My First Born

Here you go mummies - 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...

1. WAS YOUR PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Very happy

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Never

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 29-30

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? Pregnancy test, although I suspected a day or two earlier because I started peeing like a race horse. (me too Mary Beth)

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? My husband, Mike

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes - but I already knew in my heart it was a boy.

9. DUE DATE? February 17, 1994

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Not really.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Dairy product of all kinds!

12.WHAT IRRITATED YOU? Can't think of anything.

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? A boy!!

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No, a boy was just fine with us. Though as others have said - having a healthy baby was most important.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 27 lbs as I recall. I lost that and another 20 pounds afterwards. (breastfeeding)

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes, they gave me one at work, and one with friends and family.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I think I probably knew about both!

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Only at the end - I was on bedrest from 36-38 weeks -

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Fort Worth TX

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 12 hours probably - We were watching the Cowboys play in Super Bowl XXVIII and I was having these strange pains - It finally occurred to me to time them and they were happening regularly. The big joke has always been that Mike was going to send me to the hospital in an ambulance so he didn't have to miss the Cowboys WIN the game.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Mike did. It was snowing.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Mike, my dear friend Kelly, Dr. Watson and nurse(s). I nearly missed it - Dr. Watson said loudly "Open your eyes! He's coming out!"

23. DID YOUR WATER BREAK NATURALLY? No, a nurse broke it.

24. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? the delivery was natural.

25. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Epidural....Ha - I thought I wanted to go drug free - I was frightened of the big needle - after a few really serious contractions - I got over my fear.

26. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 9 pounds even. He had a 15 inch circumference head. Ouch.

27. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? January 31, 1994

28. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Jason Lee Pugh

29. BIGGEST SURPRISE DURING CHILDBIRTH? Hmmm.....that he weighed 9 pounds at 38 weeks?

30. GREATEST MEMORY ABOUT CHILDBIRTH? Mike and I both crying with we saw Jason for the first time.

31. DID YOU BREASTFEED? Yes, for eleven months. Then I had Gallbladder surgery.


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