Yes - Baby Cherise is here!! Sorry I'm a bit late in updating here, but it's been crazy this past week. Today, I've finally gotten some time to blog... I'm not complaining though! :)
So here's what happened -
Saturday, 14 July:
Wee hours of the morning: Having some contractions - not quite like the usual kind, in the sense that they seem to swing around and grab my hips.
7 am: Blood flecks in the toilet bowl. Is this the show that everyone talks about?
7.30 am: More blood and staining. This is it, I think!
9 am: I call my gynae and am told to go in for a check.
11 am: Finally get to see my gynae - contractions coming on stronger now (I'm in definite pain!), but not quite regular yet. Gynae says cervix is still closed, but very effaced (thin). She gives us two options - one, to get admitted straightaway, which is boring and expensive; two, to go home and wait it out, and come back when the pains get more regular. We decide to go home.
Noon: Shopping at Novena Square - I'm determined that baby will arrive soon, so I decide to walk as much as possible. It's a funny scenario, trying to shop for my sister's birthday pressie and having to stop every now and then because the pains make it difficult to walk.
1.30 pm: Can't take it anymore - we decide to head home so I can rest.
4.30 pm: We start timing my contractions and recording them on paper. The pains are difficult to walk and talk through now - 9 minutes apart.
6.30 pm: 6-7 minutes apart.
9 pm: We are seriously thinking of going to the hospital, because the pains are coming at intervals of 5 minutes or less now, and I can't take a step when they happen. But then I take a shower, which somehow slows things down, so I end up back at 8 minutes apart.
10.30 pm: Hunny is getting really stressed and upset at me. He wants me to go to the hospital because the pains are really bad now, but I refuse, wanting them to get closer before we head off, determined not to be sent home again. We make a deal - agreeing to wait till after 12 midnight.
Sunday, 15 July:
12 midnight: I think, "If this isn't the real thing, I don't know what is." The pains are strong and quite unbearable now. We decide to head off to the hospital.
1 am: Arrive at hospital. Hunny does registration while I get undressed and get prepped (like have an enema, among other things). Nurse/midwife tells me my contractions are 5 minutes apart and I'm 1.5 cm dilated. I can't do much except nod at her in pain.
1.30 am: In the delivery room now. I grip hunny's hand real hard to get through the pains. No talking or joking now. I look blankly around for some pain relief but find none. Somehow the pain has dazed me so I'm unable to ask for pain relief. I figure it's too soon to ask for an epidural, so I grimly soldier on.
3 am: Midwife checks - I'm 2 cm dilated (only!) - I give up and request for an epidural. Gynae comes in. Breaks my waterbag in the middle of my contraction - the most traumatic experience of my life.
4 am: Epidural administered - bliss! I feel the contractions but not the pain - cool! I try to sleep but sleep doesn't come. Hunny snores gently in the chair beside me..
7 am: Cervical check - 5 cm dilated. Nurses joke that my baby doesn't want to see them, but wants to see the morning shift nurses instead, who take over at 7.30 am.
8 am: Doctor pops in - she's nicely dressed. Makes some comment about how she probably can make it to church and be back before my baby arrives. Not funny. But then she checks me and finds that I'm already there! Can start pushing now! I'm so not mentally ready, and I'm dead tired. Exhausted. I keep yawning. Pushing starts, with nurses yelling at me and I start to hyperventilate because I'm so so tired! I feel like sleeping in between contractions. Doctor turns off my epidural because she says I need to feel the pressure to push. Yikes!
9.02 am: Baby Cherise comes through - finally! It's surreal looking at her and thinking that she just came out from me.. I wonder vaguely what my tummy looks like now that she's out, but I'm too weak to move a muscle. Happy and exhausted.
Here are some photos from that day:
Machine to monitor my contractions and baby's heartbeat (note the hand gripping the side of the bed - that's mine):
Happiness after the epidural!
My beautiful baby!
Baby Cherise weighs 3.02 kg. You can see the moulding of her head here - this cone-shaped moulding is quite typical for a baby born face-up, apparantly. Babies born face-down go through a different sort of head moulding.
All bundled up!
My little Korean-looking baby...
Mother and baby back at the ward:
Proud daddy!
We're all back home now.. it's been a madhouse! But we're all adjusting - baby's settling in, and I'm even finding the time to blog. Will update more later!
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