Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Hello World!!!
as what my sister told me, i woke up 12:20 AM due to pain that brought me a "nde maipintang mukha". at first, i have no idea that this was what they call as "labor contraction" but with pain after pain of 10 minutes interval, i just knew that this is it! i woke up hubby at 12:50 AM and told him that this might be the big day. he asked me to wait for another 10 minutes to confirm that it is the day that we've been waiting for. =) after another contraction at 1 AM, hubby immediately went out to get a car (c/o their company, hehe). i also woke up my sister for her to dress up and ready our things for the hospital trip.
we reached the Corniche Hospital at 1:30 AM. paika-ika ako when there's pain but most of the time, i can still smile in between. =) after taking my blood pressure and urine sample, the nurse (?) assigned at the emergency clinic asked me to go to the examination room for an internal exam. grabe, the internal exam made me cry. feeling ko, parang hinalukay yung kaloob-looban ko. =( then, the nurse was amazed to find out that i was already 7cm dilated!!! she praised me for being able to smile despite of my situation. then me, my sister and hubby were asked to proceed immediately to the labor room. yep, the hospital allows one male and one female relative to go with the patient inside the labor room during the delivery. the pain was tolerable still that i took the elevator and walked to the labor room pa huh! =)
inside the labor room, the midwife (a kind indian national) oriented me with their facilities such as the oxygen mask which later became my bestfriend. =) she also briefed me about the advantage of an episiotomy for first-time mom's and whether i opt to have one or not. with the information she gave, i told her that i do prefer to have an episiotomy as long as she promised that she will have an anaesthesia injected on me. panigurado lang..hihi.
as time passed by, the contractions remained to be in intervals of 10 minutes until 3:00 AM. it was then that the midwife suggested to break my water bag and rupture the membrane. i was hesitant at first, but changed my mind later on when even me became bored of the long wait. hehe.
come 3:30 AM and after a couple of sermon from the midwife that i was not relaxing enough, she then broke my water bag. i felt a sudden gush of warm "water" from within. as for the rupture of the membrane, nde ko na naramdaman as i was busy with my squirming already. emote na ako ng emote as the contractions progressed to every 5 minutes interval. the midwife asked me if i wanted a pain reliever. of course, i said yes! she then injected a pain reliever on my thigh which made me swirl dreamily and thereby eased the pain. contrary to what was expected, habang patagal ng patagal, the contraction decreases that i was sleeping and dreaming in between. =) the second shift of midwife (a british national) came to take over which was around 7:30 AM. however, before the actual taking over, an IV was inserted on me for an induced labor. past 8:00 AM, the contractions increases to around every 1-2 minutes. i wasn't able to track of the interval anymore as each contraction was sssooooo painful and seemed like a hundred minutes of pain. napapakapit na talaga ako sa sidebar ng bed and then the midwife asked to PUSH!!! grabe, performance level talaga ang bawat ire!
the midwife guided me in performing two different positions for pushing but the traditional position (lying/half-sitting on my back) was the one that made me eject my baby's head out. after that amazing push, i was asked to make another one for his body. the second time was supposed to be more difficult (dahil mas malaki ang width ng body versus the head) but since i was able to "learn" the technique with the head push, naging easier tuloy yung body push. i also did not mind the pain of the episiotomy since the actual delivery was much painful to the highest level. yung sinasabi nilang pain like you are about to pass a stool was an understatement. the pain was like passing a one-week old stool (ngahaha). nde naman sa nananakot ako sa future moms-to-be, but it was super sakit talaga! but at that time, all that i was thinking was to give the greatest push of my life to finally end the pain. anyway, it was 8:54 AM when my baby finally welcomed the world (or the world welcomed my baby??). my baby weighed 3.165 kilos and measures 49 cm long.
i was not able to focused on him since i was so tired (bad mama, hehe). i was aware of the cutting of the umbilical cord though but i was not aware anymore of his "crying" as part of the APGAR test which he scored 9, by the way. soon after the delivery of the placenta (which i was able to see like a big blob of liver-like mass), the surgeon was called for the episiotomy. due to the pain of the delivery, i did not even mind the pain of the repair of the episiotomy despite feeling the threading being done. after she finishes the "sewing", i felt my baby was placed to latched on my breast. then, i was asked to get up and sit on the wheel chair where they also placed my baby for me to cradle while they wheeled us to our room.
