Oh my

We are in love with our sweet baby James. He is an angel.

Here goes

Daddy to be


Mommy to be


Looks like we're having us a March baby :)

so close

3cm

80% effaced

head down

mild contractions anywhere from 7 to 20 minutes apart

40+2

let's go son.

39 weeks and thoughts on motherhood

It is hard to believe we are so close to meeting this little person I've been growing and we made. The first 20 weeks were painfully slow, and then from 20-36 were incredibly fast. Blurry even. From 36 to now has been slower again. The slower pace has allowed me more introspection and reflection and thinking in general.

I'm not sure I've ever been faced with something as intimidating as becoming a mother. Second to becoming a mother would be becoming a wife. Today I reread my and Danny's patriarchal blessings which I'm sure I will continue to refer to these next few months (years?). So much happiness and love is promised to our family. Heavenly Father is clearly aware of my doubts and fears-the ones I had almost 8 years ago and the ones I face now. Our marriage is promised to be full of love and happiness as well. Such a tender mercy. Even in our short two years I have seen these promises come to fruition, and it is clear that our personal and family righteousness is directly intertwined with our happiness.

I'm so grateful that I will have both Danny and God by my side as I enter motherhood. Hopefully humility can be there too-I know I'll need a few servings of that!



On a lighter note, here I am at 39 weeks. My doctor estimates baby Brown is around 7, 7.5 lbs. As of last Monday I was almost 3cm and 60% effaced. He should be here soon-he MUST be here in a few weeks-but it's really too bad your progress in the weeks before don't mean anything. My doctor won't induce until 41 weeks and you can bet I'll take him up on that if I'm still pregnant in March. I'm not concerned at all since my body has begun the process already and my mom was induced 5 times without any subsequent complications (c section etc). Fingers crossed he comes this week, but at the latest it should be March 4/5.

Can't wait to meet you dude!!

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Love day

With the arrival of our baby pending closely, I told Danny I didn't want to do anything for valentine's. I said I'd make him dinner and we could just hang out at home. Honestly he's not a gift-giving man so I figured he'd like this. The day before I told him he could wake up happy and I'd count it as a valentine's gift! (He's pretty cranky in the mornings...)

Well, I took yesterday off to wash baby clothes and get general things done around this place. H grinned at me when his alarm went off (to prove his un-crankiness) and when I got up I found a surprise waiting for me:


I know lots of people don't like vday because men are sort of "required" to buy flowers, but I love it! It was still a surprise because I figured we'd just do a low key dinner and I'd told him a happy wake up would be great. I love that man!

When he got home from work we ate a delicious dinner of salmon, herbed rice, and lemon roasted zucchini. Also I tried a crock pot molten chocolate lava cake. In the words of Danny, it was "too goopy". I agree.



It was a great valentines and I felt very loved by this boy. I can't wait for him to be a dad.

Future daddy Danny trying on one of the carriers we got.


I tried on the moby with a basketball as the baby.

Something like 19 days! I'm 2.5 cm dilated and about 50% effaced. Lots of weird pains/feelings/pressure in the pelvic region the last few days. Maybe (hopefully) he'll come early! My guess is the 17th and Danny's is the 25th. Can't wait!