无私的爱

Never been so busy and sleep deprived in my life! I guess the same goes to my family. Mum and Dad have been delivering lunches and dinners to me despite their busy schedules and sis came to help out in the week days. Younger sis, ah boy and bro would take turns to visit baby and me. Don't know what to do without them. It's because of them that I can take my meals on time and in peace and take time here and there to rest.

I'm really glad to have them as my family! :)


Special thanks to my in-laws. They have also helped out a lot during the confinement and now. I feel bad about getting so much help from them, making them go back and forth home so often.

Of course, I'm not forgetting DC. He has been very supportive during this period and takes really great care of me and the baby! :)

暖暖的亲情，饱饱的温情 在家中
无私的疼爱，无限的真爱 在其中
这浓浓的情，这厚厚的爱 我会牢记 在心中
这贵贵的情，这重重的爱 我会紧握 在掌中!


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Last checkup at the Gynae's

Went to my gynae's for the scheduled checkup.

Thought the wound has already healed but the pus oozed out again during the checkup. He told me to continue cleaning the wound. Today's session was fast - he did a pap smear test on me and will send me the results by post... and the case was closed, no follow up required.

We brought our baby along. Doc was glad that we took his advice to deliver the baby early and commented that the baby has a lot of hair. :) He said that this is genetic. Hmm... is it?


A picture with Dr Koh at the hospital

After that, we went McDonald's to chill out... Wanted a Oreo McFlurry but DC bought me a new blend instead (the new one tasted not too bad lah).

And then, we took lots of pictures of and with our precious. :) Here's one:



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Lots of hair at birth (even longer than DC's!), big eyes, double eye lids, long curly lashes (envious - even mummy don't have them!), sharp nose, rosy lips, long tongue, sweet smile, dimples, long strong legs, ...

This, is our son!


Thanks Lord for bestowing this beautiful child to us! :)


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First Family Outing

We went McDonald's for breakfast.


Next, we went to both our parents (his grandparents) place for visit.


And he slept through all...


... until we went to the studio for photography shoot where we need him to be asleep for the closed-eyes pictures! Tried to make him sleep during the 2 hours session but he was wide awake. After we left the studio, he slept all the way - in the car, during dinner and back home!

Our baby is so uncooperative!


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Wound Infection

The wound was very dry and clean (or so I thought) until Sun when I saw the pus stain on my 'plaster' during cleaning!

*Shocked* - Why the infection after 1 month?

I have been faithfully cleaning the wound and applying the ointment, I thought I have protected the wound well, don't understand what caused the wound to be infected?

Showed it to DC that night and my sis when she came over yesterday. They both gave a disgusted look - my wound must have been very gruesome! (I can't see the wound and scared to see it - my stomach is still big and it blocks the wound completely)

*Sad*...

Went to the nearby clinic yesterday. Three areas were infected with pus. The doc cleaned them up and prescribed some antibiotics to treat the infection.

Today, I found rashes on my right body. That's it! I'm allergic to the drug and had to give up the course!

...

Now, I can only clean the wound everyday and hope that the infection does not spread to other areas and heal fast! Why so suay? :(


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Red Date Tea

Auntie gave me the recipe for the red date tea. There were still a lot of ingredients left over, i have been making it for myself for the past 3 days already. :) It's easy to prepare, just throw everything in a slow cooker n leave it overnight and it'll be ready to drink the next day. This is so easy n convenient - just the type of 'cookin' i like!

It tasted not too bad (DC thinks it's nice too!), i hope to take it until the 40th day to round up the confinement...


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Cloth Diapers vs Disposables

I wanted cloth nappy for its benefits (environmental-friendly and bum-friendly) and DC wanted the disposable for its convenience. In the end, we took the compromised solution: cloth nappy for the day and disposable diapers for the night.

