Introducing: Brilee Grace Stapp

So, after all the "issues" during the end of my pregnancy, our little princess decided to stay in my belly until she was forced out:) So, at my 37 week appt, my doctor said we could be induced the night of the 23 rd, making me 38 weeks 5 days; exactly 1 week farther along than I was when Brennar Matthew made his appearance. Since I hadn't been that pregnant before, I was READY to have my little girl here.

We went along our day as usual, it was a little strange, I kept feeling really guilty every time I looked at Brennar. I felt so bad thinking that he wasn't going to be the center of our universe anymore

:( Clint came home early so he could make sure we had everything we needed and to spend a little extra time with Brennar, it was really nice to have that extra time with our little man. Then at 8 pm, we got the phone call from the hospital asking if we were ready to come on in and have a baby! We got in the car and off we went.

On our way to the hospital to have our baby girl!

Our last photo as a family of 3!

I finally got checked in about 9:30 or so and they got us set up in the delivery room. At 10, the on-call doctor came in and checked me and did an ultrasound, I was 3-4 cm and baby was still head down, yay!! They called my doctor and he said to get my IV started and just let me sleep ultil about 3 am and then start my pitocin. Yeah right, how are you supposed to sleep when you are just laying there waiting to see your baby?? About 3:30 the nurse came in and checked me again, still 3-4, so she started my pitocin. She said that my doctor would be in about 6:30 am to break my water and that I could get my epidural anytime I wanted. Yay!!!! So, about 5:30 the nurse came to check on me and asked me if I was ready to get it, I was a little nervous about having to have my water broke, and feeling it, so I said yes. Now, here is the best part, I was still in absolutely no pain, got my epidural and never felt a single contraction!! At 5:45 the doctor came in, got my epidural going, it took about 20 minutes to feel numb and then about 6:45 my OB came in and broke my water. At this point I was about 5-6 cm and the fluid was clear, so again I was told to try to get some rest and they would keep checking in on me. As my OB was walking out the door, he said " I bet she will be here at 9:22". :) (Before we left for the hospital we all made predictions of when I would have her, Clint said 9:30, I said 10, my mom said 10:30 and Debbi said 11.) Well, I was feeling pretty good now, Clint and I were just kind of hanging out, watching a little HGTV and talking, and at 8:30 the new nurse (shift change is at 7) came to see how I was. I told her I still felt good, she checked me and said I was ready to start pushing! It seemed like it happened so fast, I couldn't believe it! She called my doctor to come over and got everything set up while we waited for him. 15 minutes later, my doctor walked in, put his gown on and said I could start pushing as soon as I was ready. I pushed through 3 contractions, about 5 minutes and out came my baby girl!!! It was absolutely amazing! As I was pushing and just her head was out, Clint said she had a lot of hair, I didn't believe him, well, I thought he was probably exaggerating a bit, so I tried to look down to see for myself, she was out far enough now that I could see her head, and...

This is what I saw, I couldn't believe it!! So much hair, and it was dark! If I wouldn't have seen her being delivered, I wouldn't have thought it was my baby!

It was the perfect delivery. I really do know how lucky I am, to have had 2, dare I say it, "easy" births. So, needless to say, there will be a number 3:)

At 9:02am Brilee Grace Stapp arrived perfectly healthy and absolutely beautiful measuring 20 1/4 inches and 7 pounds 6 onces.

Brennar wasn't interested in his sister at all, seriously, at all, but he did give me a kiss when he came to visit:)And baby makes 4!