My Labour Experience

Not going to have much pictures in this post because I wasn’t expecting labour so early.

I remember the night of my contraction. Hubby and I had to go for our last 2 prenatal classes and we had Harvey’s after. The night went by smooth and Hubby slept around 1 in the morning!  Right when he fell asleep – that’s when my contraction started. I thought it was just something small because it didn’t hurt much. But the point was I kept going to the washroom so often. I thought it was nothing and continued watching my TV in bed. I woke Hubby up after 3 to 4 hours of my contraction. I still felt like it was false contraction because it wasn’t painful at all. I felt like it was just period cramps. Till I saw brownish liquid coming out down there. At this point – the pain was bearable. I took a warm bath before I called the hospital. I got dressed and took my hospital bag.

As I wasn’t expecting it to be “real” contraction – I didn’t even bother bringing my camera nor my phone charger with me. I should of though!

During my car ride to the hospital – my contraction got a lot stronger. To the point it really did hurt. It was about 2 minutes apart. I didn’t forget – it was an icy night driving down to the hospital – very cold too. Hub drop me off at the emergency doors and parked. After he parked – we walked to the baby center. At this point – the contraction was insane! We arrived to the hospital around 4:30AM in the morning.

The nurse checked me up and told me I was “3 centimeter dilated”. I asked her “What does that mean? Does that mean I’ll be giving birth today???”. I was beyond scared at this point and her answer was “Yes”! Than I told her “I’m not ready for this yet…………………”. She gave me a funny reply “ready or not hear it comes ”. Than she sent Hubby and I out to sit till the nurses got the room ready for us. When she sent us out to sit – that was the worst contraction feeling! No lies – it was hurting bad. I couldn’t sit nor stand. I didn’t know what I could do at that time – contraction was every two minutes apart.

Twenty minutes later – I was finally given a room. Told me to change into a gown and the epidural doctor was right there for me. When the epidural doctor was preparing his needle – I kept saying “I’m soooooo scared – I’m sooooo scared”. The nurses tried to calm me down and Hubby was holding my hand. After the needle – I was shaking so bad because it felt so cold. I shake for about a couple hours. The epidural worked like magic – I stopped feeling the pain after like 5 minutes! Everything got back to normal – I just waited and went on my phone to update news on Facebook. I was pretty much relaxed by than.Nurses told me that I was dilating really quick and my cervix is thin – so its easy for munchkin to come out.

By the afternoon – the in-laws came to visit. Munchkin wasn’t out yet – we were still waiting. But I did start pushing here and there. So much energy is required in order to push this baby out. I didn’t even eat anything. I ended up puking a lot of water out while I was trying to push.

My last push was at 3 in the afternoon. How did I do it? Well – the doctor threatened to use the kiwi vacuum to take the baby out because I couldn’t push. So I gave it my ONE last push – than there it is. My munchkin came out very slimy but with no blood on him. He didn’t cry much though. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me! Or else I would of snapped a lot of photos of him while still slimy! He came out weighting 6lbs and 2oz.

My labour experience? Not a tough one I must say. Why? Because I heard worst! Way worst – like those women going through 24hours of pain. Or the baby wasn’t co-operating and needed a c-section. Yep – I was only in pain for a very short period of time – thank god! I have to say – no more than an hour of “real” pain. Really got to thank God for an easy and fast labour experience!

Would I do it again? I doubt it. This one wasn’t as painful but who knows if the second one would be painful right? I’m so not good with pain!!!

Munchkin’s One Month Celebration with family

That’s our cutie pie! We celebrated his one month with family at Casa Imperial about a month ago. We had an yummlicious dinner along with “red eggs”. There’s a meaning to “red eggs” but I’m not too sure what the meaning is. I just know that it’s because the baby is one month. Do anyone know why? He behaved quite well and took pictures with everyone. I wanted to hire a photographer for this event but the photographer was quite busy and couldn’t make it. Too bad – it would be nice to have family portrait with both families. We don’t get together often – I guess the next time will have to be someone else s wedding.

It took us awhile to think of which restaurant to have his celebration at. We had our wedding celebration at Casa Victoria and thought it would be meaningful to have it at Casa Imperial. Both restaurant has a very Victorian-style to it. I love love love the table settings in this restaurant. Unlike other restaurants – they use rustic dining table.

