4 Months Old

I feel like this last month Brewer has changed so much and gotten so old. Dal says he's getting to the "fun" stage but I think he's always been fun! He's crashed out right now from his shots, he did so good but it's always so dang sad.  Luckily Dal could come this time so I didn't have to watch. 

This month he:

Sleeps without being swaddled and now sleeps in his crib! I just lay him down, give him his binkie and he usually goes right down.

Has found his toes and his crotch region ha.

Loves going on stroller rides when it's warm

Sleeps from 9-5 ish, then eats and goes back down til 7 or 7:30 ish. Naps every hour and a half all day long.

Loves to sit up like a big kid and check out what's going on in the house.

Always has his ball, hr usually holds it while he sleeps.

Figured out how to take his bink out but can't put it back in.

Wears mostly 6 month clothes and 6-9 month pjs.

Wears size 2 diapers.

Loves to FaceTime people, he gets so amused.

Still likes tummy time and will roll over without really knowing he's doing it.

Loves bath time and getting his ears cleaned out ha,weird I know.

Hates if I leave him to go into another room. Has an absolute meltdown, so we're pretty much attached at the hip.

Is getting quote long for his car seat.

At his appointment he was 15.12 lbs (75%), 26.5 inches (90%).

3 months!

From 2 months to 3 months Brewer changed SO much. He is now only formula fed and it has helped him a ton. He's now a little chunker and I love it!  We blessed him yesterday at our apartment and our families could not believe how big he'd gotten.  

A few things this month:

Still loves his bath, getting his clothes changed and getting his diaper changed. He still won't sit in a wet/dirty diaper for 2 seconds.

Likes tummy time ok but doesn't love it unless I'm down by him talking to him where he can see me. 

Can roll from his front to back but won't do it when he's crying crazy boy. 

A lot of times I'll hold him and think he's asleep, and I'll look down and he'll peek out of one eye and if I'm looking at him he gives me a big ol cheese.

Super smiley, happy baby.

Loves to sing songs, especially "Take me out to the ball game", " ABC's" and this counting song that one of Bryir's toys taught us ha.

Sleeps great, he usually goes to bed around 9-10 and wakes up at 5:30 to eat then back to sleep til about 7:30.

Naps every hour and a half still, for about 30 min to an hour. In the afternoon he usually takes a 2 hour nap.

Will take only the Nuk binkies but only while he's sleeping or almost asleep.

Has to be swaddled to sleep still.

Still so long, he wears 6 month pants and they will be too short pretty soon.

All his cute hair fell out, he's starting to grow it back but it was a bald couple of weeks!

His 3 month picture with Aggie bear

After his blessing

Brewer at 2 Months

So Brewer hit the 2 month mark a few days ago! I wanted to wait til he had his appointment to post so that I could record all his measurements.  We just got back from the appointment and the poor boy hit his shots, but he fell asleep before we even got out to the car, so hopefully he'll sleep for awhile and will forget all about them! He actually did way good, I'm sure it was harder for me than it was for him ha. At 2 months he is: 

          -10 lbs 3 oz (25%)

          -23 3/4 inches (90%)

          -15 inch head (40%)

He is still so tall and skinny! We're gonna try and plump him up though. Problem is, it all goes into making him taller, not fatter lol. This month he loves: 

          -Getting his diaper changed. He hates being in a dirty diaper more than anything! Even if it's the tiniest bit wet he cries until it's changed and then he's fine.

          -Watching TV. It entertains him for forever.

          - Reading books

          -Taking baths

          

He hates:

          -Getting swaddled, but once he does he sleeps so good.

          -Dirty diapers

He has a love/hate relationship with his binky. He quit taking the soothies, so I switched him to the Nuk ones and he takes it so much better, when he decides he wants one.

We've started supplementing and I feel like it's helped him a ton. In just the week we've been doing it he sleeps from about 9:30-4:30, then back to sleep til about 8, he's a lot happier Inbetween feedings/naps, and he's finally getting a tiny bit of chub. I was so anti doing this but I feel like he needed it and it's helped him and my sanity, so all around its a really good thing. He will only drink out of the Nuk bottles though. And FYI, they don't sell any plain ones that I can find, so if anyone sees any let me know! He has a cute camo one, but then he has a gay one that has mustaches all over it and says "hipster baby" on it and I'm pretty embarrresed to even own it, let alone have to use it. I don't understand the while mustache and hipster craze? 

