1st doctors visit

Georgiana had her first doctor's visit on Monday. I was told of some really nice children doctors and it just so happens that one of the doctors was my doctor when I was a baby...
I wasn't able to get Dr. Guthrie but the doctor we saw was really nice and definitely knew what he was talking about!
Georgiana was weighed and she only lost two onces! 7lbs 3oz, that is so good especially when I have been having trouble breast feeding her.

My girl was a perfect little angel. She cried very little, but was mostly just wide eyed looking around in wonder and awe.

Two days later, today, we went to get more tests done and again she only cried a little. my brave Giana.

poor little girl


Georgiana's LIKES:
listening to mom's heartbeat
hearing people talk
when we sing to her
cuddling on mom and dad's bed
looking around to discover new things.
her bouncer
touching her face with her hands
car seat and riding in the car


Georgiana's DISLIKES:
sleeping at night
wet wipes
gas
being cold

Labor and Delivery

JULY 8TH, 2011. AFTER NINE MONTHS IN THE MAKING I FINALLY HAD MY BABY GIRL.

First I wanna start out by saying how amazing this whole experience was! I loved every minute of it, even the pain, call me crazy but I actually thought it was fun. I would definitely do it again.

I suppose it started on July 5th when I got my membranes stripped. It hurt but seemed like it made some progress.
Jump 48 hours later, July 7th, no contractions, so I was convinced I would be having this baby after my due date. Anyways, I was bored and had a lot of energy so I decided to go to my parent's house to go shopping with my mom and sister.
3:00pm I get there, start talking to my mom and suddenly I have something warm running down my legs. I ran to the bathroom and my water was leaking all over me. I stayed calm, called my doctor, and they told me to go to the hospital.
4:00pm I drove out to Banner Ironwood with my mom (my mom was a little too nervous to drive), and I was sitting there waiting to be tested in triage when my water broke completely all over the bed they had me on. IT WAS AWESOME! coolest feeling, I was so excited!
5:00pm They had me start walking the halls of the hospital for two hours. still at 1 cm even after walking all that time.(thats me walking around the building, looking out the window)
7:30pm Because of the risk of infection, I was given Pitocin to help move along my labor. This is when the pain really started and all I wanted to do was sleep.
11:00pm We sent both of our moms to our house five minutes away to sleep.
(needed oxygen for a few minutes)
2:00am I was still dilated at 1 cm, 80% effaced. At this point I had got the epidural and was feeling better. All I can say is that the epidural was AMAZING and I am so glad I got it! It made me relax and not stress out with the pain.
4:00am 3cm...slowly making progress right?
7:00am I went back to sleep for a few hours and I jumped to 9cm at 7, my AWESOME nurse called the doctor and told me she would start having me push soon. Started finally pushing at 9:30am.

(My mom and Brian's mom helped me through delivery)
(I love him.)
Piece of cake, I stayed calm, in my own little zone so I could see my baby.
Probably one of my favorite things that happened was I was waiting for the next contraction to push her head out the rest of the way but instead Georgiana was so impatient she must have pushed up against my ribs (so painful) because she pushed her head totally out on her own.
Last push felt so weird, it was like a huge fish fell out of me and then there was a baby on my belly. FINISHED!
Brian cut the umbilical cord.
They took Georgiana away from me though because she wasn't breathing right and when they checked her temperature it was 101.5. :(

They ran some tests on her and I had to wait for them to be done...felt like forever, but I needed her to be okay and safe.
During this time my doctor, Dr. Kingra showed us all the placenta and let us touch it. such a cool experience, and you best believe we got pictures of that. ;)

I may have forgotten a lot but 24 hours later we were able to go home early, Georgiana's test came back okay and she did not have any infections. I feel so blessed to have this little angel in my life that Heavenly Father entrusted me with. The second she came into this world everything changed for the better. I love her so much.

Georgiana Marie Brown

meet Georgiana Marie Brown...


our bundle of joy
born Friday, July 8th, 2011 @ 10:23am
7lbs 5oz
20 and 1/2 inches long


labor and delivery story to be continued...

Pregnancy Progression

NURSERY ROOM!

