Monday, March 2, 2009

Quick Recap - Pregnancy

Monika had tagged me on facebook for this and then I saw it on her blog...so thought of picking it up and doing it here. Sounded interesting and a quick pregnancy story too :)

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1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?
Yupsee..

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?
Yes, for 5 yrs by then

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?
A smile, skipping a heart beat and slightly wet eyes.

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU?
Noway...

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU?
30

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

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST?
My dear husband...It was his birthday that day. :)

8. DUE DATE?
21st Nov 2007

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS?
Not at all. I was darn lucky for first 6 months and as soon as 7th month began it turned the other way round and remained tough as hell for last trimester.

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE?
Chilli, hot food...I could eat only what i cooked.

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST?
Not being able to sleep for months..not knowing that would be the case for many more months too.

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX?
Female...a baby doll

13. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING?
No...i never ever thought of what I really wanted - A boy or a girl...

14. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY?
14..and lost weight for few months after the delivery..but then the curve became an upwards growing one and is still following that direction.

15. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER?
Yes..traditional indian way...though a low profile simple occassion.

16. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW?
??? surprise??? Can it be a surprise too...??

17. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY?
YEs...everything, every complication, trouble, pain visited me in last 3 months and i was in hospital for one checkup/test or the other almost every day.

18. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH?
Reiner De graaf Hospital, Delft, The Netherlands

19. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR?
24 hrs of labor and then a C-Section.

20. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL/BIRTH CENTER?
My dear husband - who else :)

21. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH?
The nurses and the doctor and the proud father of the baby arriving.

22. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION?
C-Section

23. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN?
Yesss...

24. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH?
2.9 kgs

25. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ?
15th Nov 2007

26. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER?
Prisha

27. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY
1 yr, 3 months, 2 weeks and 1 day old (The Lilypie ticker is a great calculator ..hehehe)


27. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN THE DOCTOR ANNOUNCED THE SEX OF THE BABY?
I knew it 2 weeks before the delivery...At every U/S dOctors had been saying" she is active, she is resting...etc etc etc...." SO we knew enough inspite of opting for not interested in knowing the sex of the baby.

28. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST REACTION ON SEEING THE BABY?
I had such mixed feelings and thoughts...I just dont know how exactly I felt looking at my sweetie pie.

28. DID YOU CRY?
Oh yes....big time...i cried for weeks :) (Is it bad ?? )

5 thoughts:

Monika said...

as u said on mine we seem to have so many things common :) :)

nice reading it

Swati said...

Lovely !

Swati said...

tagged

PG said...

a good one!

Gopikaa Ramanan said...

that was an interesting tag. my regards to you and prisha ( i so liked this name) would like to know what does it mean