Date of Labour: 28th July 2008, Monday
Length of Labour: 5 and a half hours
Time of Labour: 1.11pm
Baby Jez's weight at birth: 3.215kg
I went to the hospital for admission on 27th July 08 at about 830pm. Once admitted, the nurse inserted a tablet for the cervix to soften and to stimulate dilation. My cervix dilated 1.5cm when I was admitted. The next morning, the nurse woke me up at abt 530am and gave me milo and biscuits for breakfast. Then, I was given the medicine to clear my bowels. I told the nurse that I didn't feel any contractions so she did not check my cervix again and brought me to the labour room. I reach the labour room about 7am. My gynae came ard 715am. He checked that my cervix was 2cm dilated. He ruptured my waterbag which was damn painful. He told me that baby Jez actually passed motion inside the womb and he said that they will monitor closely her heartbeat. If her heartbeat is unusual, I might need to go through caesarean. Then, he gave me the drip at 730am.
Once the drip started, I can feel the contractions coming. Only then, I know what contractions mean and I realised I did experience such contractions all the while, in fact ever since I was 5 or 6 months pregnant. They called it the 'Braxton Hicks Contraction'. However, I do not know that was contraction. The feeling was that you can feel your stomach tightens and feel a little breathless. All along, I thought I have that feeling because baby is moving. Heehee....
Wilson reached the labour room about 815am. The contractions got more & more painful. The nurse examined me again at abt 930am and I was only 4cm dilated, which means 1 hr dilate 1cm. At that time, I was thinking it will mean another 6hrs to go. Then, the nurse ask me to urine as urine might prevent the cervix from dilating. Then I request for the 'laughing gas' which was supposed to help relieve the pain. I only breath in the gas twice and I felt really sleepy. I even started to snore, I hope so much that I can have a gd sleep at that time. I told Wilson I cant continue to use the gas, I will tend to slp and the gas did not really help. So for the next 1 or 2hrs, I did not use the gas at all. At 11am, my gynae came & check that I was abt 7-8cm dilated and he suggested me to take the normal pain killer injection. After the injection, I felt sleepy again and Wilson also slept in his big sofa. Then, I have the urge to push. I know that I cant push if I'm not 10cm dilated so I kept trying to control but it was really difficult.
At 1pm, my gynae came again and he said that I'm already 12 to 13cm dilated. The nurses quickly prepare everything. There are 2 nurses, one at each side. My gynae first use a vacuum before I started to push. After he gives the green light, everytime I had a contraction, they will ask me to push. The nurse will push my stomach downwards at the same time. The nurse even say: "大便，大便" to ask me to imagine that I'm shitting. Wilson also kept encouraging me to try again & again. I know I can't give up and after about 10 pushes, Baby Jez is born at 1.11pm. The pushing process was quite fast. Wilson is proud of me as I did not scream or shout for the whole of 5 to 6hrs of labour and I did not ask for epidural at all. I'm also very glad that I manage to do it without the epidural and luckily Baby Jez's heartbeat remains normal throughout.
Baby Jez opened her big eyes for the whole day, she seems to be very curious about the new world that she is seeing. At about 11 plus at night, she was still awake.
More Photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/mayzu.lin/BabyJEZ#
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