December 13, 2010--Part 1

hi everybody....my last posting was on Dec 11th--that was 18 days ago and so many things have been happening since then...2 days after my last monthly pregnancy check up, on Dec13th-- i have given birth to a baby boy... Yes it was a premature delivery at 31 weeks...how do I start.....emmmm

Ok...that Sunday Dec12th - i experienced more regular contractions for every hour from as early as 5am---that still did not stop me from doing the house chores---looking back, i really do not know what's got into me--why did i take it so lightly, perhaps i tot i am still in the early thirties...entahlah--- when i felt the contraction, i stopped for a while then continued whatever i was doing--i just acknowledged the contractions by recording the time...only at 7pm, i called my gynae and he asked me to go to the hospital.

After dinner, we went to the hospital, i was immediately strapped on CTG to check on the contractions and the baby's heartbeat. CTG proven that the contractions are really "hard contractions" --i.e. a real thing. However, the graph on the baby's heartbeats was not showing a good pattern, they were rather low and it went downwards when there was a contraction. That was when the doctor decided that he may need to prepare me for early delivery, so that nite i was admitted-- they gave me pills to stop the contractions and a jab for baby's lungs just in case--- that lung jab is really painful...know what i have taken all sort of jabs, like epidural which went thru your backbone --but that lung jab is really one of its kind-- the nurse told me that is because of the quantity and the thickness of the liquid...sangat lah sakit. I was given another one the next day, and i asked them to jab another thigh...sakit kak!

That nite, I still felt the hourly contractions,

then next morning, Monday Dec13th 2010.....CTG still showed same pattern of the baby's heartbeat. The doctor examined me and announced that my cervix was 2.5cm dilated---walaweiii--- that was the moment of truth---it was then decided that i need to be sent to the General Hospital for emergency premature delivery (subjected to the GH specialist's opinion of course). You guys should know that most private hospitals only accept 36 week and above labour--premature babies need special equipment and 24 hour observation, most privates do not have that or perhaps, they forgo that branch of business because it's going to cost us fortune... In about half an hour or so , i was in the ambulance to the General Hospital----

.....................to be continued....akak nak mandi okays---sejuk lah sgt, winter kat kuantan :)