17-8-2009 - First born

My mood while writing this blog: Ok

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? No

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? No

3. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION? I was so happy I couldn't stop smiling...

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Nope

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 19

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I can't remember, I think I went to the doctor, this was like almost 11 years ago

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? My boyfriend

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

9. DUE DATE? Sept 16, 1998

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes but only the nausea not vomiting...nausea lasted the whole entire pregnancy

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Mexican chili chips...thats all I can remember

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Standing at a grocery till for 8 hours a day every day...finally later on they gave me a chair to sit on...but people got mad that I had a chair and they didn't, seriously I was pregnant, I deserved to sit down

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No I wanted a girl

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 70lbs

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? I was far away from home and my BF family was gonna throw me one but they changed their minds??

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? It was supposed to be a surprise but when they decided not to do it, thats when I found out they were gonna plan one.

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? I lost alot of blood right after the placenta came out...I was sickly pale and weak for over a week

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? In Yellowknife, Northwest territories

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 22 hours

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Me and my BF took a cab

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? a bunch of strangers :( the town I was in Hayriver...all the doctors were away at a doctors convention because it was labor day Sept 7th I was medicated out to yellowknife and my doctor had the chance to come with me and he didn't. You need a full team of doctors for a first time pregnancy and so there was a room full of people I didn't know, we couldn't afford to fly my BF down to yellowknife and my mom and sister were on a 16 hour bus ride to see me only to find out I was gone when they got there

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? No

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 8 lbs 13 ounces

26 WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? Sept 7, 1998

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Rena Shay Beauregard

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? She is going to be 11 years old on Sept 7th