Haven't been updating the blog in a while..
Brandon Ng Yuan Khai was born on september 7th 2009, at 9.45pm. When I think back of the experience, all I could say is unbelievable and wonderful, suprisingly labor pains is no longer a pain..
On 6th september, on the doctor's checkup, the doctor had suggestion for an induction due to some minor complications. I started having some pains on the 6th night, and I remembered having a very good dinner before the next day. My hubby took me to a nice restaurant and we ordered lemon chicken, vegetables, prawns.....mm..yummy..On the 7th morning at around 3am, I started having some bloody show, was so excited baby is coming soon.....
Of course the journey to the hospital was not so pleasant, having pains on and off....the pain was like having bad menstrual cramps or feeling of diarrhoea. I was then pushed to the labour room, only to wait another 12 hours... What a 12 hours that was, the pain started at 1 hour intervals, followed by 1/2 hour, 15 minutes, few minutes and the pain was going stronger and stronger, of course... I was shouting in the labour room as it was closing to labour...thank god I had epidural, had me 2 hours without pain and a little sleep..
Around 8.30pm, the nurse said...your cervix is fully dilated, at that time they lowered the epidural and I was feeling the pain all over again, and they don't even let me inhale gas to lower the pain.. Doctor came in and said "your baby position isn't looking that good, baby is facing upwards instead of downwards". We waited 1 hour to see if there's any progress.
There were no progress at 9.30pm as the baby was still looking upwards, and the doctor said let's go for it and don't delay any longer. The nurses asked me to push and my hubby was in there too to support me. Funny thing, at first I didn't really understand the instructions, I thought I was pushing but all I did was pushed air :P
Finally I understood and really started pushing. Gave a few pushes, still no go.. Third time, doc said.. if this is no go, we have to go for caesarean. Oh no, tried pushing all I got...and voila..baby came out, heard him crying for first time. I couldn't describe how was my feeling when I heard his first cry..it was magical. Suddenly all the pains dissapeared..doctor was stiching then but I don't feel a thing...all I wanted to see my baby boy..
They weighed the baby, baby is 3.46kg and laid the baby in my arms for the first time. That was the most magical moment I ever had and then it started the wonderful journey of baby brandon and parenthood :)
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