05-2-2009 - My Firstborn Survey

My mood while writing this blog: happy

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 he wasn't, but we were still excited as if he was a planned baby

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? No I wasn't

3. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION? Nervous, scared and at the same time excited

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Never. God never gives you more than you can handle

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I took a pregnancy test few weeks before my 19th birthday and I'm going on the age of 20 this April.

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? Okay here's the long story, on April's Fools day I realized I hadn't had my period and it was few weeks late. Don't ask me why I didn't realize any sooner, but I didn't. So I kept this info to myself except a friend of mine. I didn't wanna worry anyone for nothing. A week later my friend texted me saying I should come over and use one of her tests. She bought the pregnancy digital test for herself, but I guess she got a negative and offered one to me. So I saved up my urine and when I took it I got a instant BFP, it said "Pregnant" and my heart dropped. I was nervous, scared, but oddly very very excited. That night I was nauseous and my sense of smell was like times a million. Well, next day I went home very nauseous and my mother thought for sure I was pregnant. I was too afraid to tell her and I felt like the test could've been a fluke. So she bought some tests, and I was nervous taking them, but ended up with a light BFP. And after that everything is just history

(I actually never share the entire story with people because at the time I didn't want anyone to know Sophia knew before everyone so I usually give people the condensed version)

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Well, technically my friend Sophia, then my mother, than Jeff's uncle and than Jeff

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes we did and found out he was a little boy

9. DUE DATE? It originally Nov 29th, but ended up having to get an induction date of Nov 25 because of the risks with having Gestational Diabetes

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes during my entire pregnancy

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Just about anything, but especially a Big Mac from Mc Donald's

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? A lot of the drama that went on, eh not something I feel comfortable talking about...

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? He's a boy

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? I didn't care as long as I had a healthy baby

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 25-30?

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes I did, it was in October

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew, but didn't know what was gonna go on

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? The only problems I had were gestational diabetes. And I would spot all the time. You have no clue how many times I went to the hospital to get checked out. I'm a very paranoid person.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Norton's Hospital

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Well, I was induced, so the night before they used pitocin to induce me. They had to soften my cervix, with something called Cervadil which had me cramping and contracting all night. I was begging for a epidural, but didn't get one until the next day at night time. Which was good because it was long before my waters broke on their own. Only few hours after that I was 10 cm and ready to give birth. Aidan wasn't born until 10:23 PM

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? My parents drove me, Jeff lives in another city so he drove from where he lived to meet us up there

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? My mother and Jeff

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Epidural and some other drug I have no clue what it is

27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 8 pounds and 3 oz

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? November 25, 2008

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Aidan Stephen Dickson

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? Lol, he's only two months and a week old