All about baby!

I posted these from my mobile while in hospital(accidently to my food blog - oops obviously forgot to change post to settings, haha!) so here is the story so far:

Posted Sat April 24th
Welcoming our own little volcano.......that waited and waited then couldn't wait no more!(a little story of major ironic proportions)

Wed afternoon:Had my 39w1d check up in the morning
Skyped with J in paris who was abt to visit the eifel tower- about 10mins after hanging up he rang bak to say he just had a phone call from ana and would get on a flight that night!!u beauty!

Thurs am(just after midnight): j rings to confirm he is getting on the plane and coming home : yay!(he missed out on sightseeing tho, zannen!)
I spend whole day on couch to avoid jinxing myself or baby in any way. J gets home around 6pm and we head out for celebratory kura sushi(where i have a major pigout)! ge home and J has a bath with kyla and then i have relaxing bath, and put on 2 loads of washing (nothing left in laundry basket). head to bed round 11:30pm but cant sleep so play space invaders type game on keitai.

Fri April 23 (39w3d)
12:25ish - finally fall asleep only to wake up minutes later feeling odd, followed by a small popping sound and the slightest feeling that i had wet myself. freak out that it might be my waters breaking so wake J, call hospital(1250), then begin to doubt self as no running brooke, not even a trickle, but in for check anyway.

130am: check shows faint positive of broken waters, so I am hospitalised. J sent home as no contractions, and still only 3cm so it could take days!

145am:shown to bed in labouring room, put on baby moniter.a bit of tightening tummy but nothing out of norm.

215am: bumped from labouring room as 2 new cases coming in (with real contractions!)get put on drip for gbs.

245am:drip finished, go to loo

300am: start to feel dif, like a wave of period pain. easy to breath lightly thru it. seems to come again in 15mins so start to time it.

400am: tell nurse abt 15min contractions that seem to have mini-contractions at half-way point. go to loo a few more times.

457am: painful contractions(can still breath thru alone tho) start coming what seems every 3mins, wtf? figure must be timing wrong. go to loo again.

515am: back from loo and gripping on to side of bed for dear life during contraction: no more doing this alone!. manage to do a nurse call. she gets narky at me when I have a contraction and tell her I wanna do poo half way thru. she tries to tell me it is a sign baby is coming .

520am: midwife comes to ask how I am - measures me at 5cm and decides to call J to come bak. I wonder how am gonna get thru another 5cm as already the pain is killing- start wishing for drugs.
525am: try to get a quick sms to J to remember camera but can hardly even write 5letters「忘れないで」 in so much pain.

532am: nurse has returned to check me as am writhing like a possesed mad woman but decides we go straight to birthing room (turns out it is the operating room as nowhere else free!)manage to walk the 4m to or before another contraction hits.get up on bed (aka operating table)

5:42am: i am now 8cm dialated but it is decided that the baby is coming so lets push

push thru 3 maybe 4 contractions(this was the easiest part)

548am: baby slipped out.measures 3286g and 49cm.
552am: j arrives at hospital only to be told that his son was born just minutes ago!

so ironic!!!


So in the end our little baby boy was born in quite a rush. We are both doing well & feeling fine, and now trying to come up with a boys name!! I have to keep fending off J's suggestions, like "Ice". Hope we come up with something more suitable soon.

In the meantime I am getting bored in hospital - talk about 暇! and that is even with baby boy rooming in!

I cant believe it is a boy!!!!! wonder what the final score on my poll was? congrats to everyone who voted correct- u get to share in my sleep deprived blog dribble here for, oh the next year or two haha!

Posted Sun April 25th
Baby day 3: and gratuitous baby photo!


Had busy day with visitors yesterday and unsettled baby boy (maybe i have to make up a nickname to refer to him -"vanilla ice" maybe?) from abt 11pm for a few hours- just as my tiredness was peaking!) but after a midnight snack (for him) he slept thru past his 4am feed until 5:30 so I got a bit of rest and am feeling good again (^-^)

Talking abt food....just waiting 4 lunch now- food is average. VERY small portions (or maybe I just still have my piggy appetite. Rice 4 every meal getting boring but I guess at least i dont have to cook it. and i have smuggled in heaps of treats to keep me going .

And here is that gratuitous cute sleeping baby shot to end with:


Coming home
Wed April 28th

Made our escape this morning around 11:15am, (after paying through the nose for a 54minute delivery (they count from when contractions are less than 10mins apart) and 6day stay at the clinic, pure daylight robbery I say!) and got home in time for lunch (toasted cheese and ham s/w, thanks mum!) then a nap with K (thanks mum!!) and a bit of organising the baby stuff that I hadn't yet got ready (cause forgot about it or couldn't find it!) Had a few issues ith b/f and cracked nipples, so have been supplementing with either espressed milk or formula, but didn't have any bottles cleaned or santised, and had to find them first!! Then I couldn't find the teats, so had to make a rush trip to the chemist to buy some, only to remember a couple of hours later where I had put the teats. So now I am over run with teats, lol! Oh well, hoping this time to espress a bit of milk anyway, so that others can feed the boy and give me a break. Am lucky that my milk has come in with no problems this time (volume wise). Now if only I could toughen up these nipples a bit.

Just finished an evening cuppa tea (thanks mum!!!!) and baby sleeping peacefully now. I give him another hour until the "fun" starts! It seems he has issues with the hours around 11am-about3am, which mean no sleep for mummy! So for a while I am gonna sleep in the downstairs room with him to give K and J a break. Also have all his nappies and other stuff set up there so it will be easier until we get into a routine downstairs.