Its been quite a week. After the bad haze last week, and a week of not running, I finally got to do my weekly run on a fine Sunday morning. I decided to clean the car after my run, as it has been sitting there with dust collecting due to the haze. After cleaning the car, I thought: Its been a while since I last cleaned the house (2 weeks), so why not take the time to clean up the house since I am all dirty and sweaty already ! So I cleaned up my place and headed over to my parent’s place for lunch. Watched a movie with my wife in the afternoon, then left for dinner at her parent’s place. Watched another movie after we got home and then went to bed.
So, after reading all that, you must be thinking: “Why is he detailing everything that happened today ?”
Because, as soon as we hit the bed, my wife went to the toilet. She came out saying:”We are not going to sleep tonight already.” I immediately knew what was going on, her water bag has broken ! So off we go to the hospital ! Hurriedly we grabbed our ready-packed items and headed to the car. Just the day before, I had asked Sara who is in Malaysia for a business trip to help me lookout for a air purifier as I had feared that the air quality will turn bad again and it is going to be bad for my baby. Sara came back today and dropped off the air purifier at my place about 9pm. The significance of writing this down ? Well, I’d say my daughter is a clever girl. She knew that the haze had passed, the car is washed, the house is cleaned and the air purifier has arrived, therefore it is now safe for her to be out and greet the world !
Fast forwarding the whole process (15 hours labour), my sweet daughter Amelia Bay was born ! It was a quick delivery but a rather scary one. My wife pushed with all her might, but could not get Amelia to be low enough to be delivered by the gynae. With the heart rate like the stock market, rising to 150 and dropping to a dangerously low 40s, the gynae decided to go for assisted delivery. She prepared the vacuum tube and with my wife’s last mighty push and the assistance of the vacuum, Amelia was out ! Gynae said that the umbilical cord was round her neck two rounds. It could have caused the resistance for her to be lower. But I thank God for her safe arrival, and keeping my wife safe from harm too. It has been a tiring night. After Amelia was delivered and washed, my wife waited in the labour ward to rest and thereafter transferred to the maternity wards.
Here’s a few photos taken:
things that make me happy 