The diapers nowadays are so interesting, unlike the conventional ones. These are the ones that I'm using currently. There are the conventional whites and the colored ones. I love the colored ones but too bad, there weren't any blue in them. :)

The Whites

The Coloured

Some time back, I found a store selling a new concept cloth diaper online and decided to try out their newborn trial set. Their cloth diapers are designed to look like the disposables. I'm very attracted to them, they just stand out against the traditional ones! They also have pre-folded cloth diapers that come in different colours. I like the idea, this fusion is perfect - probably just what we want. It's got the benefits of a cloth diaper plus it is easy to use like a disposable diaper!


The Bumwears

The delivery was relatively fast but the diaper cover was a disappointment. I love the colour and design, it's a pity it doesn't fit baby's bum! :( If my small baby cannot wear the new born size, I wonder who else could? The pre-folded cloth diapers also look small. The rest of the diapers looks too big for him and some of the materials seem too thick. I've not tried them on him yet, hopefully they won't go to waste.


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A breath of fresh air

... and a cuppa bubble tea! :D


DC and I took a breather for 3 hours today, the first time out with DC since confinement!


We went to the annual ST event, it was held at the Raffles Place Park this year. It felt great to be out in the open once again. I'm loving this escapade though I did feel guilty leaving baby with the in-laws! :P


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Aaron is 1 month old

...and we brought him out today for his immunisation jab! Or so we wanted but didn't manage to jab him in the end as the appointment was postponed to next month.



The doc did his development assessment. Still smaller and lighter than his peers but we were happy to hear that he is growing well. He has put on good weight and grown taller. :)

This is the first time DC and me bring the baby out. We prepared everything we think was necessary but didn't expect a queue at the clinic and so, didn't prepare baby's milk powder. He started throwing his tantrums to express his hunger when he was in the consultation room but luckily we managed to stop him from wailing until we reached home. Phew!

He has been acting very abnormally this week - always throwing up his milk after each feed no matter how many times we burped him, face flushed and crying non-stop all the time, every position that we hold him doesn't seem to make him happy - and many a times we were confused and at a loss of what to do! Even the confinement lady - one with 20+ years experience - didn't always succeed in quieting him down!

Second day on our own today since auntie was gone, we went through some trials and errors and are beginning to understand better what he wants, I'm sure we can manage very well on our own. :)


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I'm out of Confinement!

Confinement - The Chinese believes that the body of the mother is 'cold' and weak after childbirth and for the whole of the month after delivery, she has to consume food that is 'heaty' to neutralize it and the fill the body with 'energy'. Along with this belief, there are many other 'rules' that we new mothers have to observe during the month.

For at least 30 days (up to 40 days), there must be:
- No drinking and touching of water
- No stepping out of the house (must stay indoors)
- No blowing of fan/air-con on the mother
- No excessive walking and doing of housework is allowed, must lie down all the time
- No washing of hair and bathing
- No drinking of cold drinks
- No eating of 'cold' food'

I tried my best to follow them. I wanted to experience what my mum had been through some 30 years ago but it was very difficult not to violate these practices esp when my confinement month was in Aug where the weather is hot! I had the air-con on and had occasional showers with herbs. The most difficult to oblige rule is the touching of water. I love to wash my hands and would wash them many many times a day. I (my confinement lady also) find it really very troublesome to ask for boiled cooled water everytime when I needed it for cleaning my hands. To save the trouble, I ended up re-using the same pail of water (which is cold and unclean due to the repeated washing - In what way is this different from tap water?) and then applied the hand sanitizer.

The confinement lady that I've engaged helped out with the housework, take care of the baby and prepare our 3 meals. Things are much easier with her around. I've never taken meals on time (and with lots of vegs) for a long time!

The part of my confinement that I enjoyed most was the chicken essence, cognac brew, red date drink and the tonic soups. They were yummy! :)


That's us with the confinement lady in the photo.

