Arrival of the little one

This is an overdue post as i'm currently doing confinement at my mum's place.. its been two weeks since the arrival of our little one and i hope to write this post while it's still fresh in my memory.

My delivery is a scheduled c-sect due to her positioning so we had her delivery scheduled on 1 Aug.

The hubby and I could not sleep much the day before and we woke up around 530am and prepared to go KKH around 615am..

We reached around 630am and lazed around till the Day Surgery centre open at 7am.

After registering, doing some miscellaneous checks and taking some medicine, i was finally shown to the OT around 8am. The hubby could not enter and witness her delivery as he was still coughing.

The OT was alot bigger than i had expected, with 3 nurses, my gynae and 2 anaesthetist.
I had 4 injections in total, 2 for the spinal epidural and 2 for the drip on my hand..

The spinal epidural was more bearable than i thought and the nurses proceeded to screen off the lower body with the OT gown..

Even though my lower body was fully numbed, i could still feel the pushing, pulling and thugging of my muscles. I tried distracting myself by looking at the monitors that i was hooked up on and after what seemed like ages. i heard cries... made me tear alittle.. the little one is out!
Cries are always a sign of life!

The nurses quickly whisked off the little one and i was then stitched up by my gynae.
The stitching took much longer than the delivery of the little one.

After the stitching, i was wheeled to the recovery room and i requested for the hubby to come over..
We finally had a proper look of the little one!

The nurse laid her on my chest and the little one was such a sturdy baby lol, managed to lift up her head and tried to crawl upwards. The hubby managed to take a photo of the little one who just managed to open her eyes and see us.

However the effects of the epidural suddenly kicked in and i shivered very badly. The recovery room nurses had to wrap me up in layers of blanket and even brought in a heater to warm me up.

Finally my shivering subsided and i was wheeled up to my suite while the little one was wheeled to the nursery for further checks.

And so, we have officially entered parenthood :)

I was warded for 4 days 3 nights in total. I was bedridden on the first day as the effects of the epidural took time to wear off. The wound was hurting me and i could only manage to sit up on the second day and finally walked on the third day.

Thankful for the visits from families and friends and also help from them in taking care of the little one..
We fumbled abit in handling her but we're sure it will get better with more practice.

Now i can handle her on my own at my mum's place, except the bathing as i cannot "touch water" during confinement.

And we have also chosen and registered her name after consulting the fortune teller and also our parents.

Welcome to the world :)

in the recovery room, her little eyes opening to greet us

proud grandma

and so she sleeps with her hands out, which my sisters say is very similar to my sleeping posture ><