Pictures of our cutie pie...

Here are a bunch of pictures of Morgan, they really aren't in order I was just going through all of our files. At her 2week check up she was back at her birth weight, and doing well. She's on formula now, she eats 4 oz every 2 hrs! At night she'll sleep from 9-12, but that's the only 3hr stretch, otherwise right at 2hrs she'll start to cry to eat. I'm gonna have alittle chunkster on my hands! Other than constantly feeding her, she's doing great. Starting to make more faces, stick out her tongue and get a smile or two out that isn't from gas. Enjoy the pictures!

She looks exactly like Ryan!

Meet Morgan Riley!

Announcing: Morgan Riley Braithwaite
Born: October 24th, 2010 10:13am
Weight: 8lb7oz
Height: 22.8in

Thank you all for being patient with us posting about the baby! Everything is going pretty well. We were discharged on Tuesday but when we left Morgan had a slightly elevated bili level, so we had to have it tested today (Wed), before we left town. The limit for day three is 17.9, and she measured 17.8, so rather than getting back to Iwakuni and being admitted to a Japanese hospital was decided to stay and do the photo therapy here. After 4hrs of being under the lights she's dropped to 15.4, and she just has to drop by three I believe. So she'll get tested again in the morning and depending on the levels, if they're good then she'll be taken out of the lights and then tested again in a couple hours, and if all is good then we can finally go home! If not, then we'll be here another day doing therapy. On the 30th, I'll (Alyssia), would have been up here in Yokosuka for a month, so it would be REALLY nice to finally be home.
Well on to the birth story. My due date was last Thursday, 21st, and that day had come and gone. On Saturday we walked to the mall right outside the gate with our friends, looked at a couple stores and then decided to walk to Chili's here on base. In total from the mall to Chili's it's probably about a mile. Which isn't too bad considering we've been walking this base like crazy! I think one day we walked close to 10 miles! So we eat at Chili's and then take a taxi base to the club here on base because there was going to be a live band. We're at the club for a while and I get up to go to the bathroom and my legs felt really big and tingly, I take a look at them and they'd gotten pretty swollen. I've been really lucky with this pregnancy that I had gotten swollen this entire time, so I knew something might be up. So we go home and I put my feet up for awhile and the swelling did go down, but Ryan wanted to get it checked out just in case. We're staying right behind the hospital so it's a 2 min walk to the ER, they take my blood pressure and it was 144/93, which they don't like to see 140/90 in pregnant women. So they send me up to labor and delivery to put me on monitors. I've been having contractions for a few weeks now but nothing that was uncomfortable and that's what they saw on the monitors. The doctor checks me and I'm still 75% effaced, -2 station, and 3cm dilated. She said that since I was over due, with high blood pressure if I wanted I could be induced if I wanted; which I did. So about 1:30am I'm admitted and pitocin is started and around 3:30am I couldn't take the contractions anymore so I got the epidural, which was heaven and I don't think I could have done it without it! At 5:30am, the doctor wanted to check me, and my water broke and I was still at 3cm, so I thought I was in it for the long haul but she checked me again at 9:30am and I was at 9cm and at a -3 station. So she said at 10am I'd start pushing! So at 10am I pushed a couple times with just the nurses, then they called the doctor in and I pushed some more and it all went really quick. I pushed for about 10min or so, and she was here! The doctor didn't even have time to put her gown on, I think she thought I'd take a bit longer to push.
The entire labor went really well, I never wrote up a birth plan and I didn't need to because they were really good about asking what I wanted. Ryan did really well as a coach also; never got faint or sick and even cut the cord, when he cut the cord blood squirt all over. He also got to help out with her first bath and cleaning her up. She was one dirty girl, as soon as she came out she pooped, and pooped while he was holding her in a towel. Breastfeeding is going really well also, and everyone is doing great!
Here are some pictures from delivery.

First Family Picture!

We have some more pictures that we haven't taken off the camera yet. I'll hopefully update with more pictures when we get home and settled in. Thank you for all the congratulations and best wishes!!!

Got our bedding in!

So we got our bedding in today! I'm so excited, it took FOREVER for me to pick out the bedding and I really really like it. It goes perfectly with the colors of the walls. I need some opinions, should I put the blanket on the back of the crib or front?

A close up of the details.

This is where I found Spartacus the other morning, he wants to stay the baby.

Not too much going on here. The baby is moving and kicking away. Ryan gets back from Okinawa in two weeks, I'm looking forward to that! I need someone to rub my feet at night :) When he gets back we're going to get another ultrasound done, and hopefully get a good look at her face and make sure that she's still a girl! Here is another picture of my belly at 28 weeks.

A little update

Not too much going on here, Ryan is getting ready to go to Sgt's course next Sunday for 7 weeks and I'm going to the states next Sunday, but only for 2 weeks :( Here are a few pictures of some clothes that we got. They're so cute and small!

