My First Born

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?
No, but we didn't do anything to prevent it either.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?
No

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?
I was very nervous and very scared! I was only 18 years old, I broke so many morals and values I grew-up with. I wasn't married, I was practically living with Jason, I was pregnant, still had a Chasity ring...

4. HOW OLD WERE YOU?
18

5. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT?
It had almost been one month since I had my last cycle. I went to a free pregnancy test clinic and walked in. The lady at the front desk asked me to fill out some paper work and took me to a room. I sat in the room for a little bit and guess who walked in...Norma Windhorst, my now mother-in-law! I knew who she was because she would go to our high school a lot and I knew she was Philip's mom. She recognized me too. She talked to me (and I wanted to just run, I was shocked and embarrassed)! Norma gave me the pregnancy test and she came back in with my results and of course it was positive. Norma told me she wouldn't tell my parents and she tried to encourage me. I just wanted to leave the clinic...but who would have ever guessed, about 6 years later I would be her daughter-in-law, and that baby I was pregnant with would be here granddaughter!

6. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST?
Jason, my boyfriend at the time

7. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX?
No, I wanted it to be a surprise

8. DUE DATE?
August 20, 1999 - But she came a couple days early on the 18th, my brother's Birthday. So he spent his 17th birthday in the hospital with the family.

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS?
No, never threw-up or never felt really sick

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE?
Mcdonalds Hamburgers and fries and it showed!

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST?
I think everyone irritated me and the fact that I was so big irritated me. I was very uncomfortable and it seemed as though none of my clothes fit.

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX?
I was told by so many people, "its a boy". Because I was carrying the baby low or because other boys would cry when I would hold them...so many different 'wives tales'. She was a girl !!

13. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING?
I was surprised, but soo happy, I couldn't wait to dress her all up!

14. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY?
I started my pregnancy at 115 lbs and weighed 186 lbs at my last Dr. appointment! I was HUGE!


15. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER?
Yes, at St.Paul in room 6 with so many of my favorite women!



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


17. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY?
I was anemic, I couldn't ride in the car for very long without getting dizzy or light-headed. I was just BIG and everything I did was complicated to me!

18. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH?
North Central Baptist Hospital

19. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR?
I went to the hospital at 11pm on a Tuesday night, the 17th of August and she was born the next day, Wednesday the 18th at 8:16pm.



20. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL?
Jason

21. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH?
My mom and Jason, 2 nurses and the Dr (who came in the last few minutes)

22. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION?
Natural after hours of pushing! But I was willing to have a C-section!

23. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN?
Absolutely! I had the epidural as soon as it was possible!

24. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH?
8 lbs even

25. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN?
August 18, 1999 at 8:16pm

26. WHAT DID YOU NAME YOUR CHILD?
Jason and I decided on her name and the spelling of her name a few minutes after she was born in the hospital. Joslyn Trinity

27. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY?
9 years and almost 6 months old.






Joslyn 8.18.1999

Uncle Julian and Joslyn

Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Julian, Joslyn

Joslyn a few months old

Joslyn today 9 years old