some kind of tag

1. WAS YOUR PREGNANCY PLANNED?
Sort-of. We found out I was pregnant JUST as we agreed to start trying in the coming cycle.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?
Yes.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?
Lousy cheap home test-kit!! Must be faulty. Tomorrow I get the expensive one.

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU?
Never.

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU?
30.

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

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST?
The unbelieving husband… oh ye of little faith!!

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX?
No but the husband did. Party pooper!

9. DUE DATE?
24 July 2008.

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS?
Conveniently only on Sundays.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE?
Mostly tom yam soup.

12. WHAT IRRITATED YOU?
Fat people who called me fat although I was still smaller than them (yeah, even while I was pregnant… go figure!).

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING?
No, just wanted a healthy baby.

15. HOW MANY KGS DID YOU GAIN DURING PREGNANCY?
18.5kg

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER?
No.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW?
NA

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY?
Borderline gestational diabetes in my last month –anybody want to rent the glucose meter from me?

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH?
Pantai Medical Center, KL.

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR?
Contractions started at 2.30am and delivery was at 1pm (so about 10.5 hours right?).

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL?
The husband & MIL.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH?
The husband, 1 doctor & 2 nurses.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION?
Natural.

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN?
Yes, gas & the pethidine jab.

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH?
3.19kg

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN?
13 July 2008 (11 days early).

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER?
Etha.n Alex.ander L.ee