Well we're coming to a close of the first semester! So far 3 classes down and I've passed them! The two hardest are still coming though. I was able to get through with my baby still knowing and loving me even though I do so much studying. My husband is also not so worse for the wear, although he sure does miss me most of the time. I miss him to! I love him. Nursing school is great but very hard and I will be happy to graduate.
My baby has gotten so BIG in the last few months! She is just so dang cute! She is also the best baby to boot! She is the happiest baby in the world. We are so lucky to have her in our lives. At the moment i can't think of anything majorly interesting that has happened so I'll have to add to post again later.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Nursing school!
Well I've started and all I can say is Wow! Its fun and I'm glad I've finally got here. But it is a lot all the time. There is no such thing being caught up. With that being said, I am so glad I have my baby. She is such a motivator to get things done because I am trying to get back to her as soon as possible. I need to be efficient so I can spend as much time with my family as possible. Anyway I want to keep writing but I just can't focus on that.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Some photos
Bryan and Brooklyn's feet
Blessing Day
Daddy playing with iPhone
Beginning to smile
She is so strong!
4th of July
The Face!
First Flight
Yesterday miss Brooklyn when on her first flight! She was fabulous! Didn't make a sound as she slept the whole way. Everyone gaga-ed over her which of course makes any parent shine with pride! This old man was the best though. I was in the isle of the plane looking for a seat and this old man that was sitting leaned over and asked me what her name was. I said, "Brooklyn." Then he clasped his hand together and looked toward the ceiling and said "Aaahhh! I was born there." He seemed so happy that her name was the same as his hometown. Its funny to be out in public with such a small baby (although she is actually growing like a weed) because you have several types of people:
1. The uninterested: these people don't care or notice you have a baby, they go about their business and act like the baby isn't there.
2. The "I don't want to look interested, but I secretly am": These people keep trying to peek at the baby without actually looking directly at the baby. The don't ask you any questions and try their hardest to not make eye contact. They wear no facial expression as to not give themselves away. Their movements seem a little awkward if you move around with the baby, as if they are afraid they will get caught for being interested in her. In some ways its kinda stalker-ish.
3. The distant interest: These people openly watch you and your baby and make comments to the person they are with but never directly to you, even though they must know that you can hear them. For instance: you walk by with the baby and then hear "oh what a small baby, and look at that face." or you are sitting and playing with the baby and then you hear from behind you, "oh she is so cute larry, look at that smile of hers."
4. The kind and subtle interest: These people are the ones (again mostly women) who sit near you or stop and begin to talk to you and ask all the usual questions, "how old is she? How big was she when she was born?" etc. Then go on to talk about whatever she is doing at the time and how cute it is, (even if she isn't doing anything) and then say "enjoy it because it goes fast." Then the conversation is over and each of you go about your business.
5. The very interested: These complete strangers are the ones who do the "kind interest" as a start but go farther by asking all sorts of questions about her sleep and eating and begin to give all sorts of unsolicited advice. They also begin to interact directly with the baby with baby talk and making her smile and coo.
People are so funny and it was fun to observe these things in the people at the airport and on the plane. None of these types of people do I find bad or anything, just funny. Anyway, it was fun to travel with her because she was so good! It is a lot more work than when I only had myself to get around but well worth it. We are excited to be here with my family and to get away from home for a bit. Bryan and I even got to sleep alone tonight while my parent took the baby and did the night routine with her. :) Although, I still can't sleep in!
1. The uninterested: these people don't care or notice you have a baby, they go about their business and act like the baby isn't there.
2. The "I don't want to look interested, but I secretly am": These people keep trying to peek at the baby without actually looking directly at the baby. The don't ask you any questions and try their hardest to not make eye contact. They wear no facial expression as to not give themselves away. Their movements seem a little awkward if you move around with the baby, as if they are afraid they will get caught for being interested in her. In some ways its kinda stalker-ish.
3. The distant interest: These people openly watch you and your baby and make comments to the person they are with but never directly to you, even though they must know that you can hear them. For instance: you walk by with the baby and then hear "oh what a small baby, and look at that face." or you are sitting and playing with the baby and then you hear from behind you, "oh she is so cute larry, look at that smile of hers."
