Brandyn Sex: boy Born: 12 February, 1996 Age: 16 years & 8 days Birthday in: 357 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Brandyn has read all of the Harry Potter books. He`s learning to play the french horn in School band. And meeting new people in youth group.

When Brandyn was born the nurses were weighing him (all 9lbs 12oz of him) and he actually tried to roll off the scale, he didn't of course but the nurses said: "Uh OH We've got a live one!" Brandyn use to run away from me every where we went to when he was a toddler to venture out. In comparison, he wasn't clingy like my daughter has been. He was always very smart, landing him a spot in gifted & talented every year in school. He was reading at age 2 small words like "Belly, smile, and ears"... Articulated his words well, even at 3 yrs would say things like "How gracious!" When he was 4 and 5 yrs old He always use to dress up he'd wear his fireman's hat or fisherman's hat, ninja stuff... he would do this most every day of the year, not only Halloween. He's 12 now and likes to hang out with friends, read and eat. He is very intuitive, concerned, and likes to have his freedom. Favorite pastimes: watching Drake and Josh on Nickelodeon, playing his french horn,riding his bike, reading books on dragons or Harry Potter, and EATING! I think teenage boys going though growth spurts eat more than pregnant women!!! He's taller and has bigger hands and feet than me now!

Chloe Sex: girl Born: 28 June, 2002 Age: 9 years & 235 days Birthday in: 130 days Starsign: Cancer Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: --just lost her first tooth!/ READING WELL! Learning her ten commandments in awanas. And meeting new friends in Girl Scout daisies.

Chloe was always satisfied being swaddled and held as a baby. She loves being cuddled and I nicknamed her my cuddle bunny when she was a baby. She loves hugs. She is very sensitive, smart and loves her firends and family. Her friend who lives down the road from us is moving and Chloe cried and cried when she found out. So she made her a farewell card, took it to her, and gave her a goodbye hug. That is the type of person Chloe is. Also... Chloe has no enemies and has a ton of friends at school who all hug her! She's trained them to do so I'm sure. Her favorite pastimes are: Watching Sponge Bob, drawing, and singing.

Tyler Collins Sex: boy Born: 14 June, 2009 Age: 2 years & 246 days Birthday in: 119 days Starsign: Gemini Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Being Born!

Birth details

Tyler-Collins-`s birthstory

The beginning of my labor started off and on for a week before his actual birthday I had lots of braxton hicks contractions and sometimes they would be regular an dI would think I was in labor. Wednesday June 10th I went to the hospital for what turned out to be false labor. Then Saturday I had another episode of what might be false labor, periods of regular contractions and then periods of irregular so I was afraid to go to the hospital b/c I was afraid they'd just send me home. I called the nurse Saturday night and she said " We are just going to send you home, and my husband was mad at me too b/c I got us all ready to go to the hospital and we got into an argument about that. I ended up having VERY severe contractions that night. I cried sometimes b/c they were so bad, and The nurse told me she would send me home and my husband got mad at me so I was crying b/c I new I might really be in labor and it didn't seem anyone cared. The next Morning Sunday June 14th I timed my contractions, I was sooo tired at times but then I would have bursts of energy, I was VERY hungry I ate two fiber one bars and peanut butter crackers and a bananna. I drank a lot of water. I had contractions this whole day and every 17 minutes I would have a very painful contraction that I KNEW my cervix had to be dialating. the little contractions inbetween were nothing. I went to Walgreens and picked up some Evening Primrose and took one, I was burping evening Primrose the rest of the night! Called the hospital and told them I'm coming to the hospital I think I am in labor that my contractions are really painful every 17 ionutes adn I have contractions inbetween they said "Well you can come but it doesn;t sound like the contractions are close enough for us to keep you." I said, "Well you can't send me home with this much pain! These contractions are a 10 on a 1-10 scale!!!!!!" -I cried. So we all got in the car (except my 13 year old he was with some family). When we arrived at the hospital I changed into nothing but a gown and a smile, was hooked up to those oh so familiar fetal monitors and laid in bed. The nurse was someone I knew personally for a long time so we talked and talked,inbetween those bad contractions. I was checked after about 3o-45 minutes and was 4 cm dialated right off the bat and she said I was staying and started the admission process.

