Announcing the Arrival of Our not so Little Prince

Today was meant to mark the 40th week of BABY WEE in mumy's tummy.
However Baby Wee decided to join in the number game of 26 to match mummy's day of birth and our wedding date. Baby Wee decided to join us on the 26th of Nov 2010.

Here's pieces of what I can remember of his birth story.
Date: 26th Nov
Time:2:08am
Mummy woke up feeling slightly crampy. Didn't think much of it as I was already having the very suan suan feeling for the past few days. However this cramp came and went away.

Time:2:48am
The tingling crampy pain came again. This time I was thinking to myself could it be contractions. Was rather tired thus didn't really take note except for the time.

Time: Between 3:08am and 5+am
Contractions seemed to be regular. Often found myself thinking. Is this contractions or just cramp cos baby was definately lower down near the V area so maybe his weight is pressing on some nerve causing the pain. Moreover the pain was at the pelvic area rather than the lower abdominal area. To me I always had the assumption that contractions occured in the lower abdominal area.

Time:5:30am -7:00am
Contractions started to be very regular at intervals of 8 mins apart each lasting 30 secs. I used the iPad application to time this. I wanted to be sure seeing that this was my first time being a mum. I had mixed feelings if I was being over sensitive or was it the really thing. By 6:30am I decided to wake hubby (who was sleeping very soundly throughout the night cos there was no reason for me to alarm him to wake him up). Asked his opinion and he asked me to call the hospital to clarify. ME having the mixed feelings took my time in thinking if I should call cos I still at this point wasn't sure if it was THE DAY. Called hospital and they asked me to go down to monitor.

Time:7:00am -8:00am
Took my last shower and washed my hair before waking hubby up fully to head down to the hospital. Hubby was rather excited, I could tel as he was deciding on what to wear to recieve his little one. He ended up wearing a pink shirt and white berms. On the way to the hospital, we dropped by mum's to pick up the CordLife luggage.

Time:8:08am
Checked into the delivery ward and was assigned bed D of the observation rooms. Was sharing room with another lady.

Time:8:15am
A nurse came to do a VE on me. OMG that was so damn painful when she inserted her fingers down there and did some scrapping and digging. I almost screamed!!!! Then again all VEs are painful i think though DR Tan may be much gentler.

Time:8:20am-8:30am
Dr WK Tan came in to check on me. Told me I was 1cm dilated so long way more to go. She inserted a pill to soften the cervix then asked me to order some breakfast. Had some chicken congee.

Time:11:30am
Nurse came to insert something to clear my bowels. This was a standard procedure for all deliveries in case bowels came flying out instead of baby when pushing. Nurse told me to hold it in for 5 mins before heading to the toilet. However the medicine was so effective that it self released itself at the 3 min mark. So super pai seh as I made a mess of the bed. It was however rather watery. Took a shower the went back to lie on the bed.

Time:12:00pm
Contractions were getting much worst. Each time it came i had to hold hubby's hand. He was very encouraging by saying I can do this (since we both agreed to try not to have epidural). The nurse asked if I wanted pain relief. I asked for the gas. Gas made me a little high and drowsy but it was effective of only about an hour.

Time:12:30pm
Wheeled in delivery suite to wait. I did remember thinking was this it? Am I going to deliver now and get out of this pain? Unfortunately not. They just wheeled me in, that's it. The suite was much nicer then the observation room. It was also much CHILLIER. soooo super cold.

Time:1:20pm
By this time, contractions were arm breaking. Literally. I almost broke my hubby's finger when I squeezed his hand with his ring finger on it. He also screamed at the pain but not at me. Dr WK Tan came into delivery suite to check on me. She asked if I wanted any pain relief and I asked her what she would recommend and seeing that I was crying and in so much pain, she said best to go for epidural. So I said Ok. Let's do epidural. In the midst of my drowsy state I know there was alot of commotion of nurses and doctors prepping for the epidural. Hubby could not be in the room when this was being administered. Dr Tan put me on an IV drip for hydration purposes and Dr Chong did the epidural. Just before he inserted the needle as I was lying on my side I had one more painful contraction. This time there was a nurse holding on to my hand. With the contractions, I told Dr Chong to hold the insertion. Little did i realise that I was actually pinching the nurses hand due to the intense pain. The nurse looked at me and said. Don't pinch me. I blurry looked at her and saw that my index and thumb were pinching a skin of hers. I immediately let go and smiled. Epidural was then inserted. Within 5-10mins i felt so much better. However I got the side effects of epidural which was shivering. I rather shiver then feel the pain which was completely out of this world. Hubby came back in and i thought that he might be disappointed with me but he said its ok and he thought I was really brave to have lasted so long. Sooo sweet.

