Hi all,
Thanks so much for the best wishes.
twinsmom,
*paiseh* I actually got my babies birth weights wrong - Sheau Kai was 2.055kg, and he's born at 5.24pm and older than Sheau Min by 16 mins. Min arrived at 5.40pm, weighing 2.07kg. They arrived at exactly 36 weeks.
nur,
yup, I delivered at KKH. I didn't really choose my gynae - I conceived my twins via IVF/ICSI at KKIVF centre. I requested for a Snr Consultant as my reproductive specialist and was assigned Dr SF Loh. It was pure luck that I got him as a doc - he's a really good one. I conceived via my 1st IVF cycle with 2 embryos early this year. Basically, Dr Loh carried over as my reprod specialist to be my obgyn throughout my pregnancy. I was very fortunate - I had a smooth, complications-free pregnancy (no bleeding, premature contractions, etc). I wanted a natural delivery all along, and Dr Loh was very supportive of my decision. Both babies were head-down, which was ideal. He told me that he'll do his best to ensure a smooth delivery for me.
nur/blesse,
Glad to share my experience with you. I was actually due to be induced on 8 Dec, but the babies apparently had other ideas. Dr Loh and I made the decision to induce becos my cervix was already 3cm dilated at my visit with him on 2 Dec, and also because the babies' weight gain has slowed down considerably, so there's little to gain by waiting.
However, on Sunday night, I was helping my hubby add some finishing touches to the nursery when I felt some amniotic fluid leakage. I wasn't sure at first that it was my waterbag, but after the fifth or sixth leak, we thought we'd better go into the hospital and check it out. I was admitted at midnight, and was put on an IV drip with antibiotics (to prevent infection) and oxytocin (to induce labour). Two fetal monitors were strapped onto me to track each twin's heartbeat, as well as a monitor to track contractions. It was quite reassuring to hear their heartbeats - at least I knew they were doing ok inside me.
But unfortunately at 6am, I was still 3cm dilated, so they upped my oxytocin. Doc came in ard 11am, ready to ask me to go for a C-section since I've already been nearly 12 hrs in labour. Fortunately, by then I was 7cm dilated, so they decided to let it progress naturally.
I chose to have an epidural when I started experiencing some cramping after my oxytocin was increased, but unluckily for me, I suffered considerable side effects - uncontrollable trembling, itching all over and the worst is the vomitting. I vomitted up small bags of sour yellow stomach acid, and felt utterly weak and miserable until they gave me some medication to stop it.
By 3pm I was having these really strong urges to push. It wasn't so much painful, but it was terrible trying to hold back as I was only 9cm dilated. Just imagine constipation but many MANY times worse. I spent 2 hours like that. In the end, I couldn't take it anymore, so the nurse helped me to physically dilate my cervix. They pushed me into the OT at ard 5pm, where my boy was born first at 5.24pm, followed by his sister at 5.40pm. Doc told me later that had I taken any longer to deliver the second twin, he would have gone for a C-section. Actually, it didn't feel that long to me at all. Everything felt really fast. I was afraid that I might exhaust myself pushing Twin 1 out that I would have no strength for Twin 2, but both were relatively easy.
Anyway, I didn't even realise I had an episiotomy until much later. I only felt this pressure down there halfway through the delivery. I did however felt the doc sewing me up afterwards when my epidural wore off, but he quickly jabbed me with an anaesthetic when I yelped in pain.
They put me in the Recovery Ward to monitor me for abt 15mins/half hour afterwards, before sending me back to the Delivery Suite ward for observation for the next 6 hours. I was only transferred to a normal ward at midnight. The nurses/midwife in the Delivery Suite were pretty good - very encouraging and experienced. The only thing that marred my experience was this nasty Filipino anaesthetist when I asked to top up my epidural to try and reduce the urge to push - she ticked me off, telling me that it won't help since it wasn't pain I was feeling. Other than that, it was overall a pretty positive experience.
I upgraded to an A-class ward so that hubby cld stay overnight with me, and I wld have some privacy when pple came to visit. But we only upgraded after we knew that the babies were ok, and in a normal PD ward, and not in NICU or Special Care.
Recovery-wise, it was pretty painful, sore and uncomfortable at first (as with all natural delivery), but by Day 2, I was able to hobble around, go to the bathroom, receive visitors, etc. Think I bounced back quite fast, which I don't think would have been possible if it was a C-sect. The babies and I were discharged on the afternoon of Day 3.
Yeah i'll appreciate and looking foward to the update soon.. 
