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Cesarean Birth 4

During the bumpy ride home, I could feel pain at the incision area each time my hubby drove through uneven patches on the road. It was painful, really. But, I just ignored those feelings.
You see, with no painkiller taken, the wound was getting quite painful.
These are what I felt and went through after the operation,

Getting up [...]

16Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 1 comment | Continued
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Cesarean Birth 3

On second day, the staff nurse asked whether I still wanted the morphine. She noticed that I showed no sign of pain eventhough they didn’t injected the morphine after 4 hours has lapsed.
I said, no need as I don’t want to fall asleep unnecessarily.
You see, they have put my baby in a trolley bassinet beside [...]

16Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued
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Cesarean Birth 2

Before starting the Cesarean, a surgeon asked me to extend both hands for administering blood, IV, general anasthesia, oxytoxin etc.
An oxygen mask was put on my mouth and I was asked to breath in and out. Another doctor gave the general anasthesia -  one big picagari of white fluid injected through blood vein of my [...]

15Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued
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Cesarean Birth 1

Note: This a my real life story of having a Cesarean birth. It’s a rather long story, so I’ll post it bits by bits. Hope it will give an insight on how it is done and how does it feel during & after the operation.
 I gave a birth to my first baby through Cesarean section [...]

14Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued
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Flashback: Birth Story III

The operation room have lights that were so bright. And, it was extremely cold! My whole body was shaken violently due to the cold air-conditioned room.
There were so many people in the operation room (nurses and three specialist doctors). I remember one young Chinese lady doctor who was so bubbly and friendly. And, one young [...]

6Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 1 comment | Continued
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Flashback: Birth Story II

There were 6 beds in the emergency ward section. And, each of the patient was also hooked on EFM. Urgh.. the EFM were producing a lot of noises (babies heartbeats and other sounds from the mothers’ tummies).
Pregnant mothers were in and out during the 12 hours period. While I was there, I noticed:

A middle-aged Malay [...]

5Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 5 comments | Continued
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Flashback: Birth Story I

I took a one day annual leave on 28th March 2008 (Friday) due to a strong feeling to have a good rest before checking into Hospital Sungai Buloh on 31st March.
You see, due to low level of hemoglobin (red blood cell counts) and Placenta Previa Major Stage II (uri di bawah), I was scheduled to [...]

5Jun2008 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued
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HypnoBirthing II

Wai Han (from HypnoBirthing.com.my) called me a few days ago.
She invited me to join an early rush class requested by a coming-soon-due-to-give-birth mother in Bukit Rahman Putra. She said since the place is near to my house, it could be great if I could join the mother for the express HypnoBirthing class.
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31Oct2007 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued
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HypnoBirthing-The Mongan Method

If you’re been told about the negative stories of giving birth – the pain, the long labor, the painful epidural injection, the episiotomy etc. and believe that birth is a very painful process, I suggest you all to learn about HypnoBirthing – The Mongan Method technique of giving birth in a gentle way.
You can buy [...]

29Oct2007 | Little Mama™ | 0 comments | Continued