Jade Brooklynn Williams

Meet Jade Brooklynn Williams

Born Friday February 26th at 12:48 pm

6 pounds 13 oz 19 inches long

we couldn't be happier to have her join our family! she is an angel!!

Williams baby number 2!!

Recap of pregnancy with Williams baby number 2!

We decided to stop preventing another baby from coming when Keton was 10 months old, thinking we would probably be pregnant by his 1st birthday if things went as they did last time. we thought the timing would be perfect just what we were thinking. well turns out our timing is not the Lords timing and we didn't get pregnant until the end of May. We were so excited! Well after 3 days of being pregnant i miscarried. i was bummed but also so grateful that if it was going to happen that it happened very early in pregnancy. but i was also confused because the same thing happened before i got pregnant with keton. i asked my midwife if there is a reason for it and she was not concerned and she said nope it is just random pretty much. She said since it was so early we didn't need to wait to keep trying so sure enough the next month i didn't get my period again, took a test and i was pregnant again. This time tho we were pretty apprehensive to really think that i was pregnant because of the past. we still told everyone right away (we don't like to wait) but preceded with caution. i started spotting around the 5.5 week mark and asked if we could do an ultrasound just to make sure everything was fine. That went good we saw as much as we could see that early on and from there on out everything went really well.

This pregnancy was so different than when i was pregnant with keton. i have to say she was much nicer to me than keton was haha. The sickness didn't start until about 7 weeks and ended at about 24ish weeks. i also didn't throw up as much. about 2 or 3 times a day is all! and it wasn't constant nausea like it was with keton it was more come and go throughout the day which was soooooo nice. Also my skin didn't break out in horrible acne and i didn't have one single calf cramp hah. the difference was the heart burn... holy cow that was crazy. it was so intense this time i remember telling everyone if this baby doesn't come out with hair im going to be so upset haha. (wives tale lots of heartburn= lots of hair). also i started showing so early. i felt like at 9 weeks i was feeling so bloated and actually getting a belly it was nuts! i got big really fast but then kinda slowed down and ended about the same. well a little smaller cuz she was 2 weeks earlier than keton was. also i didn't have hardly any swelling. i walked into the hospital with my wedding ring on and my feet didn't swell up at all. only my cheeks got bigger but i mean its pregnancy so thats expected!. i also gained 2 less pounds than i did with keton which is funny because she ended up weighing almost exactly 2 pound less than he was when he was born, 32lbs total. my working out this time around was much different. it mostly consisted of working and chasing around a 2yr old haha with the occasional trips to the gym mostly for lifting and the occasional brisk walk on the treadmill or elliptical. and walks outside. so i was happy i didn't blow up like i thought for sure i would if i didn't hit the gym 6 days a week! Sugar... thats the only thing i wanted to eat the whole time. if it had sugar on it i wanted it in my life! also frosted mini wheats were consumed nightly and oranges!!!! so many oranges. big, small, canned, juice any kind of orange.

As for baby we found out at our 20 week ultrasound that she had a 2 vessel cord. that was the longest ultrasound and of course the tech doesn't say anything they just look around measuring everything and pointing out some stuff and most things i cant tell at all what it is anyway i find out later the reason was because she had a 2 vessel cord. they looked around extra hard to make sure everything was ok with baby. everything measured perfectly how it should at 20 weeks so they ruled out any chromosomal issues that can be more likely with a 2 vessel cord so that was awesome news. she just said now they will have to keep a closer eye on her growth to make sure that she was growing on schedule as that can be a problem with a 2 vessel cord too. so we were going to get an ultrasound every month. so that was kinda fun getting to see her every month and watch her grow. she was always right on track in the 45 to 50%. except for one appt she was pretty low so they couldn't get a good head measurement and they said she was measuring petite in the 18th percent. but she jumped right back up.

i wasnt quite as good at taking pics this time but here are some belly pics from this pregnancy.

This was the morning i took the test and we told keton haha. he had no idea what was going on. but he liked holding the purple pee stick. gross i know. 

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 19 weeks

 we're having a girl!!!

