Big sister and baby brother July 2005.
Ok ladies let’s just see how much you remember about your first born...Just copy and re-paste...and pass on to your friends.
This is about the mischievous gremlin since I didn't give birth to the teenage punk rocker.
1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Mostly.
2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Affirmative.
3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Thrilled but nervous. I had a miscarriage 6 months prior and I was terrified it would happen again. Miscarriages are absolute hell.
4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Absolutely not!
5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 21 when I conceived and 22 when I delivered.
6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? Dollar store pee test.
7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? The man that knocked me up.
8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Obviously! Do you know me?! Surprises aren’t my thing.
9. DUE DATE? July 9, 2005.
10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Very much so. I puked daily until I was about 19 weeks along. I had to stop taking the freeway to work in the mornings because I never knew when I would need to pull over and vomit.
11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Apples, cold cereal, caesar salad, M&M’s, and chocolate ice cream.
12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? People who thought the morning sickness was in my head. Who tells a puking pregnant woman the nausea is completely mental and she has control over it?!
13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? All boy. (I was right!)
14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? Nope, I just knew in my heart he was a boy from the beginning.
15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 32. I dreaded being weighed the last trimester
16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yep, two. I was spoiled:)
17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I was in the know.
18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? During the 21 week ultrasound he had enlarged kidneys and I had to go to several follow up appointments with a perinatologist. His kidneys were completely normal at delivery.
19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? American Fork.
20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 8 hours after my water broke. The nurse was about to send me home when the flood gates opened.
21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? A certifiable bad ass wannabe race car driver.
22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Tony Bologna. He said he wasn’t going to watch the actual birth but in the end he caved. The first thing out of his mouth was, ”He looks like an alien!!!” Had I not still been in the process of pushing a human life out of my body I would have slapped him. In his defense Brady had a major case of cone head. If you saw a picture you would understand. My brother actually asked me if surgery would need to be performed to fix the deformity. (The Mitcher has a way with words.) Luckily he had a perfectly shaped head within 48 hours.
23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural. Pushed for an hour.
24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? The epidural was my best friend. I actually went to the hospital without any makeup on and wasn’t even tempted to try to put it on in the car. If you know me well that is saying a lot.
27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7lbs 5oz
28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? July 17, 2005. 8 days late in July!!! Can you say miserable?!
30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HER/HIM? Brady Russell
31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 3!!! They grow up way too fast. The other day he called me “Psycho Head” but that is a story for another time.
