My Birth Story

I had big plans. One of it was to eat durians. Main purpose was of course to increase baby ong's weight and the other was just I am greedy. I also wanted to have some "me" time before baby Ong's arrival. Hence, I planned to stop work on 23 march.
It's funny how plans never work out, especially when it comes to trying to conceive, if you conceive, when and how you conceive...the list goes on.
My first signs of early delivery came on the morning of 21 mar. I awoke with so much discharge, a wee bit pink in fact. Called my good friend/colleague to re-confirm my water bag has not burst. Silly you may think, why would I not know if my water bag had burst? Pregnancy does funny things to your brains truly. Anyway, decided to work from home instead that day since I do not want to risk going into labour at the office. The day passed pretty uneventful but for some reason, I couldn't postpone doing up the baby cot anymore. That very night, I told hubby, let's get the sheets and bumper ready for the cot and we did. I also packed some stuffs into my hospital bag, again something that I have procrastinated for a long time. Decided to call it a night at about 1am on 22 march.
4am - I suddenly woke. Had the weirdest feeling down under. I quickly got out from bed and "Whoosh" came a gush of water. I stood there staring at the pool of water around my feet for abit before I actually woke hubby. I think hubby was more excited than I was. In a daze, he was like "how? How? Do we rush to the hospital now?" I was still taking my tIme and re-assuring him that I have no pains. I even got him to mop up the floor whilst I slowly went about putting the toiletries into my hospital bag. I did not have another shower as I just did before bedtime.
We arrived at the hospital at 540am and was sent to the observation ward in the delivery suites. I was hooked up to some apparatus to monitor baby's heart rate as well as my contractions. Nurse said I was supposedly having contractions already. I was thinking if that is how contractions feel, I can jolly well do without epidural!
830am - I showed no further signs of dilation. I was still only at 1cm after so long. They decided to insert a pill and put me on drip to induce labour. Before they administer the drip though, they decided to push me to the ward upstairs to "hold" and wait. TMC was extremely full that day, so I was actually pushed to the premier wards to await my turn. How nice, I got to experience what the celebrities get for $1600 a night at TMC :)
I was supposed to go back to the delivery suite at 1pm. They didn't push me down till 230pm as there was no delivery suite available!
Once in the delivery suite, I was put on drip and the full contractions started at 330pm. Omg, the pain was crazy. The laughing gas they gave me which I had to administer was useless! The only thing to laugh about was the yellow beak lookalike mask that the gas came through on. I stuck it out for 1.5hrs before I asked for epidural. Silly me, I should have done that earlier. Once I had epidural, I went from 4cm to 9cm dilation within an hour. I was ready to push!
Midwife made me push a couple of times and then promptly went out to call Dr Loh (my gynae). I did not feel right as she reminded me constantly to take in more oxygen through the yellow beak. I got hubby to check with her when she returned if everything was ok. She gave a big smile and re-assured us.
Anyhow, dr loh was there in a flash and the first thing he said was, "I am going to help you with the vacuum ok? Baby's heart rate will drop each time you push." Ahhhh, no wonder. At this point, I was shivering so badly, one side effect of epidural. I also wanted to puke. With my last bit of strength, I pushed a couple of times more and welcomed baby kieran ong to this world at 1928hrs on 22 march 2012. I puked right after.
Dr loh didn't think I could make it before 2359hrs on that day. I proved him wrong. Now the whole family has birthdays on the 22nd. Hubby and I were born on the 22nd too albeit different months :) so isn't it funny how things worked out?