Braylee Sage Smedley....her birth story

The last pregnancy photo. Me at exactly 39 weeks getting ready to go to the hospital. At my last appointment on Monday we found out that Braylee had again turned head down and was in the right position. The doctor decided that we should go into the hospital later that week and he would break my water to hopefully get labor started.  He didn't want to wait to long because she was at risk for turning again. So we planned for Thursday but with a possibility that I might get to go in late Wednesday night depending on how the 3 other deliveries that my doctor had to do first. So I made sure I had everything ready and waited for the call.

 

Well sure enough the doctor called at about 4pm on Wednesday telling me that labor and delivery was going to call me soon to have be come in. We got to the hospital at about 6:15pm where they checked us in and got us all set up in the labor and delivery room. My doctor got suck at another hospital so we waited for him. At 9:15 he came in and checked me and the baby and she was head down so he went ahead and broke my water. 

Two hours later he came back in to check on the baby. She was such a wiggle worm that the little monitors that they had on my belly they had to come in and readjust so they could hear hear. The doctor didn't like that we couldn't hear her very well and he wanted to put a fetal heart rate monitor on her head. So he got me all into position and just as he was about to put it on he let out a huge gush of water and Braylee moved into a sideways position. This was not a good thing. When the doctor felt me again Braylee had completely disappeared and he couldn't feel her at all. He gave me a half hour for her to turn back into position. After that half hour was up he came back in and the little stinker had put her hand right over my cervix and wouldn't move a centimeter. The doctor looked at me and told me that he didn't have a good feeling about it and felt that we just needed to take her. He said that there had to be something holding her so she couldn't move because it wasn't normal for a baby not to move into place for birth after loosing so much water and doing what we were to get her into place. So I consented and we started prepping for a c-section.

  Delivery went well considering. I don't think I was completely numb because the whole time they were cutting into me and trying to get her out was EXTREMELY painful. I don't remember being in so much pain with Brantley. My mouth hurt from gritting my teeth so hard and I had the shakes for about 3 hours after labor. She was so stuck in my uterus they had to use forceps just to turn her so she could be pulled out. The doctor told David later there was no way that she would have ever turned. So it was good we did the c-section when we did. I got to hear her cry when she came out and David got some pictures of her when she was first born. 

 I even got to see her when she was all cleaned up. Something I really missed with Brantley 

 Our beautiful baby girl Braylee Sage Smedley was born at 12:25am.

 She weighed 6lbs 7oz and was

 18in long with a TON of beautiful black hair.

Brantley was so excited to see her. When he first walked in the door he held out his hands and said "baby" and gave her a huge hug.

 Brantley just wanted to hold her the entire time he was here and got mad if someone took Braylee away while he was holding her.

We had lots of visitors

We are so glad to have her here safe and sound! We feel so blessed to have this beautiful baby girl join our family.