It all started when we checked in at 12 midnight into Raffles Hospital. Shortly after, the nurse started to induce the labour and this was the beginning of my 14 hour labour before the birth of my first born.
After the inducing, there was generally nothing to do but get some sleep. To me it was tough was the mild contractions were coming in gently and surely. Then... there was hubby's snoring which generally kept me awake quite abit. Surviving on very little snooze, 6 am quickly approached and the nurse woke me up for breakfast and at that time I think I was 2 cm dilated.
At about 7am or so, Dr Goh came in to break my water bag. When she did the check, my waterbag had already broke by itself. So it was all that jabbing around for nothing. Ouch. By then, the contractions were coming in stronger and the nurses were telling me that I should make up my mind when I wanted to do the epidural. I was generally expecting a pretty long labour and the contraction pains was starting to get to me. After 30 mins, I gave up. The pain was driving me crazy. That's when I asked for the epidural.
When they gave me my epidural, it was pure relieve as I started to feel all numb in my legs. I kept wiggling my toes just to make sure that my legs were still there. I was glad that I made the decision to get epidural as it really made me feel more comfortable during the labour.
Doc Goh had predicted a noon delivery and I honestly thought that we could get it done by lunch time. Woohoo! Talk about efficiency. Then she said, my dear, noon came be late noon you know! Oh drats.
As we progressed to lunch, I still wasn't very dilated. I got bored. TV wasn't entertaining me enough. At about 2 pm, I was all alone in the room and then I felt it. Jodie's head was starting to poke through. Okay. I thought to myself. I don't know what this means but I think I'd better call for help.
When the nurse came in, she did some checks and I asked if I should hold or something cause I wasn't able to stop her come proding any longer. The nurse wanted me to hold as Dr Goh was suppose to be with another patient who was delivering before me. The good nurse left me alone to "hold" the baby which I had no idea how to.
5 minutes later, she came in and asked me to practise to push. I had question marks all over my face. She looked at me and said ok I'll guide you. The next thing I knew, the nurses comes in to prepare for delivery, I was calling the hubby to come back into the room and then Doc Goh walts in and puts on her gear and preps me for delivery.
With the epidural, I couldn't feel a thing when the contractions came in. We had to depend on the monitor to tell when it was coming and I was ordered to push was if I was having the hell biggest poop of my life.
It took about 5 contractions of pushing with 2 nurses at each side to help move the baby in the tummy to deliver the baby. Poop! and Jodie was out! Woohoo! That's when I heard her first cry and held her in my arms for the first time. Oh my goodness. During this time, Doc Goh gets hubby to cut her umbilical cord. I must say I'm proud of hubby. He did not faint and it actually cut the cord.
So they then cleaned her up and weight her and all. She's was weighing only 2.45kg when she popped. We were expecting her to be heavier but what the hell. Oh, by the way, did I also mention that she's half a metre long in length?
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