4. The kind and subtle interest: These people are the ones (again mostly women) who sit near you or stop and begin to talk to you and ask all the usual questions, "how old is she? How big was she when she was born?" etc. Then go on to talk about whatever she is doing at the time and how cute it is, (even if she isn't doing anything) and then say "enjoy it because it goes fast." Then the conversation is over and each of you go about your business.
5. The very interested: These complete strangers are the ones who do the "kind interest" as a start but go farther by asking all sorts of questions about her sleep and eating and begin to give all sorts of unsolicited advice. They also begin to interact directly with the baby with baby talk and making her smile and coo.
People are so funny and it was fun to observe these things in the people at the airport and on the plane. None of these types of people do I find bad or anything, just funny. Anyway, it was fun to travel with her because she was so good! It is a lot more work than when I only had myself to get around but well worth it. We are excited to be here with my family and to get away from home for a bit. Bryan and I even got to sleep alone tonight while my parent took the baby and did the night routine with her. :) Although, I still can't sleep in!
Friday, July 15, 2011
Warthog sounds, and projectile poop
So, I have been around a lot of babies throughout my life, but I have never, never, never noticed how much they snort and grunt. Everyone talks about the "cooing" that is so cute and lovely from a baby. I think I've heard like 30% cooing and 70% grunting. At night, Brooklyn will start flailing her hands and legs and start grunting like a warthog, which is when I know she is waking up to eat. I sometimes laugh at how funny she sounds. You wouldn't think such a sound would come from such a cute little person.
On another note, there is something else that is absolutely hilarious that Brooklyn does! Bryan changes a lot of the diapers, it is kinda his bonding time with her. And for some reason, it seems like she knows he is the one changing her, because it seems like about half of the time he changes her she decides to poop and/or pee when he takes her diaper off. One day, while I was in the shower, he was changing her and all of a sudden comes running into the bathroom with the baby and she has poop all the way up her back to her neck! it was the funniest thing in the whole world. Then she got to shower with mamma and she loved that. She loves bath time!
On another note, there is something else that is absolutely hilarious that Brooklyn does! Bryan changes a lot of the diapers, it is kinda his bonding time with her. And for some reason, it seems like she knows he is the one changing her, because it seems like about half of the time he changes her she decides to poop and/or pee when he takes her diaper off. One day, while I was in the shower, he was changing her and all of a sudden comes running into the bathroom with the baby and she has poop all the way up her back to her neck! it was the funniest thing in the whole world. Then she got to shower with mamma and she loved that. She loves bath time!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
The feeding monster
Well we've hit the first growth spurt! She has been eating non-stop! I don't know where the little piggy is putting it all! She is still so small! She had her second doctors appointment and she is 8lbs 10 oz now! Wow! Two pounds in almost three weeks. The doctor was very proud of her.
I might sound like the cheesy new mom...but I just want to eat her everyday! Which is weird because that would be totally gross! But she is just so precious and cute and sweet. I call her my little sweet pea. There is something about calling kids after food in my family. I was called pumpkin as were my siblings and now I'm calling Brooklyn a pea.
She is a well loved baby by all her family and family friends! I can't believe she is three weeks old!
I might sound like the cheesy new mom...but I just want to eat her everyday! Which is weird because that would be totally gross! But she is just so precious and cute and sweet. I call her my little sweet pea. There is something about calling kids after food in my family. I was called pumpkin as were my siblings and now I'm calling Brooklyn a pea.
She is a well loved baby by all her family and family friends! I can't believe she is three weeks old!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The first two weeks
I am sad she is growing already, I feel like I can't quite capture enough moments with her even though I'm never away from her.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
She is finally here!
Our family has been blessed with our first addition! Brooklyn Sophia joined us on Thursday morning! We love her so much and can't wait to take her home tomorrow! Getting her here was an adventure to say the least!
Wednesday morning about 3am with bad labor pains. I did everything I could to try and dull the pain and eventually about 8 am it started to ebb away. I got a little nap and then got up, got ready and bryan and I headed for out for lunch and to be with friends to try and make the day go by fast! Just as we were getting lunch going, my contractions started again and were averaging about 7 minutes or so and were not fun but weren't unbearable... We were by the pool for a while and then played some cards. After about 5 hours the contractions made there way to avg 2 min apart and were very very very painful for the most part. Since they want you to come when the contractions are about 3-5 min apart we decided to head for the hospital. After my initial exam I was between 3-4 cm dilated and got admitted! I was assigned my labor room and decided to walk around to try and get a little more dialted before I got my epidural because I wouldn't be able to get up again until after delivery and it epidural wore off. About 10pm I got my epidural, which really was no big deal and I was on my way to being pain free! Or so I thought!
