I just want to share with you my experiences as a new mother.
Monday, December 15, 2008, almost 3:00 o’clock pm - This was my last scheduled prenatal check up at Friendly Care Clinic with Pat Banglot, MD as my obstetrician gynecologist (ob gyne). She was surprised upon knowing that my cervical opening is already 3 cm and I do not feel anything after she did I.E. I even managed to walk from Lachmi San Pedro to the clinic at Bankerohan. She advised me to go home directly and pack all my things and the baby’s because anytime i’ll be giving birth.
That made me feel nervous. I was not expecting that this is the beginning of my anticipations about delivery. Darwin was also uneasy when he got my text messages. He thought that after I reach home, we will be heading on to the hospital.
But, the night came and nothing happened.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 8:00 o’clock am - Bloody show was observed and this made a panic in our house. After our breakfast, we were on our way to the Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) Hospital. The admission officer through the phone asked the staff on the receiving area: “How is the patient?” She gladly answered, “The patient is smiling!” I even managed to fill up the admission forms. I even refused to sit on the wheel chair ‘coz I can still manage to walk upstairs. But, it is a SOP (standard operating procedure) to ride the patient on a wheelchair.
I stayed in the labor room, lying and sitting on the bed without any discomforts until 4 pm. I even enjoyed the tv shows. I even help the student nurse assigned to me to monitor the heartbeat of my baby and the contractions of my uterus. Then, I started to feel bored. I feel bored because there was nothing to do and, I was also hungry. Just imagine, I just ate a pack of skyflakes biscuit and a few drinks of nestogen milk. (My husband don't know what to do at that time).
Until 6 in the evening, Dr. Pat decided to induce me. Three minutes after the oxytocin was injected together with the dextrose, the pain started to crip in my tummy. It was so painful but praise God, bearable. The contractions will just stop in the interval of 2 minutes. Wow! This is it!
I was on the delivery table at about 8 pm with 8 cm cervical opening. I was so sleepy.
I even waited for my ob gyne to arrive…. 1 hour before giving birth.
At about 9:09, after 4 pushes and coaches of the nurses and my ob gyne, I gave birth to a 5.5 pounds baby boy through NSVD - Normal Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery. It was successful and had it not been by CHRIST, it is not possible.
Our precious baby Daniel Winard was named after the known Biblical boy Daniel and Winard from Darwin.
We brought baby Daniel home on the 20th day of December, Saturday. He was left under observation by his pedia, Dr. Rommel Bernardo for three days. He was under observation because he was vomiting when he was brought to the nursery. It pains us much to see our little angel with the tube, the needle and the dextrose.
Now, he is 5 months 8 days young. He weights 6.6 kilos during his last visit on the health center for immunization.
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Being a mother is a wonderful privilege from God. Not all are blessed to bear a child. I will be forever grateful to the Lord for this chance.
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