Jan 26th - 27th 2003 - Renee's Birth
January 27, 2003 01:55PM (MYT)

i woke up at 3am on the 26th night to go to the toilet as usual, but this time i felt a lump of gel like form discharging together with the urine. Immediately i got up and switched on the lights and to my astonishment, i saw a lump of pinkish substance in the cistern. I knew then that that was the night - that was the night i would meet my long awaited precious lil' baby - Renee Yap Ynn...
babee and I drove straight to Gleaneagles, on the way there we tuned in to MIX FM and they were playing Dillemma by Nelly & Kelly Roland (nomatter what u do, all i think about is u...) and so i sang along with that song and danced a bit as well. I was so happy as I know in a few hours time I would welcome your arrival. We reached our destination and then the nurses on duty confirmed that i was in labour. They checked my dilation and it was only 2cm at 4am. They strapped the contraction belt on me and we watched it reached as high as 96 and so on (the higher the more painful la). I asked for laughing gas to minimise the pain, but i felt nauseatic then at around 9am, after much discomfort I finnaly asked for epidural and they administered it only at 10am (they wanted to give me time to think). The tube was about 20cm long and 3cm in diameters. It is a very delicate process, if it is not done professionally, it will paralyse the patient. But I had no choise...
From then on, i was virtually knocked out and slept till 3pm. I got up hoping that u would be out without me knowing (how naive and silly), but off course they said i still have another 2 more hours to go as it was only 7cm then. In the meantime babee was having his 25th cup of Gloria Jeans coffee with Uncle Ben. He kept coming up to check on me and a lil' dissapointed coz u still didnt wana come out.
I only started pushing at around 5pm and by then it was fully dilated. I pushed so hard that piles started forming and i vommitted so much bcoz according to the nurses, i am allergic to the pain killer. I had easily pushed 20-30 sets (each set 3 times), but u were as stubborn as u r now...no progress. Dr Tan came to see me from time to time and ensured me that if i dont push u out in the next 5 mins, i would have to be caesered, which he doesn't like to do. After hearing that i think u got scared and u came out while mami was puking hard.
"Pop"...u came out, my stomach collapsed into its original shape, they put u on my stomach but i asked them to take u away as i was still puking hard. (Dr Tan and the nurses said i was lucky to be puking orelse u wouldn't have come out that easily). u arrived at approximately 5 plus 6pm. babee still didnt know u have arrived as it was so quiet in the theatre. The nurse informed him that u have been out for about 7-10mins, he rushed in and the sight was unwelcoming...blood splashed everywhere, smell was foul and u were not crying!!!
U didn't make a single sound (and now u r so noisy), i got scared when u didnt cry...i asked Dr Tan, are u dumb or something like that, he said "nola", "she is just a bit unusual but not dumb", they wacked ur bum, i pinched ur cheek - still no responce. The nurse poked a plastic tube into ur nostril to suck out extra fluid - but still no cries? babee was very angry with the nurse as she was so undelicate with u, he wanted to punch her face. They tagged u and confirm ur weight at 3.2kg.
The next morning they brought u in for me to breast feed u. The first encounter u had with mami's breast, u cried so loudly as if u had seen some alienated object or so...but i cannot blame u...my breast was really dark and huge then...but now its back to normal - as pink as a cherry mentos!