I finally arrive - my birth story!

Mummy and Papa say that I was always too anxious to see the world. From wk 19, I was triggering off painful BH and mummy had to take adalat to keep me in until term. And despite my mummy telling me again and again to come out on 26 June (papa and yeye counted the ba zhi and said this was a good date), I was naughty and came chonging out on 16 June! (hence ruining yeye and nainai's genting trip!).

Here is mummy's super duper chiong hei birth story!

16 june 2007

2am- went to bed as usual after talking nonsense with yolksac on forum (heheh)

4.45am- woke up with some painful BH (or what i thot were BH).. felt urge to poo so went to the toilet but nothing came out.

5.30am - cldnt sleep at all since BH were going on and on.. all were painful. but just wrote them off as BH/false labour since the interval was not decreasing.. kept having urge to poo again

5.45am- suddenly felt pantiliner very wet- went toilet and found pink show and whole liner soaked. decided it might be labour with burst waterbag and woke hb up.

6am- went to shower quickly (bad decision- contractions intensified to 1 in 5min in the toilet.. had to bathe REALLY REALLY fast) and packed the rest of my hosp bag. walked with hb slowly to main rd to get cab (refused to call a cab.. wanted to walk more so that my labour wld be shorter hehe)

6.30am - reached NUH. Lots of amniotic fluid gushed out the moment i lay down on the hosp bed. Checked by dr on call- already 5cm dilated to my horror!! was immediately given fleet enema.

6.45am - contractions got super painful after the enema.. was in tears and nearly biting off hb's hand. begged for epidural and bit into a towel with each contraction to tahan the pain

7.20am- anesthetist finally arrived.. just b4 he poked me, i suddenly felt like something was coming out!! Dr did VE again, and i was already 8cm dilated!!! decided to have the epidural anyway as the pain was just tooo bad to bear.

7.30am - epidural in.. WA.. complete BLISS man.. no pain at all!!!

10am - cervix 10cm dilated. epidural was tailed off so that i cld have the sensation to push while waiting for bb's head to descend more

10.50am - felt contractions again and urge to bear down. started to push.

11am- gyne arrived.. pushed a few more times and darling Xing-Yi aka TOTO finally popped out weighing in at 2.8kg!!!