D Day....

HBB finally willing come out on Monday 29th June 2009.. 1 day later than the EDD
Heres my birth story



7am: woke up w mild cramping, tot prob bladder full tt y... after gg pee jus nuaing on bed surfing net and chattin w piggy she was still telling me bout wat her mil tell her bout contraction!
7.30: intermittently feel 'cramping' n consistently backache ... with the wan go poopoo feel.... sms Big Mac say gt cramping he asked I need go hospital? I say no!
8.30-9am: decided to get off bed to do laundry saw a tiny patch of very light pink on bedsheet! w/o checking I know its 'show time' even told piggy online i tink i must go hosp liao haaa immediately sms BIG MAC ' u better come hm nw' din say bleeding in case I alarm him n he endangered lives on road lol
hop in for shower...saw huge pc of liver like clot along w some lighter blood

Did some last min chores while waiting for Big Mac.

10.30am: Reach KKH, monitored contraction for 2 hr doc came chk.. 2cm dilation he suggested wait @ ward so I cn walk ard n aso labor ward full
2.45pm : @ labor ward 3cm dilation gynae suggested induce. Before I knew it.... he broke my waterbag! damn pain n sore!! on drip too... he say will pop by 9!
5pm : contraction every 2min @ 5cm dilation. v bad pain cos no pethedine given! laughing gas make mi giddy so I told myself get e epidural! wise choice since I trust gynae estimated forecast! Dr Dendy Fun who administered e epidural was good! no pain!!
7pm : start feeling more pain again nurse n dh say cos contraction worsen
9pm : nurse prep mi to push.. while waiting for gynae to arrive.

9.48pm : gynae came did episotomy on me n began my pushing.
9.51pm : Edna Faith Han arrived!!!!


Nurse cleaning her up...


Good weight of 3.4kg



Inside the warmer


Hello all!!!

she weighs 3.4kg.. at the length of 50 cm and head circumference of 35 cm...
She is much bigger than I expected
We expected her to be about 3kg to 3.1kg...
Oh well... she's realy a Han Bao Bao heehee

I consider the labour as 6 hours or so... not too bad... Now.. a new journey to motherhood...

Its the day....

The day have come... 28th June 2009... however.. no sight of my lil HBB....
My dear lil girl is too comfy in the tummy...listening and dancing to Kenny G pieces while I surf the net!

While I have occassional cramps and prob BH... I dont think its a sign of her wantign to come out... Since Im still doing my usual chores..

I had washed my piloow cases n protector since I woke up at 7 this morning.
Walked over to NTUC for some grocery as well as for BF w Big Mac...
Yes Grocery! I intended to cook some (quite a few) thing for today.. Planned to make bird nest to keep so that I can eat tomorrow if I pop today... papaya fish soup to drink to get ready my 'milk production', white fungus with papaya dessert for today since I probably got some left over papaya. Lunch will be fry mee tai mak as big mac and I are sick of outside food already.
Also I think he prob will be eating alot of outside food for the nxt 1 mth.. I surely do want him to eat somethg homely 1st... I dun wan to neglect his tummy =p

I hope all goes well.... I hope I hope.... If I realy pop by 1st july... it goes to show my instinct right from the start (6 yrs ago) was very strong already... cos I already foresee I will have a 1st july (or somehwere ard thr) baby. I keep having the vision since then of a double promotion for big mac... I duno if it comes true anot thou....
we shall see.....

A rather funny(I feel its funny lar) incident tis morning at NTUC.. was looking for the carrot cake but cant find so I ask 1 of the auntie working thr wher is it placed. Auntie was very kind, offered to show mi where it is placed despite she is busy re stocking the fresh food in the fridge...
And she keep asking me to be careful of the tummy (cos quite a bit of ppl thr).. then she was saying: ur tummy v cute hor.. so small... must b a boy hor....
HAHAHAHAa today is the popping day liao.... still got ppl feel tummy is very small and its a boy LOL... its quite funny I thought...
suddenly again I was tinking will HBB turn out to be a boy? haaa
good thg is ppl all tink tummy is small... so means aft popping I wun hav much fat tummy left? *keep finger cross*

Meanwhile... its nothg but eat, play n sleep for myself before a brand new chapter of our lives start.... with a lil cutie terror hahaaa

12th and Last Gynae Visit at Week 39

We last seen Prof Tee 10 days ago... and he mentioned today will be the last visit..

