Brisa in a nut shell

Now that Brisa has been home for a few weeks I feel like I know her really well.  So well in fact that I can tell all of you about her.  Here are just a few details about our sweet little bundle of joy:

She was wide awake, but she was smiling so big her eyes closed.

Our baby girl LOVES to smile.  I know people say babies can't smile at her age, but she totally does.  She is always happiest when she has just eaten, thats when her smiles are the biggest, but she also smiles in her sleep and recently when Daddy gives her kisses.  I love waking up to my lil girl smiling back at me, she melts my heart!  Yesterday she laughed while she was sleeping, I can't wait until she laughs when she is actually awake.  My little baby is getting so big!

The cone head.  She was still the most beautiful baby I had ever seen though...

Brisa almost never cries.  The only time she cries is when she is hungry, and even then she has to be VERY hungry, but if I respond to her early warning signs she doesn't fuss at all.  We are so spoiled!  She just loves to look around and watch what everyone is doing, we thought that she was going to be hard because in the hospital she cried a lot, but we realized it was just because she had a headache and laying on her back hurt her. As soon as the cone head went away she was a happy camper.  :)

She sure loves her little bird friends.

Every morning Brisa sits in her bouncy seat and looks at her bird friends while I eat some breakfast or do the dishes or whatever,  She stares them down and if I hit them and make them fly she follows them back and forth with her eyes.  She is such a lil cutie pie!  She always makes sure that she stays as still as possible so that she doesn't scare her bird friends away.  She will sit there as happy as can be for a good 20-30 minutes, it is awesome!  Who knew she was such an animal lover.  :)

Our little grown up sleeping in her crib.

I love my baby so much!  She is the perfect addition to our little family.  She's the perfect snuggle buddy.  I'm gonna be sad when she has to sleep in her own bed.  Chad has started putting her in her crib during the day so she gets used to sleeping in it. Yesterday I changed her diaper and laid her in the crib while I threw the diaper away and when I came back she was asleep.  It was so sad for me, I thought that for sure she would cry because I didn't rock her to sleep like I usually do, but as it turns out my baby doesn't need me.  

D-Day(s)

I'm sure you are all dying to know all the details of how our lil Bunn-dle of joy came into this world, and I am dying to tell you!  But since I was in labor for about 40 hours it would be a novel to tell everything, so here are the highlights.

Thursday, December 27th, 2012
11:30am:  Appointment with Dr. Monroy, I had high blood pressure and got sent across the parking lot  to the hospital for monitoring.
12:00pm:  My blood pressure was going up and they decided i should be induced.
1:00pm:  They started inducing me, I wont go into details, lets just say it was very unpleasant...

Friday, December 28th, 2012

12:00pm: I woke up after a couple hours of sleep, sick of course because I still had morning sickness, it was a very long 9 months.
1:00pm:  I was started on pitocin and it was awful!  The contractions sucked and I was in tears a majority of the time.
3:00pm:  My water broke, and it hurt really really bad and felt like I was peeing and I cried a lil more, and I think this is around the time I yelled at Chad for the first time.
4:00pm I got my epidural and it was fantastic!  I was feeling good and finally was able to sleep for the first time in like 24 hours.  It was glorious!  

Saturday, December 29th, 2012

1:00am:  The nurses said that I could "try" pushing and see what happens, not the most encouraging words I have ever heard, but they were good enough for me!
4:00am:  I had been pushing for 3 hours so they decided to call my doctor in to see what he wanted to do, he watched me push then laid out my options.  I could either have a c-section or we could try using a vacuum to suck her out.  After 3 hours of pushing it was kind of a let down to hear that I wouldn't be able to push the baby out all by myself,  I'm not gonna lie I felt like I failed, but Chad and I decided that we would try the vacuum.
4:30am:  The vacuum popped off Brisa's head, the Doctor said that he didn't like the pop off and he wasn't going to try it again.  Then Chad called a nurse over to hold my leg so that he could sit and not pass out and 2 more nurses came in to take care of him and bring him orange juice, it was the highlight  of the labor process, second only to finally seeing my baby girl!
4:55am:  When Brisa finally made her entrance into the world the cord was wrapped around her neck and Dr. Monroy let Chad cut it off.  Then they put her on my chest for a few seconds before the nicu team took her to start working on her.  Her first cries were almost impossible to hear because they were so muffled by all the fluid she swallowed, but after they cleared her nose and throat I heard the cutest lil cries, not at all annoying.  Brisa has a very low voice and it is so cute and she hardly ever cries.  Shes my perfect little angel.