First Born Survey - Fun!

Here you go mommies - a different kind of survey for a change - it's all about your first born! Copy and paste, make one of your own.

Let's see how much you remember!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?
No, BUT the best things in life are unplanned.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?
No. Engaged in February, wedding planned for August, got pregnant in June.....ooooopppss! :))

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?
Excited and very happy

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU?
NEVER, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU?
17

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT?
Skipped my period, oh, oh, oh! I wasn't too worried as the wedding was already scheduled for six weeks later. 

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST?
My soon to be hubby

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX
Wasn't possible back then as the technology wasn't there.

9. DUE DATE?
March 11

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS?
Yes, BAD the first couple of months. I remember barfing in a wastebasket in my bedroom many times. Ughhh..

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE?
Bean Soup??!! No, wonder we called her our little fart after she was born? :))

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST?
I wasn't irritable, not in the least. We were young, with little cares, our life was just beginning.

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING?
Heck no, we didn't care, we just wanted a healthy baby.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY?
Too many. Been so long ago, I don't remember exactly, guessing about 35

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER?
No

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW?


18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY?
Nope, just the morning sickness, otherwise I was a healthy, active 18 year old kid.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH?
Alexandria, MN

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR?
ALL night, waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many. I had a nun for a nurse and I kept thinking to myself, "what the heck do you know about any of this??!!" LOL!

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL?
My hubby.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH?
Just the Doc and nurse, Daddys didn't go in back then.

23. Was it natural or c-section?
Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN?
Oh yes!! All I could get!! (hypos were all that were available back then, gads)

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH?
7 lbs.1/2 oz.

26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ?
March 7th. (four days early)

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER?
Christine Kate

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY?
38 years old, just about 39...ohhhhhhhhhhh my gawd! LOL!

AND, here's a photo of my beautiful baby girl, all grown up.