1st Pregnancy Survey

Miranda Rix-Lee posted this in her "Notes" on facebook. I thought it was fun!

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 and Yes. The 1st pregnancy was a surprise (honeymoon) but I lost that baby at 18 weeks. My first born child was totally planned! This is the one I will talk about for the rest of the survey.
   
2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes
   
3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Nervous and Excited
   
4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Never
5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I was 28
6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? We were in New Brunswick, on vacation. I knew there was something different and all the way home on the train (21 hours) I kept saying to Marshall - I think I'm pregnant. I got home and right away took a test, it was negative but I was sure that it wasn't true. I went into my doctors and they did blood work. Sure enough - I WAS!
7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Marshall (my husband) and then Krista Hall-Jefferson and Cherie VanHoffen-Martin
   
8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes
9. DUE DATE? April 24, 2003
   
10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Not really. Just felt a little ill if I was hungry or if I ate too much.
    
11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Strawberries and Pineapples
    
12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Around 5 months into the pregnancy, I tore a muscle in my stomach. After that I could move in a really simple way and experience great discomfort.
    
13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Girl
14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? I guess in a way. My husband has a small family and would have loved to have had a son to pass on the name.
    
15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 16 lbs
16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes
17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? No and thanks to Susan Brenton-Kelly who opened her house!
    
18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? I was put on progesterone to help with the early stages of pregnancy and my cervix was stitched. I had previously had 3 miscarriages and was willing to go through anything to have this baby.
    
19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Burlington, ON
20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? I noticed what seemed like mild contractions around 3:00 Tuesday afternoon (while Margie Goodyear was trying to get things going), they got a little more serious around 6:00, I went to the hospital at 7:00 and she was born at 1:06 Wednesday morning. 7-10 hours.
    
21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? My husband Marshall
22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Marshall, Nurse Paula and Dr. Psarakis
23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural
24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Sort of... They gave me too much epidural and I was having problems breathing. They turned the drip off to contact the Dr. and then it was too late by the time the epidural set in - I had a baby girl in my arms.
    
25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 6lbs 3oz
26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? April 24th, 2003 (on her due date)
    
27. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Paige Elizabeth Bucek
    
28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST? She is now 4 years old