that waited and waited then couldn't wait no more!(a little story of major ironic proportions)
Wed afternoon:skyped with J in paris who was abt to visit the eifel tower- about 10mins after hanging up he rang bak to say he just had a phone call from ana and would get on a flight that night!!u beauty!
Thurs am(just after midnight): j rings to confirm he is getting on the plane and coming home : yay!(he missed out on sightseeing tho, zannen!)
I spend whole day on couch to avoid jinxing myself or baby in any way. J gets home around 6pm and we head out for celebratory kura sushi(where i have a major pigout)! ge home and J has a bath with kyla and then i have relaxing bath, and put on 2 loads of washing (nothing left in laundry basket). head to bed round 11:30pm but cant sleep so play space invaders type game on keitai.
Fri april 23
12:25ish - finally fall asleep only to wake up minutes later feeling odd, followed by a small popping sound and the slightest feeling that i had wet myself. freak out that it might be my waters breaking so wake J, call hospital(1250), then begin to doubt self as no running brooke, not even a trickle, but in for check anyway.
130am: check shows faint positive of broken waters, so I am hospitalised. J sent home as no contractions, and still only 3cm so it could take days!
145am:shown to bed in labouring room, put on baby moniter.a bit of tightening tummy but nothing out of norm.
215am: bumped from labouring room as 2 new cases coming in (with real contractions!)get put on drip for gbs.
245am:drip finished, go to loo
300am: start to feel dif, like a wave of period pain. easy to breath lightly thru it. seems to come again in 15mins so start to time it.
400am: tell nurse abt 15min contractions that seem to have mini-contractions at half-way point. go to loo a few more times.
457am: painful contractions(can still breath thru alone tho) start coming what seems every 3mins, wtf? figure must be timing wrong. go to loo again.
515am: back from loo and gripping on to side of bed for dear life during contraction: no more doing this alone!. manage to do a nurse call. she gets narky at me when I have a contraction and tell her I wanna do poo half way thru. she tries to tell me it is a sign baby is coming .
520am: midwife comes to ask how I am - measures me at 5cm and decides to call J to come bak. I wonder how am gonna get thru another 5cm as already the pain is killing- start wishing for drugs.
525am: try to get a quick sms to J to remember camera but can hardly even write 5letters「忘れないで」 in so much pain.
532am: nurse has returned to check me as am writhing like a possesed mad woman but decides we go straight to birthing room (turns out it is the operating room as nowhere else free!)manage to walk the 4m to or before another contraction hits.get up on bed (aka operating table)
5:42am: i am now 8cm dialated but it is decided that the baby is coming so lets push
push thru 3 maybe 4 contractions(this was the easiest part)
548am: baby slipped out.measures 3286g and 49cm.
552am: j arrives at hospital only to be told that his son was born justminutes ago!
so ironic!!!
So in the end our little baby boy was born in quite a rush. We are both doing well & feeling fine, and now trying to come up with a boys name!! I have to keep fending off J's suggestions, like "Ice". Hope we come up with something more suitable soon.
in the meantime i am getting bored in hospital - talk about 暇! and that is even with baby boy rooming in!
i cant believe it is a boy!!!!! wonder what the final score on my poll was? congrats to everyone who voted correct- u get to share in my sleep deprived blog dribble here for, oh the next year or two haha!