The nurse left to get everything to start my IV antibiotics and fluids and to get the vials for labs... Meanwhile I was dialating in severe pain. She came back and started the IV and regular IV fluids, there was no pitocin I was NOT induced nature was taking it's course and it was SOOOO Painful. They called the anesthesiologist in to start my epidural he was on his way and I had to get out of that bed during those contractions I tried EVERY SINGLE breathing and positioning I could posibly do they even gave me a peanut ball to straddle, and that seeded to make them worse I Dreaded seeing the little mountain line on the tocometer or contraction monitor as it climbed I remember thing oh dear God not again!!!! the L&D nurse for the night shift came in and was upset I was standing next to the bed b/c my fetal heart monitor was misplaced nad wasn't picking up baby but dang I had to try to get myself some pain relief it was taking my breath away. So I compliantly got back in bed for her. I couldn't lay on my side either that seemed to make the contractions worse. Then finally The mother of all contractions hit me. It hurt so bad I screamed. It felt and I screamed this b/c the nurse was telling me to relax, but I couldn't!! I knew I had to but I was hurting I screamed to her "It feels like something inside me is tearing, like it's on fire!!!" She said' It's about to be over just blow really hard during that time SO I did, I trusted her she has years of experience, I blew and blew I even tried to think of the ocean and blew... She came back with a shot of stadol she putin my IV, which calmed me down, the contractions got bearable, my respirations slowed down and I was about to fall asleep and then the anesthesiologist came in and I sat on the side of the bed to get my epidural. The other nurse sat in fron of me. The anesthesiologist stuck me and missed. He said he got blood return and would have to restick my back again... THANK GOD FOR THE STADOL!!! I was very drugged up and wouldn've been so anxious!! Then his cell phone rang and he answered it!!! I looked back and was about to tell him don't touch my back after answering your cell phone that's contamination! but the nurse infront of me said "Would you like me to get you another pair of sterile gloves?" she read my mind.. so awesome!!! So he put on the new gloves I got back into my hunched over my buddha belly position and he got that epidural in perfect. Then he gave me medication and hooked it up to a pump. I started shaking uncontorollably and all the muscles in my body were tense I was trying so hard to fight that b/c I wasn't feeling any contractions now and the rest of this labor could be such a great experience if it weren't for that side effect. I was afraid I was going to break my teeth I was shaking so hard and uncontrollably. Then the Dr came in to check me she said I was a 7cm with a lip -2. it was around 8:00pm now. Then she told the nurse to hang a little pitocin. By then I was so numb my legs felt like two big tree trunks. I wasn't feeling any contractions but they were still coming. At 930 or so she came back in and rechecked my cervix it was time to push. The nurses, got out the table with the sterile drape ane other nurse who had already turned the baby warmer on hooked up the oxygen and suction for the baby, the other nurse opened the leg stirrups and the bed disassembled into a delivery bed now. the lights above me were turned on and zeroed in on my vagina.. "Oh great I thought" I threw the sheet over it and the Dr removed the sheet and said "Ok I need you to pick up your legs I tried but my brain could not communicate with my legs! So she lifted one of them and told my husband to lift the other one and put them in the leg stirrups then sh told me to grab them from underneath they were SOOO heavyI asked Will to please help me to bring the right leg closer b/c it was even more numb and deadedned from the epidural than the left leg was. then she they all told me to push with this next contraction since I couldn't feel the contractions then they told me when. I asked if I could push from above like I did with all my other babies, she said "NO! NO fundal pressure!" I was corrected on my pushing skills three times before I got it right.. They asked me if I wasnted to see inthe mirror but I said " No thankyou I can see the reflectiond in the dome lights above me" It was a small reflection of his little head crowning, and that was all I wanted to see, Not any blood and guts. Then I pushed two more times, she gave me a cut and his head came out then she said hold the pushing, don't push and she did something with his umbilical cord and then told me tod push his shoulders were no big deal either I remember worrying about delivering his shoulders but it all slid out and there was sooo much warm water and the biggest relief of pressure, she cut the umbilical cord and it splashed all over Will. He was born at 9:52 PM June 14th Sunday. They took him over to the warmer and suctioned him and weighed him they were making bets on how much he weighes while Dr. White delivered the placenta and sewed me up. She is such a wonderful Dr. It was a great Delivery. I was euphoric, not just b/c I was alive and well but so was my little baby boy and I could not stop staring at him and listening to his cry. He is mt third child but I love all three of them the same and his birth was just as special to me as the other two. Will and I joked about how he was born on Donald Trump's birthday and and he kept saying "Your fired"...He does a funny impression of him.

Now after my epidural wore off around midnight they took me to my room and I was still VERY tired and groggy!!! I tried to breast feed but the baby was not interested at all that night. He did drink 1/2 oz of similac. He passed him mecomium in themorning and was still not interested in breast feeding but would drink the similac and he was very groggy as well probably from the medsthey game me while he was still in me. The pediatrician said to give him a good 48 hours to fully become alert. -She was right, that night I breast fed him and he was the happiest camper, He gives a frowny face every time I try to give him similac now, it's funny. He falls asleep after breast feeding and coos. he is so happy with his abundance of breast milk and all the room he wants to stretch out! Just as he did on the sonogram and in my tummy he still stretches out I can papoos wrap him in a recieving blanket and he will stretch hisfeet and one of his feet is always stickingout of the bottom. Oh he has blue eyes!!! I expected him to look like his sister with brown eyes so it was a surprise to have a different color.. I have green eyes, my son has green eyes, my husband and daughter both have brown eyes and our new addition has blue so we are a very colorful family. I discharged from the hospital today June 17th we had to wait 48 hrs for the baby's blood cultures to come back d/t the group B strep issue but they came back negative for him and here we are enjoying life at home. I feel great this is the first time I had a baby where I did not hemmorage afterward. Dr white had told the nurse to give me a shot of Methergen just after I delivered and the gave me a pill every four hours from the night I delivered until the end of the day June 15th. It is nice. Maybe the bleeding will stop within a few weeks and the stitched will heal and Maybe by july 4th I can go swim or go to six flags!!! I know I could hardly walk when I came into the hospital and It feels like I'm free!!!! I want to walk every where! I was actuallu excited to be able to clean my house, see my private when I go to the bathroom, bend over and pick up things and most of all hug and kiss my little baby!!!! It's great NOT TO BE PREGGO !!!!! :-))) LOL!!! There were some great times of my pregnancy but I was hurting bad in the end. It was so worth every miserable minute though! love,