Digital Bytes

I wrote this fairly long account of our son Je-in’s birth on this blog, but i lost some data when i tried to upgrade this blog and that posting was gone. So i’m trying to remember what i wrote and this time it gets stuck as a permanent page:

When V went in for the last checkup before the due date, the gynae was recommending that the birth be induced because the baby was getting bigger and she wanted to play it safe. So she told us to pick a date and we chose the day after the calculated date which was Friday 15 May.

We checked into the hospital at midnight and the nurses settled us in and began with the inducing tablet. We thought there might be some other action, but no they told us to get a good night’s sleep, which was highly impossible for me since it was a very small chair.

By 620 in the morning the contractions began and they said she was 1.5 cm dilated.

830 am, the contractions were about 3 min apart and they started a Ocitocin drip. At 9am there was some bloody show and the doc came in about 925 to break  the water bag.

11  am was when the full contractions started and the pain was intense. I could see in her face that she was in great pain and i even begged her to take the epidural but she refused. She had prayed that it will be over quickly and her immense faith kept her going.

The nurse kept coming in and out every 15 min because she was screaming and buzzing her to call the doctor but she kept saying its still too early.

1pm dilation was at 6cm. She finally started preparing the bed and the other equipment. 130pm she started coaching V on the pushing as the dilation was 8cm. This went on for almost an hour. At about 230 pm the doc finally popped in again and she was smiling that things were going well. She coached V for 2 pushes and Je-in popped into the world.

Indeed the miracle of a quick birth was granted! We have heard of so many other stories of 10,12, 16 hour labour pains. The 4 hours that V went through was truly fast compared to that.

So at 240 pm on May 15, 2009 Je-in was born.