after we have settled on our room (Ward A, Room 11A), i have slept most of the time because i was overly tired. i still looked like 5 months pregnant due to my big tummy and edema plus bonus red spots on my bloated face. i also wore two napkins at a time to absorb the lochia (menstrual-like blood) coming out from me. my baby on the other hand, is at his best. smile na ng smile and is showing off his dimples already. as to whom he got his features, is still too early to tell. however, his eyes and eyebrows are from his daddy while his dimples and being balbon are definitely from me. =)
11:06 PM |
Monday, April 09, 2007
False Alarm
i woke up feeling so heavy, like i will be having my menstruation tomorrow. tinatamad nga ako pumasok but i have to drag myself up so as not to waste my maternity leave days. the day at the office was so long. i had to finish all my backlogs and felt i needed to write the endorsement list for Silvia and Sree. Silvia even commented why i had to make the list so early. sabi ko, just in case lang naman i give birth early (*winks*). finally, 4PM came and it was time to go home.
it was 6 PM when me and my sister agreed to take a stroll down Hamdan Street, gold souq area. i first felt some pain when we reached near the Bhs building, that i had to stop for awhile and rest. we were able to reach the gold souq chain and browsed store after store. i noticed that the pain interval became every 15 minutes, however i was not sure if it was the labor contraction already. sabi nila, your instinct will tell you that it was. in my case, my instinct's not good enough. i was in doubt because i can tolerate the pain since it was just like having a dysmenorrhea, which i am so accustommed to bear. when the pain interval increased to every 10 minutes, my sister convinced me to stop gold browsing and go home. =)
we reached the house sometime past 8 PM. we had our dinner, bathe and get dressed for hospital. habang pinakikiramdaman ko ang intensity and interval of pain, hubby came home around 9 PM. around 10 PM and we call it quits waiting for the big day when the pain gradually diminished. we unpacked and get ready for bed instead. anyway, my sister assured me that if ever i will indeed have labor contractions, i will wake up for sure no matter how deep in sleep i am.
10:34 PM |
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Bloody Show
i was feeling restless all-night because my legs and lower back felt so heavy. sometime during the night (or dawn??), i toss and turn to relieve myself of the uncomfortable feeling and then, i woke up around 5AM feeling wet. even if i feel so sleepy, i dragged myself up to change undies. and viola! i have some streak of blood on my undies! got so scared and woke up my sister. she said that i could probably go into labor anytime soon!! hu-whatt??!!! and we didn't even have things ready!!!
and so, we hurriedly wash the baby things, sorted out which things to bring and got my things ready as well. finally by 8 AM baby things were dried and ironed out. me and my sister were also ready to go. sigh. talk about photo finishing! hihi.
around 9AM, we went to the emergency clinic of Corniche Hospital. i had my blood pressure and urine sample taken. afterwhich, the midwife asked me what is the problem. i told her that about the blood. she asked me if i felt any pain?? i said "no". and she said that there's no cause for an alarm since what happened was just normal. she said that i should go back to the hospital if there is pain or a gush of blood and water. otherwise, what she termed as "bloody show" is a false alarm for labor. ganun!! anyway, i sure hope baby goes out tomorrow para Easter Sunday and a good feng shui number ang birthday nya. hahaha!
from Corniche, me and my sister went to Emirates General Market. we were able to get a big pot to be used for sterilizing bottles. it's more practical and there won't be any issues of bottles not fitting in if they are of different brands. buti yun, just in case someone gives us feeding bottles as gifts, we won't worry about compatibility problems. =) assuming ba!!! hehe.
come night time, we also went to Baby Shop and i was able to get feeding bottles rack, a maternity pad and a breast pump. yippee! konti na lang kulang and were ready to go!!! some other things we still need to purchase are:
clothes hanger (with around 15-20 clips)
baby clips
baby shampoo
playpen
if i still don't give birth tomorrow, we could perhaps pass by another shop and shop around. =) sabi siguro ni baby ang gala ng mommy nya... hihi.
10:31 PM |
