Pregnancy Q&A

Sherry and I have both been tagged (heads up, Sherry!) by Marijke at Womb Within to answer some pregnancy questions. Here are mine!

1. How did you find out you were pregnant?
During my first pregnancy I was working at an ob/gyn office as a receptionist. I was only a few days late but at the urging of my two coworkers (who were teasing more than anything) I went over to the lab during a break and took a test. I really had no other indications that I was pregnant and was really shocked when I found out I was! For my second pregnancy we had been trying and I was a week late. I went back to the same clinic (I had quit just after I had my first) and ta-da!

2. How did you tell your partner (if you have/had one)?
After I got the results for my first test I didn’t go back out to the desk because I wanted my husband to be the first to know (because my coworkers would have wanted to know), so I was able to use one of the doctors’ phones in their office to call him at work. He was at lunch and thankfully already sitting down. He was with me when I went back the second time around.

3. Did you secretly hope for a girl or a boy?
I did kind of hope for girls, mostly because I helped raise my baby sisters and that’s what I was used to.

4. Did you feel ready to have a child?
The first time around I didn’t because it was such a surprise, and by the time we were ready for round two the universe surprised us again with the twins, which I don’t think anyone’s ever ready for!

5. What bit of advice did you get that you hated?
The only advice that really sticks out was after I had had the twins and was so sleep deprived and depressed that I didn’t know what to do with myself: People like to tell you to sleep when the baby(ies) sleeps, but that was impossible because twins don’t sync up, and even when they did I still had an 18-month-old to take care of.

6. What bit of advice did you get that you appreciated?
To let the housework go to hell after the newborns came home! I was getting myself so worked up about making sure dishes were done and laundry was folded and put away that I was stressing way too much. My husband helped where he could but he was working full-time too, so it got to the point where we realized that the babies really didn’t care if I had to pull their onesies out of a basket or out of a drawer, as long as they were clean!

Now I’m supposed to tag a few blogs to play! I tag:

~ Jennifer at Declutter It
~ Gayla and Kadi at Supernanny Rules
~ Linette at Mother Earth’s Garden
~ Charlene and Christine at Weary Parent
~ Deb at Simply Thrifty

If you’re not tagged please feel free to swipe the questions and answer anyway, and leave a comment with your URL so we can come read too!

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