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!

1. WAS YOUR PREGNANCY PLANNED? Absolutely.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? I was VERY excited!

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Never was and never will be.

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 33

HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I was charting my cycles and the day I was supposed to get my period I didn’t, so I took a test and it was positive.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Ron via e-mail since he was traveling, and then some internet friends.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Nope, and we still don’t find out!

9. DUE DATE? 7/17/07

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? I was nauseous but I never actually got sick.

WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Hard to remember much, watermelon towards the end is all I can think of.

12. WHAT IRRITATED YOU? I don’t remember feeling irritated by anything particular.

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? Nope, I was thrilled for him to be a boy.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? About 25lbs.

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? 2

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? The one up in Michigan was planned, the one at work was supposed to be a surprise, but I found out.

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Not at all.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? It was supposed to be at home with our midwife, but since my water broke 5 days before I was 37 weeks, I had to deliver in the hospital. Centennial Hospital in Nashville.

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Well, it was 7 hours from when my water broke until he was born, but active labor was only 2 hours long.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? I rode with my midwife in her van and Ron followed us in the car.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Ron, my midwife (who was a doula in the hospital setting), Dr. Wilters, my nurse, and then a bunch of other nurse/staff people who I was hardly even aware of during that time.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural birth

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Nope, nothing.

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 6lbs, 9ozs

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? June 21, 2007 at 7:40pm

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Ronnie Gerald DePew III