My First Born

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes, for 4 years.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Very excited & scared! It happened only after 2 months.

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 30

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I took a home pregnancy test then later I I saw the doctor and had a blood test.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? My husband because I asked him to check the home pregancy test for me to be sure.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes! I couldn't wait.

9. DUE DATE? February 18,2007

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? OH YES!! I was extremely sick my first trimester vomiting and passing out...horrible!

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Not much since I was so sick but I ate a lot of ginger..Ihate it to this day!

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? The first trimester because I was so sick.

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

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? No 

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN? Lots..at least 30 lbs...ouch!

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER(S)? Yes, I had 2

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? One was a surprise and one I didn't know about

18.DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? No, besides the sickness during the 1st trimester, I had a healthy pregnancy.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Florida Hospital

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? 12 hrs

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? my husband Chris

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? my husband Chris, my mother in-law, my sister-in-law & my mother.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural 

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Yes, I had morphine and an epidural

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7lbs 14oz.

26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? February 27, 2007

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME YOUR CHILD? Tristan Christopher Hoffman

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? Tristan would be 6 years old on Feb. 27, 2013. Tristan was stillborn when I was 41 weeks pregnant. His heart stopped beating while in the womb and I noticed no movement one evening. The next day I was induced and we found out that the umbilical chord was wrapped around his neck 3 times. We love him and think about him everyday.