Whoa, yesterday I got so sick. I was in the studio in the afternoon getting my weekend shows produced (countdown, Event calendars…) and I got very achy and had a hard time looking at the screen. Headaches followed.
By the time I hit my show, I was feeling very sore.
I came home and a fever rocked me. Chills, shakes… woke up today… feel pretty good.
Weird. I have gotten sick like that a few times in my life before. so its not new. It sucks, but I finished my day of work and I think if you were listening last night you wouldn’t have noticed. yeah, weird.
The 25 Things About You phenom spread around Facebook like a deadly SARS virus. That was fun. Time to move on to the next one? This is a Mommy Survey that I stole off Jen’s facebook. I’ll answer it as a Dad as best I can (I might have to ask Coral for help).
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Here you go mommies – a different kind of survey for a change – it’s all about your first born! Just copy and paste it in a new note for yourself! Then tag 10 of your mommy friends!
Let’s see how much you remember!
1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Nope. Coral and I had talked about how we wanted a family and that maybe in a year or two would be ideal. Then like seriously days later, Coral says… “funny story…”
2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? No, Madelyn was an immaculate conception.
3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Oddly, serene.
4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? I wouldn’t say that it was completely off the table at the time. I never advocated for it. It wasn’t a serious discussion between us outside of me saying on the day I found out, “do you want to keep it?” and Coral said, “yes.” and I said, “gold, we’re having a baby!” I think she would write that she battled with the decision privately until the first ultrasound. Then after the first ultrasound it became real and it was all systems go for take off.
5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I was 27 when Coral told me and 28 when Madelyn was born.
6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? MONSTER TRUCKS! I was hosting some Zoners in the Zone’s luxury suite at the Arena for the Monster Truck Spectacular. After my show I grabbed the Zone car and drove to pick up Coral. She was waiting for me on Yates Street outside our old apartment. She climbed in the passenger seat and just started crying… I was like “what’s up?”
“I’m pregnant.”
“Do you want to keep it?”
“Yes.”
“Gold, we’re having a baby.”
Then I was, like get yourself together dude (because I call Coral dude all the time like Justin Bobby in The Hills) we got some Monster Trucks to get up in. We got to the arena and there were so many beers. Coral said, “I don’t think I am supposed to drink any beer now that I am pregnant… like I’m no doctor or anything, but I think I saw a Degrassi on fetal alcohol syndrome.”
Me, being the rational one said… “look sweetheart, this is a celebration… and like any celebration we should be drinking. Besides, what if you took your pregnancy test tomorrow? Then you *could* drink… soooooo.”
She replied, “GAWD man! you’re bad father already!”
So we sat in the Zone suite and we couldn’t tell anyone why Coral wasn’t drinking and made up something about like driving or some PC bullshit like that. It was hard, cuz when you have such huge news, you want to share it!
7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? hmmm. My Mom. I remember telling Sara P and Rick Lee one day at breakfast fairly early. I think they were the first of my friends to know outside of family.
8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes. I understand people that want to wait. But it was our first and I wanted to have things planned out and the appropriate cloths and stuff ready for day one. Besides, its a surprise the day they tell you the sex… so you get a surprise.
9. DUE DATE? February 20th, 2008 (I had to double check with Corj)
10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes,like everyday I feel sick… oh you mean Coral? She didn’t have to much of the cliched puking all the time thing. (a little I guess). But she did have wicked heartburn for almost the entire pregnancy which was very uncomfortabl for her. And she had to go easy on a lot of her favourite foods. So no beer or hot wings. sadness. Madelyn will owe her big.
11. What did you crave? I craved sex. I think Coral craved me leaving her alone. She LOVED the baked potato type thing they make at Moxies.
12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? Like Jen, it drove Coral mental when people rubbed her belly. Close family and friends was alright… but people do that all the time to pregnant ladies. Its like, you wouldn’t just rub a woman’s belly on the street normally unless you look forward to a face full of pepper spray, why would you do it to a pregnant lady. That said, its pretty wonderful to see a pregnant belly, so for you belly touchers, I get it. Just ask first.
13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD’S SEX? Girl
14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? I always thought I’d be into a girl. But then when Coral got pregnant I started being into the idea of a boy because of the all fun things we could get up when he’s older. But then I remembered it was the year 2009 and since I no longer have to trade my female children to wealthy landowners for goats, we could get up to all the fun things I could do with a boy. Coral is still not too jazzed on Mads playing hockey, but I’ll break her down over the next four years.
15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? I think I lost weight and looked pretty hot IMHO.
16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Coral did and it was pretty fun. Actually she had two! spoiled much.
17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? She knew about them. I think she might have also planned them? with help?
18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Coral got gestational diabetes. Not the end of the world, but she had to monitor her food, and go to the hospital more often.
20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? hmmm, 12ish from beginning to end. Coral woke me up at about what? 1AMish… we drove to the hospital. The nurses took one look at her and said, yup, its go time. Around noon the next day it was battle time. The forces of good lined up on the ridge. Braveheart yelled “Freedom.” there was blood. and at 1 something, Madelyn was alive.
It was funny. All night, you hang out with one nurse. Then when it gets real serious, a bunch of nurses are there. Your doctor… and sure, maybe its Greys Anatomy day so an entire class of doctors. A couple cocktails and it would have been an honest to god bar mitzvah.
21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? I drove. I was all, “Coral I ALWAYS drive… its YOUR baby, you drive.” But then she roundhoused me to the jaw bone and with that, argument over.
22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? A small crowd. Many bands in Victoria wish they could have as many people at their show as we had in the birthing room. Coral (obvs). Nana, me. Nurse lady. Doctor. Another nurse. Child doctor (gestational diabetes and meconium meant there needed to be a specialist on hand), A gaggle of wide eyed newbie doctors. Good times.
23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural.
24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Coral did every drug they’d give her. At one point I think I saw her free basing cocaine with a janitor.
27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7lbs 13oz.
28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? February 24th, 2008 @ 1PM (it was one something but I can’t remember exactly)
30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Madelyn Olivia
31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? almost a year!
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