With the epidural, I was now able to get some rest before the delivery.

Time:2pm-5pm
On and off i lapsed into dream periods. Nurses came in to check on me frequently. Hubby went to have some early dinner. 4cm dialted I was told. Halfway there.

Time:5:30pm
Nurse did a check, 8-9cm dialted. Foetal hearbeat seemed like he was in distress. Notified DR Tan and was told to start pushing. By this time I couldn't really feel my legs but I used alot of strength to try my best and push. Hubby also had to opportunity to see baby's head rimming.

Time: 6pm
Dr Tan came into the suite and tried to ask me to push more. Then she covered the area with sterlie surgical cloth and I saw her with some cutting and stiching equipment.

Time:6:16pm
Dr Tan asked me to use all my might to push with this last contractions. Together with an assisted vaccum cup. Baby was BORN! Time check: 1816.

Baby came out crying but was quite after he got cleaned up. While mummy was being stiched up, daddy went to take photos of baby's weight and length measurements.

SO here's a BIG welcome to our Not so Little Prince.

Introducing:

RYAN NATHANIEL WEE

Birth Weight: 3.810kg

Birth Length: 53cm

::SEVEN::

Today marks 39 weeks exactly.

According to the original prediction of Baby Wee's EDD, we have 7 more days to go till we see him. From the trends of forum mummies and some other friends and relatives, most mummies tend to have given birth between week 38 and 39 but Baby Wee is still comfy inside mummy's womb.

From the gynae's checkup yesterday, Dr Tan says that Baby Wee is doing good inside. He is currently 3.45kg. Water Level is good. Mummy's blood pressure is good. When asked if he's too big for delivery via natural and if he should be induced, Dr Tan says if the environment inside is good then let him be natural. Inducing stresses the baby and may not even be succesful which may result in an emergency C-Sect. She continued to explained all the risk of inducing as well. 42 weeks is the max baby can stay inside. At least one more week she says then it will be anytime from there. 1 more week means Baby Wee will be FULL term baby. 40 weeks! Never expected though Mummy has been wishing that Baby Wee is a Dec Baby to be the same month as Papa Wee. =)

Over the last weekend, mummy and papa spent quality time together. As they thought it was going to be their last weekend as a couple.
Sat, they went to Suntec for some Pho followed by buying Ryan another bedding set and the Waffles for tea. After which they headed home to rest then went to The Ship for some Steak.
On Sun, they went to Equinox for a champagne brunch and actually ended up eating for 4 hours. The setting was lovely but it was a little warm. Papa had so much champagne that he was HIGH and saying silly things to mummy making mummy smile so much. It was a lovely Sunday afternoon spent together.

Grandma sewed Baby Wee 2 lovely beansprout pillows as well. Yay!!! Baby Wee is a lucky baby.

Mummy's starting to get more aches and pains these few days. Its probably due to the body softening up and prepping for the arrival of Baby Wee. Time to rest more before sleepless nights begin. =)

On a different note, this is what PAPA said to baby wee this morning: "Be good and stay in there at least for today ok? I've got one last flight before I'm grounded for your arrival." SO SWEET this papa.

Till next week. Hopefully one more post before baby wee comes along.
♥
Mummy of Baby R

2 Weeks Left of Couplehood...

Today marks 38 weeks of Baby Wee.

This week baby weighs 3.2kg. Mummy was rather concern as to whether she can give birth to Baby Wee naturally as the average weight of a newborn is between 2.5kg to 4kg. Being in Singapore, I guess the range will be much smaller. From what I've heard and read so far, a newborn should weigh between 2.5kg-3.5kg. During the last checkup, baby's weight JUMPED by 300g each week so I'm rather concern that he will be oversized at birth and thus will have to do a C-Sect instead of natural birth. Checked with Dr Tan this week. For her the MAX weight before a C-Sect will be 4kg. HENG ah!

