Little Bundle of Blessing - Part 1

It took me a while (1 month) to finally fill up my blog. I didn't want to recall certain events. But I have to, I have to write them down and take it off my system.

Ok here goes...

On September 20, all of us here in the house stayed overnight at Acara because I am to be induced the next day. We had a hearty dinner and everyone was happy to be together. It is the first for my parents and 2ko to be here in Toronto. My uncle is happy to have at least 1 sister and 1 brother of his to be here. It was sort of like a mini-reunion. Night time, we slept in the basement comfortably.

The next day, we woke up at 7am and got prepared for our 830am appointment for the induction. Today my OB is on duty so she picked this date for me to be induced. Os drove us to the hospital. We parked. He picked a spot that somehow far from the entrance. I don't know why. But anyways, we went through Admission then went up to the Birthing place, which is on the 4th floor. The chinese nurse greeted us and she showed me to the room where the fetal monitor will be placed on my tummy so that she can monitor the heartbeat of baby. An hour passed, Dr. Hew, my OB, came in and checked on me. She told me that I am also 75% effaced and 2cm dilated. So at around 955am, she artificially broke my water bag. I felt some pain inside and a sudden gush of water came out from me. It was like I couldn't control peeing. So it was a good sign now. After a few minutes, I got up and cleaned myself. The nurse told me to keep on walking to encourage dropping of baby's head. So for 2 long hours, we walked. Another chinese nurse was assigned to me. She gave me lunch at 1pm since there was no room available yet. So we waited. I walked. Os dozed on and off on a chair nearby. We had all our things with us. Baby's bag, our luggage and our "baon" bag. By 4pm, we were told that our room is ready. So we went inside. It is a birthing room meaning that that room is also where I will push and welcome baby. We were kinda anxious already especially me! who wanted to welcome baby already in my arms. By 5pm, I was given augmentation already since I am not getting any labor pains. Pitocin was dropped in my IV. An hour later, I started having early labor contractions. Gosh, I had to use the breathing techniques that we have learned in the class. It was uncomfortable because I have to be in 1 position for hours!!! because of the fetal monitor attached to my tummy. However, it wasn't painful. I can still tolerate. He he he. Moments later, we heard the PA paging the owner of a silver Honda civic with plate number... just like ours! So Os went down to check it out. He was sort of gone for like an hour or so. And I was all alone dealing with the early labor contractions. When he came back, he said, our car was hit inside the parking lot. HUH? What? Say that again? Our car was hit inside the parking lot. It was wrecked and unrepairable. HUH? so that means we need to buy a new car???? Call it a blessing in disguise, but we really planned to buy a bigger vehicle already once we have baby with us. It just happened to soon. The other driver drove 60km/hr inside the parking lot because he has an emergency. Don't we all??? For Pete's sakes, it's a hospital, emergency is what they accept. Anyways, so we don't have a car already. 7um and Gerard arrived together with my parents and they assisted Os with the car while my parents stayed with me. They had to see me "suffering" from the pain. After visiting hours, they went back to Acara. Os came back already with added pressure on his mind. I prayed to God to give Os strength to endure all these because I need him to focus!!! I didn't get any dinner tonight because it is not allowed. It can interfere with the pitocin drops on my IV. By 11pm.... I can't tolerate the discomfort any longer so I requested for an epidural. Half an hour later, the anaesthesiologist arrived, Dr. Lu. Gosh.. the pain is so unbearable that the nurse had to hug and squeeze me and enveloped me in her arms. I was already whimpering with pain since he had to inject me twice!! All the limbs in my body started to get weak as Dr. Lu injected the needle into my spine. Gosh it was so painful!! I wanted to end every minute of it! I guess Os was just as terrified as I am since I have a high tolerance of pain.. but this?? Anyways, so after that, it felt so so good. The nurse told me that I will dilate on my own and by morning, I should be 10cm already. She advised me and Os to get a good night's sleep since we're gonna start pushing in the morning. So we dozed off to sleep. Halfway in slumberland, I had a urge to throw up! Maybe it's because of the effect of the epidural. I threw up 3x! Then I dozed off on and off though til the morning.