40 weeks of pregnancy. The long wait finally ended. I thought i would be giving birth earlier than my due date. I also thought i would give birth via normal delivery. But it was not what we expected. January 8 at 6pm, the first symptom that lead us rushing to the hospital surprisingly came, my mucous plug fell of. Me and hubby got excited and nervous at the same time. PAno ba naman, ever since he arrived for the holidays thinking i would give birth earlier, all we did was search on google about symptoms and signs that our baby is coming out na. But what made my doctor decide to admit me was because of the fluid leak which i thought was just normal but i doubted because it had an odor that smelled like balut. So at the ER 8pm, i was already 1cm dilated. But still no labor pains I still ate chowking meal Tonn bought me and some Naicha. After eating I was brought to the labor room and there I waited for my cervix to dilate, while monitoring my baby's heart rate since she was tachycardic at times. The time spent at the labor room was exhausting. No one to talk to, just lying on the uncomfy hospital bed while having labor pains that were tolerable, waiting for me to reach a 10cm dilatation, and waiting for the other pregnant women there for their time to give that big push. 8am the next day, it was the feast of the Black Nazarene, after the IE, there was no improvement so my doctor decided that if at 1pm there was no dilatation, she has to induce labor to speed up opening of my cervix. So at 1pm meds were given to induce labor. Oh my Lord!!! Ito pala ang true labor pain??!!! My gulay, di ma describe ang sakit. Maryosep! Halos ma twist ko na ang hand rail ng bed. Contractions came in in a 20 mins interval, tapos naging 10 minutes pero it was not regular. Going to the comfort room to urinate was a burden with no one para umalalay. At 7pm, 2cm dilated. Then i noticed i kept leaking fluid sa bed, it was brown. I was nervous because i thought it was meconium. At 10pm, my doctor Aunti Minda Uy came back to check on me, she had to burst my water bag so as to check if the fluid was meconium stained, and that if it was, i had to undergo C-section ASAP. And she confirmed it. There was already meconium on my amniotic fluid and it was a possible danger to the baby if she swallowed it. I cried. Because i expected for a normal delivery, one that you read in books where you get to experience pano umiri tapos they hand you your baby with her umbilical cord uncut. During that very moment, i thought of why i still had to undergo 10 hours of labor only to end up being sliced. But then during that 10 hours of labor, i just prayed and surrendered everything to the Lord. Sabi ko, sya na bahala kung normal or CS as long as my baby was in a good condition. Gusto ko that time matapos na agad, i was talking to my baby sabi ko labas ka na, super sakit na. Well there was my answer. I was rushed to the operating room at 11pm. General anesthesia was given thru my spinal cord. My anesthesiologist was good, I did not feel her inject that big needle. I only felt that first injection which felt like skin testing. Then she was asking me if i felt the part she was touching, and if i could move my legs. Haha, that was a funny feeling. Super groggy pero i could not move my lower extremeties, Just my arms, which were cuffed. Sometimes I was awake, I knew they were putting in my catheter, I felt cold so i told my anesthesiologist na nilalamig ako, and that the nasal cannula was uncomfortable para ako nasasakal. Then I heard also when Doc Minda said "kaya pala tachycardic kasi na cord coil na". I also felt they were pushing my tummy para lumabas si baby. But I could vividly remember hearing her first cry when she went out. 11:55pm of January 9 2012. I cried. Then after a while Doc Jun brought me to her and saying it's a baby girl showing my my baby's vagina which i could also blurredly see, tapos he took pictures of me and my baby.
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