Ending this post off with a family photo. Happy one month my munchkin. There’s many many other celebrations ahead of you! Mama and Papa loves you ! *smooch*

Munchkin’s One Month Celebration with family & relatives

It’s been such a busy month for us planning the munchkin’s one month celebrations with family and another one with friends. Hub and I finally decided on a Chinese restaurant to celebrate with family and relatives. When it comes down to Chinese restaurants – I’m more looking into quality of food and the interior because I do want to take some pretty photos with him. He’s almost 2 months soon – time is flying by way too quick! Please slow down time!

Munchkin’s photo shoot

This is another backdated post. We had munchkin’s first photo shoot done when he was 9 days old. We wanted to capture him when he was still a newborn. We are just collecting memories and one day he’s going to be looking at these photos when he’s older. The photos came out awesome and I had over 400 photos developed for family and friends. Yep – 400 photos! I can’t wait to do his next photo shoot when he’s about half a year old. I think I would want to do a photo shoot each year for him – but would that be too much? Maybe only on special occasions? His birthday?

Scrapbook for Special Events

I’m still enjoying my hobby! I feel like scrap-booking is the only creative side of me these days. I can’t draw or paint – so putting things together is the creative me. Do I still have time for it? Yep I do – scrap-booking doesn’t take too much time. All I need to do is print/pick out the photos and pick out some pretty decorations. I say a page would take less than half an hour for me now. When I started with scrap-booking – each page took about an hour but now that I got used to scrap-booking – it’s not as hard anymore. Do you scrapbook? I feel like scrap-booking is something fun and relaxing for me to do nowadays.

Bestfriends’ daughter’s one month celebration

The two little munchkin is almost the same age – they are only 2 weeks apart. It’s funny how we got pregnant almost at the same time and I’ve known this girl for so many years. It’s just too bad we live so far – don’t get to see her and her baby girl much. If we live closer – our kids can grow up together.

Scrapbooking Fun

This is my other hobby – scrapbook fun! Gives me another excuse to collect things too. Ever since I was pregnant – I’ve stopped working and just stayed home. Well not stay home every day kind of thing – I did go out with friends and families. I’ve also kept myself super busy on focusing my life with blogging. In another word – I took it more serious this time because I do want it to get somewhere with my life. This nine months flew by like a flash because of the hectic/busy schedule I set myself up to. I mean – it’s not bad – I do like it because time flies. But with all the work I pile myself up with – I still gave myself some fun time too. Spending time with friends, organizing and scrap-booking!

If you enjoy cutting things with scissors and making things look nice – scrap-booking is for you too!

Our Memories

Collage is finally put together and hung on the wall last month! Took me quite sometime to get my bum moving and to put collage like this on the wall. I’m pretty proud of my work here. It took me about an hour to put pictures together. It’s not only about putting them together – taking the time to pick out the pictures was quite hard too. These collage only has pictures of us. The first one is the pre-wedding phtoos, second is wedding day morning and church, third is wedding reception, and fourth is the past 3 years of us only.

I’m planning to get more of these frames for the future – so in our future home we’ll be having more hung up with little Jayden in them. It’s going to be neat

Our Valentine’s Day

I have a reason to why I date my months and years on facebook photo albums – it is because I look back and remember what happened this month or this year. I’m not good with memorizing things – so facebook is like sort of a storage unit for me to look back on things. So this is what I found for the past four years Valentine’s day! Yep – I had to look through the albums to remember exactly what happened!

This is our second Valentine’s day spent together at his place.

Third Valentine’s day at his place too – I think by than I was living with him already – time flies by too quick eh?

This is this years Valentine’s day – this year I am officially his wife and soon to be his son’s mama I know there will be MANY MANY MANY more Valentines day ahead of us and I’m happy that we’ll be spending it differently starting next year! Why? Can you guess why?

Feburary 2012 is coming to an end

With a blink of an eye – February is ending already. Time is just flying by without us knowing. Sometimes I wish time will slow down a little bit – I don’t want our little Jayden to grow up too quick! I want him to be a baby for a longer period of time – so I can enjoy holding hi.m. I won’t be holding another newborn baby for awhile – so I want to treasure it while I can. Which is really not going to happen because I know babies grow every week and without us knowing – he’s going to know how to sit and walk. *sigh* That’s just part of life right? I’m just going to be sad when he doesn’t give me kisses, hugs, or even let me hold him anymore.

Anyways, it’s been an eventful February for us with Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day, and attending Prenatal classes every Wednesday. Let’s hope March will slow down a little bit – so I can enjoy my sleep and work.