I'm back to blogging!! Past 2 months have certainly been eventful and exciting with my last month of pregnancy, labour and the beginning of a new life! Umm....where to start? Labour? or the new mum!

 

I never knew my pain threshold was fairly high and my stamina too. I delivered babe at 1am on sat but guess what, I was already in early labour on Tue afternoon. I'd had contraction pain for 3 days before the hospital agreed for me to go in. The thing is, even when I went to hospital on Friday, it was because we insisted to have it checked out. ( my contraction was still 1 in 7-8 minutes, hospital only admits you when it's 1 in 3 minutes. But when they checked me, to their surprise, I was already 6cm dilated!. * active labour starts when it's 4cm dilated) well, here I come to the delivery suite! Some advice I'd give to the mums to be are:

 

1. make sure you have enough exercise (walking is the best). start now cos you'll need the physical fitness for contraction and the pushing bit. *Disclaimer: not too much though or babe might come too early!!

 

2. Trust in God all the times, pray unceasingly. This is what got me through the 3 sleepless night where I woke up every 10 minutes because of the contraction pain.

 

3. Pray for a competent and assuring mid-wife. I reckon God's blessed me with such a great mid-wife. With her guidance and constant assurance, the delivery was, to me at least bearable. It took 40 minutes for the last phase, the pushing bit! And the mid-wife at the earlier shift was so experienced that I was able to make informed decision on what pain-relief to use. so afterall, I had no epidural, no C-section, only a minor tear.  I prayed for smooth labour so that I'll recover fast. God answered my prayer as I was allowed to be discharged after ONE day!!

 

4. This is not really an advice, but a point to make: IT"S SOOOOO IMPORTANT to have a good support person during the labour and that's none other than my hubby! He was basically on-call since wed, running to me every 10 minutes or so to massage my back whenever the contraction came. can't do without you!!!

 

Alright, I'll update shortly on what it's like being a new mother...too much to say here..as I'm still figuiring and sorting it out myself :)