Birth Story
Been having sleepless nights for the past 2 weeks, i was either watching TV programmes or surfing the net using my mobile till wee hours each nite, hubby would accompany me till 2plus before he hits the sack in #1 room.
Realised a bit a water sudden came out from my below while in sitting my my bed @4plus, went to the loo and check, and found my panty wet, thought might been urine, so went back to bed again, but within 20mins, some water came out again. So i went back to the loo to check again, and this time round, more water came out while i was sitting on the toilet bowl. And i saw some mucus plug while wiping. Took pic of the mucus plug and thought i can saw it to my gynae if needed. I informed hubby and started to monitor, and at the same time, went for shower, washed my hair, drank chicken eccessen and got myself dressed up when i went to pee and saw some light bloody water coming out. Hubby then went to fetch my Mil to come over to take care of #1, luckily she is staying just 5-10mins away, thereafter we drove to TMC.
Reached TMC ard 5plus, and was asked to go straight to labour ward when i told them that my water bag has bursted. The midwife checked and told me that waterbag was still there, bb is still quite high up, and i am only 1cm dilated. She suspected that i might be having a leak in waterbag instead. Strapped me up on the machine to check for contractions and found the intervals to be 3mins apart, though i could only feel slight cramps. She told me that she has informed my gynae, and he would be coming to check on me around 7plus. Dr Tseng came around 7plus to and saw water coming out, so he asked if i wanna any epi or laughing gas, told him i opt for epi since we were expecting a big bb. I guessed that was my greatest regret; as the epi injection was more painful than anything else. I was given the epi around 9plus, and within 30mins, i started to feel drowsy, sleepy, giddy and vomitted!!!! My bp became low and the midwife started to monitor me. I could feel my lower body started to get numb and eventually felt nothing at all. I immediately asked the midwife to switch off the epi as i knew that i would not be able to push due to the numbness. Dr Tseng came around 1plus to check on me and burst my waterbag, and at the same time found out that i was 9cm dilated, midwife then start to monitor me and asked me to prepare to push when i was 10cm dilated @ 2.35pm, I started to push for 50mins before the midwife asked me to stop so that she could inform Dr Tseng to come over. Dr Tseng came and i pushed for another 10pushes before Dmitri is born @3.37pm. Dr Tseng exclaimed that the bb should be closed to 4kg when he got hold of him and put him on my chest. The feeling was so surreal. I was still ok and relaxed and watched my hubby cut the cord, and Dr Tseng remove the placenta, i even watched him sew! He was surprised that i told him the pain was nothing in fact the epi was more painful. I dont think i have much tear down there as compared to #1 delivery as my bb's head is of avg size 35cm. Whereas my #1's head size is 42cm!!!
Dmitri weighs 3.70kg which is lighter than the scanned weight of 4.065kg a week ago.