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 36 weeks

37 weeks 

 38 weeks 

Keton's birth story

Well batter late than never..... Our perfect baby boy Keton Scott joined our family almost 14 months ago. It was the best day, full of so many emotions, and one that we will never forget! The love i felt on that day is a love that i have never before felt. I always found it crazy to think that i could possibly love someone else equally to the way that i love Scottie i mean that is a lot lot lot of love. The second i saw that chunky face and those big kissable lips i knew that love that everyone told me about. The love that only a mother can know, a different love, a love that makes you immediately feel that you will do anything in the world to keep your baby safe. A love that will convince you to sacrifice good sleep for the couch, sleeping sitting up so the boogers don't drain down your sick babies throat. A love that convinces you that snuggling your baby for every nap and all night every night is totally ok and the most important thing at the time. A love that makes it totally reasonable to take your baby to the dr for every cough, runny nose ,fever and new tooth. A love that nothing in the world will ever compare to! I am so blessed to be able to share this love with my amazing super husband and boy does it make me love him even more!!! Thinking back to the day that we finally got to meet our sweet boy has me smiling ear to ear....:)

December 10, 2013

Tuesday morning i had my weekly dr appt. she checked me and told me i was a 3 or 4. so in my mind i assumed like a 3.5. at this point i was already 4 days overdue and i had to schedule an ultrasound and an inducement day if he wasn't here in the next like 10 days so she asked me if i wanted her to strip my membranes and i said yes of course! everyone said it  hurt really bad but i kinda wanted to feel some pain to get me ready so i wasn't as scared for labor pains. Then she did it and it didn't hurt at all. she was hoping that would put me into labor sometime soon but i guess sometimes it doesn't work, so i went on with the rest of the day and nothing was happening! i went and hung out with amia and katie and then went to work on the house that night with Scottie. everything was still normal. we got home around 10ish ate some food and then went into bed. as we were eating i was kinda crampy but didn't think anything of it then as we were laying in bed i kinda felt a cramp that hurt and i was like o nice maybe this is good. then i noticed they kinda came and went like i heard contractions were supposed to and they kinda hurt and my back was killing me. I noticed the first one around 11:30 then,around midnight i finally grabbed my phone and started timing them with my contraction app haha. they started out about 8 min apart all lasting about 1 min long. Shelly (my midwife) had told me earlier that day that i should go to the hospital when they are 5 min apart lasting 1 min for 1 hr. so that is what i was waiting for . so i layed in bed timing them until like 1:30ish and then i couldn't stand laying in bed any longer so i got up, did some laundry, brushed my teeth, and got some last min things in my bag. at this point they were about 3 min apart when i was up and walking around. so i figured it had been long enough. everyone was telling me once i went into labor that i would probably go pretty fast (my family has way quick labors) so i was nervous to wait around at home for too long. I decided to wake up scottie and tell him it was go time. he was kinda confused when i woke him up but then he got really excited. so we said a prayer got our coats on and left! on the way to the hospital i felt like things kinda slowed down but it was def still happening cuz it did not feel super awesome and my back was still killing me! so anyway we got to the hospital a little after 2am got checked in and taken to triage (where they check you to make sure you are really in labor and how things are progressing) so they hooked me up to a contraction monitor and a heart beat monitor for Keton and left me there for about 30 min. she came back in and checked me again and i was still the same and my contractions were still happening but they weren't very consistent so she ordered me to go walk the halls for 45 min and come back and see if i had changed at all after that. so that's what i did. i plugged in my headphones and walked and walked did some squats in the doorways so that no one would see me and more walking trying to get things going. i had a few hard ones that i had to stop walking and breath through but then i went back in the room to be checked again, i was still the same.:( so she said she wanted to call my dr and see what they wanted me to do. she came back with the options of going home and waiting till things got more consistent or stronger or they could give me some pitocin to make my contractions stronger and get things going that way. this was a super hard decision for me cuz i knew if i got the pitocin it would make everything intensify fast and i was convinced i would not be able to do it natural like i thought i wanted to but i also didn't want to go home. i wanted to see my baby and i was already in labor and going home would just make me more impatient! so after like and hr and a half and calling my mom, and my friend Camille (who had just been induced a couple weeks before), talking to a couple different nurses, consulting scottie (which he just wanted me to do whatever i wanted to do so he wasn't really much help), we decided that we were going to stay. talking in triage i discovered the only reason i wanted to go natural was so that i didn't have to pay for the epidural cuz i heard they were really expensive, but scottie asked me if i really wanted to feel like 5 million times more pain then i was already in and that's when i decided why the heck did i ever want to do it natural when i have the option of not feeling a thing. So then i got really excited about getting one and getting things going. so any way they put us in a room around 5:30am got an iv in me after 3 attempts, and then shelly