The contraction pain eased until I couldn't feel them anymore which was a major relief! How people go through labor with that kind of pain is beyond me! The pioneer women were amazing! Eventually I lost feeling is my lower body but more so in my right side! I still had a fair amount of control and feeling in my left leg and side. You'd think being numb was great because you can't feel anything... in that way it is, but then you deal with the numbness and it is so hard to move and readjust your position etc. And laying on the same spot, numb or not can hurt. So sadly, Bryan, my mom and the nurse had to reposition me often throughout the the night because i would hurt after a while. I also had moments when I began to feel my contractions again in my left side beacuse it wasn't as numb as the right. Epidural medicine spreads by gravity... so I had to lay on my left in order to get the medicine to the left side. By the time of delivery 12 hours after initially getting my epidural my left side was finally as numb as my right side.
A few hours before delivery I got a fever that peaked at 103 degrees... not good! Kyle and Bryan gave me a blessing about an hour before I delievered and I was completely fine by the time by baby was here! Bryan's mom and my mom along with Bryan of course were in the delivery room with me helping out. The nurse had me start pushing about 10:15am to get me ready for the doctor. By 10:33 Brooklyn came flying out! What an odd and relieving sensation to have her out of me! I touched her head as she crowned...that was interesting, very squishy. She was nasty looking as all baby's are and was immediately taken to the cleaning station so they could suck stuff out of her lungs that had gotten in there in utero (poop basically). Eventually she gave a few wimpy little cries and was cleaned off a little and vitals checked etc and brought over to me. She was 6lbs 9 oz and 20 3/4 in long. She was just so beautiful. I couldn't believe I was holding my own daughter. It was love at first sight. Well actually before because I loved her when she was inside me too! Eventually she was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to be watched and put on antibiotics. We both had to be put on antibiotics for 24-48 hours. Bryan went with her and I was left alone with the doctor and nurse getting cleaned up. Eventually I was moved to my postpardum room upstairs. It was so funny to try and walk! The poor nurses had to get me on the really odd people mover thing and eventually to a wheelchair. After a couple hours I finally was able to go down and see my baby.
I finally got to hold her and kiss her and start to try to breastfeed. It was amazing. Since Thursday I have been going down there around every three hours or so and fed her and been with her, getting updates etc. We hoped to come home today but had to wait till they were sure she could maintain her own body heat. So hopefully in the morning we will be approved to go home! The doctor thinks she will be fine! I was discharged today and we were both taken off our antibiotic today.
It has been hard to have her away from me in the NICU but I am of course glad she is getting the care she needs. Eventhough I was allowed to go home and come back I couldn't bare the thought of leaving her here alone so I have stayed all day. We got a hospitality room we are staying in for the night until she is ready to be released. She is just an amazing little thing. She is very sweet and cute and we love her! I love seeing Bryan with her as she feeds her etc because he is so cute with her and she is a lot like him!
Pictures of my baby are coming!
Wednesday morning about 3am with bad labor pains. I did everything I could to try and dull the pain and eventually about 8 am it started to ebb away. I got a little nap and then got up, got ready and bryan and I headed for out for lunch and to be with friends to try and make the day go by fast! Just as we were getting lunch going, my contractions started again and were averaging about 7 minutes or so and were not fun but weren't unbearable... We were by the pool for a while and then played some cards. After about 5 hours the contractions made there way to avg 2 min apart and were very very very painful for the most part. Since they want you to come when the contractions are about 3-5 min apart we decided to head for the hospital. After my initial exam I was between 3-4 cm dilated and got admitted! I was assigned my labor room and decided to walk around to try and get a little more dialted before I got my epidural because I wouldn't be able to get up again until after delivery and it epidural wore off. About 10pm I got my epidural, which really was no big deal and I was on my way to being pain free! Or so I thought!
