Bryell Elizabeth Sandlian

I have seen that this is posted already but On Thursday, April 23rd, we welcomed our gorgeous baby girl into our life. Wednesday night about 11, my water broke. Of course we had no idea what was going on so Jeffrey googled it. We waited the half hour suggested and then went up to school to check sub plans and make sure they would have something to work with. Then we headed to Kemmerer. We checked into the hospital at 1:10 and not 20 minutes later our stand in doctor was there to agree that my water did indeed break. I went the whole night having contractions every 3-5 minutes. The nurse of course told me to sleep--um....that was not really possible... We had brought our computer, ipods, and dvds so began to watch Rush Hour. The night really went by fast but possibly because we didn't get there until after 1! Next thing we know the nurses are trading out and I'm 7cm dilated. From there, it didn't take much longer.

Bryell Elizabeth Sandlian was born at 10:54am. They announced her as 5 pounds 16 ounces. We were all so excited we didn't notice the mistake. One nurse says-"wait, no she doesn't- that's 6 pounds" Yes, that was true, lol! She registered at 5 pounds 15.9 ounces. She peed right away so they decided 6 pounds would be accurate. She is 19.5 inches long. She is a long baby put tiny! Newborn clothes and newborn diapers don't fit her. We have preemie of each now and they fit better BUT she is a bit long for the clothes. The newborn fall off of her though so we like the preemie better. And this way she has some clothes!

The hospital and the doctor were amazing. The doctor agreed to take off his BYU hat for delivery :) We got a nice steak and potato dinner and tons and tons of juice! The nurses were so wonderful and sat down with us for a while and went over all our infant care questions. It was great.

Bryell's first night at the hospital all she wanted to do was sleep. We couldn't really get her up to even eat! The first night home all she did was eat and no sleep- it was quite a contrast. Last night however was a bit more 'normal' for a baby. Sleep, eat, sleep, eat. It was a bit more enjoyable for mommy and daddy! I felt like I had slept 12 hours but it was only like 5!