Dear All,
Sorry I've MIA for a while. It was a really trying nite for me last nite. Didn't sleep a wink as baby only stop crying if he sleeps on my chest. I kept soothing him and putting him down to his bed but he just sleep for 15 mins and wake up and cry.
My labour:
I can't really post the details now as I'm quite concussed from last nite. Yesterday, was discharged from hospital. Anyway my labour was pretty long. My water bag bursted at 1.15am on thurs morn. I was sitting on the toilet bowl abt to pee when I heard a pop sound. Then big gushes of water came out. I reached TMC at abt 2.30am. Was only 1 cm dilated. At 2 cm dilation, I knew I couldn't take the pain much longer and asked for epidural. After that no more pain! Doc subsequently induced me with ocytocin drip but couldn't get pass 6cm dilation after abt 22 hrs of labour. Doc say should go for c-section. Was very very sad. But for baby, no choice. YC Lim was my epidural anesthetist. He is a god send. Made my c-section very relaxing and assuring. Baby Zacchaeus arrived in this world at 11.38 pm on 6/9/07. He is a perfect creation from God to me. I did not experience much pain (almost no pain actually) after delivery and even after anesthetic wore off 20 hrs later and could breastfeed right after they wheeled me into my room (I think within 1 hr after delivery). Which I did. And baby latched on perfectly. However, due to over-latching, I've got such sore nipples the 3rd day I couldn't nurse. He had to go on syringe feeding on formula. This morning, I told my mil to put him on bottle feeding for formula as my colostrum is not enough and my milk hasn't kicked in yet.. so much abt TBF sigh.. it's really so tough.. I'm now very worried that once milk comes in I'll feel so much pain from the engorgement. Cuz now I already feel that breasts are so sore. Baby is forever searching for my breasts but I just can't let him have them.. feel so sad. I'm also worried that my c-section wound might be aggravated as I had to wake up to feed him at nite and soothe him. It's so tough. I dunno how to endure tonite. Plus the rashes that I had previously worsened 10 folds after delivery. They itch like mad. Please pray for me.
I'll try to post bb's photo when I am better able to cope with this naughty little thing. My bill for TMC 1-bedder came up to S$4.6k (abt) in cash. It's probably more expensive than normal due to my long hours of labour in the labour ward, plus I was induced.
Sorry I am not able to read all posts and answer any questions at this stage. Will try to catch up when I'm better.
