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11.2.16

Jannah's Birth Story Part 1: PROM

Assalammualaikum dan hai~

Alhamdulillah, had safely deliver our daughter, Amaya Jannah Binti Fuad Suffian. Her birth story is an epic one! (Although I'm sure all birth stories are epic), so naturally I can't fit it in a single entry. Korang bertabah jelah baca. Here goes part 1.


Date of Birth: 14 January 2016 Time: 7:15 am
Weight: 2.195 kg
Mode of Delivery: SVD
Born at 35 weeks gestation

12 January 2016

So I went to work as usual. Big projects are in full-blast (the annual OPEX and HR Plan budgetting plus new HR Analytics project). Semua projek ni ditugaskan kepada Rilla sebab sepatutnya EDD 29 Feb 2016, jadi sepatutnya sempatlah siapkan semua projek-projek ni.

Masa ni tengah tunggu Kanda datang ambil. Selamba je duduk bersila tepi koridor. Konsep "lantaklah, aku penat" kaedahnya.

Gambar kat atas ni diambil sebab boring menunggu. Hari tu hujan, so traffic jem lebih teruk dari biasa dan Kanda stuck. Tak terfikir pun esoknya tak masuk office dah.

I went to sleep a little bit late that night and I slept on the couch as Zain has claimed my side of the bed. I later regret that I didn't went to sleep cuddling him like I did every night, for that night was the last night I spent at home before delivering Jannah.

13 January 2016

At about 3.30 in the morning I suddenly felt a gush of wetness flowed through. It woken me up, but I was confused thinking I peed on myself. Then there was a second gush. There's no mistake, my water bag has broken!

I pull myself up, started panicking and posted this status at FB:


Masa ni mengharap sangat, ketuban hanya koyak sikit je sebab mengharap dapat teruskan kandungan sampai sekurang-kurangnnya 37 minggu. Tapi jauuuuuh di lubuk hati ini, ada naluri yang mengatakan kandungan kali ini juga akan tidak cukup bulan, macam Zain. Hari-hari tengok kat cermin samada perut dah turun atau tak. Instict ada tapi tak nak percaya. In denial di situ

Lepas habis berpanik, Rilla decide untuk pergi hospital paginya. Tapi lambat lagi, sebab masa tu baru 4.00 pagi kan (waktu selepas habis berpanik), jadi malas nak kacau Kanda tidur. Tambahan, apa-apa pun kena hantar Zain pergi taska dulu, so memang la kena tunggu sampai subuh. Sambil-sambil tu mengemas beg yang nak bawa pergi hospital. Kali ini, masih juga tak pack beg hospital awal-awal. Tapi nasib baik barang-barang penting dah cukup.

In the mean time, I opened my laptop and started doing some work. So sorry to my colleagues who are bamboozled for having received emails from me at 5.00 in the morning but not seeing me at the office that day.

Masa ni, kawan kat office yang dah macam kakak, Kak Su namanya, bermesej denganku. Nasib baik ada teman nak berkongsi kegusaran hati ini. Tambahan pulak perut masa tu memulas. Bertambah keliru diri ini. Contraction kah? No, apparently, I just needed to empty my bowel.

At about 6.00 in the morning I notified my family, friend and colleague that I need to get myself checedk. I asked them to pray that I can continue my pregnancy. I told Kanda after he has performed his Subuh prayer:-

"Sayang, Dinda kena pergi hospital sebab air dah keluar"

*Kanda terkebil*

"Tapi takpe, kita hantar Zain. Lepas tu Kanda pergi kerja. Dinda pergi hospital sendiri. Ape-ape nanti Dinda update"

See, he was swamped with year-end closing (he's the only account-person at his office). And I have this instinct that I won't be delivering the baby that day, so what's the point of troubling him?

Lepas tu Rilla dengan Kanda hantar Zain pergi taska. Rilla drive, tapi kepala ni penuh dan jenuh memikir itu ini. Masa hantar Zain tu, Rilla tak peluk dan cium dia pun (sebab kepala dah gelong sangat). Lepas tu ralat sangat sebab lepas tu dah tak jumpa Zain sampai lepas discharge dari hospital.

