First Born Tag

This is a perfect tag, since it is Beckham's FIRST birthday this week.

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Ya, we had been married for over 5 years

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Extremely happy, excited, and ready to throw up!

4. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 26

5. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I actually didn't think I was at first, we had been in Lake Powell and I broke my nose (thanks Wes), so I already didn't feel good. I also thought I had just had too much sun from being down there. The day after we got back I was so sick I couldn't get out of bed, and again thought it was just from the nose and vacation and sun. Finally after a few days of being sick I decided I better at least try a pregnancy test because if that wasn't it I was going to go to the doctor and find out what was wrong with me. Sure enough the pregnancy test went positive within about 2 seconds.

6. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Russ, using a bib that said I LOVE MY DADDY. We were going to wait until the 4th of July to tell the rest of the family, but we can't wait for things like that. We went to the store that day and bought 4 bibs, two that said I LOVE MY GRANDMA and two that said I LOVE MY GRANDPA. Russ and I went to each of their work and gave them the little present. We also told our best friends Jenn and Brody that day as well.

7. DUE DATE? February 21, 2008

8. ACTUAL DATE BABY WAS BORN? February 13, 2008

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Nausea everyday, all day for the first 6 MONTHS :( then about 3 or 4 times a week all day for the rest of the pregnancy. I was so sick seriously up until the day he was born. I actually started to think I was just sick and that it wasn't the pregnancy and after I had the baby I would still be sick. Thank goodness it really was just the pregnancy.

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Not much, but I started dipping everything in ranch

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? I want to say one of my tough little students, but he didn't really irritate me, he just took all my energy and made me think I was not a good teacher cause I couldn't figure out how to help him. I cried a few times (during school) when I was so frustrated I didn't know what to do. Luckily, I did actually start to help the cute little guy and found that really all he needed was a little love.

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Male

13. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No, I really wanted a boy first, but I actually thought it was going to be a girl. I had the name picked out, how I wanted her room, and even had dreams about a girl, so I was shocked when it was a boy.

14. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? Um, ya, I gained quite a few, it was something like 38 pounds. Luckily they all went away very fast!

15. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes, I had 5. Our little family is very loved!

16. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew

17. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Yes! Too many! I had kidney stones. The first one was in October, I was about 22 weeks and I thought I was losing the baby. I was at Bunco at the time, and my friends rushed me to the hospital. We couldn't get Russ to answer his phone (he was asleep, since he worked at 3 am). Lyndsay had to get her husband to run over there and bang on the door to wake him. It was incredibly scary and horribly painful. It happened again about 5 weeks later. My doctor then found out I had low potassium and low blood platelets. Basically they thought my heart was going to stop or that I would hemorage and die when I delivered the baby, which is why he was born early.

18. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? St. Marks Hospital

19. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Since they started me, I went into the hospital at 8 pm on the 12th, I started contractions on my own just before I got to the hospital. He was born after 5 the next day. What part they consider actual labor I don't know.

20. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Russ

21. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Russ, my mom, and his mom. At first I just wanted it to be Russ and I, but then when they wanted my mom to leave I didn't want her too. There were some interns who were going to watch so I decided if they were my mother-in-law could to.

22. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

23. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Definately! Bring on the drugs!

24. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH AND HOW TALL WERE THEY? 7 lbs 19 inches

25. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? 5:37 PM

26. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Beckham Brody Bayles

27. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? One year on the 13th! Crazy!

I tag all Mommies...