I had to salute the confinement auntie! She is 75 years old and still going strong. She woke up very early in the morning to mop the floor, slept late at night after hand-washing all the clothes and nappy cloths and had to get up for the night feeds. I don't think I could and want to match up to her. One thing though, there were certain practices that the confinement auntie brought along with her from her previous jobs that were not quite the way we want. We understand that this was inevitable and so, didn't really care much as she has been a good help. Now that my confinement's over and auntie's gone, I'm all eager to take over and challenge the baby care - in our way!

Finally...The days of rest are over, the night shift (and unrest?) awaits...


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何为弄璋？

We received an ang bao from an auntie on baby's full month celebration. On it was these words:

祝侄儿夫妇弄璋之喜!

Wa, chim ah! The first thing we do is to check on what's "弄璋之喜". I thought it means "Happy Full month" but I was wrong. :P It actually means "Congratulations on the birth of a boy". It also harks back to the old traditional times where boys are favoured over girls.

璋 - Refers to precious jade.

弄瓦之喜 - Used for birth of girls. 瓦 - Ceramic, obviously less precious than jade.

Learnt something today, maybe I'll use it for my cousin's first month ang bao next year (provided he delivered a boy), ha! :)


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It's been 4 full weeks, time flies!

His appetite is getting better and better by the day! Now, he cried for milk on time every hourly! This is a good sign but that really makes us busy e.g. on Mon, DC has to prepare his milk whenever he cries and I have resorted to expressing milk every hourly to meet his demand and after that, all of us were very exhausted. Hence, we started increasing the portion to 60ml (instead of 40ml) and now, 90ml so that he could sleep a little longer but that doesn't work all the time, sometimes he couldn't finish 60ml... and sometimes he'll just throw up half of what he just drank or fell asleep halfway with mouth shut tight! So far it has been the FM that has been wasted and I'll make sure that he drinks every bit of my BM...heheh..

Sometime mid of the week, we made a new discovery - He has the strength to flip himself from facing sideways to up. We gathered that he likes to be faced up when sleeping rather than lying on his side (he always "make noise" when we turn him on his side).

We just had his full month celebration yesterday, one week earlier. The actual day was this Friday. Read the post here.

Oh yah, we weighed him on Tue, 11 Aug - he has put on weight! Bravo, my boy! Keep growing! :D


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Baby Aaron's 1st Month Celebration

Yes, it a fast 4 weeks. Since 21-Aug is on a Friday, we had to hold the celebration on the earlier weekend, 15-Aug-2009. It seems no one holds the celebration after the full month.

Again, it seems all babies, including Aaron, sleep through the full month celebrations. He only started acting up after the guests left. What's more, he's super active on the next day afternoon.

It was fun. So many kids and babies around. Thanks everyone for coming and your well wishes and gifts!




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Chicken Essence

Ever had chicken essence, I mean the real stuff. Well, because of CP's confinement, I get to try it out too.

Whole chicken cut up and double-boiled in a special pot without water added. Add in cordyceps or American ginseng for the extra oomph! After a long 5 hours, all the essence of the chicken is out, droplet by droplet. A normal size chicken will probably yield about two bowls of essence.

Simply fantastic!




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Go with the flow? No way!

No way if the flow is slow, I mean.



Although the milk supply has been increasing steadily but it is still slow. I need the flow to be more rapid so that I can have the abundant supply to meet the baby's needs. After hearing good feedback about this Malay masseuse, I decided to engage her to help clear the blocked ducts, relieve the engorged breasts and to get as much advice on lactation as I can from a different perspective.

It's so convenient - massage in the comfort of my home. All I need to prepare is a mattress (or mat to lie on), a big towel, a small towel and a cloth diaper.

The session proved to be fruitful. I've doubled the supply since and it's really not as painful as it sounds. Only those blocked areas hurt but once unblocked, it's relaxing again... I love hot stone massages, so tempted to buy a stone back!

