1 week today

Natalie having a snuggle with her new baby.

My sweet little man is already a week old.

This little gift has just fit right in with us, feels like he has always been here. I have been so blessed to have a quick recovery. I feel pretty much back to normal. Just a few pains here and there if I am up too much at one time. My friends have been truly wonderful in bringing meals every night for the past week. What a blessing they are to me.

Chris and I have spent the last 6 nights with sweet Jude in between us just in awe of God's handiwork. We marvel at the fact the Lord hand picked us raise this little guy into a man of God.

I get so excited when I think of God's special plan and purpose for our family. I am more thankful than ever for the priceless gift of each of my children. Nothing reminds you more how amazing children are when you look at a newborn.

My Little Piece of Heaven

A break in between contractions

9 cm!!!! Getting ready to meet baby number 6!

I woke up Wednesday morning like any other *overdue* morning. For the past week I had been praying for my body to work the way God intended it to. I did not want to be induced. I went into the bathroom and prayed “Jesus I thank-you for a wonderful pregnancy, I thank you for this sweet little one we are going to meet soon. I pray Lord, that things will happen at the perfect time.
I pray this baby will move in to the perfect position for birth, I pray things will happen in proper timing at the time of delivery my water will break on its own and that my body would push baby out. I prayed my body would accommodate the birth of my baby and there would be no tearing or complications.”
After that I got the children something to eat and went in to visit my sister in law in the living room.
I had bought Rachael a big green ball for Easter that we were rolling back and forth on the floor when I got the idea that I should sit on it and roll back and forth a bit. I did that while chatting for about 45 mins. At 11:45am I gave Chris a call at work and told him I had just had a few “Braxton Hicks” that felt a little crampy. I told him I’d give him a call back at 12:30pm after a few more to see what was going on.
At 12:15 my oldest called Chris and said “dad I think you should come home now” by now it had just so happened my mom got off work early and had come over.
At 12:30 Chris and my mom were convincing me to phone my midwife and let her know things were happening. Chris went ahead and started to fill the birthing pool. I still was 100% convinced this was the real deal. I was waiting for more pain. I was fully planning on letting the children stay and do their thing. I believe birth is 100% a natural part of life and wanted them to be a part of their brother/sister coming into the world. Well things changed quickly when Chris started filling the pool and Rachael started taking her clothes off wanting in. And SCREAMMING when we would pull her away. Presley also thought getting on his shorts would be a good idea. I quickly had my sister in law scoop them up out the door to go see my Mother in Law. At that point I gave the older three a choice. They could stay or go, it didn’t matter and that they could come home right after. Zachary was the only one who chose to go.
At 1:00pm I gave the midwife a call and told her to maybe come and check things out. She didn’t need to stay but I didn’t know where I was at. 1:30pm she arrives.
She watched me have a few contractions and we moved into my bedroom where she could check me out. To both our surprise I was 9cm!!
How could this be?!?! This doesn’t hurt enough to be at 9 already?!?
I got in the pool right away because we knew delivery would be near. The water was nice and warm and my whole body just relaxed. It was amazing to be so in tune with everything that was happening. I could feel him coming down the birth canal and I was able to tell them as each thing happened. I could feel my pubic bone move and stretch and then a pop and my water had broke. My midwife had the most soothing clam voice with little bits of encouragement. “ oh yes good” As soon as the bag of waters ruptures the head was crowning. At that point I said “Austin and Natalie you need to go in the hallway” I didn’t want them seeing the whole deal. Within one more push he was out!!
I pictured myself doing it quite different. I was thinking more on my knees so I could pull baby up out of the water and into my arms. But I ended up delivering on my hands and knees with my head against the pool. I think for me the best part was not having anyone tell me what to do. My midwife fully trusted me and my body to work as it is to. All I could do was Praise God!!! And evidently enough Jude means Praise! I sat in the pool for about an hour after fully attached to my baby. No cord was cut, we waited until things just happened on their own.
Once I started to get really crampy from the placenta that was delivered and we Welcomed Jude to Life no longer apart of his Mama.

Jude Elias Brown

7lbs 11ozs

Born on Earth Day! How's that for crunchy LOL

Waiting for Baby

41 weeks today! We all are waiting for baby. Each of us having been trying to come up with new idea's to keep us busy while we wait for this new little one to join us.

Today my 3 boys wanted to have a "Yard Sale" They collected little trinkets through out there bedroom and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over priced everything and sat at the end of the driveway for a few hours.

They came in saying " no luck today mom" I tried hard not to giggle but really selling dollar store bubbles for $5.00. LOL

Man they are cute!