Some more Visitors

Day 3 - 27 April 2007

Daddy's 1st photo with baby Sarah and she is frowning.

Po Po is here again.

Visitors from school

More visitors from school

Ole pal Ade & David Ong

Auntie Hwee Teng and Luke

Me, Irene and little Claire. Claire ran around the room and kept repeating, "Baby Sa-rah". Very funny and cute.

2 men and 2 baby girls [Dan, Sarah, Uncle Kok Wing & Jie Jie Claire]

Visitors and more Visitors

Day 2 - 26 April 2007

I think my hubby did a excellent job in heralding the news of Sarah's birth...cos many, many came to see Sarah.

The first were my parents...

Gong Gong and Po Po

Pastor, Auntie Diana and the Bible Study Ladies and of course Auntie Dawn

Daniel's colleagues - Melvin and Jonathan

Lena, Mom and Baby

Boh and Shaz - my teaching pals

The young adults - Mingyong & Weifang, Wendy, Kim and Lishan [and pardon my photography skills - I have C-section Josh out]

My ole ole time pals - Jean and Ally.

Then ...the visitors just came streaming in and Sarah's Mommy couldn't keep up with the photo taking cos Sarah was crying. Jem, Auntie Joy and Uncle Kwai Sang, Aunty Fan & Family, Auntie Ling, Dr Chua, Mrs Chua, Auntie Fong Meng...zzzzzzz

My first contact with Baby

Day 1 - 25 April 2007 11:30 pm

GA really knocked me out. I heard that I was in the operating theatre for about 30 mins after the operation before they wheeled me into the room. The first thing I knew when I woke up was to see my family looking at me. My first question, "How does the baby look?" Shu Shu Darrell replied through my sleepy eyes, "The baby is cute." It all seemed very unreal to me. Then they started showing me video clip of baby Sarah crying and crying and crying.

Day 2 - 26 April 2007 12: 00 am

By the time the family left to rest after waiting for a long time for mommy and baby, I wanted to see baby and carry her for the first time.

There she is, in my arms. All flushed and red. Like a little oriental princess. Till today, I find the miracle of birth a very amazing act of God.

Welcome back Mommy! Welcome to the world Baby Sarah!

Dear all, yes, I am back and 10 kg lighter...haha. [definitely more weight to lose...but exercise plans have to hold till my wound is healed. And Baby Sarah weighs a healthy 3.775 kg. Praise God that all went well and thank you to all who sustained me in prayer - my family especially.

It was a long day....It started on 25th April. And at 8:24, I was all wired up with epidural, the fetal heartbeat and contraction monitoring machine.

Check out the modern birthing room, tv included.

Well, it was surely a long wait - note the clock

It looked like I had a peaceful time...for a large part of it. Come evening, I was told that I may have to do a caesarean as I was not dilating enough. My heart dropped when I heard that. I thought the Lord's answer to my prayer was for me to go through a natural labour. I was glad my husband was with me all the while. In these circumstances, it is easy to lose your focus on God. We spent some time in silent prayer and prayed together and felt at peace to leave the outcome, whatever it may be to the Lord. A couple of hours later, my gynae came and found that I was well dilated and decided to delay the caesarean. But come 9:00 pm, I was told to push and everytime I did that, baby's heartbeat dipped dangerously low [note the heartbeat on the left]. By then, I was all up and ready to go for a caesarean. As I was wheeled in, again my family was sustaining me and baby in prayer.

Finally, after a long wait, Baby Sarah enters the world with the loudest cry and she opened her eyes! You can't see it in this picture cos her chubby cheeks are in the way.