Livin' The Good Life!

Brennen and I just celebrated our first year anniversary yesterday! It's so crazy how fast it goes by.  It seems like just yesterday he was knocking on my door to come home teach me.  Little did we know, 6 months later we'd be getting married and a year from then we'd be celebrating our anniversary with our 2 month old baby!  I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

When Brennen and I decided to add this little munchkin to our family, i'll admit, i was TERRIFIED! I didn't feel ready and to be honest, I wasn't sure if i was ready to be called "mommy". But, I knew it was the right thing to do, which made me a little excited for this new adventure.  When I went into the doctor, she told me it would take 3 months for the birth control to get out of my system once I stopped taking it.  I was relived to hear I would have a little more time with my hott husband before I got pregnant, but to our surprise, I got pregnant 10 days after stopping the birth control.  Shocked? Yes, we were too!  In fact, I remember bawling my eyes out all night because I didn't know how to raise a baby.  I could hardly keep my husband under control and now we're adding another little one to the picture!  But, it wasn't soon after I became very excited.  In those 9 months our family was extremely blessed.  Brennen got a new job that paid well enough to allow me to stay at home once the baby came,  medical bills were excused, Brennen got a new car, we got a little puppy named Sadie

and best of all, we got a house!  Things were going wonderfully and all falling into place until Braxton decided to arrive a month early.  We weren't into our new place yet so my amazing friends and family moved all of our stuff over as well as painted and decorated Braxton's room (pictures will come once it's all finally decorated) while I was in the hospital.  I had to be induced because I had preeclampsia, which has something to do with the placenta detaching from the uterus and it's very serious.  My platelet level is supposed to be 150,000-300,000 and at this point, when i was admitted, I was at 80,000.  The doctor told me I wouldn't be able to have any anesthesia because I was below 100,000.  My first thought was "no pain killers? Oh my gosh i'm gonna die!".  One problem with having preeclampsia is the doctors have to worry about you having seizures, so it wasn't too long before I was put on magnesium to prevent them.  Let me tell you, worst medicine EVER!  I haven't ever felt so distant from my body before.  After 32 miserable hours the doctors decided to do an emergency c-section because my platelet level had dropped to 30,000 and I wasn't progressing labor wise.  I had to get 2 blood transfusions to get my platelet level higher, but they had to knock me out because they were still too low for anesthesia which also meant Brennen couldn't be in the room with me during surgery.  It wasn't too long before our little baby was finally here.  On March 10, 2012 at 9:54 my little man arrived and weighed in at 6lbs 1oz and 19 inches long.  Once I woke up, I was able to hold him for about 5 minutes before they had to take him to intensive care in the nursery.  He was born a day short of 36 weeks so he was considered premature even though everything was developed and he was a perfect healthy baby boy!  The doctor came in my room after they took Braxton back and said the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck and had a knot in it.  A longer pregnancy or vaginal birth could've been fatal.  Braxton was a miracle baby :)  We love that baby so much.  Each and every day he keeps growing and growing!  Being a mom is the most rewarding experience.  After all those little kicks, he's finally he in person (and definitely still kicking!).  It took me a few days before it finally sank in that I was not just a wife, but a mommy too!