Shauna Arrives!!

11/05/08: Mummy Lim bleeds from her gums, visited the dentist at JP for some remedy but he did'nt get to work; the bleeding stopped. Went for a late breakfast before meeting the in-laws at Ba Xian Vegetarian Restaurant for Mother's Day lunch. We even went to Swee Lee to buy a Compressor, a patch cable and an instrument cable. Had to quit smoking before i can lay my hands on the Dean ML or Epiphone Prophecy SG.. so..
By this time, Mummy Lim's bleeding had started again. Tried to stop it using ice/gauze as recommended by Clinton but to no avail. Had a quick chat with Dr Kee the gynae and we rushed down to NUH. Mummy Lim still had the presence of mind to brng her prescriptions along; I was only intent on getting there fast...
Mummy Lim finally ended up in the Delivery Suite of NUH, was given medication to lower her BP (which amazingly hit 180..). BP came down progressively, then it happened.

12/05/08: Contractions hit her at about 12 midnight. It continued at irregular intervals and then, her water bag burst. What happened next was really chaos as people rushed in to check on her, clean up the mess and I just stood there gaping being unable to help much. I could only time her contractions (about 2.5min interval) and hold her hand as they hit her wave by wave.
Mummy Lim took a shot of some painkiller in the thigh at about 0412hrs. The contractions were too much for her to take and she had dilated about 2cm. At this point in time, one shot of steroids had been administered to strengthen Shauna's lungs. The next shot was due at 0730hrs...Man, she took many jabs.. At about 5am, Mummy was looking at empidurals, the pain was real bad from the grimaces on her face. Well, "ok" said the Doc, "Let's get her some empidurals". However Shauna was way too eager to meet the Earth, Mummy had dilated to 8cm at this minute. "Too late for empidurals now, looks like you have to go for natural birth". Mummy's face grimaced yet again as she prepared for natural birth.
At 0612hrs, Shauna was delivered with many pushes from Mummy, shouts of encouragement from the NUH staff & squeezes of comfort from yours truly haha
Shauna weighed in at 1.89kg, slightly underweight for a 35week old baby. She was sent to the NICU to be taken care of. Mummy appeared relieved, happy and tired. She did'nt even get a good look at Shauna or hold her before they took her.. hmm..
Now both of them are doing pretty well. Shauna looks good atm, hearts ok, blood tests are being done and physically without defect. Mummy's doing good too, BP down, swelling down, she even had a go at some Milo and biscuits i think (i was in the NICU at this time hehe). We thank God for his graciousness in delivering this prayer baby to the world, we thank God for all the people praying for us and encouraging us. Most of all we thank God for giving us this beautiful baby this very day.

Pics and more stories later folks,
Daddy Lim =)