Baby-to-go 2: Epidural, baby!

blog-2009-baby-P1000699 Would you believe it… I’m typing this with one hand, and standing outside the birth room. I got chased out by the nurses… yet again.

The nurses walking past me are looking at me real funny at this guy balancing on one hand a netbook that’s hooked up to an iphone and a Starhub USB dongle, and the other hand typing away LOL.

Ling’s too funny. A couple of months ago she’d been reading up loads of stuff on having natural births. So, typical conversations in the car when we were heading back home went like this:

“Darling, I’m thinking of going natural for Hannah’s birth.”

“Are you sure you’d be able to bear the pain of contractions? I thought you have a low threshold for pain, dear?”

“I can one. No problem!”

30 minutes after we got to TMC and I’d completed registration at the front floor counter, she was wincing in pain, and saying “Wah lau. Cannot tahan @@$%#@!” LOL.

So she got everything short of gas. The doctor administering the epidural completed the procedure an hour ago. It’s apparently a lot more bearable now, and she can manage conversations too.

Dilation at 5 cm now too, and her water bag just broke 10 minutes ago. Sure is quick!