Here's a detailed account of the birth process:
7:20am - Left home. A was still asleep at home when we left! I was hoping to say bye to him! :( I had to fast and not have food after midnight (4am actually).
7:40am - Arrived hospital and did the admission at the counter.
8:00am - Brought to the labour ward as there were no single rooms available. We asked for deluxe-superior room but it was also not available then. We had to wait for after lunch when the rooms were vacated. At the labour ward, they did the procedural questionnaire and got me to pee and poo and dress in the gown. The anesthetist came by to explain the procedures too. We stayed in the ward for almost 2 hours. It was freezing there! DC regretted not wearing jeans and a jacket there!
9:45am - Brought to the operating theatre.
10:00am - In the theatre, the anesthetist took my blood and OMG, she poked the wrong vessel and asked to find another suitable blood vessel on my left hand! And, she chose a thicker needle to poke, it hurts! From the conversation, the needle could be a much thinner one but the anesthetist prefer the thick one! The doc and nurses commented that my blood vessels has a lot of valves - first time I heard this. They were there searching for missing syringe before they started taking my blood! After the rework, I was all jittery and losing confidence! What about the big one (epidural) that was coming up?!! Fortunately, the administration of epidural was smooth. I felt numb right away unlike the last time! *relieved that the nightmare did not happen again!* After a while, the gynae came in and I saw DC. They did some pinch test on me and started the procedure. I continued to feel nothing, only some pressure and tugging. Held tightly to DC's hand and before long, we heard the little one's cries.
10:55am - Baby was born! This time I was alert unlike last time (where I was under any influence of gas). Her cries was loud and sharp! The anesthetist took a family photo for us.
After cleaning up the baby, she was brought to the nursery and DC went off with them while the gynae continued to stitch me up. I could tell that the gynae was carefully stitching me up - it felt slow. I was having a blocked nose then and couldn't really bear with it - I was having difficulty breathing and I hated the cloth screen that was placed so close to me! The anesthetist gave me something drowsy to make me sleep while he was doing his stitching. After I woke up, they were still not done yet and I could hear their conversations. The anesthetist was the most chatty doctor I've ever met!
11:40am - Finally, out of the operating theatre. They pushed me to a waiting area where I waited for my bedroom to be ready.
12:20pm - Still no bed available, they pushed me back to the labour ward. The gynae came by to check out on me.
2:15pm - Finally, they found me a superior room and I was brought to the cozy room!
4:30pm - We were waiting for our daughter from 2pm onwards and they finally brought her to us after 2.5 hours! I breastfed her and oh, she's latched on naturally! How nice!
6pm - I vomited twice after one cup of milo! This means no dinner and breakfast for me. I only started to have soft diet for lunch the next day.
So much for a day! I'm glad to see my baby B! :)
For the following few days, the gynae came visit twice a day and the PD once in the morning. I felt dizzy the next day and my gynae changed another painkiller for me. Other than the side effects of the drugs (slight shivering, vomiting and giddiness), I'm fine. This time round, the whole process is much smoother than last time round. I'm off the drip on Thursday afternoon and catheter on Friday noon. I was able to get down my bed with no problem on Friday noon! B was not jaundiced and I was all well. We were discharged on Saturday morning.
The whole experience was not so frightful after all!
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