called and said that they should just break my water first instead of starting me on drugs, at that point my contractions had slowed down a ton and i was like what the heck they were doing so good! anyway so they came in and broke my water (side note they had a resident assistant attempt to break my water and she tried for a good 10 min without success then the dr did it in one try) and bam contractions started again and it got intense immediately!!! i had back labor really really bad it was worse than the front contractions so right after they did that the anesthesiologist came in and had to explain everything in case i wanted an epidural. ok back track for a second, i threw up when we first got into triage like crazy a lot. so anyway after the contractions started again i started throwing up again and couldn't stop, literally every min i was heaving. that was not easy to throw up and have contractions at the same time so as the guy was explaining everything i was throwing up and as soon as he got done he said " so just to let you know if you decide you want an epidural it will be about 45 min from when you tell the nurse you want one and when you start feeling relief". so right when he got done saying that i was like um ok i would really like one ASAP hahah he kinda laughed and was like um ok ill go check with the anesthesiologist to make sure. he said that when they did my blood work my white blood cell count was high and sometimes you cant get one if that is high so he had to check. i had so quickly changed my mind about wanting an epidural so now that my mind was set on getting one and then hearing this i was kinda freaking out. so after he left i looked at scottie and said we need to say a prayer that i will be able to get one cuz i am in a lot of pain!  so we did and like 10 min later he came in and said we were good to go! i was so relieved. so this whole time i am contracting and throwing up and scottie is holding my barf bowl and a cool rag on my head and my eyes are closed without any plans on opening them. it is crazy painful in my back and front and i am just so excited to get the pain gone. scottie was so cute he was like babe if you need to scream like that lady we heard while we were sitting in triage you can hahah i told him that wouldn't help the pain at all but it was a cute gesture haha. so he comes in gets the epidural in and like 30 min later i couldn't feel a thing not a THING!!!!. it was weird tho cuz i could still feel and move my feet and legs but from my butt to under my boobs was totally numb. i kept telling scottie "i cant feel my butt and its amazing". i was the happiest thing on the planet, scottie and i were just chatting up a storm laughing it was awesome! then we plugged in my relaxing music and tried to sleep but didn't of course (how were we possibly supposed to sleep when we knew we would be meeting our son in a matter of hours!!) During this time all of our family was at the hospital waiting in the waiting room. We had texted them when we were on our way there and when we got into our room and they were all there in the waiting room by 7AM. how cute are they!! anyway in what seemed like no time i was dilated to a 10 and ready to push. she had me wait a little bit so that he got nice and low and then started pushing.i started pushing at 12:30. That was a whole experience in and of itself! so crazy to push harder than you ever thought possible and then during the contraction break be laughing and joking with the nurses and my awesome midwife Shelly. i can honestly say it was so fun and totally enjoyable but also probably the hardest physical thing that i have ever done!
That is probably why labor and birth is such an unexplainable experience.  I pushed for 50 min which did not feel like 50 min and bam he was out! Shelly let me pull him out after his head and shoulders were out so i pulled him right out and put him on my chest and i just bawled and bawled. it was such an emotional time. i had no idea how i was going to react to the moment when we got to meet our son and it was such a magical moment that i will never forget! he was so cute and so chunky. i remember the first thing that i said to scottie was "babe look at his lips, they're so big" hahah he had some kissable lips on him and he just cried  and it was probably the most adorable thing ever! i just kept looking at him and looking at scottie and saying babe look at him he is soo cute!!! we were so so happy scottie even teared up it was so cute! he was wide awake just looking at us it was sooooo amazing!!!! So they stitched me up while we were looking at him and then they weighed him. Aftervi was all cleaned up we let my family come in so they did not waste any time and they all rushed in to see our sweet angel! it was so fun having everyone in there to experience the joy with us! everyone was so excited it was so awesome!!! they got to see them do his little foot prints and wrap him all up and then they all took turns holding him prob not even a half hour after he was born he was meeting all his family. He loved it and didn't cry at all. We then moved to the next room and i got to nurse him for the first time. let me tell you that boy came out ready to eat so learning to nurse was a breeze with him!!!! i am so lucky i know!!! we spent the next 24 hrs in the hospital and then we got to go home!!!! He was pretty much wide awake his first 24 hrs of life bright eyed and bushy tailed!!! always a very awake and alert newborn and the sweetest baby in the whole world!!! we are soooo in love!

last belly pic at 40 wks 5 days

 after the epidural..... happy happy me!!!

 you just have to throw in the terrible after birth first family pic hahah

 one proud daddy!

 uncle spencer

 Grammi and papa

 uncle Benton

 Keton's paparazzi 

 he looked so tiny in his carseat.... going home!

 uncle bubba and their matching mustaches 

 those cheeks yuuuummmy

it is so fun looking back at the amazing day we had meeting our first son!  we find ourselves more and more in love with him everyday. He makes us laugh everyday and is the light of our lives. We love him soooo much!!!

