Brayden is 1 month

Your first month has been so much fun and a little adjustment for us all. You are a really good sleeper. You sleep about 5 hours at night and then wake up to eat and you go right back to bed. That helps mommy get some good sleep. You are starting to be awake more during the day. Which has been a lot of fun. You have started falling asleep with your hands up above your head. You fit just perfectly on Aunt Hailey's belly. I think you liked feeling Kira in her tummy.
You are always very alert and bright eyed. You also can hold your head up so good.
Unless you were asleep. You loved sleeping on every ones chest. I think you missed hearing mommy's heart beat all the time.
You and Grandpa would take naps together.We had a really busy first month, we put our house on the market and daddy got a new job at the University of Colorado. We had a great time when daddy would come home on the weekend so we could be together as a family.
You were 21 1/2 inches long and weighted 9 pounds 8 ounces, and you fit perfectly in the boppy pillow after you nursed. You were a great baby unless we were changing your diaper and clothes or you were in the car seat. You would scream so loud when we would change your clothes and the instant we picked you up you would stop. We started calling you the faker. I didn't like to drive with you because it would make me sad that you would cry almost the entire drive. I would try my best to plan driving around you nap so you would sleep instead of cry.

Brayden's first week

We were very excited and a little nervous to bring Brayden home from the hospital. We didn't leave the hospital until 8 that night. Jared was still real tired from the past 48 hours so he wanted to take a nap before we left. He napped with Brayden while I took a shower and got ready to leave. We dressed Brayden in his outfit and headed home. He was quiet the whole way home. Here he is in his car seat after his first ride.Here is the outfit that he wore home. Daddy and Mommy picked this out several months before Brayden was born. It was a football outfit with a matching hat and blanket. Our first night home was pretty rough, luckily my mom was able to stay with us. We all got ready for bed and then Brayden decided he wasn't ready for bed. He was really fussy and we were all very tired. We took turns staying up with him during the night. He discovered that Brayden really liked his bouncy chair and we started using that if was fussy.

A few days after we got home from the hospital Grandma and Grandpa Aurich came to meet their newest grandson. Brayden loved being held by them all day long.
Brayden loved being swaddled. He would be crying and we would try several things, but the minute we got one arm in the swaddle he would calm right down and fall asleep. He looks so cute all bundled.
Jared and I gave him his first bath at home.
Brayden spent a lot of time sleeping that first week. Daddy spent as much time sleeping with Brayden as he could. We were all pretty tired and it was good to have several naps to catch up on missing sleep.

Brayden is here

On Wednesday at 9 in the morning my water broke. Jared came home from work and we headed to the hospital. I got checked in and got to my room, but my contractions weren't doing much. I was given pitocine around 3 and got an epidural a few hours later. After several hours of labor, oxygen and pain I was dilated to a 10. At 3 in the morning I started pushing and at 3:57 on April 26, 2007 Brayden was born.

I had a lot of help with me in the hospital room. Jared was a lot of help. My mom, sister Libby, and Rhonda were all in the room. Jared was so excited to be a daddy to a healthy baby boy.


Grandpa came in to see his first grand kid. He could hear Brayden crying in the hall.
This was later that day, he slept so much at the hospital.
The Bergersen's came by to see Brayden and they each took turns holding him, except Ray...he wasn't so sure about the new addition.