Time for me to catch up with some blogging. Eversince I'm discharged from hospital, I have been wanting to blog but was so tight down with taking care of bb chloe. Will try to catch up with back-dated post as fast as I can.
On 28/07/2009 Tuesday, our little precious made her grand entrance @ Mt Alvernia @ 0829, weighing 3.405kg with length of 51cm. Prior to tat day, on Mon, we went back to see Elder Lim since there is still no signal from bb chloe. On Mon, as advised by Elder Lim, caeserean is the best option..... so on Tue @ 6am we arrived @ Mt A getting ready to go for the op.
First the admin office, then the St Rapheal's ward that i'll be staying..... after injection, anema, shaving etc..... I'm all ready to be pushed into the OT....
There is mixed feelings... on one hand, I chose epidural wanting to be aware of the whole process.... on the other hand, as I'm in the OT, fear overcomes me. I kept praying for strength n for my fear to be taken away.
In the OT b4 the start of the caeserean, the wait was long. I was being taken care of by Dr Ma, my anethesist. He prepares for my drips, my epidural.... and he helps to push my bb during the ops.
During the wait.... all I remember was Dr Ma saying curl like a prawn so that he can inject the epidural.....
@ 820, Elder Lim, as usual, made his entrance by whistling in..... and within seconds, Pat was in and @ 829 bb was out. Everything happened so fast.... when I first bb's cries, I was still wondering.... Is this my bb??? haha..... well bb oni cried for a little while and within mins, she's on my chest..... subsequently, the side effects all set in..... I'm starting to feel nauseous, cold and my left hand on drip was painful. In the recovery area, naseousness continues and when I go into tge ward, I'm shivering with cold...... It is only @ 11am that I recover and start to breastfeed.
During the first two days, breastfeeding was difficult as my wound doesn't allows me to move much. As a result, I got sore nipples with bleeding perhaps due to poor latch on. I muz say chloe is clever as she is able to suckle well @ the first feed.
@ the hospital, rest was little as I was unable to zzz... On day 2 when Elder Lim said I may be able to discharge I was so delighted.... hoping and waiting for his day 3 morning visit.... On day 2 night, the pain when I first came out of the bed was the pain I'll nv forget. I can hardly breathe or stand up straight! I'll remember the pain for the rest of my life.... tat is like the worst pain ever....
On day 3, as I have hoped for, I could discharge! Praise the Lord.... But later on, bad news came and bb was down with slight jaundice and was not able to be discharged! =( I cried feeling sad that bb cannot be discharged with me and hence I decided to stay for one more day.
On day 4, we waited earnestly for the blood test result, have oredi decided to be discharged even if bb needs to stay.... I was praying and praying, in the hope that bb will be discharged as well......
And praise the Lord, bb will be discharging as well!!! Amen!
Tats all for the hospital episode... will blog on bb's happenings @ home in the nxt post!
