D Day

Today is D-Day (1 Apr). To be precise I-Day. Induce Day. Baby Leah has been served eviction notice to vacate the premises by tomorrow. 

Today is to ensure she's all packed and ready. 

I think she senses it too and has been fidgety the whole morning. Her mummy is kinda scared, kinda nervous, kinda unsure and don't know what to expect. 

Currently at 1pm, mummy has juz been admitted, dumped in a ward alone to wait for doc or nurse to come do the inducing (daddy cannot come in with mummy until she goes labour ward).

So now mummy is just sitting on the bed and blogging and waiting. We'll see you soon Leah. Be good and be cooperative. Love ya

Update

5.08pm doc put in inducement pill called cervidil or something. 

As of 8.08am my cervix has dilated by 1cm.. 

My labour is gonna be a long process. I think my baby didn't get the eviction notice papers..

D-Day +2 part 2

Ok. My dear Leah is out finally at 7pm. Weighing 3232g.



With all those info, I still haven't seen her.. at least her daddy met her 

Process was such.

Doc broke water at 5.15am, I had the 尿床 feeling all the way for an hour +.

So we have 12 hours for natural birth process continue. At the 6th hour mark, which is 11+, the doctors added another drip solution that increases the contractions cos it was getting pretty far apart and my cervix just ain'tcooperating and baby still hiding high up. Generally not an issue for me cos I dun feel much (unless the epi starts to wear off of some part of my body is getting lesser of it). 

I gotta add, I haven't had any food since 10pm the night before. Only snuck 2 sips of apple juice.

At 3pm, doc came to do cervix test (Nth time)

Asked if I wanted to consider calling it a day n go for Csec. Husband juz nice went home shower and I was drugged up.. so I said no.. I've till 5.30pm so juz wait first.

At 5 ish they came back, did the test n said no progress maximum is at 5cm, cervix still tight, baby still high up. And husband was back, so decision was made to go Csect. And somehow I was freaking exhausted by that point.

Fast forward, they sent me to the OT at that point. Around 6.30ish. This was when the they dun allow me to eat came in handy. I didn't have to fast cos I already fasting so once they got an OT I can go straight.

There was a whole team of nurses and anaesthetists who pumped me up with epi and did a cold test n lifting my leg shit. Which I could feel n do, meaning the epi not working well.. 6.50pm, they decided to GA me. Which worked damn fast cos I was exhausted, already drugged up on epi, and hungry. 

I rem doc say saying they'll wake me up when baby is out with all else done so I can have contact with her. But the next time I woke up it was 9pm. Baby already elsewhere doing checks. N I was in pain cos of the wound. 

The doc gave me 1/3 of a syringe of morphine.. I juz told her "All" but she ignored me. Dozed off, 5-10 min later woke up. Still pain. Plus throat so dry. They gave me water. 

Then they said I vomited during the procedure. Procedure itself less than 15min.

Gave me another 1/3 of the morphine. Told her "all" again. Still ignored. Wonder why they so stingy. Still pain.

Close to 10pm when I just woke up.. their shift almost over. So they juz ask me if I'm OK to go back ward. Not wanting to trouble n make them OT I said OK. Nut my wound still hurting. They did not give me rest of the morphine. Sad. I'm sure the last third would've done the trick. 

Saw husband on the way back to ward. Lucky I can recognise his back view. 男人的背影也蛮帅的。

He went up ward with me. Settled me in. Showed me vid of daughter. Say look like me. She has a, "why force me out?" face. So cool. I like.



Then settle me in ward, added my pain stuff. Not sure got my morphine anot. Pain went down slightly, I replied messages, went to sleep, woke up at 1 plus, decided to update. 

Nurse brought baby in to breastfeed. She is on hunger strike? Refused to eat. Held her for awhile at the expense of the pain in my wound. Then decided to put her back in nursery and try again later. Now I'm sleepy again. Kthxbye.





D-Day +2

This girl.. speechless. My tummy way too comfortable for her. 4/4/22 baby. If she still can drag one more day I also LL. But shouldn't already. 

First pill which lasts 24 hours didn't work, so 2nd pill went in. 

Didn't even feel much contractions with the 2nd pill, but apparently managed to open cervix enuff that mucus plug came out.

3rd pill went in and towards the end was the nightmare. Contractions started and it was bad enough to cause shivers. Didn't help that I had already requested to go labour ward (LW) where the pain relief is, and my doc came in wanting to do a cervix test. 

From that point till I arrived at the LW, it was pain all the way, just how pain. My pain was a cramp around the entire groin area, including the butt. Seat or stand makes no difference. And it was such that my hands were shaking as I texted my husband to come hospital.

Things only got better after I got to LW and was given pain relief gas, and epidural shortly after. 

And the husband arrived after that and all is right again. Until I have to start pushing, that is. 

As it is 12.52am 4/4/22 now, and doc intends to break water bag at 4am, I should have my baby from late morn onwards. I don't even wanna speculate cos I firmly believe she is capable of dragging on to 5/4... 

D-Day + 1

Baby Leah won the first round of inducement. Now she's kind of overstaying but this should be it. She's gonna be a 3rd April birthday girl.

Before my life is turned upside down, I figured I should note down on nice things the husband has done throughout the pregnancy cos he's sure to piss me off later on. This post is written while cramps are going on so might be ridiculous at times.

Nice things oya did that I remember 

- pushed me around in a wheelchair when I was next to disabled

- helping me refill my water bottle every other night

- scratching my back whenever I asked him to

- letting me cook n eat anything I want (mostly fattening food even though he wants to watch his weight)

- letting me buy whatever I want for the baby

- setting up the cot and whatever things that needs fixing in a rather timely manner

- letting me order whatever food I want

- letting me and accompanying me to play mj whenever I want (need to thank my frens for being accommodating also)

- holding me or being my support/crutch during the can't walk period

- making me laugh (this one is not just when pregnant)

- holding me when I cry

- letting me vent my frustrations on him without getting too pissed about it

- entertaining me n letting me nag without voicing too much complaints (can see from facial expression he was holding it back though)

- letting my parents be as involved as they want without putting up too much arguments

- taking things in his stride as best as he can even though he has the most indecisive wife and a very involved MIL. (This really takes alot of him cos I generally can't win an arguement with my mum and she tends to force her opinions onto me and that he cannot take)

- 'scolding' leah whenever she moves too much n causes me discomfort. 

He's not the best but I know he's trying his best. I just sometimes don't know what he has tried cos he doesn't tell me and keeps his emotions and feelings in him cos he doesn't want to start a quarrel with me. Then when things happen n I force it out of him, then I realise how much he is giving in to me and how he has been trying to carry the worry n stress and unhappiness on his own. 

Love is shown in different ways. He's the appear strong for u and not worry you kind of love.

Mine is the smother him with love until he tells me to leave him alone. Lol

Now that we gonna have one more person to love soon, I need to remind my husband to remember to love me more.