Your arrival

Renee Melanie Tay
13th Jul 2007

Weight: 2.9 kg

Lenght: 50 cm

Here you are!!

Finally, finally we meet you in person.

You are so tiny.

Tiny little hands, tiny little feet, tiny little lips, ears, nose, eyes....everything is so tiny. You little precious are perfect!

Here is what occurred the day mommy had you:

2:30 - 3 am:

Woke up from sleep. It was the first time ever I'm having this feeling around my belly.

Feeling of cramp and uneasy. Pa is snoring as we just went to bed not long ago.

3 - 4 am:

Can't really fall back to sleep as the cramp continued. Remember auntie Linna's description on contraction. She said it feels just like a serious period pain. Oh my God, mine felt just like period pain now. Am I having contraction? Pa was still snoring. Didn't want to wake him up as he has not been sleeping really well lately being on standby mode waiting for your arrival.

4 - 5 am:

Kept waking up because the slight cramp continues.

Went to pee not knowing whether I wished to see if there is any show (blood stain) or not.

But no sign of show. Phew...

5 - 6 am:

Went to pee again. Felt a slight expand on the pelvic bone but not sure if it was what I thot it was.

There was blood stain this time! Gees...you have finally decided to give a little sign. Ok, this is The day then I think. Went checked on our 'superbag' (that have everything we need for the hospital stay during delivery). Done. Everything is in.

7 am:

Took a warm bath, washed my hair and changed. Woke Pa up and told him I'm already having contraction and blood stain. His eyes went big and asked me to repeat what I just told him. I repeated and he stood up from bed right away wanted to go to the hospital immediately.

I didn't want to go as yet because I think it is not going to be so fast plus our check up was at 10am.

8 - 9am:

Made smoothies and had the left over spaghetti as breakfast.

9 - 10am:

Heading down to the hospital. Felt calm and not panic surprisingly.

11 am:

Took your heartbeat test in the labour ward. If there is still no dilation or any sign of delivery and your heartbeat is stable and well, we can go home. Can you believe we were still allow to go home. I can't!

11:40am:

Felt warm liquid flew from between my legs while lying on the bed still doing the heartbeat test. Thot I had bladder problem that I couldn't hold my urine during my last stage of pregnancy. But the liquid keep flowing down. Nurse confirmed that my water bag just broke. We need to check-in immediately. We were not going home. We were finally going to meet you today. But the midwife predicted that it will be after 6pm when you make your entrance. Sweet Lord, another 6 more hours to go!

1 - 2pm:

Pa finished doing all the registration. Now, there was nothing all of us can do except waiting for you. Contraction goes on. The pain was still bearable. Nurse kept checking on us. We were doing well.

2 - 3pm:

Still waiting. I was listening to the songs from my phone. Can't read, can't really concentrate.

Counted from 1 - 50, then started all over again. Doctor came checked on us on and off. Contraction continues. The pain was still bearable. If this is as bad as it gets, I think can handle this. Pa was beside waiting with us. Nothing can be done except kept waiting.

3 - 4pm:

I was started to feel I wanted this over soon as I needed something better to do other than waiting in pain. Nurses and midwife kept monitoring our progress. I was offered a last chance to eat. No way I could eat at moment like this. Who can actually eat? Offer me the most delicious food on earth and I still couldn't put it in my month.
Pa was reading his novel while waiting.

4 - 5pm:

Oww...the pain was at the scale of 7 now I think. The contraction was more frequent now. The pain was damn f****** hurting now. I was offered this gas which I must inhaled everytime I felt the pain. It was suppose to help lighten the pain and make the pain more bearable. And wow, I love this gas. It makes you high. Love it, love it for moment like this. I felt stone and that was good!

5 - 6pm:

The pain continues. Felt like you were trying to push yourself out. Thot you were coming out soon as the midwife predicted that you will be here sometime around after 6pm.

She came in and checked on us again and thot you won't be out anytime soon. It might be another 2 to 3 hours. Holy God! I was thinking she must be kidding right, what do you mean by another few hours. What were you doing in there. Aren't you eager to see us? Is this what human race do? Does animal feels this pain that we going thru?

6- 7pm:

Doc came checked on us. Other than your head is tilted to one side which will make pushing you out hard, everything else was good. The pain came and go on a more frequent basis now. The pain got longer now and I was still counting from 1, 2, 3, 4....owww....deep breathed...deep breathed, inhaled on my favorite gas. Stone and felt high is good now. I was feeling high and dreamy. And that felt good!

The pushing part kicked in here. I was asked to push everytime I had contraction. I was still concentrating on the gas. That helped me forgot the pain.

You still refused to push your way thru. Everyone in the team were in the labour room now. Talking and laughing, like I was not in pain and not fighting for my life...I'm still pushing, hello.

7 - 8pm:

This part was the real shit as I was really concentrating on really pushing you out. 1 nurse, 1 midwife, the doctor and Pa were there with us since earlier. I was asked to really pushed and hold, not to let go if I can to prevent you from going back to the initial position. During this phase, my contractions grew shorter so I couldn't push you effectively. Doc suggested an option - vacuum-assisted delivery due to your head was still tiled to one side. I agreed. In fact I would agree to whatever option they want to do with my body now. In another push, the doc asked me to push harder as they can see your hair. It's getting closer now I thot, yay...they can see your hair. You were finally one step closer to us. Pa could see your hair too. He was so delighted and keep cheering us to push harder too. The midwife suggested that I tried a few more pushes on my own before we op for the vacuum. Everyone in the room keep asking us to push harder...like a cheering team ...and we went push...push....yes...that's right...one more...harder, don't let go of your breath...yes...harder, a little bit more...and I don't know where the extra pushing power came from but I just pushed with all the breath I still have left and I heard doctor said here we go, she is out...you showed up finally...my baby was out!! You cried out loud right away without having to spank you. The nurse passed you to me, you looked a little like an alien I think but you are perfect! You are normal and well. Finally, it was proven that this is another case that fell into the false positive Triple test result stastic. And we felt so relieved.

9 pm:

After I carried and cuddled you, the nurse took you away for cleaning while doctor took about half an hour to do the necessary cleaning and stitch me up.

Approximately another half an hours later, the nurses came in and helped move us to the Mother Baby unit.

This pregnancy is quite a ride, the birth is more but if anyone were to ask me, I would tell you that anyone on earth can go thru labor because I have totally forgot about the pain I went thru the moment I saw my little sweetie pie.

Today marked the end of my pregnancy and the beginning of our new life with my little princess...