The masseuse was even very kind to offer to buy a type of vegetable that malays take to increase milk supply for me the next session, much to my surprise. I look forward to the next session... the massages, the veg and more milk supply! :)


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Old wives tale busted

There are a lot of old wives tales out there about the gender of the baby and the pregnancy dos and don'ts. Having been through the most recent pregnancy, I realised that in fact, a lot of these are just superstitions. They are untrue and baseless and didn't apply to me at all in this pregnancy. Here are some of them that just didn't work on me:

1. The shape of the baby bump. Everyone told me that my bump was not pointed and I should be carrying a girl. Nope, this was wrong (for my case)!

2. Cravings. I do not crave or repel any food during my pregnancy but I do eat a lot of vegetables (more than meat) when I am expecting A. To those who said that preferring veg to meat means you are carrying a girl, this didn't work on me loh.

3. Radiance on face. Do I have the radiance? Some said I look tired, some said I look radiant. I guess, this is not true at all. There are times I look radiant on one day and dull on another. I can't possibly be carrying a girl when I'm losing my radiance due to tiredness or stress in work and a boy when I look radiant or when I'm refreshed from some rest or weekend break?!

4. Chinese Gender chart. I went to match my age and month of conception on the chart only to find that the gender is incorrect. I always find it amazing for people who believe in this. Can the gender really be pre-determined? Again, my case was not.

5. If your nose widens and gets bigger, you are carrying a boy. My nose remains the same during my pregnancy although my face did get rounder. :P

6. Ever heard of this: "Never raise your hands above your head, you'll strangle the baby with the cord."? A colleague once told me this but when I had to line and hang my clothes up to dry, I have no choice but to raise the hands! Fortunately, nothing happened.

7. No hammering and moving in the house. There was once when I was on MC at home resting and heard the neighbour upstairs hammering. The sound went on for quite a while. Chinese believe that hammering will cause miscarriage or imprint a birth mark on the baby. I was pretty upset and worried over this but baby turned out to be fine. No marks at all.

8. You don't look at anybody ugly. Don't sweep any floors and don't get upset about anything because you'll mark your child and the baby will be ugly. During my pregnancy, I did try to look at pretty things, esp cute baby pictures. However, I swept and get upset rather easily and my baby didn't turn out ugly at all! :)

9. Swollen feet. I've heard this many times (Even from a stranger that I've met on a bus) that if your feet is swollen, then you better get prepared for delivery. The problem is that my feet started to swell when I was in my 2nd trimester! Some also claimed that when the swelling subside and came back for a 3rd time, it's time for delivery. This is not true for me as well as my feet has never subsided much...

10. Open all cabinets and drawers in the room before you go for delivery. This was supposed to make the delivery smooth and fast. I didn't do that and I had a pretty fast delivery cos it's c-sect! :P

11. Bird's nest. Supposed to give the baby a translucent complexion. The confinement lady commented that my baby's complexion is not so translucent. She thought that I had not consumed a lot of bird's nest which in fact, I had been taking it faithfully daily! :( Wasted!

12. Coconut. Supposed to clean off the whitish substance from the baby. I didn't have much chance to take it but the baby didn't have a lot of whitish substance when he was born.


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His EDD was supposed to be today...


Week 3 - He started to have rashes on his face, CL said that was because he was feeding on breast milk and the heatiness from the food that I've been consuming during the confinement was transferred to him through the BM. I knew that it is common for babies to have rashes when they were born, so I wasn't really bothered by it. CL's theory matches what I read from the Net - that rashes or baby acnes could exist because of the mother's hormones passed to the fetus just before birth or to the infant during breastfeeding.

"During pregnancy, hormones from the mother's bloodstream enter the fetus' body through the placenta. These hormones cause certain conditions that are apparent at birth. In addition, breastfed infants receive maternal hormones in breast milk that may also cause certain conditions including the rashes that are normal, common and pose no risk to the baby."

He is ever more hungry than ever and would cry at the top of his lungs for milk every hourly! Sometimes, even less than one hour - in times like this, CL refused to prepare FM for him until it's time. I disagreed as I think we should feed him on demand. Once, I bought him into the room and tried to see if he wanted to be latched on. Hey, he took it without much fuss! It felt so heavenly! :) Nothing beats the stimulation from the baby (not even the best pump can achieve that), my milk supply increased significantly after the suckle! :) My spirit was lifted that day!