I tried to take a few pics with his Aggie bear so I can compare his growth every month and he was just wiggling away!

I finally got this one that looks like imposed him to hold the bear's hand or try to pose like the bear ha.

In his Utah State t shirt that's a 6 month size, but itmactually fits him, it must just run small.

In other news, today was Dals last "first day of school"! This semester is so chill, we're pretty excited about it! He'll be home a lot more to watch Brew so that I can go do hair or go running or whatever.

Christmas 2013

For Brew's first Christmas we were in Blanding with my family. We stayed for a week and we had so much fun. This was the first time that Bryir got to see Brew and oh my heck, it was so fun to see them together. We mainly just chilled at my parents, cheynas and both the grandparents houses and ate a crap ton of food. Dallan was in heaven playing basketball and hunting all week ( he had a cow elk tag but missed the only time he saw one ha) and i just got to chill with my fam, so it was a nice break from being at home in Logan! 

Traveling down to Blanding...he slept pretty much the whole time, it was awesome

Bryir sharing her nativity baby Jesus with Brew while he was napping...so cute

mimi reading to the kids

Grams Kathy with Brew and Armanii

Loves holding Brew

Every morning my dad would try to make him smile, and he actually did ha and that doesn't happen very often

Grams Carolyn meeting Brew for the first time

Sim sent this onesie of herself to Brewer for Christmas ha pretty clever

Grand kids in front of the Christmas tree, and yes, he is freakishly long lol

Brew and auntie Sagy

On Christmas Day we traveled to Delta and he was so good the whole way. He finally woke up the last 15 ,minutes of the drive and was happy as he could be!

A few pics

Here are a few pics I've taken the past 2 weeks with Brew around

 I don't normally have him sleep in his crib, but we are trying it out a few times a week just so he'll get used to sleeping wherever.

 Twinsies!

 So out of it after a nap, but love this cute outfit my mom got for him

 Hangin out

 Dal's brother Cory sent him a pic of their new little boy Brogan dressed up on Saturday in a BYU beanie for the BYU game so Dal had to put him in his Utah State one and send a pic to them.  The boys are only 2 weeks apart so that will be fun!

 First walk on the last warm day we had up here.  We'll be stuck inside for the next 6 months it feels like

 After his first real bath at home.  I love a baby right after a bath, its so cute

 Dal says he got 2 things from me, his open mouth sleeping and his crying ha

Heres one of his newborn pics that Raquel Young did for us.  I'll get the rest of them up soon, they all turned out so cute!


Brew will be 3 weeks in just a few days and we're starting to figure life out a little.  During the day he eats every 1-2 hours, for anywhere from 30 min to an hour, and at night eats every 3 hours if he doesn't fall asleep during his feeding.  If he falls asleep he'll wake up in about an hour and a half and want to eat again so we've got to work on that.  He naps so good during the day and hangs out awake for awhile during the day now, so he's starting to be more alert which is so fun.

I'm healing good and feeling a lot better this week.  Just excited to start working out and being a normal person again.  I don't go anywhere during the week normally so lets just say getting ready doesn't really happen anymore ha.

Brewer Dallan Webb

He's here! I have probably waited too long already and have forgotten alot about his birth story, but I figured I better get down what I remember before I forget.  Its going to be a long, detailed post for my journal, so sorry!

On Thursday October 31, I had my membranes stripped and oh gosh, that was so sucky.  I will most likely never get that done again.  I did start contracting from it though, and by Friday night I had been having contractions at that point for over a day, and was 5 days past due anyways.  I had been timing them and they were consistant for awhile and then would fade off, so I didn't think much of it.  After Dallan got home from work Friday night they were about 6 minutes apart, so we figured we should go in and just make sure.  We didn't really pack much and weren't super prepared because we figured for sure they'd send us home.

We go in and they hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were showing up but were not very strong at all.  They said they'd monitor me for an hour and let me know.  So as we came up on and hour we were talking about how we'd go and get food at Sonic and go home and sleep in the next day.  The nurse came in as soon as we got excited about getting some food and said that they were going to keep me! I was so excited, yet slightly pissed because I was starving at that point and now I knew they wouldn't let me eat until after he came.