The contraction pain eased until I couldn't feel them anymore which was a major relief! How people go through labor with that kind of pain is beyond me! The pioneer women were amazing! Eventually I lost feeling is my lower body but more so in my right side! I still had a fair amount of control and feeling in my left leg and side. You'd think being numb was great because you can't feel anything... in that way it is, but then you deal with the numbness and it is so hard to move and readjust your position etc. And laying on the same spot, numb or not can hurt. So sadly, Bryan, my mom and the nurse had to reposition me often throughout the the night because i would hurt after a while. I also had moments when I began to feel my contractions again in my left side beacuse it wasn't as numb as the right. Epidural medicine spreads by gravity... so I had to lay on my left in order to get the medicine to the left side. By the time of delivery 12 hours after initially getting my epidural my left side was finally as numb as my right side.
A few hours before delivery I got a fever that peaked at 103 degrees... not good! Kyle and Bryan gave me a blessing about an hour before I delievered and I was completely fine by the time by baby was here! Bryan's mom and my mom along with Bryan of course were in the delivery room with me helping out. The nurse had me start pushing about 10:15am to get me ready for the doctor. By 10:33 Brooklyn came flying out! What an odd and relieving sensation to have her out of me! I touched her head as she crowned...that was interesting, very squishy. She was nasty looking as all baby's are and was immediately taken to the cleaning station so they could suck stuff out of her lungs that had gotten in there in utero (poop basically). Eventually she gave a few wimpy little cries and was cleaned off a little and vitals checked etc and brought over to me. She was 6lbs 9 oz and 20 3/4 in long. She was just so beautiful. I couldn't believe I was holding my own daughter. It was love at first sight. Well actually before because I loved her when she was inside me too! Eventually she was taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to be watched and put on antibiotics. We both had to be put on antibiotics for 24-48 hours. Bryan went with her and I was left alone with the doctor and nurse getting cleaned up. Eventually I was moved to my postpardum room upstairs. It was so funny to try and walk! The poor nurses had to get me on the really odd people mover thing and eventually to a wheelchair. After a couple hours I finally was able to go down and see my baby.
I finally got to hold her and kiss her and start to try to breastfeed. It was amazing. Since Thursday I have been going down there around every three hours or so and fed her and been with her, getting updates etc. We hoped to come home today but had to wait till they were sure she could maintain her own body heat. So hopefully in the morning we will be approved to go home! The doctor thinks she will be fine! I was discharged today and we were both taken off our antibiotic today.
It has been hard to have her away from me in the NICU but I am of course glad she is getting the care she needs. Eventhough I was allowed to go home and come back I couldn't bare the thought of leaving her here alone so I have stayed all day. We got a hospitality room we are staying in for the night until she is ready to be released. She is just an amazing little thing. She is very sweet and cute and we love her! I love seeing Bryan with her as she feeds her etc because he is so cute with her and she is a lot like him!
Pictures of my baby are coming!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
So much for a due date!
Went to my doctors appointment since I haven't had the baby yet (big surprise) to find out that I haven't really made any progress since my last appointment two weeks ago, which is very disappointing! So, the induction is scheduled for next Thursday at 6:15am, if she doesn't come on her own before that...and seeing as my luck so far hasn't been good I have a feeling she won't feel the need to come before they finally evict her against her will.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Nesting is Real!!!
If you look at the time of this post you will notice it is in the middle of the night! They talk about the "nesting" instinct that all mammals supposedly get when preparing for their offspring to arrive. I am no exception to the rule! I fell asleep for a little while after dinner, decided to get up and watch a movie since I couldn't go back to sleep and yet I was still tired. After the movie was done, I realized I had energy to clean the kitchen. I didn't want to do it in the morning. I wanted to be able to wake up to no dishes and clean counters and an organized house. As I was in the middle of the kitchen, (by the way it was 10:30pm at this point) Bryan wakes up and comes to see what I'm doing. I continue my stuff and he begins to clean up stuff too! Before you know it, I'm sweeping all the floors, cleaning baby stuff, cleaning our bedroom, going through the closet and getting rid of things we never wear and don't want anymore. Bryan fixed the washing machine that broke last week...which was quite a job I might add. He also organized the desk and got rid of his school papers he no longer needs, helped me with the baby stuff, got stuff together to take to the trash and recycle bins tomorrow morning....and the list goes on! It feels great! Then...I soaked my feet because of course, they serisouly look like sausages after being on them most of the day and now night!
