A dream came true

Having going through the 9 months without much pain and difficulties, the final 10 hours were pretty much the most excruciating moment of mummy's life. First 5 hours passed by slowly with irregular contractions, the next 5 hours (which felt like eternity) full of dramas and heavy groanings and shoutings from mummy. A fren of us, who is a doctor in University Hospital once said, you can identify the race of the mother based on the shouting in the labour room. Malay has the highest pain tolerance, Chinese a step behind, and guess what, the lowest pain tolerance champion belongs to Indian!!! So, next time, if you pass by a labour ward, you can test out this theory yourselves. Based on mummy's shouting and groaning, probably mummy belongs to the later catergory!!!! Hehehehehe.

Back to mummy's labour, 3 minutes apart, and every contractions lasted for more than one minutes. From 5am to 8am, nothing much to do except kept using the breathing techniques to manage the contraction pain. At abt 8 sumthing, Mummy really felt like pushing baby Hahn out, but sister Lee said not the right time yet. She checked mummy's cervic opening, still abt 8cm. "Keep on breathing, you are doing very well!!!!", words of encouragement from sister Lee. Daddy was by mummy side all the time, mummy's ever faithful companion. Honestly speaking, without daddy by mummy's side, mummy dont think mummy can brave through the whole labour process. Thanks Daddy!!!!

At abt 9am, sister Lee checked the cervic opening again, oredi 9.5 cm!!!! "Now you can try to push when contractions come, call me in when your waterbag burst". Thank God!!!! Mummy is allowed to push!!!! The next push broke my water bag straight away. Mummy was shouting "Waterbag burst!!! Waterbag burst!!! Call missi!!!" Somehow all the pains have disappeared just like that after the water bag burst. Now is the moment of truth to bring baby Hahn out to the world.

The next 1.5 hours was purely pushing and pushing. At each push, can see the head was crowning, but when mummy let go, the head went back in, according to granny which was there to witness it. At the end of the hour, mummy already did not have much strength left. Dr Wong has then suggested to used suction to facilitate the birthing process. The longer we wait, the baby might go into distress. Daddy and mummy agreed. Dr Wong get himself ready for the moment, putting on his apron and Phua Chu Kang boots. One glance, he really looked like a fishmonger. The suction was placed on the head of baby Hahn. "Push as hard as you can on the next contraction!!!!" Here we go!!!, First push!!!!! Aaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!! The whole head came out!!!! It was truly amazing seeing the baby head at the vaginal opening, according to daddy. Second push!!!!! Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!! The whole body came out!!!! And the 3rd push basically complete the whole moment!!!! Baby Hahn was born at 10:36am on 10 June 2006, definitely a World Cup baby. No words can describe the feeling of joy and fulfillment seeing baby Hahn for the first time. Not to be forgotten, kudos to Dr Wong, our gynae and Sister Lee and Sister Chitra for the great support and help in realizing our dream of experiencing a drug-free labour. No epidural, no pethidine, no etonox!!!! Yeah!!!

Proud parent of baby Hahn

Baby Hahn soundly asleep

Confused look of baby Hahn