To the hospital we go...and go again...

As most of you know, we took Brodie to the hospital on Monday. I came home from school after my sister had called and said he was throwing up really violently. He has NEVER thrown up before. He spits up after some bottles but nothing like this. When I came home he was sitting in a towel after 3 baths and had the saddest face I had ever seen. I held him and he just constantly threw up all over me but I didn't mind a bit. I just wanted to comfort him in any way that I could, I was bawling. He sounded like a cat trying to throw up a hairball, it was heartbreaking. After throwing up about 4 times in 30 min, he started throwing up stomach acid. He had NO color in his whole body, I was terrified, and that's when I decided to take him to the hospital. As I was putting him in his carseat, I saw that his lips were completely blue. Lindsay and I sped to the hospital and when I sat down in the waiting room, a nurse came in to call the next person, saw Brodie laying on my shoulder like dead weight and said "WE NEED TO GET HIM IN RIGHT AWAY!" They rushed him into a room and about 6 nurses and a doctor were working on him at the same time. Again, bawling. He just layed there, with no color, no movement. They were doing turnikets and putting needles in him (over and over again bc NO ONE could find a vein) and he was just looking off into space. I took this pic once he got an IV in him and started getting color back in his face:


he was as still as could be, but at least he had color

We were in this room for about 3-4 hours and Harland, Brodie, and I all fell asleep

He started feeling better once he wasn't dehydrated but it was very clear his tummy still was hurting

The parametics came from Children's in Dallas and took him in an ambulance :(

You never want to see your baby on a stretcher

I rode with him and Harland followed behind. We stayed overnight at Children's and he had two spells of diahrea that stunk up the WHOLE floor. I heard people saying outside, "What is that smell!?" It was HORRIBLE. Harland and I slept on a fold out CHAIR and were woken up every hour by the nurses.

He's finally back to his old self, thank GOODNESS. I could not live without seeing him smile another day!

KENDALL GRACE COUGHLIN

Brodie's future girlfriend was born last week! She is the most beautiful baby girl I've ever seen! Brodie, Harland, and I went to visit her and her parents at the hospital the morning after she was born and then we brought her Taco Soup the day she came home from the hospital. I'm sooo excited that my best friend since I was ONE is now a Mommy too! I can't wait to have play dates and go and do lots of Mommy things together :) Congrats Amber and Kain!

WEDDING UPDATE:

So after many hours of deliberation, I decided that I can't decide on my bridesmaids. So instead of choosing, I'm having all 12! Before you freak out, 7 will be up with me, walking down the isle and such, and 5 will be greeters and such. The 7 will be in long dresses and the 5 will be in the same dress just a lot shorter.

Walking down the isle will be:

Lindsay -- Jimmy
Sonia -- Nick
Amber -- Dustin
Katie -- Foster
Megan -- Sean
Erica -- Lee
Hailee -- Chase

Erinn, Kels, Lyns, Krysten, and Jordan will be my other bridesmaids... I couldn't choose between them since were all such close friends, and I didn't want them to just not be in it so I had to find a way to have them all :)

Our ushers will be Kenny, Ty, Gleason, and Johnny.

After the wedding, we'll have a party limo that fits 24 to take us all to the reception! :) (Sry bro, you're a little too young for the party that will be going on in there!)

My Mom, some of my bridesmaids, and I are going dress shopping this Saturday while the dress I want is on sale! Hopefully we can decide on two bridesmaids dresses, too.

I've been reading some budget wedding books and I am just FULL of ideas.. I can't wait to save up this money to go through with it all!

I picked out the flowers as well...



I'm going to carry an orange bouquet, hopefully very close to the same color as the bridesmaids dress, and the girls that are walking will carry the white ones.

Sonia and I have been looking at wedding venues for her and we found 2 really good ones! It's pretty cool that my Matron of Honor and I can plan our weddings at the same time!

SCHOOL UPDATE:

I finished another Mod (2 classes) both with A's! 95 on both of my finals. 4 down, 14 to go. I started two classes on Tuesday, Medical Law and Ethics which I'm liking a lot (HATED my last classes) and my teacher is also a Wedding Planner! booyah! I'm also taking a Front Desk class which is a snoozer.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the week!

