Been silent for so, so long.
Wanted to recount birth story and decided that I better do it before its too late. Baby S is 10 weeks as of yesterday. When I look at pix of him in the hosp, I can't believe how much he's changed and grown. Was it yesterday that I gingerly held that tiny, wizened old froglet? Today, he can lift his head briefly already- so proud of my little bubs.
Wanted to recount birth story and decided that I better do it before its too late. Baby S is 10 weeks as of yesterday. When I look at pix of him in the hosp, I can't believe how much he's changed and grown. Was it yesterday that I gingerly held that tiny, wizened old froglet? Today, he can lift his head briefly already- so proud of my little bubs.
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So, we had reached the stage where we were 39 weeks, heavy, heaving and counting. No baby in sight. 'Who knows' said my gynae. 'Maybe the tyke will appear on your due date itself which will make you an interesting statistic'. Then, on the 20th of Jan ie Sunday, I thought I had some bloody 'show'. Not sure what to make out of it as I had a gynae appointment the day before and she did mention that this would happen as she had examined me. My parents and M insisted that I drop by the hosp nevertheless cause 'what if?'
'No way' I said. 'Today is so just not it, I tell you'. I even had a list of 'things to be done' for Monday morning ie bank in cheque, pay electricity bill etc. 'I will be right back after this - we are wasting our time today - I still haven't finished my errands' says moi. Plus, I didn't have time to wash my hair that morn. For months, I had told myself that I must have nice hair on the day of delivery (must look nice in photos with baby okay), so made sure I washed and blow dried everyday that I felt 'is today the day?'.
So I was quite certain that day would not be it.
When I went in, I was told that I was 2 cm dilated and was in labour! So much for instinct. Had to send M back for my hosp bag. 'Oh wait' I asked. 'Can I go out and have dinner?'-suddenly realizing that this will probably be the last time ever that M and I will be a couple, go to a restaurant without a second thought.
And there I was, over 2 cm dilated, sitting in Lotus Jln Gasing having thosai and tea, being very pensive.
The rest of course you know. Baby S was born after almost 20 hours of labour and I had matted hair in all the pix.
1 comment:
You could manage Lotus when you were 2cm dilated????!! I feel like a wooze compared to you, and I went c-section!!
You even managed to blog, unlike me (only trying to start again now - I have a Malaysian maid now, did I tell you?)
Have been meaning to call you but aiyo, when I wanna do that, little Master Seth will always ensure that something else needs attending to (ie him) and the time when I can actually make the phone calls, I gotta call the parents back home, who keep on asking and wanting to know about the little one.
Hope you're doing better now and that little sprong (do we still call him that?) is doing good now too!
xox,
mommy in egypt
(isn't it SO weird that we can finally refer to ourselves as that?!)
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