Keton Scott Williams

Our wonderful chunky baby boy has arrived!!!!

Keton Scott Williams

December 11, 2013 @ 1:21pm

8lbs 10oz

21 3/4in long

We feel beyond blessed and so so happy!!!! We love you Keton boy!

Growing belly!

It is crazy how fast time flies!!! I am 35 weeks now and the countdown is on! just a little over a month depending on when he decides he wants to come. I am now going to dr appointments weekly and my belly is really growing! my mom always tells me that she thinks we are going to have a big baby cuz of how big my belly is. Thankfully its mostly all belly with a little squish everywhere else so that's nice. I stopped throwing up around 25 weeks and that was amazing!! clients and everyone keep asking me how i am feeling and i am feeling great! still sleeping like a champ wake up once during the night to go to the bathroom and it takes a little effort to switch sides and roll over but i sleep great. He is a super active little guy i feel him move all day everyday so maybe he sleeps at night i don't know but even if he moves i don't feel a thing! Guess i am super grateful for the Stephens sleep through everything curse at this time in my life haha. He is more of a roller these days with an occasional jab to the rib on the right side. i feel like my belly is never perfectly round its always bulging on one side or the other. I am definitely not one of those anxious pregnant people, he is welcome to stay in as long as he wants to. we still have a lot to do and i have clients scheduled up until Thanksgiving! so the longer he cooks in the belly the better! I am still able to go to the gym 5 days a week but i sure get tired faster, i shoot for 30 min on the elliptical or treadmill 5 days a week and 3 days on the weights. The people at the gym that i see everyday are now more frequently asking how much longer i have so the belly must really be sticking out there haha. hoping this gym time helps me labor easier but mostly i just feel much better when i go!

We are getting super excited for him to get here. the other day i actually stopped and imagined dressing him and pushing him in the stroller and it made me super excited! Scottie has a countdown on his phone which i think is so super cute but it in now in the 30 day range! crazy soon!! yay!!

i thought i was getting big at 28 weeks.... just look at me now at 35! crazy how much the belly really popped! its great must mean baby boy is growing big and strong!

baby BOY Williams!!!

Pregnancy has been everything that i heard that it was supposed to be. I was very sick and had a really hard time keeping anything down for the first like 16 weeks! i went to the doctor for a normal routine appointment and i still had not gained any weight so she prescribed me zofran and holy freak that stuff is amazing. i was really against the medication thing and was trying really hard not to take anything but she needed me to start gaining weight. She just needed me to stop throwing up so i tried to only take it when i felt really really horrible, more at night than anything. I am 21 weeks now and am still nauseous pretty much all the time but i feel like a million times better than i did at the beginning. still trying to make it past a week and a half without throwing up but that is a huge improvement and i am feeling human again which is soooo nice. Actually not going to lie being sick has been comforting to me and i actually prayed to feel sick at the beginning so that i could know that something was really growing in me.... prayers are answered that is for sure!!! i felt the little guy move at about 19 weeks . i was in denial for a couple days cuz i just wasn't sure really what i was trying to feel but then i kept getting huge kicks and i knew that was the baby not me! that is an awesome feeling! Scottie has felt him a couple times and the other night we were laying in bed and he was going crazy and Scottie wasn't feeling it and he was like that's it, lets just look and see if we can see it. i was like ya right we aren't going to be able to see it this soon and sure enough like 5 seconds after i pulled my shirt up 2 huge kicks one right after the other!! his eyes lite up and get huge and we both just started laughing cuz it was so crazy that we just saw him. it was pretty awesome! he always puts his hand on my belly and rubs in and tells me how cute it is getting which i need  cuz i am getting bigger and it is super weird! on Friday we had a gender reveal party with all our family and some close friends that are here and we found out that we are having a baby BOY!!! i am sooooo excited to have a little scottie runnin around. he was the cuuuutest little kid so i have high hopes that our baby will look just like him!!!!

i am so glad my aunt Kristin is the best photographer ever and is always there to capture the moments. we had a great time at the party and it was so fun finding out the gender with our friends and family!!

i have been having scottie take a pic of me every week after church and i thought i was getting bigger at 13 weeks and now i look back and was like dang i was little haha i'm sure that closer to the end of this whole thing i will envy my old self, so i am so glad that we have been taking pics!!

