I felt confused.. All along I had been hoping he will be out soon but now I kind of regret for it, haha. Yes, baby arrived on 18/6/2012 3.44 pm.
Birth Story 18/6
Dear wasn't working today, he wanted to visit gynae as we didn't manage to go on Sunday as he had been working since Saturday and by the time he got home, it was almost early noon.
We reached gynae clinic around 9 and was told to come back at 10.30am for our appt. As I was lazy to go somewhere else for breakfast (I wasn't hungry, I ate 2 buns and a big cup of cereal drink before heading out) so we went hospital canteen. While sitting there, I felt slight contraction. Looked at dear watch and timed but thinking maybe its just another BH since I have been feeling that for the past few days. When we got back to the clinic after 30 mins later, I realised gynae is not around. His door was opened and total darkness inside, my guess is he went for delivery. Timing is not constant and even the intensity too. Went to the washroom at 11am and I saw pinkish discharge, dear informed the clinic nurse and we were told to go delivery suite to do ctg. Looking at the time,I told dear I want to go home first as I wanted to fetch WeiWei from school and bathe (just in case).
We got back to the hospital at around 1pm, the nurses in delivery suite were asking where we went because they had been looking for us. Haha.. I never thought they would do that as I only got a slip from the gynae so didn't expect the clinic to track me. Did ctg for maybe an hr or so and we were sent back to gynae. The slip showed I had contractions in every 10 mins but I could see the intensity is not constant, sometimes high and sometimes low. Checked dilation and gynae was surprised that I had dilated for 5-6cm so he decided to send me up again saying I will be delivering today.
Was still quite surprised myself too while waiting for dear to do admission. By 2.50pm, I was feeling more and more pain and the time taken to feel the pain is getting shorter, less than 5mins. When I reached delivery suite, I was in intense pain and wanted to get epi but wasn't given because I was 8cm dilated, midwife said I dilated too much already and worried baby is unable to cry when he's out plus she felt baby head while checking on me.
After that, it was a total nightmare for me. Gynae hasn't arrived so midwife can't allow me to deliver before that. She tried to get me relax, I used laughing gas till I had no strength to feel anything. But as time passed, the pain was so intense that I couldn't stand it and little did I know that baby is trying to get his way out. Lucky gynae made it in time. When he reached, baby head is almost head so I guess that's the reason I didn't get any cut below but I do get a slight tear. Initially gynae intend to stitch for me but I asked if I can do without it (only 1-2 stitches, didn't want to feel pain again for that) and he said can.
Baby looked blue when he came out, he cried so loud and kept wanting someone to carry him. He has a strong lungs! He weigh 2860 grams, lighter than I expected. I thought he would weigh near or more than 3.5kg, haha..
I took less than 5hrs for the whole process and the last 4-5cm I took less than an hr. All of us including the gynae were shocked that I delivered that fast. I will not go through pregnancy again, he is my last child. The pain is too scary to go through it again..