Lepas drop Kanda, Rilla pun drive pergi hospital. Sebelum pergi Hospital Shah Alam, Rilla dok timbang, nak pergi DEMC atau HSA, tapi akhirnya decide pergi HSA. We just overhauled our car (so, our cash situation will leave us very thin financially if we went to DEMC), and Kanda is partial to HSA (restu suami itu penting), and I thought, why not try a government hospital? So off I went to HSA.

Sampai di HSA, Rilla pergi ke emergency (jauh pulak parking dengan emergency), ada unit khas untuk kemasukan ibu bersalin. Masa ni HSA baru beroperasi sepenuhnya selama 3 hari.

Ni gambar kat unit kemasukkan ibu bersalin.

Selama ni Rilla check-up kat DEMC, tapi Rilla ada bukak buku merah (pergi KK sekali je). Alhamdulillah, tak ada masalah admission. Lepas check itu ini, Rilla dan dua lagi ibu mengandung yang datang selepas Rilla dibawa naik ke tingkat empat, tingkat untuk labour room. Buat CTG, tak ada contraction lagi (memang tak rasa ape pun). Check bukaan, dah 2 cm. Lepas tu Rilla disuruh tukar baju.

Sempat mak berselfie kat bilik air - gambar last sebagai wanita mengandung. Kaler pink gitu hospital gown ni. Ye..Rilla pakai bag pack je pergi menyerah diri kat hospital. Senang nak humban segala dokumen.

Rilla diminta tunggu sebelum admit masuk ward, masa ni Rilla meloya pulak sampai nurse cakap "Eh, dah lapan bulan pun mabuk lagi?" hahaha. Sambil-sambil tunggu tu, Rilla lukis peta kat mana Rilla park kereta kat mana. Yelah, karang menggagau pulak Kanda mencari kan? Rilla tak bawak suitcase naik sekali masa ni, gigih sangat lah mak buyung nak heret kan? Masa ni, kalau ikut kiraan DEMC, Rilla baru 33 minggu. Tapi HSA kira 35 minggu. Confuselah. They didn't tell me why they changed it to 35 weeks.

Lepas tu admitlah daku ke tingkat lapan, wad bersalin. Lepas tu tunggu Kanda datang time lunch.

This is my lunch slip. Like, who would name their pretty daughter "Umbrella"? =.= Sepurnama tau makpak Rilla fikir nama, last-last jadi Umbrella. Nasib baik lauk sedap.

My SIL came around lunch time to bring me some Zam Zam water and dates. Kanda came shortly after my SIL has left, bringing a few items with him. We bid a quick goodbye, not knowing that was the last time we would see each other before I gave birth T.T.

The doctor came sometime in-between the visiting hours. Dia mintak Rilla bedrest untuk sambung kehamilan sehingga 36 minggu. Doctor nak elak risiko masalah pernafasan kat baby memandangkan NICU HSA masa tu belum fully operational. Masa Doctor datang (I'm assuming it's the HOD, let's call her Doctor A) there was another lady doctor was with her (who would be the doctor helping me with my delivery, let's call her Doctor B). Dalam hati masa tu rasa macam 'Memang tak akan sampai 36 minggu, esok jugak aku beranak ni'. Tapi diam jelah, takkan nak cakap kat doctor "Saya rasa saya akan bersalin esok". Few hours after that I was given the first dose of the painful Dexa jab to help the baby's lungs to mature.

Waktu melawat petang tu, mak Rilla datang. Kanda sibuk uruskan beberapa benda dan Zain. Time Kanda nak naik tu waktu melawat dah habis. Masa ni fikir "takpelah, nanti jumpa masa dah masuk labor room". Lepas tu tak ada buat apa sangat, cuma tunggu contraction datang je. Masa ni rindu sangat kat Zain, tapi Rilla cuba distract diri dengan buat benda lain. Luckily, I brought a book to read.

At about 11.45 pm, the contraction started to kicked in....



p/s: PROM - Premature Rupture Of Membrane

4 comments:

  1. tahniah...
    selamat berpantang...
    Semoga dipermudahkan urusan membesarkan anak

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  2. Alhamdulillah...Tahniah Rilla atas kelahiran second baby. semoga baby membesar dengan sihat & bijak =)

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