4D3N Getaway

8am we checked into 'Raffles Hotel'
The 'room' is full of equipment, a bed and a toilet.
Fetal heart was being monitored.
Bowels were cleared with medication.
Abt 12, the water bag was burst.
Contractions soon started with very bad back pain.
I totally forgot abt the gas, but the gas wasnt tt effective.
Dun feel high, just feel giddy.
Abt 3pm, I then asked for epidural since nurse also say in distress
bb hard to come out and it could take longer.
The epi experience was truly amazing, it's like what i read in books:
i rem the doc came in, so scary, the back was painful
i breathe in gas and they asked me to curled into a C.
I kept on breathing until i feel giddy, my head keep shaking then i can
feel the shaking getting slower and slower and i know that i am losing it le.
But somehow the mind is stil clear. It was like in a dream, a scene from those books
which tel u exactly how it felt going into unconscious.
It was exactly like tt. Then i heard voices, i heard doc say, this is the time
she will be awake soon and i feel like i;m being sucked back into reality.
I know i;m drooling. I thot i rem something gets poked into the back.
I was waking up and they called my name.
And the first time i said : how cum i stil feel like urinating?
They say it's normal and it's done. Wow, just like tt.
I can feel the contractions but minus the pain. It was not total numbness as I thot.
U can feel the legs, can move abit, but no pain, can feel pressure.
Dilated to 6cm le... and doc say maybe ard 7+ can be done.
Soon it's 9+, stil not out, doc say it's weird and say I have to go for C.
And becoz i ate dinner, i cant zz it off.
Got pushed to OT, scared that will feel pain coz stil can move legs...
Side effects of epi, itchiness and shivering.
i kept my eyes closed, hoping to zz it off, the numbness is so uncomfy i cant zz well.
Then they pushed the tummy, push and push and i felt tugging at the tummy area.
They say it's done and aske dme if i wanna see her, i say i was too tired to see her.
But they stil hold it to me, hmm i cant rem much of her and then i closed my eyes again.
They oushed me somewhere, dunno wait for wat, then after tt got pushed back to ward.
They brot bb to me, i finally get to really see her.
But too tired le.
She came out on 2nd June 2010, at 2.71kg, 2110.
Alot say she looked like me... She has long legs =)
Chubby cheeks. She's cute.
We were told later the cord was ard her neck 3 rounds thus she was unable to descend.
C is indeed painful, having heartburn, wound is painful which makes u almost like an invalid.
Hope it pass soon.

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