Since last week, he has the habit of putting his hands (wrapped in mittens) to his mouth whenever he felt hungry and started to lick them! Think it's one of his reflexes...

I started wrapping him with cloth nappies on Mon but because there were too many diapers around, MIL told CL to use up the diapers first... can't wait to get him on his nappies again! I just love infants with nappy on! :P

We had a scare on Mon and on National Day when DC caught him puking a mouthful of his milk. That mouthful could have choked him if we were not careful! *heartpain* Ever since then, we were always walking into the baby room and checking on him and making sure that he burped (loudly) before putting him back to his bed!

He started crying for attention on Fri and will stop whining once someone picks him up from his cot! So far, that's two times only and I hope he don't repeat this too often... we bought him a mini-hifi on Thu, will try to see if the music can soothe him...

DC has been doing the feeds when he came back from work and CL praised him for doing a good job. He was SO proud and happy of himself, you should have seen his face when he told me that! :) He's definitely doing much better than expected! Good job, Daddy! :)

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Oops ... Burp ...

I was still happily taking photos of Aaron when he puked ... Oops ... I was still thinking should I grab the shot ... In the end, I only managed a blurred shot in my fluster. Fortunately, it wasn't really bad. He sneezed a few times after that and it cleared his nose.

Our baby Aaron is so hard to burp ...




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The NPD 2009 is showing on TV now... I'm waiting for the pledge at 8:22pm and the fireworks! Can't wait to see the star-shaped and heart-shaped fireworks!


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Moo...

DC calls our son "小牛" sometimes because he is born in the year of ox and he looks just like a young calf (cute!) esp when he sleeps sideways.
If our son is 小牛, then DC must be "大牛". If you know his english name, you'll know why... :P
and... of course, I'm the "母牛" cos now I am like (and feel like) a cow, always milking!

Together, we are the 牛 (new) family - new daddy, new mummy and new baby! hehe... :D


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Lack of sleep could get you fat!

Less ZZZZzzzzzz... = More FATS!

Studies have shown that there is a direct relationship between the amount of sleep you get per night and the weight gain!

Inadequate sleep affects the hormones that help control our appetite and metabolism. Lack of sleep decreases the level of leptin, a hormone that makes one feel full after eating. It also increases the level ghrelin, a "hunger hormone" that stimulates one's appetite. This results in overeating and weight gain.

See report here.

This report is so depressing, no wonder it's so difficult for people to lose weight after pregnancy!! I'm suffering from sleep deprivation way back when I was expecting A. With the C-sect wound not fully healed yet, was advised by my gynae to wait for 3 months before getting into any fitness routine... Although 10kg heavier than before, my BMI is still within normal range. There's no cause for concern but I hope I can find the time to lose the excess weight I've put on after the confinement lady leaves!


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Shopped around quite a bit today. Went to Apple, Carrefour and Harvey Norman. In the end, I decided against a mini-hifi with iPod dock. Instead, I got the Philip MC-M277 mini-hifi at Harvey Norman for $199. A reasonable price, sound and bass were good. It's sleek and looks good. You can play CD off it. There's even a USB port connect up a flash drive for even more songs and music.

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DC bought this for me on Mon after he heard about it:



Though I know he hated the grease and can't wait to get rid of it off my hair, I must say that it was still very thoughtful of him to have spent the effort searching and buying the non-rinse shampoo for me! :P Thanks!


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15th day update:


Baby Aaron cried for milk more frequently now, every 1.5-2 hours compared to 4-5 hours in the first week. After milk, he will have this very satisfied look on his face and gave off a big smile. This is sooo very cute! Unfortunately, we weren't able to capture that with our camera... yet.

He stays alert for a while after each feed and can sometimes respond to us by smiling when we played with him... it's always an achievement to see him smile!

