This is a backdated post for Isabelle.

The day before Isabelle was born, MIL joked that hubby may not be playing golf on Sunday as my tummy was really big and low, and looked like I was going to pop anytime. Hubby told Isabelle while she’s in the tummy that “Don’t come out first, let daddy play golf then only you come out, ok?”
After I put Justin to sleep at night, and I went downstairs to blog, blog and blog!

I felt some discomfort on my tummy, it might be contraction and pain, but it’s too mild, so I ignore it and continue blogging. But at about midnight, the contraction became stronger and with shorter interval. I calculated the length of the contraction, it’s about 5 minutes and came again 10 minutes later. I went upstairs to wake up hubby, telling him that maybe it’s time to pop, but he could go back to sleep and I’d wake him up later after I had done changing, packing and beh tahan with the pain!

Hubby didn’t go back to sleep, he stayed up waiting for the time to go. We moved Justin to MIL’s room at about 2.30am, and MIL cooked a big plate of noodles to me. She asked me to finish it as I needed energy to push. But I was not hungry, so I took half of it, and hubby gao tim with the rest.

We headed to the hospital at 3.15am. It’s only less than 5 minutes drive, but when we turned into the main road, there was a road block. The policeman asked hubby if he’s drinking, but hubby said “Mau pergi hospital bersalin!” And the policeman was surprised to hear that! LOL! I could see from his expression! He let just go ASAP…

By the time I reached the hospital, I was in much pain. After changing into the gown, the nurse checked on me and I was 3 cm dilated. At the same time, there was a show. I wanted to walk around to speed up delivery, but the nurse preferred me to lie on bed as it’s in the middle of the night already. So, whenever I had a contraction, I held tight to hubby’s hand. I’m not the type who will yell in pain, like some mothers giving birth in movies, ok?

The lady who’s in charged of collecting the stem cell, Lena, was summoned to the hospital too. The nurse asked her to stay and wait as they said my dilation was pretty fast.

At 4.30am I opt for epidural. I really didn’t want to go through labour pain!!! But right after that, my blood pressure dropped drastically. I was feeling so dizzy and fainting out! The nurse gave me another jab, which I can’t remember what’ the name already, to ease the side effect of epidural. Anyhow, my blood pressure was still low, and I was feeling very sleepy.

The graph showed very mild contraction after epidural. It looked like my labour was slowing down, but the nurse didn’t check my dilation as they were very busy that night. There were a few mothers giving birth from morning till now! So, they were rushing from one delivery suite to another, helping other mothers giving birth. I was lying there “semi-conscious” with hubby and Lena who couldn’t go back because the nurse asked her to stay. Poor gal, pity her had to be there waiting for Isabelle.

Isabelle was having irregular heart beat. The fetal indicator couldn’t get her heart beat some times, and I was worried!

Hubby told the nurse to take off the epidural some time at about 7am, but the nurse said it couldn’t be undone. I was too drowsy to say anything, and some how, my blood pressure was affecting my contractions too. They were really weak. It seems like Isabelle’s not coming out sooner…

So, hubby went out to take some drinks to refresh himself, but once he’s out, my ob-gynae came in, rushing over from another hospital. He’s been busying delivering babies the whole night till morning!!!

He looked at the graph, and checked my dilation. He said I was fully dilated, but there’s a problem….the ambilical cord was around the baby’s neck, that’s why she had irregular heart beat. When I heard that, I was worried too. I couldn’t think much but only thought of caesarean.

The nurse quickly asked hubby to get back, and my doc said baby was coming out quick! By the time hubby rushed in, Isabelle’s head could be seen already. I didn’t push at all! But doc asked me to push one hard, and he entangled the umbilical cord off her neck. Hubby saw everything, he’s kan cheong to see her tangled up like that too! Then I made 2 more pushes and she’s out!!!

Phew! I thought my contraction was so weak, but my dilation was effective! Gee, it’s the first time I saw her face as we couldn’t get a glimpse of her throughout the ultra sound check up. I was so glad to hold her in my arms, and thinking back of my problematic pregnancy, and “sleepy” delivery…Everything just didn’t matter much at that moment.

I wanted to hold her a bit longer, but the nurse took her away for jab and shower ASAP. Oh boy, they must have had a hard and busy night because they just ignore her crying in the cot while busy getting the jobs ready. I wanted to hold her but I was having my stitches…

Ok, everything else was blur to me then. I only remembered that she’s eager to breastfeeding when I was wheeled out. So, I breastfeeding her for the first time on the bed, being wheeled to the room

So, here are some of the early photos of Isabelle…

And here’s how she look now. (Sorry, I snapshot her album, so the photos are a bit blur)

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