Adrian's Birth

I am still in the hospital now and plan to go home tomorrow. Since I don't know what's going to happen when I get home and Adrian is asleep now in his 'crib', I figure I will take the time to start updating my blog.

Yes, Adrian Min Lee (咚咚, Dong Dong) is here! Can't believe I was just complaining my soreness 2 days ago and 2 days later, my son is here!

My water broke on Thursday at 12:30am. I was just finishing took shower, washed my hair and ready to go downstairs to watch my TV with a cup of warm milk like my routine every night. Just as I was putting my clean dishes in the cabinet, my water just gushed right out. I ran to the bathroom and called out Steven. He was way sound asleep by that time, when he heard me screamed out his name, he didn't know where I was at first and fell half way down the stairs as he was rushing to me. He looked so nervous! We called the emergency number that the doctor gave us on Tuesday and was instructed to go to the hospital. We then call our cousin, Huilin, and the second we told her that my water broke, she said she's coming right away. At 1:00am, Huilin got here and we left to the hospital. Gladly, I already had my hospital bag packed and all I had to do was to throw in few stuff.

When we got to the hospital, we got a room and was settling down. The nurses came over and started to prep me. They asked me if I was having contractions, I couldn't really tell them. Last time when I was feeling the contraction, it was because I was induced by Pitocin. All I felt was a bit of pressure pain down in my abdominal area. So, we were chatting with the nurses and the resident. All of a sudden, I started to confirmed it. I knew it was the contraction. It was painful! It was starting to come every 5 minutes. At that time, I was 3 cm dilated. The resident to me since I ate something at 11:30pm, I may have to wait for 6 hours before they put the anesthesia in me. I was shocked. I didn't think I could wait that long! I was also pissed too in the middle of contraction. While squeezing Steven's hand, I yelled out, 'I am having scheduled c-section this time, why do I still have to go through this pain?!' The Anesthesia came and heard it and was smiling and said, 'well, who told you to broke the water first?' Man.....

Gladly, the Anesthesian told us that we didn't have to wait that long just have to wait for them to prep the room. At 3:15am, I was rolled into the surgery room. It was cold. I was uncontrollably shaking. The staff was extremely nice and friendly. They kept putting warm blanket on me and the spinal anesthesia wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. My legs were numb instantly and so was my contraction. Steven got called in and sat right next to me after they put up the curtain. And, the whole experience afterwards was all very new and strange to me. With Cassandra, I was so exhausted by the time I got rolled into the surgery room that I slept throughout the whole procedure. But, this time, I was wide awake! I was lying there chatting with Steven and trying to listen to what's going on behind the curtain while the Anesthesian kept updating me on what I will feel afterwards. As I start to feel the doctor kept pressing my tummy and just few seconds before the 'time', the doctor told Steven to have the camera ready and told him that it's all right for him to start standing up and taking pictures. The next thing I heard was my son crying and saw Steven shooting his camera. At that time, I didn't feel that tearful happiness, all I felt was 'relieved'. All the worries I had since I found out I was pregnant was immediately gone. When I saw Steven smiling with the camera and heard his crying, although, I couldn't see him, I knew he was certainly a healthy boy! I was relieved...totally relieved...it was like a thousand pounds just lift out of my shoulders. When the doctor brought him over to us, I just kept smiling and was then pray for a nice and smooth stitching afterwards. ^_^

While I was getting stitched up, Steven followed the nurse to the nursery room to take more photos. I then met him in my room and was told he was 6 lbs and 3 oz, and 18 inches long. He was exactly one pound less than when Cassandra was born! When they took him to our room, he was just so tiny and I couldn't wait until daylight when Cassandra meets her baby brother!