Anyway, it feels great to be organized and clean. Cleanliness really is next to Godliness! Now I just need to get myself to go to sleep.
Anyway, it feels great to be organized and clean. Cleanliness really is next to Godliness! Now I just need to get myself to go to sleep.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Memorial Day
Yesterday was a good day! We had a great day with family and friends yesterday, eating food and playing games! There were a couple times I thought if I kept laughing my water would break! Unfortunately that is not what happened. Still two more days till the official due date so I guess I shouldn't be surprised...
I had a dream last night that I was still pregnant but I was skinny and I had major stretch marks on my belly. I was so upset because I knew I only had a short time left and yet these really horrible stretch marks showed up! It was very scary, although I looked great besides the marks!
I had a dream last night that I was still pregnant but I was skinny and I had major stretch marks on my belly. I was so upset because I knew I only had a short time left and yet these really horrible stretch marks showed up! It was very scary, although I looked great besides the marks!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
You know you're 9 months pregnant when...
1. You go to bed exhausted and have a horrible 4 hours of sleep, decide to get up at 5 am because there is no point in ruining your husbands sleep and let your back keep hurting, and then just go about your day like nothing ever happened... and still do something productive that day.
2. You can't see your lower body when you look down.
3. Your feet look like they have Vienna sausages attached to them instead of toes
4. You feel like at any moment you could fall forward because you have a bowling ball under your shirt.
5. Your boobs are so big you are afraid that if you move to fast you are liable to knock yourself out
6. You spend more time in the bathroom than any other room....anywhere
7. Sex is not about love and passion between spouses, its about trying to get the baby to come
8. Being so desperate to have your body back, you're all of a sudden a lot less critical of all those wives tales you've heard
9. Food actually talks to you
10. The only things people ask you anymore are, "when is your due date?", "do you know what you're having?", "Do you have the name picked out?"
11. You wonder how such a little person can have/need so much stuff
12. You're belly can contort into almost any shape
13. Your parents cease to really care about you, and only keep you around because you are an obstacle to the future grandchild
14. You wonder how you could have ever been fooled into marriage by the idiot sleeping next to you, and in the next moment think he is the best guy in the whole world, and every other woman should be jealous
15. People you walk by, either look at you and smile, or look at you like you have the black plague and give you a wide berth as they walk by
I could go on, but we'd be here all day! I'm sure every mother can relate to at least one of these statements! My praises to all the women who have gone before me and suffered this. Pregnancy is truly the best kept secret because I just can't imagine that we as women would continue to do this if we really knew what we were getting into the first time. Its only after the kid comes that you realize the pain and suffering is worth it ....or at least thats what they tell me...so we keep having more!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Pictures
By popular request here are a couple of pictures from last Saturday in front of the capital after my cousin's wedding reception.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
We've succumb to the Blog!
We've finally done it! We've made a Blog! It took me long enough to get around to it, but here we are! Our branch of the Camuso Clan was established in October 2008. Now, almost three years later we are about to add a third member to our family! I guess I might as well jump right into blogging! I am a week away from my due date and can hardly wait for this baby to come! That is really the only thing I think about from day to day! "Could today be the day?!" But alas, so far...nothing! I really shouldn't be surprised though, I've never really had good luck when it comes to getting things I want right when I want them. So we'll continue to wait, as if there is anything else we can do, until this little ray of sunshine decides she is ready to make her debut!
Bryan just finished finals week last week! Yay! That was not a fun week for him! He did pretty dang good this semester considering the classes he was taking, still working and having a prego wife! He is quite an amazing guy! He is now getting getting his life insurance license (he already is licensed for Casualty and Fire) so he can start working as an insurance agent! I'm really proud of the work he is doing and the focus he is giving this because it had a slow start. I'll put a plug out for him, if you would like to see if he can save you money on pretty much all types of insurance, contact him in a few weeks and he'll see what he can do for you! Who doesn't like to save money!
He is also super cute about the baby coming! He is really excited, as we both are and has been great in helping me and my big belly get our place ready for the baby. He asked his famous question the other day, "What is it going to be like?" I think he will make a GREAT father! The little baby clothes are so cute and small...its hard to believe we'll soon have a real little person to go in all those clothes!
Anyway, I guess that is it for now!
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