suebaby

Firstborn Survey

My friend Kelly had someone pass her this survey and I saw it on her blog. I just had to do it, too. I'm yet to meet any mother or father who don't like to tell their birth of their child(ren) stories, it's just fun and validating (like, hell, yeah, I really did all that). Anyway, feel free to disregard if you already know all this stuff... I just couldn't help myself.

My First Baby... Here you go mommies - a different kind of survey for a change - it's all about your first born!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? No... we were... surprised.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? No.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Complete and utter shock and worry.

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Some may say it's an option for any woman... but, no, no, that was not a road I was interested in going down. I think it's a weird question anyway... who's going to say yes?

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 27

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I took two pee pee tests... they were both very positive.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Well, I guess I told Keith first... but then the first person we told together was Sunny, Keith's sister. The first person I told myself was my mom.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes... we'd already had enough surprises.

9. DUE DATE: September 27, 2005

10. DID YOU DELIVER EARLY OR LATE? Twelve days early, on September 15.

11. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes, for about two months... only once was I actually sick. The rest of the time I felt that I would be sick at any minute. Like Kelly, I too, had saltines by the bed at all times.

12. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Sleep! Also, we went out to dinner a lot, knowing that we wouldn't be once the baby was born and we kept ending up a Ruby Tuesday's where I would order a burger... I don't know if I really craved it or it was just chance. Ruby Tuesday's was about thirty seconds from our house at the time.

13. WHO IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? I would say that my coworkers made me crazy although they were wonderfully supportive.

14. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? BOY!

15. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? In the very beginning, I was hoping for a girl... then we found out he was a he, and I just kind of forgot about that... another weird question, I think.

16. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? Twenty- nine.

17. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? We had four! And we were truly lavished with gifts. That was awesome.

18. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? We knew about all four showers... like I said, we'd had enough surprises already.

19. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? No, it was a dream pregnancy.

20.WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children in downtown O-town.

21. HOW MAY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Eleven and a half

22.WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Keith, of course!

23.WHO WATCHED? Keith, my mom, Dr. Crofoot, and Shirl, the most hated nurse ever.

24.WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? It wasn't no c-section, that's for sure.

25.DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Hell, yeah. Epidural!!

26.HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7 lbs., 5 oz.

27.DID YOUR CHILD HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS? Nope!

28.WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Jack Isaak

29. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 20 months

Of course, there's more to the story, the water breaking in the middle of night, Keith eating a bad tomato and having a stomach ache, my parent's driving up from Ft. Lauderdale at four o' clock in the morning to be there in time, and pushing that baby out in twenty minutes when they finally told me to... but this all is probably enough for now....

Love you, Keith and Jack!

posted by suebaby @ 6:22 PM