Hi gals,
I was discharged yesterday at 11am and went home with my precious darling!
My family visited me at home yesterday so i've no time to post my birth story here. The last ended with exhaustion, so i went to bed early 10.30pm.
2 June, 12pm
My gynae called me and advised me to admit and go for induction, he's afraid that when the real contraction comes, i might be in great pain...after a thought, i was worried if it happens, i may experience difficulty making my way to hospital or rather very clumpsy n messy. Also considered that it's a friday, if everything went smoothly, i can go home on sunday and hubby dun have to take leave on weekdays! So i agreed with my gynae on induction.
2 June, 4pm
Admission at TMC. Proceed to delivery ward/observation room at 2nd floor. Gynae came at about 4.20pm, check cervic, break water bag (no pain), then nurse set up ctg. Gynae says see me around 9-10pm at nite. Nurse came back to shave me and ask me clear my bowel.
2 June, 5-5.15pm
The nurse set up the induction drip on me (painful). Then contraction came closer to one another, about 5-6mins once. I think this must be the 1st stage of contraction but already painful to me! So nurse ask if i wanted epidural, i say yes.
2 June, 6pm
I was pushed in to delivery ward 7, getting ready for epidural administration. Anasethist Wong Kah Ho came and administrate the dosage into my spine...oouch, painful!!!! I rem tinklebell's experience so i dare not moved and curve my body as much as possible. It's so miracle, i can feel the dosage runs down from the spine to lower body....Lucky, it's successful! About 15 mins later, i began to feel slowly numb and then fully numb. So good! I no longer has to suffer the 5-6mins once contraction pain! I am glad that i decided epi early so that during the administration, i dun need to endure so much pain and won't shake my body so much, so that i can achieve in a successful administration.
2 June, 6.30-9.30pm
During this time, nurse found my contraction not regular, called gynae and gynae asked to increase the induction from 12 to 24. But baby's heart beat abit drop, means baby can't take the pressure so gynae ask nurse to reduce the induction level back to 12 and 6. Is all waiting time during this while.
2 June, 10pm
Gynae came and check my cervic, 7cm now. and check the ctg, he asked nurse to increase the induction level back to 30 and asked me to talk to baby. I ask hubby to play my baby's favourite music cd and we start talking to baby and encourage him to work hard. Indeed, there's an improvement in baby's heart beat....this time the contraction is very close to one another, about 1-2 mins once and baby's heart beat is consistant.
2 June, 11.30pm
Nurse checked my cervic, fully dilated, gynae came after and the pushing began. Oh gosh, no strength, deep breath push hard, hold the breath, i almost vomitted, nurse passed me the oxygen mask, tried many times but still unsucessful. In the end my baby was delivered with vacuum suction. Gynae told me baby's heart beat drops a little at the end due to baby's cord strangle at his neck...so had to use vacuum to assist me... The moment when i see my darling out, so amazing, so happy, the feeling is unable to describe... and i'm so glad that i can go through the natural delivery process to watch and experienced all these myself! It's really a lifetime experience and memory that i will never forget.
Though i'm not as brave as to try w/o the epidural, but i'm very glad that i've decided to take epi. So that i can enjoyed the whole delivery throughout w/o making my hubby and gynae panic... My gynae says, what we want is a pleasant delivery and not an unpleasant one and i agreed. So, at that moment after the delivery, i actually enjoyed the whole process and actually think that it wasn't so difficult after all to deliver a baby. I'm so glad to own my precious son now and really love him very much.
My son brayden born on 2 June, 11.47pm at 51cm, 3.135kg. I will post his pic later.
lyn, good luck for your delivery tomorrow.