C-Sect vs Natural Birth
I've always been one for natural birth. I keep telling myself, if the women of the past can give birth naturally with no pain killers and what so ever, I can too. Am I being too brave for my own good? I wonder. I keep telling myself with natural birth is a one off pain (for the delivery) while C-Sect takes a few days to recover. Yet natural birth has issues of tearing and episiotomy which isn't much fun either. I guess both ways somethings got to hurt. I mean just imagine a BABY coming out from down there... erm is it even possible? I guess so seeing how much my belly has been able to stretch to accomodate baby Wee. Oh well, we'll see what happens on the day of delivery. What will it be? All natural or natural with epidural or....

Congrats to Flin & Lawyer Tan on the birth of their son Baby D yesterday evening (15th Nov 2010). A short labour of only 3 hours. I do hope mine's not too long as well.

On a different note, Papa has begin preparing for labour and this is how he's done it. He bought an iPad. =P

Till next week ( I think I have one more post before I go into delivery) =)
♥ Mummy of Baby R

And we've hit the 3

Today marks 37 weeks. I'm currently 3kg. What a chubba bubba I am! Hopefully I won't give mummy too much of a hard time during labour. Will try my best to be gentle when squeezing out. =)

Last weekend was the long depavali weekend. Mummy got to spend lots of time with Daddy. So she was a happy mummy. Most importantly she got some maternity shots done. Purely NOT professionally taken as this was done at home. =) Here are some shots.

Mummy's Fav Shot

Shoes for Baby R

Our Family Portrait with Baby in the Tum Tum

Proud Papa

A Daddy's Love

Nice BW shot but Yeeky Stretchmarks...

Till next week

♥ Baby R

The False Alarm

Today marks 36 weeks exactly.



Little Bubba has definately grown alot in the past few weeks and how do we know this is so? Mummy's tummy stretch marks are increasingly obvious and more and more are appearing. She has already "ren ming" (left it to fate) to the stretch marks already and can only hope that they will subside after the delivery.


Wed was ah chor's cremation day. Mummy couldn't go to the crematorium due to pantang reasons thus daddy represented our little family.

In the evening after dinner, mummy started to have very tight tummy pains above the belly button. It was so painful that she could neither sit, lie or walk. Every position seemed painful. After about an hour of pain, mummy and daddy decided to go to the hospital to have the tummy checked. Not knowing how contractions feel like, mummy and daddy thought.. OH NO is it time already? They are not prepared for my birth yet although I know they'll do just fine even if I were to come out right now. Mummy was placed in the observation ward where only daddy was allowed inside. A CTG scanner was places on her tummy to observe any contractions. While under observation, I showed off my dancing skills to daddy by moving about mummy's belly. It was good entertainment for them. They were in there for about an hour till Dr WK Tan came to do a check up on mummy. It was good that she had a delivery that very evening and thus was able to see mummy at the same time. End result : FALSE ALARM! Dr Tan mentioned that contractions are usually below the belly button not above. WOOPSIE! Now we know. =)

Even though it was a false alarm, mummy and daddy learnt something from this experience. Daddy managed to timed how long it will take to get to the hospital and he also thought of the things he needs to bring to the hospital to "kill time" while waiting for me to come out. So I think they are a little better prepared now. =)

Most of the rest of the week, Daddy spent his time clearing work while mummy rested lots. Attending the wake was rather tiring on her but she's a strong woman and was able to hold up. Now she just rest lots at home to make up for it.

Sunday:
Mummy and Daddy went to the Philips Carnival Fair to check out BB monitors. One of the last few items they needed to buy for me. It was so NOISY so they quickly bought what they needed and got out of there. They bought me a bottle warmer, a baby monitor and a few other teats for when I'm older. Daddy bought a new hi-fi system for the office too. It was worth going as most items were rather discounted. They even got a free rice cooker. =)

In the evening, we went to our Chan Cousins house for halloween. Next year I'll be able to join them in the candy collections. =) What shall I wear?? Hmmm...

I think I've put on more weight since my last weigh in @ the doctors. Next appt will be on Monday. Can't wait. 28 days or less to go. =)

♥ Baby R