They started PIT and said to try to get some sleep until I had dilated.  At this point I was only a 2 which I had been at for weeks and only 70% effaced.  So we both fell asleep and around 3:30 I work up feeling bad contractions.  I put up with the contractions for awhile before I told them to give me the epidural.  I knew that I would be much more willing to have them shove a needle up my back if I was in pain from contractions, rather than just give it to me willy nilly.  The epidural was not near as bad as I thought! I don;t know if it was cause my contractions hurt so bad or what, but it was more of just a weird feeling, rather than super painful.  They got it all done and we went back to sleep until this nurse girl came in and said she was gonna empty my bladder with a cathedar.  I could totally feel everything! I told her I could and she told me I couldn't because of my epidural, and I said, no I can definitely feel it.  So she asks why I hadnt pushed the button for the epidural to kick in more and no one had even told me about it! After that I started just pushing it like crazy cause I didn't want to feel a thing.

Anyways, I dilated from a 5-9 really fast and they said they would have me start pushing, I think it was around 8:30am.  We told our families and they kept texting and calling us asking if we'd had him him yet, but I hadn't started pushing yet cause my doctor was delivering another baby.  They were all sure I had to have an emergency C-section cause we didn't answer for so long .  I finally started pushing around 9:30-9:45 ish, and the hospital was short staffed so it was just a nurse and Dal in there.  I was pushing and couldn't feel a thing, it was awesome.  Nothing like the movies ha.  Finally they are talking about seeing his head and talking about his hair, and the doctor is still not there.  My nurse just says to pretty much not move or push because the baby is about out and we don't want him to come before the doctor gets there ha.

Finally Dr. Blackett gets there and within a couple pushes he's out and Dallan is about to pass out haha.  He was holding one of my legs and said that about did him in to see him come out.  I had them clean him all up and all that before I held him cause lets face it, I probably would have gagged and thrown up knowing me and gross stuff haha.

Brewer ended up coming at 10:57am on Saturday November 2 and was 7.3 lbs and 22 1/2 inches long.  Such a long, skinny boy! The nurses said they never see 22 inch babies, so hopefully he ends up being really tall, but I would like to fatten him up.

 First pic of little Brewer boy!

 His first bath that Dal and the nurse gave him and he did NOT like it

 Dal and Brew

 In the middle of the night I took this pic of him, and the flash woke him up but I didn't care haha.  I had him stay with me the whole first night cause I was so freaked out about a Code Pink and someone stealing him (it happens) so I didn't get much sleep.  The next night I let them take him and that was the best decision ha, that was my last real night of sleep I've had!

 Going home! He is so tiny in that big ol' carseat

 My mom came and stayed with me in the hospital and then stayed for 4 days after we got home and it was so nice.  She slept at the hospital with me and Brew so that Dal could get a good night's sleep because he still had school and had a huge test the Monday after he was born.

 She cooked us tons of food and fattened us right up

This is our morning activity.  We wake up, get a little ready for the day, then have our morning nap together, its the best.




So all in all everything has been so good! Ya I'm tired and not knowing what I'm doing but it really is so fun.  He's been such a good baby, other than today he feels like he needs to be held to sleep, so hes sitting on my lap right now crashed out.

In the hospital Brewer would not latch on to nurse.  We eventually met with a lactation consultant and she had us start using a shield.  He still struggled with that so we did S&S, and thought he was doing fine.  Well the day after we got home he hadn't had a dirty diaper all day, so that afternoon they told me we needed to bring him in.  They weighed him and he had dropped down to 6.6 lbs which is too low to drop to.  Basically I had been starving him and didn't know it, it was so sad! So they had me start supplementing formula and pumping and giving it to him in a bottle.  I was super anti formula so I fed him a couple bottles but mostly just pumped and made sure he got plenty of milk that way.

When he was a week old I just said screw it and spent all day making him try to latch on (even with the shield) and he finally got it! He started gaining weight fast and is up to 7.5 and eats CONSTANTLY.  I'm so glad he's nursing now cause pumping was a freakin pain in the butt.