My senior year in high school and two years of college I devoted everyday to interior design programs. Design is one of my passions, I can just sit and fully redesign a room in my head. I love it. So you can imagine the day we found out we were having a girl my brain started coming up with amazing ideas to spoil our baby girl.

I slowly worked on the room for five months and it came out much better than even imagined in my head. I am so proud of Brian for putting up with me and helping me make this awesome room!


Before the room was an ugly blue and tan color...Brian and I painted it creme puff yellow with pink and brown stripes adding chair railing in the middle.

I bought both the dresser and lamp from Goodwill. Painted them and made the fabric lamp shade! so cute!



-I got the chandelier for free from Brian's sister, it was silver so I painted it and added the jewels.
-Trash can was painted and I added the same rose material like I did on the lamp shade.
-Brian came up with the great idea to use the wall hanging thing as a holder for the bows and flowers for Georgiana.


I made the shelf to put the lovely baby blessing blanket my co worker made for me and in the back you can see that my amazing artist of a sister, Samantha,painted a white tree. it turned out GREAT!










Now the room is done and all it needs is our little baby girl to fill the room with memories. Less than two weeks left!


oh and p.s. I love this guy! He makes me so happy!

Baby Showers!

I was lucky enough to have great family and friends that threw me two baby showers! I am so grateful for them and the effort they put into it all.

Baby Shower # 1
My co workers surprised me with a lovely baby shower the last week of school! I had no idea at all!! They had the teacher's lounge all decorated so cute.


my coworkers Kathleen and Michele! :)

These are the students I teach...I will miss them so much! this year was awesome!

Baby Shower #2
Another great baby shower that my Mom, Samantha, Cierra, Savanna, and Marsha helped alot with! It turned out wonderfully! The games were SO fun; the decorations and food were AMAZING and I was so happy to see my friends and family who came!
Unfortunately I wasn't really thinking about taking pictures so I only have a few.







Family and friends:




I am so grateful for everything we got for our baby! She will be one spoiled little girl! :) I love my family and friends so much for being so fabulous and loving!


Pregnancy Update:


36 weeks
I am doing pretty well. Hot and tired but I'm surviving. I have been having Braxton Hicks but they aren't terrible.
She is no longer sideways and in ready position! :) We had a scare that her heart was not working correctly but as far as we can tell she is doing okay and already practicing her breathing. With different complications in the pregnancy I have had a total of SEVEN ultra sounds and each ultra sound the techn gets angry at my baby because she does the opposite of what they want her to. its so funny, oh how I love her! :)

Brian's garden blog.

I have enjoyed gardening since I was a little kid and we've always had a garden in St. David. I'm sure there were times when i complained about hoeing the weeds but I think it made me not hate vegetables like most kids do. I have fond memories of picking squash or eating snap peas straight off the bush, and picking tomatoes with my Grandma Brown. I especially loved bringing the corn in and eating it the day it was picked. I even dug up a part of the lawn in the bachelor pad I lived in when I was single and tried growing a few vegetables there.

After Serena and I were married and bought our house, I played with the idea of starting a garden again. This last November we went to my Grandma Sanders' funeral and in my uncle's comments on her life history he mentioned how my grandpa had a green thumb and had the best chilis around. I barely knew my grandpa, he died when I was really young. I do remember him showing us his greenhouse that he took so much pride in. I thought to myself, gardening is in my blood from both sides of my family maybe I can tap into their skills. Even though I live in the city I guess I can still be Farmer Brown.



This is the raised box I built, it took me a long time because I kept changing my plans I wanted to raise it up off the ground so I could easily pull weeds and water. I also wanted it to be somewhat portable because I couldn't decide where in the yard I wanted it. It was a little tricky because I don't own a saw so I had to have the boards pre-cut at home depot.


I started out with Peas, lettuce, Strawberries, Cucumber, Summer Squash, Tomato, and chilis. the picture above is from March 19, 2011.

I've changed a few things up, it got a little hot for the lettuce so I pulled them out and planted okra and bell peppers in its place. I'm happy with how it's growing so far.








I just recently built a second garden up against the fence-line where I am in the process of planting melons and building a trellis out of conduit pipe and nylon netting so they can grow vertically. We'll see how that works.

for more pictures you can see my Facebook photo album.

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