Naming our baby

Dave and I were on the naming train long before we knew the gender.. Not knowing made it difficult to find the right names but the names we wanted were

For a Girl :

Avery

Braelynn

leilani

For a Boy:

Kelani

Rome

Braylon

Avery

There were other names we liked but these were the ones that stood out... We wanted to give our child a name with a special meaning..... Once we found out it was girl something about Avery captured me.. I liked this name a lot and Dave did to but he was having a hard time wanting to commit to it.

Then One day he sent me a text  while I was at work and said he loved me and Baby Avery.. I seriously had to re-read that text and I responded with "Did we just decide on a name:)?" the next text read "Yes :)" I was so happy I texted me I love you's and all that mushy stuff ;)

It was important to us that our daughter have a piece of us and something to make her own. In Dave's Polynesian culture its been said that most children have 2 middle names so since Avery would be her first name and that was something she could make her own, her middle names we then decided to be Lynn (after myself and my mother) and Nooroa (no-o-roa , the middle name Dave's bio mother gave him before putting him up for adoption, The meaning : To come from a far away place and stay a long time.) Dave is from Rarotonga , Cook Islands and was adopted when he was a young infant and came to the united states.. We both felt that name had to be in the baby's name no matter what because it was so special to Dave and of course her last name would be Dave's last name and the last name of his adoptive parents which is Flanagan..

Finding out the Gender

The day I found out the gender I felt like I was on pins and needles...

Sitting in the waiting room with a full bladder felt like I was there forever..Mind you

someone told me that if you were to drink orange juice it was a guaranteed thing to see the gender of your baby so not only was my bladder full but it was full of Orange juice because I was terrified I wouldn't be able to find out the sex of our baby.. Mind you the Dr tells me after the fact it is a wives tale ;)

When my name was called Dave and I gripped each others sweaty palms and walked back to the ultrasound room.

Seeing the baby was amazing, It wasn't a small little baby it had grown to have features and 

started to really look like us from what we could tell anyways :)

I had always wanted a little girl but just had a feeling that I was going to have a boy 

so I had bought some boy stuff and one girly dress...

The ultrasound tech did her measurements and then said are you guys wanting to find out the gender?

Dave and I looked at each other and he kissed me on the head holding my hand as the tech twirled the wand around my belly she then said ...

IT'S A GIRL!

I said "Its a girl?" I was quite sure my so called mothers intuition would have been correct. I look at Dave and he has tears streaming down his cheeks and began to kiss my forehead and squeeze my hand.

It was a magical moment 

The tech took a few more looks to make sure and said yes it's a girl she showed us 2 lines that was showing the girl parts and said 

Congratulations 

We tried to get some good 3D pictures of her and she was dancing a jig! it was almost as if she was done with the camera being on her

As soon as she got a pic she would roll over and hide her face. We think she has Daddy's nose :).

She was already being sassy I cant imagine what she will be like when she blesses this world..

After telling all our friends and family the exciting news we were on cloud 9.

All the support and being that this is our first child we couldn't ask for a more memorable experience...

All of our friends that have children all have boys so to have a girl is a blessing

she will be one loved and protected little girl <3

Hearing the Heartbeat

Sep 30 2012

On this day it was my moms (Grandma Suzi's) birthday 

On her birthday we took her to our Dr appointment where we would hear the 

baby's heartbeat.. I am not a small girl by any means and I had been told I might be to big to hear the heartbeat so not to panic.. and of course what did I do the whole time

worry & panic that since I might not hear it something could be wrong..

When our OBGYN came in with the hand held Doppler to hear the heartbeat my heart sunk. I got really scared. when she started out you couldn't hear anything it felt like she was doing this for 5 minutes but in reality it was less than 1...  Then all of a sudden .. we heard the baby's heart beat I instantly sighed with relief. It sounded strong and steady, not to fast not to slow and the dr said it was a very healthy heartbeat... I wasn't able to see Dave or my moms face when we heard it but afterwards the giant smiles from ear to ear was a great sign to see two people so excited.

About 4 weeks before this appointment I was blessed with have just a check up but Dave couldn't make it.. This was the only appointment he has missed and he is still upset he did. My Ob brought in the hand held ultrasound device and I got to see my baby. it was incredible I instantly started to cry because it didn't look like a big blob anymore it looked like a baby and that was an amazing feeling. So then at this appointment on the 30th hearing the heartbeat completed things for me... I was excited for this journey we were embarking on just had gotten 10x more real... 

It was blessing and a milestone we will never forget!!

1st Ultrasound photos

7 WEEKS PREGNANT

8/1/2012

July 10 2012

July 10th 2012 ... A day In my life I will never forget.

On this day in 2012 I was suffering from and eye infection and I knew my body didn't feel quite the same and after suffering for a few weeks with my eye being swollen I decided it was time to 

swallow my pride and head to the doctor.

Little did I know it wasn't just an eye infection I was carrying..

My eye was in extreme pain and a little black and blue,

The Dr had asked me if my boyfriend had beat me and of course I was appalled that this question was even asked because there was no way there was any truth to that

Dave could never/ would never ever hurt me. Then the Dr did some blood work to make sure I didn't have a blood infection called mrsa. The lab tech came back in and gave me my results....

He said " Well you don't have mrsa but did you know you were 2 1/2 months pregnant?" 

I was in shock, not just because there was a little life inside of me but because I was told I was 2 1/2 months along! Luckily I had my mom with me because my eye was really swollen and I was unsure of what they would have done to my eye to relieve the pain. When I left that office I felt like everything was in slow motion. I had no clue how I was going to tell Dave nor did I know how he would react. I was petrified but a little excited to. So many emotions wrapped into one. 

Dave had called and told me he was going to play disc golf and I asked him to come home because we needed to talk, he then went on to ask me to just tell him, I kept saying Id rather wait till you got home and he said "Jess what on earth cant you tell me over the phone, unless your pregnant, Are you pregnant?" I then burst into tears and told him "YES! but this isn't how I wanted to tell you !" the other end of the phone got silent for a few minutes and he then said we would talk after he got home but he needed to let thing sink in.

Once Dave came home we made pro and con's list of everything, It was our mission that whatever choice we made it was going to be the one that we both could live with and be able to give this baby the best life.

At the end of the conversations and 2 days of allowing the initial shock take over and fear we decided we were going to keep the baby and become parents together, Dave and I had been discussing marriage previously and we have been together for 4 years at this time and couldn't be happier with our relationship that it seemed only fitting to take on the wonderful hectic world of parenthood.

After telling Dave's sister (who is also expecting) she got me in with the OBGYN rather quickly and turns out I was only approx 5 weeks pregnant so I wasn't as far a long as the original person had said. It was that moment during that ultrasound I realized what a blessing it was to be growing a person and to be given such a wonderful gift. We found out by this ultrasound that our baby would be due

 March 20th 2013

2012 brought me one amazing gift and I'm very excited to welcome in 2013 and our newest addition to the family