Here's our cute little Gabriel on hist first day at home! Monday, November 20, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
gabriel is finally out!
it was one super memorable experience. i can't forget everything that happened november 16th 2006 except the part where gabriel actually came out!
12:00mn: i woke up having a weird feeling of wetting my bed. i'm 27 years old, married and pregnant and i wet my bed?! haha. the words that first came out my mouth was "mom...". myCoco is on the night shift and i sleep with my mom since were kinda anticipating that our little gabriel will be out anytime soon and someone has to be always with me. my mom told me, i am about to give birth.. my water broke.
12:05am: when i finally realized that that was it, i called myCoco and asked him if he could come home to bring me to the hospital. i was calculating and thinking that he could be in cavite (where we live) from makati in about 40 minutes. he said ok, still relaxed (or trying to be) and he told me he'll just make a quick turn over of things at work. i think he left makati around 12:20am.
while waiting for dax, i got the video and the digital cameras. i made sure everything that we packed a few days ago won't be forgotten (which includes our baby's clothes and dax's coke light).
1:00am: myCoco was already home. almost all stuffs were already in the car before i went down. i told dax to be cool, we still have a lot of time. i know we do because there was NO PAIN at all. we were just worried that my water broke. i was even telling them that the doctors might just ask me to come home again and wait for a few more days.
1:15am: we were already at the hospital. i was asked to fill out a few forms and answer some questions. after a few minutes, they told me i will give birth TODAY if everything goes well (labor and all). they contacted my OB-GYN and they said she'll be in by 4am - i think not. they contacted my pediatrician, anesthesiologist and cardiologist as well. myCoco and mom was asked to get a room and i was brought to the labor room after an hour or so. they did some internal examination and told me that i was still at 1cm however, i have to give birth as soon as possible because my water already broke.
2:30am-6:00am at the labor room: still no pain here. i was thinking, if this is labor then it is easy. haha. i think they did something to induce labor by 6am.
7:00am-i don't know when: oh my good lord, IT WAS REALLY PAINFUL. whatever they did to me really worked and i was having contractions. i was crying and was about to ask the nurses to call for my mom and dax. i was so scared and i really felt bad cause i was alone. i heard somebody said i was at 3cm. i was having contractions every 5 mins, every 2 mins, every 3 mins. i was brought to the delivery room i think where they injected novane. they were telling me they cannot do epidural anaesthesia yet (i really don't know why). then i heard somebody say, maybe it's not at 3cm anymore because the pain it gives me was like actual labor (i think). then blah blah blah.. blah blah blah.. knockout! i woke up after a while, still dizzy with a blurred vision. i only recognized my OB-GYN telling me that i can do it. then.. knockout (i really didn't know what happened afterwards).
by the way, i was getting epidural anaesthesia since i have a mitral valve prolapse and according to my OB-GYN, she could not let me experience the pain of labor. what?! if what i experienced was not pain of labor yet.. then i can really say that i cannot experience the pain of labor.
3:30pm: i heard somebody said "mrs. solis.. ililipat na po kayo sa room nyo in a few minutes". i looked at her, touched my tummy and said "nanganak na ako?!" she said "opo".. i said "san na ang baby ko?" and she said, "nursery".. whew.. it was over.. and i don't know how gabriel came out.
it was a normal delivery and our little gabriel is healthy and doing well (me too!). he's 5.5lbs at 45cm. really really cute and he smells so nice!
12:00mn: i woke up having a weird feeling of wetting my bed. i'm 27 years old, married and pregnant and i wet my bed?! haha. the words that first came out my mouth was "mom...". myCoco is on the night shift and i sleep with my mom since were kinda anticipating that our little gabriel will be out anytime soon and someone has to be always with me. my mom told me, i am about to give birth.. my water broke.
12:05am: when i finally realized that that was it, i called myCoco and asked him if he could come home to bring me to the hospital. i was calculating and thinking that he could be in cavite (where we live) from makati in about 40 minutes. he said ok, still relaxed (or trying to be) and he told me he'll just make a quick turn over of things at work. i think he left makati around 12:20am.
while waiting for dax, i got the video and the digital cameras. i made sure everything that we packed a few days ago won't be forgotten (which includes our baby's clothes and dax's coke light).
1:00am: myCoco was already home. almost all stuffs were already in the car before i went down. i told dax to be cool, we still have a lot of time. i know we do because there was NO PAIN at all. we were just worried that my water broke. i was even telling them that the doctors might just ask me to come home again and wait for a few more days.
1:15am: we were already at the hospital. i was asked to fill out a few forms and answer some questions. after a few minutes, they told me i will give birth TODAY if everything goes well (labor and all). they contacted my OB-GYN and they said she'll be in by 4am - i think not. they contacted my pediatrician, anesthesiologist and cardiologist as well. myCoco and mom was asked to get a room and i was brought to the labor room after an hour or so. they did some internal examination and told me that i was still at 1cm however, i have to give birth as soon as possible because my water already broke.
2:30am-6:00am at the labor room: still no pain here. i was thinking, if this is labor then it is easy. haha. i think they did something to induce labor by 6am.
7:00am-i don't know when: oh my good lord, IT WAS REALLY PAINFUL. whatever they did to me really worked and i was having contractions. i was crying and was about to ask the nurses to call for my mom and dax. i was so scared and i really felt bad cause i was alone. i heard somebody said i was at 3cm. i was having contractions every 5 mins, every 2 mins, every 3 mins. i was brought to the delivery room i think where they injected novane. they were telling me they cannot do epidural anaesthesia yet (i really don't know why). then i heard somebody say, maybe it's not at 3cm anymore because the pain it gives me was like actual labor (i think). then blah blah blah.. blah blah blah.. knockout! i woke up after a while, still dizzy with a blurred vision. i only recognized my OB-GYN telling me that i can do it. then.. knockout (i really didn't know what happened afterwards).
by the way, i was getting epidural anaesthesia since i have a mitral valve prolapse and according to my OB-GYN, she could not let me experience the pain of labor. what?! if what i experienced was not pain of labor yet.. then i can really say that i cannot experience the pain of labor.
3:30pm: i heard somebody said "mrs. solis.. ililipat na po kayo sa room nyo in a few minutes". i looked at her, touched my tummy and said "nanganak na ako?!" she said "opo".. i said "san na ang baby ko?" and she said, "nursery".. whew.. it was over.. and i don't know how gabriel came out.
it was a normal delivery and our little gabriel is healthy and doing well (me too!). he's 5.5lbs at 45cm. really really cute and he smells so nice!
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