I've been trying to find more purple things, but there isn't a lot whole and they're more expensive. So I'm hoping to find a bunch of good stuff in the states.

I think we've finished our registries at Target and BabiesRUs and we got the okay to paint, so we're going to hopefully start that this week.

This is what we want to do above the changing table, and on the other wall where the crib is do it in the light pink and darker pink strips. I can also find the same crib bedding at Target, but I'm not sure if it's what I want to go with, but it's only an online style so we'll see.

Here is a picture at 18weeks

And here is one at 22 weeks!

I'm liking some of the maternity clothes, but still wearing a lot of my regular clothes. Mostly it's my pants I have to use my bella band with. The maternity clothes make you look a lot bigger! But glad to say that I've only gained 10lbs, which is great because my goal is only 25lbs!

This little girl is kicking away, and Ryan's been feeling her kicks! Which is great because I wanted him to feel her before he left. When he gets back in August we're going to take maternity photos, and then baby photos right after she's born!

And We're Having.........

Out of the 8 people that voted boy/girl, 6 voted boy, 2 voted girl. And the winners are.......................................................................................................................................................................................

GIRL!!!!!!

Here are some pictures from the ultrasound. She was being stubborn at first, and wouldn't let us see, then the tech got her to move. It was a great appointment, it was so nice to talk with someone who spoke English and showed us everything on the ultrasound, answer questions, and give us photos. We got 4 of them, and here at the 2 good ones.

She was breech the entire time basically and had her feet up at her face!

Her cute side profile picture, she has Ryan's lips. It was cute when we got this picture because she was opening and closing her mouth.

Our good friends Casey & Anthony are a week behind us, and they made their appointment for the same time, and they are having a girl too!

We also had a name picked out too, but now that we're having a girl I don't know if it's the right name or not, so we'll see.

Woohooo!

So Ryan is going to be at Sergeants Course from June 29th-August 17th, and I had taken vacation from June 28th-July 11th, so.... I'm going to come home for those two weeks now!!! YAY! I'm so excited! I'll actually be getting in Seattle on Sunday the 27th at 9:30am and leave Saturday around 1:30pm on the 10th.
I'm so excited because we'll be finding out what we're having the second week on June, so I'll be doing LOTS of baby shopping while I'm back. Especially for a jogging stroller, since retailers usually won't ship those. Can't wait!
Otherwise, everything is going good here. Busy with work and school. I've been taking 3 classes each term and I'm only doing two this summer term, so I'm really looking forward to that. And as far as the pregnancy goes, things are going great. I'm feeling fine, maybe a little more tired since I've been in the 2nd trimester, which is opposite since I was fine in the 1st trimester. Still haven't felt sick, and I'm getting a little baby bump, I'll have to post a picture soon. Other than that, nothing new!

More Pictures!!!

So I had gone out in town to do Japanese doctor, Dr. Shoji, to get some pictures and hopefully see what we're having because I know a lot of girls who have found out right about now. When I asked the doctor if the baby was too small to tell what it was, he just talked about the size of the baby. I don't mind going out there, but Dr. Shoji never answers the questions that I want. Also, I think he thinks I'm a regular patient becuase I was supposed to pay extra and get a CD of the baby moving around also, but he didn't do that. So we'll see if we go out there. We should be getting our Big ultrasound the second week of June, and that'll be up in Yokosuka. So we'll see if I can wait that long to find out!




And here is the 3D picture, it's not too alien, but it's still cute.

Baby B

So as most of you know we're expecting our first baby October 21st! Here are a few pictures that we have of the little bean.

In this one I think he looks like one of the ghost gobblins from pac man. (and I'm calling the baby a he, because I just know it's a boy!)

Also, soon after we took this test we took the Intelligender test; which is a urine sample gender test that you take after 10 weeks. If the sample turns orange with the chemicals it's a girl, if it turns green then it's a boy. And it turned green! This test has a 90% lab test accuracy and around 85% accuracy by consumers, so that just confirms my feelings even more. We'll update when we find out probably in about a month!!!

Pictures

So I'm in the works of posting pictures of Hong Kong; it just takes forever on blogspot to upload a bunch of them. But I was looking through pictures on my computer and found this picture of Dad and me before we left for Japan and realized how much we look a like in this picture, check it out...

I see it in the eyes, nose and smile, what do you think?

Hong Kong

So I've felt guilty about not posting about our Kong Kong trip that we took for Christmas!!! So here are the photos I had uploaded atleast, and a little about it.
Hong Kong was really great, tons of people but an amazing place and would I love to go work there once Ryan gets out of the Marine Corps.

On the sanpan ride around the floating casino.

How foggy/smoggy it was.

This is the walled city. It smelt aweful in there, like sewer.

Old ladies you pay to take you picture with.

China in the background.

Boarder to China

At the wishing tree.