BABY TIME!!!!!!

we are having a baby!!!!! and we are soooo excited! I thought that once this time came i would be better at the whole blogging thing but turns out that is not the case considering i am over halfway and this is my first post. lets start at the beginning shall we..... October 1st 2012 we decided that we would start trying. we were ready for a baby as our 2nd anniversary was approaching in April! Well turns out we are very lucky and very fertile and we were pregnant in November. We decided that we would wait to tell our families until Christmas when we were about 8 weeks because it would be the best Christmas present for all of them! The day came and it was the best surprise ever just like we thought it would be. Everyone was crying and we officially gave the best present! it would be an understatement to say that we were excited!!! we were soooo excited, Scottie had wanted kids since the day we got married and probably before that so he was stoked and we were both super happy! our second appointment was the 27th, 2 days after Christmas and we were excited to get our first ultrasound and see the little bean in there. We went to the ultrasound and of course before we went i had been researching for weeks what we should be seeing at that point so i knew exactly what it was supposed to look like. We got all situated in the room and were anxiously awaiting the images i had been seeing all over Google for our baby at 8 weeks. To our disappointment we did not see anything that i had been hoping to see. The ultrasound tech showed us around and didn't say anything to us really i thought it was kinda weird that she wasn't pointing out anything and after only like 5 min she said she was done and had me tell the front desk i was ready for my follow up appointment that i had not even scheduled. With this being our first time with the whole pregnancy thing i still had high hopes that our baby was just too small to see and maybe i just wasn't as far along as i thought i was, but the longer we waited in the waiting room the more and more anxious I got. So they called us into the room and told us our midwife would be with us soon. I could feel my face getting hot and my eyes welling up even though I thought everything was fine, in the back of my head i knew something was not right. Scottie was really calm and just kept telling me we needed not to think anything was wrong until they actually told us that and we could go from there. so soon enough the doc came in and sure enough she told me that i had miscarried. I was in disbelief. why and how did this happen? I am healthy and young how did i have a miscarriage? Scottie immediately grabbed my hand and we both held it together really well while she went on telling us what the next steps were going to be, and gave me my prescriptions. she told us that it was very normal and that one in 3 women miscarry and tried to make me feel better. We walked out of the office with a lot less bounce than we had coming in and rode down the elevator and to the car without saying much to each other. i think we were just trying to take in all in. Scottie was just squeezing me tight and kept giving me hugs and squeezing my hand. once we got to the car i broke down!!! I was very sad and disappointed and just in shock i think. Scottie was very good and stayed really calm and talked me through everything. I could not be more grateful for him and the support he gives me. so they gave me pills to make everything come out and lets just say that was not a good time. fast forward a couple months cuz it took forever for my blood numbers to get back to normal and it wasn't until Feb 28th that i had my first normal period again!!! normally it doesn't take that long i guess but it took a while for me. they told us to wait two cycles to get pregnant again but that was forever so after the first one it was on and 2 weeks later..... positive pregnancy test once more!!!!!!!!
          I am soooo grateful to be able to get pregnant easily and i do not take it for granted for i have known so many women that have had a hard time with that and i know it is such a blessing!!! let me tell you it was a whole different experience this time around. we were soo super excited but also very very nervous about everything going right. we told our parents the day that we found out, no reason to keep it in this time. We had a really early ultrasound this time to make sure that everything was forming like it needed to and they said everything looked good. I took my sister Alisabeth to this one cuz she was leaving on her mission that next week and i wanted her to  feel like she was apart of it before she left. We had another ultrasound at 9 weeks and saw the heartbeat and the little tiny baby it was so awesome!!!! we felt much better after seeing that but were still anxious until we reached the 12 week mark!!! we feel very blessed to be able to be pregnant and it sure is an amazing experience sick or not! mommy and daddy here we come!!!!!