Daddy had started working since Tues and had began bottle-feeding him to relieve the confinement auntie a little and to bond with the baby when he's back from work. I'm surprised he even tried to clean up his poo once, ha!

His bowel movements was more frequent now, he passes at least 1-2 substantial yellow stools each day, no more green stools... this means sufficient intake of milk! :)

He looks more chubby as compared to his first week, another good symbol of growth. :) We no longer cocooned him up in towels, now dressed in little body suits, he looks more like a little baby boy (DC calls him his little buddy!), not so new born now...

His umbilical cord dropped on the 13th day and we were told by the confinement auntie to keep it... for what huh? anywayz, we did as she says.

Realized that his hair is slightly brownish now, not as black as his first week. Hmm, could it be the works of the chemical in the baby shampoo or could he inherit mummy's hair colour?


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Blue, the enhanced version

The colour stays blue... with the pregnancy images retreated to the background and the baby's pics placed in the foreground. The rainbow reminds of God's promise never to flood the earth. It symbolises a new beginning. Ever heard of the legend where a pot of gold lies at the end of the rainbow? My baby is as good and precious as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and I hope he will lead a colorful and enriching life, just like what he has brought onto us! :)

Also changed: The pregnancy counter has been replaced by Baby A's photo. Click and you'll see the collection of his pictures since birth.

My twitter updates has just been added, right below DC's. I've signed up for this account for a long long time already and luckily I still remember the password to it! :P

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Lights, Camera, Action and ...Cut!

My colleagues came for a visit after the monthly department meeting on wed. No one else was around, so I asked the 75-year-old confinement auntie to help take a group photo...

Take 1:
Raymond's body was cropped. Cut!


Take 2:
The guys' heads/hair were trimmed and photo was not clear. Cut!


Take 3:
Image was all blurry. Cut!


Take 4, Take 5 and Take 6:
No flashing light? Photos not taken?! Cutz!
So, it turned out that the video mode was turned on accidentally... and on the 5th take, we accidentally recorded Enoch asking to send auntie for course! Oops... :P


Take 7:
Finally, all were captured in the picture and all body parts intact but the image was blur!


Think the first was still the best! Sorry, Raymond! :P


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Yet another scare

Went for a post-op checkup at the gynae's.

Was told by him in the hospital that this was going to be quick - just change dressing and basic checkup will do, no need to queue at all. So, I asked sis to wait around thinking that it won't take very long.

The nurse cleaned the incision wound and told me that the wound was healing very well. I was happy for a while until she noticed a thread - a white thread - and told me that she may need to remove the thread for me. I thought all threads are dissolvable nowadays, no? I got a little panicky...

Then she told me that the thread looked different from the rest of the patients that she had seen. Their threads were black and mine was white and unnoticeable. She need to check with doc on whether the thread need to be removed. So, she left me lying on the bed and I waited for her to check with doc... *Why was I different from the others?*

After quite a while, another more experienced nurse came by and checked my wound. She, too, told me that the thread ought to be taken out. Asked if it would be painful, she said it may be!! *Scared*

She tried looking for a knot but could not find it any where. She didn't dare to do the removal without the knot and had to call for the doc for help! I almost freaked out when I heard that! Again, I was left lying there, fearful of what was coming... *Why me? Where had the knot gone to???*

Doc came after a long while and confirmed that the thread had to be removed. I tried to instigate him not to remove it but he tried to explain to me in a very very abstract way that I became even more confused after that. Anyway, I knew it was for my own good to have the stitch, a foreign object removed from my body and did not argue further. Luckily, the removal was done in an instant and there was negligible pain.

Although the stitch removal was not as painful as I expected but the process of waiting in fear and knowing that my case was an exceptional one (the type of thread used and the missing knot) was quite a scary one. I had a great fright! No more scares on the next followup please!

On a side note, the gynae overcharged me for the delivery fees and I claimed it back from him today (medication free)... a caution to all: do check your bills!


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