Put a smile on your face

Addison just started really smiling willingly yesterday! I had to share it with you all. I think she has the best smile ever...if I don't say so myself!!

One Month Old!!

I can't believe that my baby is already one month old! It is amazing how quickly time is flying. I tried to prepare myself for it, but it makes me sad anyways. She had her one month check up today. It was obnoxious because when I got to the office they told me that my husband had called and rescheduled the appointment! I said, "Uh no. He doesn't even have the number to the office." Then the girl said, "Well then it was another male member of the household." That made me upset because they wouldn't take the fault of a scheduling error and kept trying to put the blame on me! She said that the appointment was rescheduled for April 27th and we no showed. I was thinking DUH! because we didn't reschedule it! HELLO! I asked her why would I reschedule her 1 month check up a week early. Today she is 1 month not the 27th. So after all the back and forth bantering she said they had to get the okay from the doctor to "work me in." Our appointment was supposed to be at 10:30am and we didn't see the doctor until 12:15! It was really annoying.

The doctor said that Addi is in the 97th percentile for height, 23 inches! She is going to be a really tall girl. We could have figured. Her weight is now 9.3lbs and in the 50th percentile. We thought she would have a large size head since Kyle's head is large but she is in the 50th percentile for the circumference too. Haha!

Addi has developed this strange coughing/hacking/gasping sound when she is being burped and it scared the heck out of all of us. The doctor determined that she has a slight acid reflux. I was relieved that it wasn't anything too serious, but it means that we have to throw the savings of the Costco brand formula to the way side, bite the bullet and keep her on a Soy based formula for a few weeks to see if it will correct the problem.

All in all she is healthy and growing well! She is getting better at trying to smile. She does it a lot while waking up but still not too much when she is fully awake. I can't wait until she is smiling all the time! I love every minute I get to spend with her. She truly is a blessing to us and we can't wait to see where the next month is going to take us!

3 weeks old already!

Yesterday Addison turned three weeks old! I can't believe that in one week she will already be one month old! It's crazy! She is such a wonderful baby. Granted she hasn't gotten on a set sleeping schedule, unless you count her thinking that the night time is appropriate to be awake.

She did the cutest thing today! She started to giggle in her sleep! It melted my heart. I love when she smiles in her sleep and that was just the icing on the cake. It sounded to sweet and innocent. Can't wait until she does it awake and willingly.


She has had many visitors and has only been awake for about two or three of them. It sort of bums me out since she has such beautiful eyes and only a few people have gotten to see them. Every day it seems like she is becoming more alert and stays awake a little bit longer. She must be going through some pretty big growth spurts because she eats every two hours and I even bumped up her formula to 3oz!


She really seems to like her octopus toy. Its a blue octopus that has colors that you can push on its tentacles that say the color with a rhyme. She will stare at that for a long time as long as you keep pushing the buttons.

She is really getting good at being on her tummy mat. Her neck is so strong and her legs are too. She already gets herself half way over on her side. She could probably get all the way over if she could figure out how to get her arm underneath her and not out to her side.

New Pictures

Here are some more pictures of sweet little Addison. These are all from 1 week to 2 weeks old.

Labor and Delivery, Addison is here!

Where do we even start... I was admitted into the hospital around 9:30pm on Friday April 10th. It was a very surreal feeling while I was being hooked up to the monitors and having IV's placed, thinking to myself, "WOW! I am going to be a mom soon, my life will never be the same and I can't wait." The nurse came in a placed a drug called Cervidil. It was a drug that was supposed to get my cervix to dilate. At the time of the induction I wasn't dilated at all. After a few hours the nurse checked me and said that I was dilated to 1cm. That was disappointing but normal considering I started at nothing and it was my first pregnancy.

After a little more waiting around my doctor came into the room to remove the cervidil after 12 hours and without any warning she tried to break my water! The first attempt didn't work so she tried again and it was successful. Unfortunately, that was just the start of a long night of the most intense pain I have ever felt in my life! After the water broke everyone started to get a little more anxious because they started Pitocin which was supposed to move things along a little quicker. Which it didn't! The next time they checked me I was back to being closed with no dilation at all!

