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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

*.* Birth of Enxi on 16 Jan 10 *.*

First of all, En Xi and her parents would like to thank all students, colleagues, friends and relatives for their concern, blessing and congratulations during this time.
The Wong Family would like to thank those who came to visit at the hospital as well as those who didn't due to our requests for their understanding as it was a tough time.

Here's the Birth of En Xi and Mummy's delivery story on 16 Jan 10:
5 am: Admission at Thomson Medical.
6 am: At the ward, Mummy had to get ready for operation changing attire and all.
630 am: Mummy was wheeled outside operating theatre to wait for operation. Daddy had to wait at the family waiting area.
645 to 7 am: Mummy was wheeled into operating theatre.
(I was shaking while waiting and after a quick prayer, suddenly the shaking stopped. Thank God.)
Mummy was inserted with the tube and given oxygen to breathe. (Thank God too that it wasn't painful.) Gynae arrived and Mummy was given anesthetic through the tube and was knocked out. Somewhere in between, a urine cathater was inserted as Mummy will not be able to walk immediately after the operation. At the end of the operation, the doctor removed the breathing tube from Mummy's throat.
(It was terrible and I felt like vomiting.)
715 am: En Xi was born.
730 am: Daddy was asked to verify En Xi and En Xi was placed in a warmer in the nursery.
(Daddy told Mummy afterwards, how to verify En Xi, also never see her before. Heh. Funny. He checked her weight and all. She was well and weighed 3.27 kg!)
815 am: Mummy was finally wheeled back to the ward and on regaining more consciousness, felt very very cold and had to have many blankets placed over her.

Gynae told Daddy that there was a complication during the operation. The placenta did move up as seen in the ultrasound scan previously but the abnormal blood vessel was still at the bottom. This resulted in bleeding during the operation after En Xi was taken out. (Argh...) Also, she said that it was good that we decided to do caesarian as En Xi was still pretty high up and had to be taken out using forceps. She was also bigger than expected. If Mummy tried to deliver her naturally, it would still result in an emergency caesarian.
(Thank God, indeed He is in control.)

815 am to about 3pm: Mummy was drifting in and out of sleep due to the anesthetic.
At 3+ pm: Mummy finally woke up and felt better. Mummy manage to take a peek at En Xi when she was brought out to be shown to some visitors. Daddy had to repeat what the gynae said to Mummy a few times because Mummy couldn't understand/remember properly.
At 4+ pm: Nurses took Mummy's blood pressure and found that her blood pressure had dropped.
At 5+ pm: Gynae came to check on Mummy and decided that due to Mummy's low blood pressure, she should get a blood transfusion of 2 pints of blood. Mummy's hand started to become swollen and rigid. The pethidine (painkiller) from the drip to reduce the pain of the cut from the operation had to be stopped as it can cause the blood pressure to be lowered. Mummy was off the painkillers at this point.
(Obviously, it became painful and I had to bear it until the blood came or at least that's what I thought. According to visitors and Nigel, at this point on, I was very pale. I didn't know until late Sunday when I commented that I looked pale and they said I was much better than previously.)
At 7+ pm: The pints of blood arrived and the first pint of blood was dripped. Mummy then realise that the painkiller was not going to be put back again as it cannot be put with the blood and it can cause the pressure to drop again even if it goes back up.
At 9+ pm:  The second pint of blood was dripped. Somehow, there was some shift in the needle in Mummy's left hand for the drip and it was painful.
At 10+ pm: Daddy realised that the blood was not flowing from the drip and called the nurses in. The nurses spent an hour trying to troubleshoot and with every change they tried to do with the drip (pressing, removing, adding pressure etc. etc.), Mummy was in a lot of pain. Daddy became frustrated with the nurses and told the nurses to change the blood or tube if necessary.
At 11+ pm: The blood finally started to flow but as the blood was thicker than it's supposed to be and with the shift the needle, Mummy was in pain throughout the blood transfusion for the second pint and could not sleep. Furthermore, Mummy was asked by the nurses to keep moving her hands and legs to improve blood circulation to reduce the swelling. At one time when Mummy moved her leg, the urine cathetar shifted and the first nurse that came in insisted there was nothing she could do. Mummy had one more painful thing to endure. Finally, another nurse came in and helped to shift the cathetar slightly to a better position.
Throughout the ordeal, Mummy's blood pressure had to be constantly taken and a particular nurse kept failing to take the pressure properly causing Mummy more discomfort.

On Sunday, Mummy's blood pressure was back to normal and was given oral painkillers. The nurse put her back on a plain drip but with the shift in the needle, it caused a lot of pain. Mummy could not take the pain any more and the senior nurse removed the drip after notifying her gynae. After waiting for the gynae to check her on Sunday late morning, the gynae told Mummy that she can only remove the needle if she can eat well and remove the urine cathetar if she can walk. Mummy quickly ate up the porridge given to her as much as she could and tried to walk as quickly as she could despite the pain from the cut.

By Sunday evening, Mummy's needle and cathetar was removed and Mummy was able to start to nurse herself back to health. Mummy was able to start feeding En Xi only on Monday and Mummy is still trying hard at it.

En Xi and family is now back at home! Hurray!

En Xi Just Born
En Xi after being cleaned up

Our First Family Picture!


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