january 31, 2009
the night before,, i can already feel a pain at my torso,, the ripping your bones feeling,, at first i was not aware that it is already a sign of labor pains, but as the pain progress and i did take notice of the intervals,, i realized the time is coming,, unfortunately, we dont have any electricity that night, so aside from the labor pains that i'm experiencing every 2 hours,, it was a hot and sweaty sleepless night.
the next morning i already saw a spotting on my undies, so my husband decided to excuse himself from work and accompany me to the clinic,, unfortunately, we dont have enough money to go to hospital, and since my sister six months earlier delivered her baby safely on that clinic we also decided to have my delivery on the same place,,
hah! i remember that time, when we arrived at the clinic, the midwife was still on her way, so it was her assistant who accomodate me, getting all vital signs like bp, pulse rate,, and the device they use to hear the baby's heartbeat,, and she told us that there i a possibility that we will be having twin,, we were surpised by her announcement and we began to worry re the bills, and the question on our mind,, are you sure?! Luckily, the midwife already came, she checked again the baby's heartbeat and assure us that it is only a single baby,, oh! how i wish i could bury her assistant! LOL!
and then she did the IE, and made an assumption that if not the next day, maybe the day after, that i'll be giving birth,, we got home, and advised my husband to just go on half day..
the same day,, around 7pm,, the labor pain intervals became less,, and at the moment the pain intervals became 10 mins, i demanded to be brought to the clinic again,, the midwife did IE again and told me anytime the baby will come out, i was already given forms to fill, again the bp,, and now for the first time experienced having a needle inserted on my vein,, ouch!
the midwife still took their dinner with some of her staff, while the interns inteviewed me while i roll down in pain,, hehe,, there was a time when i was curling from labor pains, and this nurse keeps on asking me, when was my last mens?! wtf?! i have to tell her,, "wait lang miss,, masakit eh,," and i cried out on my hubbys shoulder when he comes inside the dr,, unfortunately he was advised to juts wait outside the dr,, fortunately,, when the midwife fineshed the dinner and was already checking on me, my water broke,,
at 8:59pm, 31st of January.. Rupert Lawrence said hi to the world!
weighing, 8.6 lbs! whoa!
,, he was a quiet baby,, we were 3 new moms inside the clinic, and for the whole time we were there i think i only heard him cry once, and that was the time he was already hungry, unfotunately, i dont have enough milk for him, so we just bought the same brand of milk my niece have,,
quiet baby?! i think i was wrong,, the following night was hell, this baby cant go to sleep without being cuddle by me or his father so, fo the next month, i ahve to stay late, just to make sure he is already in 'deep' sleep before i could lay him on bed, and sad to say, during siesta time, i have to fall asleep with him on my arms, thank God there are a lot of pillows where i could rest my arms,, Luckily, the moment we were able to analyze, he could easily sleep on his lay on the side position,, we got the best sleep since he came,,