Ok.. weigh 1st... 62.2kg.. an increase of 300g fr last week...

The wait was short.. I din even have to wait in fact...

Actually the org appt was in aftnoon but cos I wanted to go join Big Mac at his office for his promo ceremony.. and so I chg to nite clinic.. and who knows nurse fr TPS called in morning n said I can go earlier.. like 6ish.. oh ok...



Seems like the gynae need to perform soem surgery and so..lucky I wasnt that late else I prob need to wait 100 yrs for him haaa... thankfully... all these visits I do not have to wait fr him to deliver babies n etc... phew



Checking on dilation... He said im 1cm dilated (ONLY??!!!)

no sight of HBB coming out... and since the EDD is this sunday... He suggested that I have to induce HBB out by weds morning... Sigh....

He say check in at 0730hours on that day... have LIGHT bf before I go... wah lau.. light bf? wat if I get too hungry later on?? grrr...



I hope by tues nite HBB will auto show willingness to come out. at least dun ahv to induce rite? I hate the idea of inducing since the chance of naturaly birth is only 50% if done via inducing... and the contraction is much more painful... which might just dash my hopes of gg epidural free..sigh



She is about 3 to 3.1kg as of the this visit... good weight I guess even if its just an estimation...



Big Mac keep asking HBB to come out soon.. LOL.. bet he cant wait to have sleepless nite huh? hehee

11th Gynae Visit at week 38

My dear lil HBb is still comfortably in my womb...
With the 11th visit... she weighs appx 2.9kg, up from 2.8kg last week. Myself.. I top the scale of 61.9kg. .up from 61.7 kg.

Big Mac did not acc mi for the check up yesterday as he was having some meeting.. and last min DUTY.. grrr...
I was worried becos supposed to do VE and I heard its painful like siao... some ppl say got cramps n bleeding after VE.. ekkkks...
Prof Tee did the VE.. and ehhh ok not pain till wan die but its painful alrite!
I did not have cramps .. luckily... But he said cervix not ripen yet.. meaning not open yet.. haiz... means gotto wait for thing to happen.. he predicted that I wun pop tis week.. and say see mi nxt week...

Strep B test cleared.. no need anti biotics during labour.. YIPEE!

I was blur.. I tot he seeing me on nxt mon.. onli to realise its weds... werid huh.. mayb he presumed my cervgix realy take a longer time to dilate bah... I hope everythign goes smoothly nxt visit as he said its gg to be the last visit.. I hope for some dilation at least... else if induce... I will b v stress... Hope for natural dilation......

Heres what I gt from Baby Center Singapore on how to have natural delivery...

Natural ways to bring on labour: a guide
Written for BabyCenter Singapore

Nipple stimulation
Castor oil
Sex
Eating pineapple
Homeopathy
Herbal: blue cohosh and black cohosh
Eating spicy food
Acupuncture
Red raspberry leaf
Walking

10th Gynae Visit @ Week 37

Little fella is now about 2.8kg... up from 2.3kg 2 weeks ago.. oh my she is growing fast hehe
I asked Prof Tee if she is engaged.. he say half.. I was like huh? got such thing as half??
I posed him a challenging qns... when will I pop? hahahaaa...
He said likely to be after 38 weeks... lets see if he is accurate anot yea =p

With my weight gg up from 61.1kg to 61.7kg.. looks like Ipersonally din gain much.. *grinz*

I did the Strep B test yesterday too... not as invasive as I thought... phew... but next week gg to do VE.. ekkks... and Big Mac might not be able to go with me... sigh... Scare I cant walk after that manz....

Wonder when this little fella wanna come out...
Big Mac been asking her for the past 2 nite when she be out haaa.... I wonder too.... Hopefully no need the number 11 gynae visit ah? LOL