dear mummies,
It's been a long stay at Mt Alvernia for me and i've missed up on so many of your postings! i gave birth to baby Janelle Lee on 19 Jan 8:03am. She weighs 3.959kg (ie. 3.6kg) and is 50cm in length.
My birth story...
17 Jan
11:15pm Lying in bed trying to sleep, then suddenly felt a trickle of something from vagina. Thought it might be show but went toilet check saw nothing. Realised it's water slowly slowly coming out. Waterbag leaking! But no contractions no pain so continued to try to sleep till next morning.
18 Jan
8:00am Called gynae told him my situation. He said to check in to hospital immediately.
10:45am Reached Mt A. Changed to hospital attire and checked for dilation. 3cm dilated! Was so happy! Thought dilation would be fast, but well...
11am - 4pm: No pain from contractions at all despite me walking around the hospital, trying to get cervix to open up. Didn't feel any pain...
4:15pm - Put on oxytocin drip to speed up contractions.
4:15pm-10:30pm Contractions came but not painful. Just feel tummy hardening very very hard at short regular intervals, but no pain.
10:30pm Gynae checked cervix and still only 3cm dilated. Says if it still continues this way till next morning 6am then will have to go for C-section coz scared baby gets infection.
11pm - 6:30am 19 Jan: Pain started to come and got a bit more painful. Felt like menses cramps just that more painful, but still bearable. Made me wonder if the pain was enough to cause the cervix to dilate? Coz i thought labour pains would be much more painful. Only used laughing gas to relieve pain. It helped quite a bit for me! Made me high and sleepy! Hee
But couldn't sleep the whole night coz of the pain.
6:30am Nurse checked cervix. Only 4 cm dilated. Super disappointed. And felt very scared coz not really prepared for C-section!
Gynae recommended me to go for C-sect at 7:30am, so had to sign consent form.
6:45am - 7:40am Took me off oxytocin drip, got shaved, inserted urine catheter (super painful!! worse than contractions pain), and wheeled into operating theatre. All happened so fast my poor hubby didn't even have time to say bye to me or to be by my side
7:40am - 8:30am Was in OT sleeping under GA....
8:30am Nurse called me to wake up. Super sleepy n drowsy...kept shaking my head n slapping my face coz i really wanted to see baby but my eyes couldn't open!! Nurse told me not to shake my head so hard..hehee.
8:40am Finally wheeled to my ward! Saw hubby and family. They showed me pictures of Baby Janelle unwashed. She looked TERRIBLE!! Lips and whole face looked swollen and didn't look like daddy or mummy. Almost felt like i had post-natal blues already...
Couldn't see baby immediately as she was under the warmer waiting to be bathed and cleaned.
10:00am Finally got to see her and thank God she looked so different from the photos! Think the swelling went down. Put her beside me on the bed...it was love at first sight
Sorry for super long-winded sharing! I stayed in Mt A from Thurs to Sun (yesterday).
Hardly slept last night. Baby woke up so many times to feed! Each time lasting only about 5-10mins. Hv got serious eye bags already...