The next step was the epidural. I was very nervous about the needle and pain of an epidural but after being in labor for about 14 hours it was time to let the pain fade so I could try to enjoy myself. The epidural was not quite as bad as I had thought but I knew I didn't want to go through it again... That was too much to ask because 6+ hours later I started to really feel the pain of contractions again. The epidural had moved and was no longer working! They had to remove it and place another one lower and with a different type of drug. This one took a long time to start working and in the mean time the doctor had called to check on my status. I was at 1cm again so they tried to turn off the Pitocin and start it over to work its way back up to the max again. When the pitocin wore off I wasn't hardly contracting anymore. After a few hours the doctor called again and the nurse checked my cervix and found that I had only made it to 3 cm! The nurse came back into the room after reporting to the doctor and told me that she was on her way down to do a cersarean. At that point the new epidural was still not kicked in all the way and as upset as I was so go into surgery I was ready to get the pain and labor over with.

At this point I was talking to the anesthesiologist because I was still really feeling the contractions. She gave me a dose of something that was supposed to completely make me totally numb. She did a few tests and felt confident that I wouldn't feel a thing. The nurses came into the room to have me sign the paperwork and I started to realize how real this was getting. In no time this all was going to be over and another chapter of our lives was about to begin. I was so tired that I could barely keep my eyes open and I was shivering uncontrollably due to the drugs. I said goodbye to my parents and they wheeled me off into the operating room. As they were prepping me I was telling the anesthesiologist that I was still worried that I was going to feel what was going on. And that is just what happened!! I started to feel an overwhelming amount of pain as the doctor was working. The anesthsiologist kept putting more drugs into my IV to try to make me comfortable and it wasn't doing the trick. I felt the "pressure" that they described to me when they were taking her out and all of the sudden felt a strange feeling in my stomach and heard my little girl crying. I told Kyle to go be with her while they finished with me. It took probably a total of 10 min which is really fast but it felt like an eternity! The pain was so intense that I couldn't sit still. The nurses kept telling me to stop moving my legs but I couldn't help it. Another nurse came over to me and told me that he was going to give me a shot of Morphine to stop the pain. It finally worked as soon as they were finishing, of course. Unfortunately, the side effect of the Morphine was tiredness and lightheadedness. I could not keep my eyes open for anything!

They wheeled me into the recovery room and I got to see the most precious little baby in the world! Kyle was holding her tiny hand and she was quiet and content. Addison Grace Brown was born at 2:14am on 4/12- Easter Sunday. She weighed 8lbs and 5oz and 21 inches long. I remember the nurses telling me a bunch of information and handing me Addi to try to feed her but I was so tired I don't think anything was sinking in. They gave her and me a bath and then we were wheeled into our new room. I started to wake up a little bit and looked over and she was sitting next to me in her bassinet and I could see just how adorable she is. She just looked so peaceful. My parents were let into the room and they got to meet their granddaughter for the first time. The next few hours were a blur.

The next few days friends and family came to visit and I was released from the hospital on 4/14. Things have still been crazy but are starting to calm down. She is already 9 days old today and I can't believe how fast its gone! For the most part she is a really good baby. She does have a problem with gas in the middle of the night. She will cry and scream for a few hour and then finally fall asleep. Breastfeeding is very difficult and I am working with a consultant. Addison had to be supplemented in the hospital with formula because of Jaundice and since then I have had trouble getting her to latch on. I found out that I had no milk coming in and that is why she got Jaundice. We bought a pump and I have been getting her milk that way but she refuses to latch on now. I hope that we can get past it, but at least she will get the nutrients from me pumping instead of using formula.

Tonight's the Night!!

We had an ultrasound on Tuesday because the doctor felt that Addison was getting too big. I had an appointment with her this morning and she told me that the ultrasound measured her at 8 pounds already! Everything else looks great and she looks and sounds totally healthy. My blood pressure was elevated a little bit and when she measured me I measured at 40-41 weeks! I was shocked seeing that I had 19 more days to go. She said that it would be smart to go ahead and induce me so she doesn't get too big. She called the hospital to see what times were available and they said to come in tonight at 9:00!!! That's right, we are gonna have her this weekend some time! I don't even know how I feel right now. It feels just like when we found out we were pregnant in the first place. A huge wave of emotions are running through me and I can't seem to signal in to just one. It's amazing to me that she will be out of my stomach and in my arms by the end of the weekend! I just pray that everything runs smoothly and hopefully quickly since induction can take a long long time. I will try to keep this updated as things move along over the next couple of days, as long as I am not in too much pain. Epidural here I come! Wish us luck!!

Addison moving around

This is Addison doing what I feel is karate. Looks like she is trying to find her own way out!