2008 Nov 20, 11:40am, my big boss suddenly called me to her room, wanted to assign new urgent task to me and my colleague Chiaw Ding. Sigh… my expected delivery date can be any time from end of Nov, never mind lar, just do what I can.12:30pm, finished discussion with my big boss. All the lunch kaki already went out for lunch. Chiaw Ding and I decided go McDonald for lunch. Before reach the McDonald which located at the 1st floor in KKH, we went to ladies. Oh no! I saw some bleeding and water gush out! Is this one of the labour sign? (Now was 37th weeks of pregnancy) I felt so nervous and excited at the same time haha, because can see my baby soon. Chiaw Ding asked whether we should go to delivery suite immediately? No, no, people say must eat full full before give birth hehe…
After admitted to delivery suite at 1:15pm, I called my husband, then informed my supervisor and boss (I think the task assigned by her made my baby pressure and wanted to come out haha…). 1.40pm, Doctor Goh (Doctor Irene Chua out of town, all her patient taken care by Doctor Goh, pretty woman as well) came to check, cervix dilate to 2 cm. Nurses put on the induction medication to increase the contraction and dilation. But my baby did not like the induction, her heart beat showed unstable and dropped to unsafe level. Nurses and 2 young doctors quickly came in to check and monitor baby heart beat. They immediately switched off the induction medication. After half an hour, nurse switched on the induction again with lower level, but my little one still don’t like it, every time I have strong and constant contraction pain, her heart beat become unstable.
5:30pm (after 4 hours), Doctor Goh came to see me again. My dilation still was 2cm. She checked through my contraction and baby heart beat pattern, she then advised us to go for caesarean! She explained that baby did not cope well with the induction medication, baby head position still very high, and my pelvic size is smaller compare to others. I looked at my husband, husband looked at me, how ar? Should we go for caesarean? Actually husband and I already prepared for it to have nature birth, we wanted to go through together and hand-in-hand to welcome our baby. So we requested to wait for another 3-4 hours, hope that my contraction pain will become stronger and dilate faster without induction medication.
8:10pm, Doctor God came again. Baby heart beat was all right. But I was still dilated to 2cm only. Again, doctor advised go for caesarean. She mentioned that base on her experience, my case will be end up with caesarean even though we wait until tomorrow 7am. Husband and I struggle again. I don’t know how to describe my feeling during that time, very hard to make decision. After discuss with husband and doctor, we requested to wait until tomorrow morning 7am since baby heart beat was stable. (Doctor mentioned baby is safe to stay inside within 24 hours after water break)
However, just 5 minutes after we made the decision, baby heart beat again become unstable and dropped to unsafe level (I think she can’t wait to see this beautiful world hehe). Doctor quickly came in and advised go for caesarean immediately. Husband and I agreed as baby safety is most important.
My husband was not allowed to follow into the operation room. When I was transfer to the operation room, I did not fear at that time (maybe no time for me to fear), I saw many nurses and doctor (at least 8 person), they acted very quick, asked me few questions, touched my head, my leg, my hand, then … I think within 1 minutes, I totally lost conscious. My husband waited outside, started to worry, 15 minutes was very long for him…
8:32pm, Chin Jo En - 曾巧恩出世了！(Weighted 2.84kg)
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