Thursday, May 31

Colin's 34 hr long birth story

31 May
0900 - First sighting of brown discharge (mucus plug)

2330 - Felt random cramps. More mucus plug came out. Informed hubs not to turn off his mobile phone (we slept in different room cause the new bed was too hard for me)

1 June
0124 - Woke up to contractions. 7mins apart, 40secs each time. Went to hub's room to sleep instead after packing my final things into my hospital bag.

0300 - Informed hubs of my contractions; 5mins apart, 1min each time, for past 1hr.

0330 - Took a warm bath

0350 - Headed to AMK Park McDonald's for breakfast

0515 - Observation ward. Vaginal Examination: 3-4cm dilated

0525 - Administered soap solution to clear bowel

0530 - Pooped a bucket of shit

0630 - Contractions at 2min intervals

1000 - Contractions at 5min intervals

1800 - Gynae did VE, still 4cm dilated. Advised us to go to our ward. We decided not to burst the water bag to minimise risk of passing GBS to baby.

1820 - Went up to 2 bedded ward (yay to free upgrade!)

2200 - Exhausted from the long labour and intensifying contraction pains, we decided to get epidural (like finally after 21hrs of contractions). Informed the nurses we would like to go back to labour ward.

2210 - Went to Delivery room 3. Did VE, 5cm dilated (ONLY?!!)

2230 - Epidural administered. Finally caught up with some sleep.

2 June
0330 - VE done, 7-8cm.

0845 - Gynae came in, VE done - 9cm. Broke water bag.

1045 - Practised a few rounds o pushing till baby crowned.

1115 - Gynae came, pushed 3 sets.

1130 - Out came baby Colin Chang! Birth weight 3.84kg, 50cm long; just like mummy. Curious about surrounding, looks out for and looks like daddy! Managed to latch on after birth. Awwww.

Our first family pic!



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