worth the sleepless nights and many more to come! We love her so much and are so thankful that everything went well and that she is healthy, we thank our Heavenly Father every night for our angel. She is amazing and we are so happy to have her in our little family! Here are some random pictures of our little girl:

Happy 4th of July!

We had such a fun 4th of July this year! On Friday we went up to Eaglewood Golf Course to watch some fire works with a bunch of friends. The fireworks were amazing! They were so pretty and we had a perfect spot to watch them, they seemed to be right over us!

Doug, Keaton, Celeste, Trystan and her sisters.

Kelli and Kyle

Jeila and her cute neice Sydney
Peng, Trystan, and Jason

Me, Zac, Pheobe (Kelli's dog), Kelli, and Kyle

Then the next morning we made our way down to Scofield for probably our last trip without having a baby! It was really relaxing and much needed. We just hung around camp all day, ate, read and took naps. I loved every minute of it! That night we had an amazing barbecue and we were planning to go to the Scofield Lake fireworks but it was raining...so we stayed in the cabin and played Apples to Apples with Sherry, Gordy, BR, and Wendy. It was a lot of fun! While down there we went on a few fourwheeler rides, hoping that would help the baby want to join us sooner...but when we went to my doctors appointment on Tuesday I still hadn't progressed much. I'm almost 1 centimeter! Haha! But a lot can happen in 10 days so we'll see if she comes sooner or later. I can't believe we are almost down to single digits! I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Baby Showers and Update

We have gotten so lucky with everything that we have recieved at all of our baby showers so far. We have THE best family and friends. It's amazing how much stuff our baby has already...I think she has more clothes than I do! The first shower we had was the Olson family shower thrown by my cousin's Keisha and Shannon, and it was a ton of fun! I can't believe how many girls we have on this side of the family. Jeila's house was so FULL! We had amazing food, a funny game, and wonderful gifts. Our families are all getting older so we only see eachother on major holidays or weddings so it was great to be able to catch up with everyone! Our second shower was thrown by my sisters and it involved friends of our family. This shower was SO much fun! We spent most of the night reminicing about old times. This is the group where no matter how much time passes from the last time you see eachother, you just pick up like old times and talk forever about anything! Again we got too many gifts and already this baby is so spoiled.

Sara, Zoe, Megan, Me, Afsonai, April, and Jeila.

The next shower I had was with highschool friends. Like the last shower, we all just talked about how much fun we had together in school. Cheer, teachers, school dances, Kelli breaking her legs :), just everything! The next week we had the Campbell shower and that was a lot of fun! We ate great food and visited with everyone. Once again we got a ton of cute things and she is going to have SO many clothes! Next on the list is the ward shower and the Butler shower. I can't imagine what else we will get at these showers but hey, I can't get enough of the baby gear. It's all so darling! Thank you for everyone who was able to make it to the showers! I can't thank you enough for all of the sweet gifts and advice given for our baby girl! We love you!

Update: I will be 38 weeks this Saturday. 2 weeks to go and I haven't dialated, not even a little. I am about 75% thinned so hopefully something will happen soon. I used to only get the braxton hicks contractions at night, but I've been getting them more and more during the day so that's a good thing! I go in again on Tuesday so keep your fingers crossed! I am really excited for our baby to get here and I'm excited to see what our labor story will be! After I think of how ready I am for her to be here I can't help but think how much I am going to miss her being in my belly! I love feeling her move around every day and get the hiccups. Even though it kills when she kicks me in the ribs and won't move away, I am going to miss it! Being pregnant has been such an amazing experience! I hope every woman who wants to be a mother will be able to experience being pregnant because it is truly indescribable. What an amazing blessing it is as a woman to carry a child. And even though I've been very nervous all of these months to know what a responsibility it is to be a parent, I am excited and I feel ready to be a mom! It's weird to think that Zac and I are going to parents! We still feel like kids ourselves! But I can't wait for Zac to be a dad and I couldn't have asked for a better companion to start a family with. He is so cute with her already when he rubs my belly like I'm Buddha, talks to her, and sometimes he'll even bust out a song for her! It's pretty funny! Anyway, her room is all ready and I think we have everything we need so these next two weeks, or maybe sooner :), will just be a waiting game!

Baby cribs and hiccups

Well crib hunting has been quite a headache for us. I found the one that I wanted at Babies-R-Us and of course it was on back order. A few weeks had gone by and no call from the store and I was getting so frustrated! I finally started to give up and not worry since for the first couple of months she'd be in the bassinett that we got from my mom and sisters, which is PERFECT by the way! But I still want to get the nursery set up and looking cute! Especially because we got SO many cute things from showers! (which is a post in the making) Anyway, I don't know how we got so lucky, but Zac's Aunt Erin and Uncle Skip mentioned that they still had their crib and all of the pieces. So...we went to look at it and we loved it! It is exactly what we want in a crib and we even like it better than the one we were looking at. They let us take it and we were so excited to put it all together! There were a few of the nicknacks missing so we made our way to Home Depot and of course they had what we needed! So we went home and got started.

My hubby is the greatest! He was more excited than I was!

Me! I tried to help but didn't do so much after I tried to screw something in and stripped it...oopsy :)

Our adorable bedding I can't wait to set up! Thanks mom!

Finishing pieces...

TaDa!

Now all we need is the mattress and we are set! As for the hiccups part. Our sweet baby girl has been getting the hiccups very frequently lately! A few days ago I kept feeling her move, more like a flinch, every 5-10 seconds or so. It felt like a pulse and it was making me nervous because I had no idea what it could be! Then my smart friend Kelli suggested the hiccups! I think it's SO cute!! She gets them twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. Who knew babies still in the belly could get the hiccups? I love it! I also had my doctors appointment today and I had to do the Strep B, whatever it's called, test today. Now begins the once a week appointments until the big day! They also checked to see if I was dialated at all. The results....a big fat ZERO! No dialtaioin. Maybe next time!