Mommy quiz about Talea

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Well, yes and no. I couldn't get pregnant for the first 2 1/2 years of my marriage, so I finally saw a fertility specialist, and he gave me a clomid pill to take. I waited about 6 months to take it because it was scary holding the power to get pregnant. When we heard it took some people a year to get pregnant on clomid, we decided to take it and see how long it took us. We were hoping we had a few months before it took, but it worked on the first try. THAT was unexpected and scary.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Denial. Shock. Disbelief. Happiness. Fear. Happiness. Disbelief. Happiness. Elation.

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Never in a million years!

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? Just turned 27.

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? My cousin, Angi, who was trying to get pregnant when we were, called to say she was pregnant, and she forced me to go get a pregnancy test, so I did. I took it, and thought it said negative, so I threw it away, then called her and told her it was negative. Hyrum looked at it and while I was talking to Angi, he told me/showed me it was positive. I was shocked. It was too crazy to think I could actually be pregnant!

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Well, Hyrum was showing me the test, and I was talking to Angi, and my sister Daisha and her fiance were in the room, as well as Hyrum's sister, Susan, so...all of them!

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes. I wanted to know what clothes to buy, and though the ultrasound tech said it was a girl, I didn't trust the ultrasound since it wasn't super obvious, (despite what Hyrum says).

9. DUE DATE? May 18, 2004

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Not a speck.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Ice cream!

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Smokers. I felt like they were poisoning my baby every time I inhaled their second-hand smoke.

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? I didn't really care, but I had kind of hoped for a boy so he could be the older brother to stick up for his little sisters. Hyrum wanted a girl though, and we always end up having the sex he wants.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? 28. Started at 125, ended at 153.

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yes.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew. My Aunt Judy and her daughters threw it for me and it was the coolest shower ever with fun games and amazing food. They are always so good to me and make sure I'm taken care of. I wouldn't have had much of a wedding reception or wedding shower or baby shower if it hadn't been for them.

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Yes. I got toxemia (pregnancy-induced hypertension) at 38 weeks and was induced unexpectedly.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, Oregon

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 9 hours, 3 minutes (from the moment they gave me the 1/2 pill on my cervix at 6pm to soften the cervix to when the baby was out at 3:03am.) I never even had to get the second 1/2 pill or any pitocin. Though she was two weeks early, she was apparently more than ready to be born. I was only 1cm dilated/50% effaced when they induced me, but labor kicked in hard instantly. I tried hot showers, which were nice, but they made me stay on the machines in bed since I was induced, so by 1 am I couldn't take the pain anymore and I got an epidural. My water broke at 1:37am and she was born at 3:03 after a half hour of pushing. I tried squatting to push but felt too faint, so I pushed laying on my back putting my chin to my chest. It was awful! My sore neck pain was worse than the stitches pain I had from tearing (they threatened to give me an episiotomy so I pushed too hard, too fast and I tore).

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? No one. I drove to my doctor's office, met Hyrum there, and in the appointment I was told to walk across the street and check in to the hospital to have my baby because my blood pressure was too high to go on anymore. Wait, maybe we moved the cars across the street. I can't remember.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Hyrum and my little sister, Shira.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Heavens yes! I have the pain tolerance of a gnat, so I had an epidural. Worth it's pain relief in gold, I tell you!

27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 5 lbs, 8 oz. 19 1/2" long.. She was unexpectedly small, most likely because her cord looked as though it was starting to have problems. Good thing she was induced early or she could have been a stillborn.

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? May 4, 2004. 14 days early.

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Talea Lila Johnson. I heard her name while I was substitute teaching and I liked it. Later, my dad coincidentally recommended that name. Lila is my middle name, and Hyrum LOVES it, so he wanted it to be her middle name also.

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 4 years-old (she'll be 5 in May).