1.Where were you when you first found out that you were pregnant? 1-home, 2-home, 3-home, 4-home.
2.Who was with you? 1-my mom 2-Cam 3-just me 4-Cam
3.How did you find out that you were pregnant? 1-My dad did a blood test at the lab and called with the results. 2-I think another blood test. 3 & 4 home pregnancy test.
4.What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? 1-excited, we thought it would take awhile to get pregnant because of some medical reasons, but only took 2 months.. 2-Excited, we tried for about 9 months. 3-Excited, we tried for a year and when we finally decided to give up we found out we were pregnant. 4-Excited, a little unexpected. He was not a surprise just happened fast.
5.Who was the first person you told? 1-my mom was there then told Cam. 2-Cam and maybe Kami. 3-Kami then Cam. 4-Cam.
6.Did you plan to get pregnant? Yes, to all four.
7.Did you tell everyone else right away? 1-We were so excited we couldn't wait to tell everyone. 2- yes. 3-yes. 4-We waited a couple of weeks but decided to tell the kids on our way to Salt Lake and they just couldn't wait to tell everyone.
8.Was everybody happy for you? Yes.
9.Did you go out and celebrate? No.
10.Did you want to find out the sex? YES
11.What was the sex? 1-boy, 2-girl, 3 boy, 4 boy.
12.Did anyone throw you a baby shower? 1-yes, 2-no, 3-no, 4-my sister wanted to because it had been almost five years but I felt weird having one for my fourth baby.
13. Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew that you wouldn't put on your baby? No, I was excited for everything.
14.How much weight did you gain? 1-about 40lbs., 2-about 45 lbs., 3-around 55 lbs., 4-I think it was around 50 lbs. I know crazy, I get huge.
15.Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Believe it or not but I was always stuck with an extra 5 lbs. with each one. Still working on #4.
16. Did you get stretch marks? Oh yeah.
17.What did you crave the most? I don't know that I craved anything specific. Just food in general, but had a hard time with sweets. They didn't taste very good.
18.Did you crave anything crazy? Not really
19.Who or what got on your nerves? Nothing really got on my nerves to bad. My hormones were crazy but I don't really remember anything specific.
20.Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Yes, preterm labor.
21.Where and when did you go into labor? 1-at my baby shower. 2-at home at about 1 in the morning. We went and dropped Sean off with Grandma & Grandpa Pearson and then went to the hospital. 3-at home. I had just been taken off of bedrest and was trying to finish up some decorating for Christmas when the contractions started. 4-at Wal-mart! Then I drove home and laid down to see if the contractions would stop and when they didn't decided I better go to the hospital.
22.Did your water break? no. not with any of them. The doctor had to do it at the hospital.
23.Who drove you to the hospital? 1-My friend Torann. 2,3 & 4 Cameron.
24.Who was in the room when you gave birth? 1-Cam, my mom, Cams mom, my sisters, my dad(the doctor), and two nurses. 2- My dad, Cam's mom, Dixie, nurse and I think respiratory. 3- Dad, Dixie, Nurse, Cam. 4-Cam, My Dad, Dr. Pope, Dixie, three nurses, and two people from Life Flight. There might have been respiratory too.
25.Did you go early or late? 1-three weeks early, 2-three weeks early, 3-two and a half weeks early, 4-six and a half weeks early.
26.How long were you in labor for? 1-16 hours, 2-6-7 hours, 3-about 9 hours, 4-5hours.
27.Did you have any drugs for the pain? I had an epidural with #1 but it did not work. No drugs with 2, 3 or 4.
28.Did you go natural or have a C-section? Natural
29.What was your first reaction after giving birth? I cried with everyone and wanted to know immediately if they were okay.
30.How big was the baby? 1- 6lbs. 4 oz. 2- 6 lbs. 9 oz. , 3- 7lbs. , 4- 4lbs. 14oz..
31.Did your husband cry? Yes.
32.What did you name the baby? 1-Sean, 2-Elizabeth, 3-Stockton 4-Shane
33.Does her name have any significant meaning? They all have family names. Shane is a family name but was 2 days old before we decided. The final decision came while we were in the NICU with him and we looked up the meaning and it means. Gift from God.
34.Did you have any visitors? Yes
35.Did he have any complications? 1-Just that the epidural did not work. 2-She was early but was fine.. 3-He did not cry right away to clean out his lungs so he required a little oxygen for the first 10 hours., 4-Yes, He decided to make his arrival a little early and he took a Life Flight ride to Utah Valley when he was just hours old. We spent 2 weeks in the NICU and he came home on oxygen and an apnea monitor.
36.How old is your baby today? 1-ten years, 2-eight years, 3-five years, 4-5 1/2 months.
37.When is the next one coming? As of right now there are no future plans. I don't like to say I am done because everyone has a surprise if they do.
38.If you could, would you do it all over again? For sure. With each child you wonder how you can share that much love with all of them, but it is so easy. I love them all so much.
39.Tag someone: I would challenge anyone that reads this. It is a fun reminder to everyone and how different all the pregnancies can be.