Something that made my day...

Here's some comments that made my day, containing to the comment that someone wrote me a few days ago. Thanks so much for all the comments on fbook and here, yall really made me feel better :)

Anonymous said...
Britt.. ignore that ignorant girl. Just because you didn't get married first doesn't mean you're irresponsible. You took responsibility for your actions AND you're an amazing mother!! Obviously the irresponsible one was the female who aborter her baby.. there are shelters and halfway houses for women who WANT their baby despite not having support or money. She wasn't raped, the sex was voluntary, and abortion was the selfish easy-out.

Anonymous said...
Brittany. I don't know you, you don't know me, and quite honestly I don't know how I came across your blog, but you are 920802348% right about the abortion issue. After reading a couple of your posts, I have come to the conclusion that you might be one of the most inspirational young people that I have ever heard about. Yes, you have it rough, but you are doing everything in your power to provide a positive world for your baby. It is awesome to see someone who took what could be a horrible situation, find the positive, and embrace it. Brodie is a handsome little guy and SO fortunate to have such a dedicated mommy. God Bless.


PS. Brodie said his first word!! Unfortunately it was Dada. :( hahaha

Here Comes the Bride!!

That's right people... we are finally putting together a wedding! I can't believe it... I'm actually planning a wedding! I'm getting MARRIED! I'm also pretty sure it's going to be Labor Day weekend this year! I can't tell you how excited I am! My grandma has a veryyy wealthy friend who has 5 acres of land and Harland and I are going to go look at it on Saturday to see if we would like to have our reception there. This way we don't have to pay for a place to have it and we can bring in our own food and alcohol! We also talked to our Pastor at church on Sunday and we are going to go to pre-marital counceling and he will most likely marry us. I'm not sure where the wedding will be but it WILL be at a church.

So now the whole Bridesmaids thing is driving me crazy. I have so many good friends and I can't decide who to choose! It's going to be 6 or 7 bc that's how many best friends Harland has. So here's my list of girls:

-Sonia (Matron of Honor)

-Lindsay (Maid of Honor)

-Amber Coughlin

-Katie Svetina

-Megan Cooper

-Erica Rondon

-Kelsy Hogendobler

-Erinn Moody

-Lynsey Marvin

-Jordan Beasley

-Krysten Cabel

-Hailee Handy

So basically 5 of my best girls won't be in it. Is there anything that the rest of the girls can do in the wedding??

To the girls above... if yall can help me come up w a way to decide please let me know! I'm seriously torn!!

I would also like Kenny Leddy, Ty Connor, and Tyler Dumar to be Ushers. :)

I've pretty much decided the main color is going to be tangerine.. so here you are ladies.. these are my faves so far:

And drumroll please.... the dress of my DREAMS!

Seriously, can't think of anything I'd like more... except for it to not be $1,500!! :( I told Harland (expecting him to freak out) and he said you should have the dress you really want! I was like whaaaat?? My Mom and Nana said they would pitch in for the dress so maybe I wouldn't have to spend THAT much! I would DIE if I got this dress! I actually really didn't even care that much about the dress until I saw this one.

Ok more about the wedding later... now to catch you up with everything from the past month.

(I found these pics on my gmas camera...)

Christmas

All three of our bdays

Papa and Brodie

Pasty-ness.

learning to sit up

My moms boyfriends 2 out of 3 beautiful daughters (I love B's face in this pic)

Babyshower w the girls from Harlands family. (future Mother in Law, Monica)

Monica, H's Cousin Tracy, Aunt Lynette, and Cousin Sara

H's Aunts Shelly and Missy meeting Brodie, and Grandma Ann

taking B on a stroller ride...wish the weather was more permitting so we could do it more often!

does he not look like 2 years old in this pic!

Cousins at Aunt Micheles

Trying to crawl

hahaha bitter beer face

standing by himself!

watching Backyardigans!

his best friend, Ace

That cat is so sweet it's rediculous

Taking a nap w Dada

Poor baby had RSV (Respitory Virus) so he was on breathing treatments for 2 weeks

2 weeks later at his 6 month well check up... doing a lot better! 20 lbs. almost 28 inches. The doctor could not get over what a happy little guy he was! Even after his shots, the second I picked him up he was LAUGHING. He is also clapping, and when the doc saw him she was blown away!

