Welcoming your arrival at Mount Alvernia Hospital 12.02.2021

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!

Today is 17.02.2021 and it the 6th day of Chinese New Year! Due to Covid-19, CNY for this year is pretty quiet. Government sets a rule to have only 8 visitors for visiting per day per household. So now that there are 10 people in my family, we have to take turns to visit our relatives.

However, in this very year, CNY is a gift. A big gift to my hubby and our family; Baby Rayner is born!! I was in Week 39 that week and we are waiting for Baby's signal. I was not induced since Hubby had told Doc that we wanted natural. So basically , that means that if i see signs of blood, waterbag burst or feeling contractions, i should be going to hospital. If Baby is still not out by my EDD ( 15 Feb 2021), Doc told us to go back to see him and he may induce baby.

Dont't know which part of baby. His last ultrascan the week before he pop.

Since it was in the CNY period, we can't be missing steamboat right? :P Love's family came to our house for steamboat on Wednesday for reunion dinner. It was yummy and i had my fill. I hope baby also enjoy the steamboat while he is still in my tummy.

After the steamboat, Ah Bii helped to clear the food and washed the dishes. We had a good rest and we are welcoming CNY Eve the next day. As we knew that my labour is near, we decided not to go back to my dad house for prayer on CNY Eve.

Just a random photo that Bii bought a chair and assembled for me after i told him i had backache from siting the dining chair

On Wednesday night, i couldn't sleep well at all. I had a few hours of sleep as my tummy was feeling weird. My tummy was feeling upset and i told Ah Bii about it. He said that i could have eaten too much during dinner. I did not think much about it because i do agree that i ate quite a bit during dinner.

On CNY Eve, Love has to work half day so i was alone at home in the early morning. I had tummy upset again when i woke up but i didn't think much about it as I manage to poop in the morning. Love returned around noon but he went on to wash his car because his car is dirty. I was also telling him to wash the interior before installing baby's car seat.

At 2pm, i felt a pain at my lower back. Love was not around so i asked my cousins if they know what is happening. After a few discussions with my cousins over the whatsapp groupchat, i decided that i should monitor the frequency of the pain. The next 'pain' came at 2.30pm. I went to sleep at 3pm and woke at 5pm. And then, i felt another sharp pain at 5pm. Love just returned from washing his car. Then again , i felt another pain at 5.30pm.

This time, my back was so painful that i couldn't do anything at all. I had to put down whatever i am doing and sit down to rest. The pain lasted for 1minute and it was freakingly painful. At 6 pm, the pain is getting as frequent as 10 min and lasted 1 minute each. When approaching 8pm, the pain was like 7 min per internal and slowly, the duration lasted 2 minutes each.

It was totally unbearable for me and i told my hubby to send me to hospital. With my hospital bag, he drove me to Mount Alvernia Hospital. We reached at around 10pm and went straight to the delivery ward. The nurse took my weight and after that send me to one of the ward. I was told to change to the gown and lie on the bed while the nurse/ midwife took measurement of dilation.

And I was dilated between 4-5cm already.

Took a photo when i was better

Having the fluid run through me.

While waiting for the epidural, Ah Bii went to do my admission.

But then, after a few moment later, he came up to tell me that there are missing documents and he needs to go home to retrieve it. But luckily, the hospital allow him to return the next day with the documents, meaning he could be there for me.

See this papa sit there and play his Slam Dunk

The CNY show ended at around 1am i think? The anaesthesia doctor came in a while later and injected the epidural. I was told to curl up in to the fetal position while the doctor administer the drug. There are

like 2 injections (i cant remember as i was in pain). One of the injection was poked to my spine. I could still feel the feeling of the needle poking into my spine :\ It took around 20 minutes for the epidural to take effect . And after that, I felt numbness on my both legs and there I was there shivering and shaking heavily due to the side effect of the drug

Don't understand why i can still twist in this photo

We waited for my dilation to hit 10 cm. The nurses at Mount A are very nice. They are quite gentle and told me to rest and sleep if possible, as i need to push in the early morning. As i was shaking so much, i did not manage to catch any sleep in the middle of the night. Love seems like he did sleep a bit.

At 6am, Dr Adrian came to look at my condition to see if i was ready. However, i was still a bit far from 10cm and the nurses gave me a medication for contraction? I was answering okay to all their questions as i didnt know what to expect. At 7am, doctor came in again and told the nurse to get ready while i push. After checking, Doc told me that baby is still high and he hasn't come down even pushing after 4 times. He told me that his head stuck at my bladder. He was also telling me that i was losing blood and he suggested emergency c-sect.

I was shock as i didn't expect myself to go through C-Sect at all. The next moment that comes to my mind was the cost of emergency c-sect. But for Baby's sake, i am willing to go through whatever needs to be done, whatever the cost may be. So immediately, i was told to sign the consent form and the nurses began prepare the operating theater within 1 hr. It was hectic and they unload me from bed to bed, pushing me out of the delivery ward and took a lift to the OT. There in OT, there are another doctor to administer a stronger epidural , an assistant doctor and Dr Adrian. The nurses began to cover me with a green cloth from my neck down so i couldn't see anything. At the same time, Dr Wong (the doctor who administer the epidural) told me that if i feel any pain, i have to let them know so they will stop the operation immediately. If i could feel the pain and it was bearable, he told me to hang on and wait for Dr Adrian to complete the procedure. I was actually afraid when i hear that. Love was not there with me since it is an Emergency C-Sect.

But luckily all went well.

Within the next 5-10 minutes, i could hear baby's cries. I was feeling emotional when i hear his cries. It was such a moment though i did not expect he would enter the world in this way. I was still very awake and could hear baby's cries, the tugging and stretching of my lower part of my body. Taking baby out of my womb was a fast job, but stitching me back takes so much longer than expected.

After i was being stitched up, i was pushed to an observatory area to see if i have any side effects or complications. After 45 minutes, i was pushed back to the ward where i saw my love there.. He told me that he has already see baby :)

I was kinda of bedridden for 1 day and i could not get up from the bed. I had the urine bag there so i could only lie on the bed and do nothing. The nurse help me wore the compression socks as my legs were still swollen from my pregnancy.