Hi mummies, I am finally home from hosp, discharged yesterday. Baby Gene was born at Gleneagles on 22nd Feb, weighing 3.78kg at 38 weeks.
Happymym2be, please update details for me too.
Bathing- Eh I dont believe in not bathing, so started bathing on the 2nd day at hosp cause first day after my op was still in bed. Actually even the nurses, my gynea, and my bb's PD all encourage bathing for hygiene reasons. Washed my hair only yesterday after discharge cause I have short hair and hospital aircon was way too cold.
Actually my gynea was telling me that in the olden days, the myth of not bathing probably came about because people used to use well water and that was not sterilised/hot and could infect wounds after childbirth. Hence the saying that women after childbirth cant bathe, or only need to bathe in special herbal water. Think we dont have this problem now since we all have access to hot and clean water.
Casa, hang in there, handling bb will be much easier once u are more used to everything. It will take a while for everyone, just try to be as hands-on as you can and do baby-related stuff on your own instead of relying on CL, then you'll pick up stuff v fast. Jia you!
kelly, I think you did the right thing to think of the bigger picture about your BF. Previously you have only either one or 2 kids to think/care about, now you have three. Even with a helper, there are heaps she cant do for you (esp related to stella n the boys, right?). I think you've done your best and thats good enough. Keep up the positive spirit, there is so much more u can do for your kids including stella if you are in a good condition mentally/emotionally.
Service- I realised that the service at Gleneagels I got was much better than TMC previously where I delivered my DD. TMC wasnt too bad, no major complains, but Gleneagles staff are really trained to provide top-notch service in all aspects, even the way the nurses speak to patients and attend to them and so on. I really like that they are all v meticulous with the instructions given by mummies about their bbs, and the nurses are almost all a delight, v pleasant and super polite and smile n say thank you about evrything lol! Just sharing in case some mummies already planning for 2nd child haha.
