Five Random Facts

I've been tagged by my cousin Kim, over at the Marique Family blog.
Rules for the “Five Random Facts”:Each player starts with five random facts/habits/stories about themselves. Anything will do. Be creative. The person who is tagged needs to write a post on their own blog (about their five things) and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose one person to get tagged and list their name/blog. Don’t forget to leave a comment on their blog telling them they’re tagged and to read your blog.

Here goes nothing...

1. My against the odds baby. First let me say this might be too much info...Around the time Seth and I first got back together I started seeing a new dr and since I have never ovulated regularly and it seemed to be getting worse she sent me to a gyn to make sure nothing was seriously wrong because my old dr never did any tests and she wanted to make sure it wasn't something that would prevent me from having children one day. The did a whole bunch of tests blood, ultrasounds and more blood, they couldn't find anything wrong which is basically good news, but the Dr told me the odds of me getting pregnant on my own were less than 2%. He said we would need fertility drugs. Well needless to say I was very upset. Seth was so nice about it he said whatever I wanted to do when the time came he would help me. Since we just got back together we decided to wait and see and whatever happened, happened. Well 2 and a half years later I went to the drs cause you guessed it I hadn't ovulated in 7 months and the dr decided to put me on a med to make me get it, but for some reason I was very apprehensive so I took the prescription home and waited a week or so then I looked the medicine up online and it said it was very dangerous if you were pregnant. So before I started it I called my dr and asked her to do one last pregnancy test just to be sure so I could start the medicine. I really didn't think I was (but looking back I had some symptoms). Anyway it was a friday morning and I went to the health center where I used to work in EB and had the test done and called my friend for the results when I got home and she said it's negative and then she said wait you better sit down, it's positive-they just changed it, so she had them run it again and it was a weak positive. I ran to walgreens and bumped into Krissy and Lexi I started crying and told them, they were sooo excited. Alexis was yelling and jumping up and down. I bought 2 tests cause I had to see for myself, I just couldn't believe it we waited soo long. I waited to tell seth untill I saw him and I cried again...he said this is great why are you crying and I had no idea but I couldn't stop. It turned out I was only 2 and 1/2 weeks pregnant.
2. My favorite snack is bananas with chocolate syrup all over them. I absolutely love it and have already introduced it to Tayla...not a great idea cause now I have to share. It's so funny she gets all hopped up on syrup and runs around like crazy!
3. I was a Hooters girl. A very very long time ago I worked at Hooters in Boston for about 6 months. It was actually the most fun I ever had at a job...not to mention the money. (If anyone ever tells my daughter I will hunt you down!). Seth and I weren't together at the time and he came in to see me once. He hated me working there and will not talk about it to this day. Actually Kim, I don't know if he told you but Jeff came in with a friend from work once and the look on his face when he saw me was priceless. He spent the whole time there trying to convince me to quit.
4. I love Sudoku puzzles & gossip. I make seth buy me OK magazine every week so I can get my fix (can we say intervention). I read my magazine and do my puzzle that night no matter how long it takes me and no matter how early I have to get up the next morning!
5. This may sound mean especially since I already went on and on about how long it took to get pregnant but I hated being preg. and I don't think it was all that fond of me either. It was def worth it and I will do it again (just 1 time) but it was horrible except for maybe 2 months. You see I threw up every day for 16 weeks, had to go to the hospital twice for dehydration and then I had a muscle spasm in my back for 6 or so weeks, when I went for my 20 week u/s they told us (in the scariest possible way) the my amniotic fluid was low and so I had to have another u/s the next week (which showed everything was ok but my fluid was on the low side of normal) and had to have u/s's once a month for the rest of the preg (at least I got to see her grow that was amazing), but I was always worried that it would go back down cause they didn't know why it was low so it could happen again. Then I felt good for a few months and enjoyed feeling her move inside of me(when she wasn't kicking me in the ribs of coarse which is where she liked to wedge her feet). Then I started swelling (as everyone who came to my baby shower can atest to) and I started getting dizzy and light headed...my blood pressure was going up so I had to go to the drs and get checked every 2 weeks until one visit when I was 36 weeks they told me my protien in my urine was way too high and we had to go to the hospital and I had to go on bedrest and try to wait till 37 weeks to deliver, which I was able to do. So she was born at 37 weeks and was perfect, but her temp was a little low so they took her right away to put her under the warmers and then a couple of days later she got jaundiced so she had to go under the lights and again on the day we were supposed to take her home so she had to stay an extra day. I can honestly say the hardest part of it all was having her strapped to the light board and not be able to hold her and then having to leave her there. The worst feeling in the world is leaving the hospital without your baby. Not that I really left, we stayed till 6pm the got a room at the hotel around the corner and I went back to breast feed her every 3 hours. It was funny I had a c-section so I couldn't walk very well so they let us take the wheelchair and seth bundled me all up and pushed me back and forth in the snow. He was soo tired in the middle of the night I told him to stay at the hotel and I hobbled back and forth by myself, I must have looked so pitiful when I walked back in the doors of mgh the security guy at the door asked if I needed to be wheeled upstairs and all I could think was I hope he doesn't think I'm still pregnant! Tayla was lucky she got to come home early the next afternoon and we were sooo excited.

Well that's it...sorry it was so long. Krissy your up!!! Check out the Izzo-Mackay blog!