The worst and the best days of my life... so far...

July 9, 2007 qualifies as the worst day of my life... the pain.. the horror!!

It started out quite normally. Was up 'til 3:30 am, woke up at around 5 to get a glass of water when, weird feeling and all, my water bag broke. Woke up Mark with a "Mark, pupunta na tayong hospital." Said it with as much enthusiasm as "Mark, pakuha ng tubig."

When we got to the hospital, I was feeling fine.. got admitted to the labor room at around 5:30. The interns hooked me up to a big-ass doppler unit and proceeded to ask me, "Humihilab ba?" every five minutes. Wasn't feeling anything so the resident told me to sleep muna. Woke up at aroud 10 am.. nothing, no contractions... slept again...


11:15.. nothing..
11:45... la pa rin..
12:something... the resident doc started a saline drip.. wasn't aware that they were trying to induce labor already... the pain began...

The mild contractions were.. errr.. mild.. Felt slight tightening that radiates from the uterus to the spine... was thinking, "This is it? easy-peasy.." The gods decided to punish me for being impudent..

3:30 pm... the contractions got stronger and was coming almost every 7 minutes or so.. started doing my pseudo-breathing thing... kept forgetting to exhale through the nose... any minute now..

4:00 pm... contractions came every 5 minutes.. was alternately breathing and sobbing... the intern kept telling me to stop crying kasi magbabara yung ilong.. i wanted to slap her so bad...

4:30 pm.. One of the residents approached and asked me, "Kaya mo ba mag normal? mahina pa yan, matagal ka pa dito... 'Pag nakita ka ni doktora na ganyan CS ka na." WHAAAAT? MILD CONTRACTION my fat ass... And I looked around, all the other mommies were ONLY slightly grimacing from pain, mas advanced pa yung labor nung iba pero ako lang yung umiiyak.. Apparently ako lang ang ma-drama sa loob ng labor room..

5:25 pm... Relief.. they wheeled me in sa delivery room, was thinking, "FINALLY!"

PUNYETA, ang hirap pala mag "PUSH!!!" Movies and TV programs have a lot to explain.. ba't pag sa movie, konting push lang labas na yung baby?? 5:35.. push pa rin... all these people were milling around sa delivery room half-heartedly spouting, "Sige lang, kaya mo yan." "Galing mag push, konti na lang." "Nakikita ko na yung bangs, 'wag ka na umiyak, push lang." I wanted to scream, "Nakikita na pala yung bangs, hilahin mo na!" Was begging everyone to help me 'coz I was too tired to push (probably from 5 hours of crying and muscle-flexing to get through the labor pains).

5:45 pm... lost consciousness.. the pain was THAT BAD... woke up sa recovery room.. wasn't even able to get a glimpse of my baby... THE WORST DAY EVER... When they brought me to my room, Kitten told me that I looked shell-shocked.. Cried, cried, cried, and waited almost 24 hours before I got to see Alex.

July 10, 2007

6:00 pm... went to the Nursery to see Alex...

BEST DAY EVER! No explanations needed.