Yes, unfortunately we are related. hahah jk love you sis.

Went out to eat at Cheesecake Factory with my amazing Nana last night and had fun talking about the wedding :)

Mommy got to stay home on the snow day!! Took B outside for about 3 minutes before we froze our buns off. What happened to global warming?! I am SICK of the cold weather and I saw enough snow for years.


School is going good... pretty friggin sick of the constant studying but it's paying off! I've had almost 10 tests in 2 months and the lowest grade I've had so far is a 96! I'm almost done with this mod (mod is 2 classes a month) so I almost have 12 credits in 2 months! I use to do that in 5 months.

Harland and I are doing great, better than we've been since before I was pregnant! Now if we just had money, life would be perfect!

I'm working 4 days a week right now instead of 2 to catch up with things and save a little for the wedding.

We're having to move to afford a cheaper place unfortunately, but I'm looking forward to not having to pay $2,000 for rent and bills. I have NO idea where we're moving to but hopefully somewhere closer to school bc the hour long drive is KILLING me.

I guess there's no other news to report... hope everyone has a great rest of the week! And Amber, we're praying that baby comes SOON!! C'Mon Kendal!!! :)

To whom it may concern,

Someone posted this on my blog...

Anonymous said...
"the pictures you posted are graphic. i don't care if you're pro-life or pro-choice, you're irresponsible for posting something like that on a PUBLIC blog. And to be honest with you...it doesn't sound like you were ready to have a baby either. You did it quite backwards and now you're sacrificing the most formative years with your child because you chose to get pregnant too soon. "I'm doing this to better Brodie's life." Really? You're doing him a dis-service and would have been better off going to school FIRST, getting married FIRST and then having a child. I respect your pro-life stance, but think you're absolutely judgmental."

Seriously i want to vomit. No, obviously Brodie was not planned but THANK GOD he came into my life because I have never had so much joy or felt so much love in my life. Yes, I very much wish I would have been married first and if we had the money to get married we would be married right now! I knew I was going to marry Harland the week we met. As far as school goes, since we are POOR as can be, luckily being able to buy Brodie's food bc of WIC, using cloth diapers so we don't have to constantly buy new ones, doing every little thing to just pay our bills right now, I would be doing a "disservice" by continuing to just wait tables. Let me remind you, whoever you are, that I took in my 15 year old sister without any outside help, and Harlands mom who pays rent by watching Brodie while I go to school. I would be doing him a "disservice" by not trying as hard as I can to make a better life for him, and at this point it's not just to give him the finer things in life, it's to keep a sturdy roof over his head, or to be able to keep my electricity on. I have bawled alone in my car countless times when I come home from school, have about 2-3 hours with him, then have to go straight to work. Do you think this is the life I imagined for myself or for my child? HELL no. But if I don't do something about it now then I will be living like this for a LONG time versus just 2 years. Luckily I only have that schedule twice a week, then the rest of the week I get to see him about 5 hours, and some glorious Fridays I get to spend all day with him.

As much as that hurts to hear that, it's nothing compared to the fact that you seem to think I should have had an ABORTION bc I didn't have my ducks in a row? Yes, I'm sure he would have prefered not having the chance to live versus spending time with him grandma, then myself, and then Harland. To me, I think that's a lot better than the working moms who have to take them to daycare!! (Not that anything is wrong with daycare...but I'm having a hard time seeing why him being with his family all day is doing him such a disservice.)

To tell you the truth, I didn't think it was going to be easy or even possible for me to get pregnant. I have Endometriosis which, for some women, means never being able to have children. When I found out I was pregnant, the LAST thing I thought of was throwing away such an AMAZING gift that God obviously really wanted me to have, or he never would have given him to me. And I can already see why...he's made my life so much more worth living. Whoever wrote that is obviously not a mother bc no one who has ever felt that kind of love would ever say that.



Alright, I feel better. Definitely needed to vent after reading that!