Every labour and delivery episode of a baby has its own unique story to tell. Mine begins like this..
(note: events occuring before my birth was gathered and compiled through various inputs and first eye accounts from Papa, Mama, Koko Collin and Jiejie Caitlynn. Take caution that Koko Collin’s inputs do tend to be overly dramatic at times..)
It was the wee hours of the morning around 4am. The date was already 13 Feb 2012. A Monday.
Mama mentioned that it was around this time that she felt some wet drippings. She was quite sure it was not the ‘water-broke’ thingy I keep hearing, but it could be the start of it. Still feeling sleepy at that time, she proceeded to sleep some more…
She then woke Papa up at 7am and said that today could be it.. Everyone got up and got dressed like any other day. Except for this morning, Papa didn’t wear his working clothes but put on something more casual instead. Koko Collin put on his kindergarten uniform and Jiejie Caitlynn just got ready just like she would be going to Auntie D’s house.
After fetching both my brother and sister to their respective destinations in the morning, Papa came back home to fetch Mama to the hospital. Of course, by then Mama had already taken her bath and breakfast. Looks like experience from her previous labours had come in handy. 
Unfortunately, according to Papa, the traffic still looks pretty bad at that point, so Papa also decided to have a quick breakfast at home first whilst waiting for the traffic to subside. If I heard correctly, they even had time to watch quite a bit of the Grammy Awards that was airing live that morning!
At around 9.30am, Papa and Mama only started to make their way to Hospital Pantai Ampang…and they made it there before 10.30am. Although there was not much traffic getting out from our area, there was a massive jam near the junction turnoff along the MRR2 caused by an accident involving a huge, long truck.
Upon check-in, Mama was led to the delivery suite where the nurses came to check on her. They mentioned the dilation was t about 4cm at that time.
Since the water-bag thingy had already broken the first layer (amongst other things the doctor and nurses mumbled that no one else really understood), the doctor gave Mama some EPIC-dural, which must be some big thing that would help Mama get some rest and also encourage the dilation. And so Mama rested…
and rested…
And before long, it was already lunch time! No sign of ME yet! Still trying to enjoy my final moments in Mama’s natural water park..:-D
Papa also waited and waited…but in the end he was also hungry but since he quite kan cheong and didn’t want to miss ME coming out, he rushed and brought up the loaf of butterscotch bread he had left in the car. And that became his lunch as he proceeded to keep the world updated with a live commentary of Mama’s labour online.
Although there was no sign of me coming out anytime soon, Papa said seeing the doctor’s PCK boots outside on standby certainly gave some assurances that she was close by. 
From about 3pm onwards, the time seemed to move quite fast and furious because Mama motioned to the nurses that the contractions have come and she could start to feel the pain already. By the time Mama told them she is ready to push ME out, the nurses were frantically trying to get Mama to ‘hold on’ first whilst getting the Doctor on a hotline to quickly come to the room! Papa recalls some of the dialogue that took place:
“Ma’am..hold on yah…doctor is coming already..”
“I FEEL THE BABY COMING OUT ALREADY!”
“Doctor is on the way, ma’am. Try not to push already, ok?”
“SHE HAD BETTER BE RUNNING HERE!”
Anyway, before I know it, the Doctor came in and with a huff and puff, Mama pushed me out cleanly at about 4.05pm. When I compared notes with Koko Collin and Jiejie Caitlynn, I would place my delivery as the fastest of us three. Strange though since I also got marked for my delivery as SVD. If Jiejie thinks her SVD stood for Speedy Version Delivery, mine might be Super Velocity Delivery! Hee!
The nurses promptly placed me in some warm mini bed with some artificial warm light tanning me all over. Curious that they never even bothered to place any sun tan lotion on me before that. Hmmmph.
After that, I was placed on the weighing scale and my birth weight was recorded at 3.1kg – lighter than Koko Collin but heavier than Jiejie Caitlynn. Although I think I might have been able to get closer to Koko if I didn’t do my business earlier..hee! Next, my length and head was measured to be 53cm and 34cm respectively. I would appear to be the tallest too, compared to my older siblings at birth!
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After allowing Mama to rest for a little while longer, I was placed with Mama on the bed as the nurses moved us out of the Delivery Suite to the ward in Level 2.
…and that is where I will spend the next two nights in and out of Mama’s ward (for my feeds of Mama’s goodness) before we can be discharged. So, what happened during those days and nights before we left for home?
I’ll tell ya all in my next blog!
Till then, I will sign off my blog with more photos taken during the first few hours from my birth..
I am BORN!!
post-labour Mama visibly tired in the background...thanks Mama!
Tagged....property of Mama!
Check it out! I have HAIR!!
do I look like a Jedi apprentice? -P
Papa made sure this is one of the first few logos I would see...
here's lookin' at you, Papa!
ME makes Fabulous FIVE!
