First Born

Here you go mommies - a different kind of survey for a change - it's all about your first born! Just copy and paste it in a new note for yourself!Let's see how much you remember!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? So happy!

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Definitely NOT!

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 24

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? Home test.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Dan...I called him after I took the test...he was still at work. I called him because I wasn't quite sure if the faint pink line was positive...I was afraid to believe it was true! I said, "I think you're going to be a daddy." He came home and checked the test too and it was really true!

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yup.

9. DUE DATE? June 23, 2005

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yup...every day from 6 weeks to 16 weeks.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? canned pineapple...chunks, not niblets or rings...

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Not sure...I was actually pretty calm during my pregnancy...

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Boy

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 50...but I lost 30 after the first week...lol

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? yup...a couple

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew.

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? At the end...swelling...couldn't walk around or stand for more than 10 minutes at a time or my feet would blow up like baloons...lol. Also, at the end, when we were in the hospital, I had a fever of 103 and high blood pressure 155 over 100...I was going into preeclampsia...so they delivered.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? LDS Hospital

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? About 17...I got woken up from a dead sleep at 2:00 a.m. with a contraction and had Ethan at 9:00 p.m. that night. I think I was pre-labor during the day before but didn't realize it.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Dan

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Dan, Doctor and nurses.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Yup...yay epidural!

27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 8 lb. 6 oz.28.

WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? June 20, 2005 9:02 p.m.

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Ethan Daniel

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY?3 1/2