My First Born

Here you go mommies- a different kind of survey for a change - it's all about your your first born! Just copy and paste it into a new note for yourself!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes, kinda....I had just had my 3rd surgery for endometrosis and between that and being in a bad car wreck when I was younger, the doctor told us we might have a hard time getting pregnant & I might have a hard time carrying the baby because of some "inside" problems from the wreck. He suggested we get pregnant ASAP since it could take awhile and a week later we found out we were pregnant......so it "obviously" happened before we had talked with the doctor.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes....barely.....2 1/2 months

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Super surprised & nervous but so excited.

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I think 22....almost 23?

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? A home pregnancy test.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Heath actually was there with me when I took the test and we were unloading stuff from Walmart (where we got the test), so I went back downstairs to get more stuff and I come back in the bathroom and their was nothing, so I went to put the stuff away and Heath went in there and looked and I asked him and he said............"Nothing....still".......I finally realized he was joking with me! Then I called his Mom to talk to her, since I was in shock to make sure it could not be wrong!

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Ohhhh yessss. I am very impatient when it comes to stuff like that.

9. DUE DATE? July 12th, I think

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Oh my gosh yes.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Bacon sandwiches (and I still LOVE them!)

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Gaining weight, not being to sleep on my stomach and being so sick.

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No, I wanted a boy.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN? Really? This question? Gosh, it has been a long time ago.....I think um, 30-35.

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER(S)? Nope

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? N/A

18.DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Nothing besides being soooo sick.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? United Regional Health Care Systems, Wichita Falls, Texas

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Woke up around midnight with a HORRIBLE stomach ache (we had ate at Taco Bell the night before.....need I say more....), then it went to a back ache, so I was in & out of the bathtub for a couple hours. I kept waking Heath up and telling him my stomach hurt really bad and he keep telling me to take some Rolaids or Tums. Then I decided to call the nurse @ the hospital to ask her if I could take something & she said I was in labor and to start heading that way (we lived in Vernon). Got there around 4:00a.m. and had him at 12:15 p.m.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Heath (who I might add...ate a Bacon Sandwich on the way in the car that he got from Allsups while he was there getting gas (long story!)............see question 11.................:(

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Just Heath

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Heck yea......Heath "wanted" me to try to go natural, but as soon as he saw me crying....well screaming......he changed him mind really fast. I had an epidural and it was WONDERFUL!!!

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 8 lbs 1 oz.

26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? July 10

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME YOUR CHILD? Hayden Travis Cardwell V (He is the 5th generation of H.T.C., so that is why he has the V in his name)

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 10 1/2 years old