The end of the waiting game on 09.09.10

The little miracle has finally entered our life, baby Adrian greeted the world on 09.09.10 at 9:23am, with 3.5kg weight and 49.5cm length.

On 8 September, before I had my afternoon nap as usual, I told him to enjoy the nap together and he shall come to see the real world after the nap. Apparently, he noted and my wish came true! I woke up at 4pm, my water broke at around 4:15pm. I steadily cleaned myself, then called hubby to come home while I get myself ready for the admission.

I reached KK Specialist Centre at 5pm with no contraction pain yet, the head nurse checked my dilation, it was only 3cm dilated. I was then sent into the ward and waited for the dilation to reach 10cm. My real contraction started at around 7pm, the pain came in every half and hour at first, then slowly increased to 15 minutes, 10 minutes, and then 5 minutes each. The contraction pain was my biggest distraction, plus the air condition system in the room was really bad, I was sweating badly the whole night. I couldn't sleep, the same goes to hubby, who was sitting on the pathetic small sofa besides my bed. I pity him for not able to get a good sleep but I must say that he's lucky as I did not squeeze his hand, like any other wife would do to their husband, to ease my pain, I squeezed the blanket instead.

At 6am on the next morning, I thought my pain has reached to the max and my dilation should reach at least 9cm. However, doctor came to check, another 3cm to reach the target. They finally decided to induce my contraction to speed up the dilation. At 9am, doctor came to broke the remaining of the water in my uterus and directed me to the labor room, and here came the incredibly suffering yet wonderful moment!

Million appreciation to Dr. Sarva, Agnes (the midwife) and a few nurses together with hubby, who were there to give me great support, their encouragement helped a lot. With the midwife's guidance, I pushed a few times for Adrian's head to come lower but I was too weak to push him out. At last, with the help of the vacuum instrument and another 3 pushes, baby Adrian came out and I almost fainted after the whole process of delivery.

Mum later told me that I yelled really badly until the whole floor could hear my terrible scream. Her tears burst out when she heard my awful scream outside the labor room, she couldn't take it at last and hide herself in the washroom until I'm done with all the pushing and screaming.

It was the most eventful day in my life, a great experience I'd say! BRAVO to myself and all the mamas in the world! The entire progress of having a baby, including the 9-month pregnancy to the delivery process isn't easy. To all the gentlemen who are reading this, please treasure your mum and wife!

Adrian Fitri Bin Muhammad Azizan
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