That was the most fearsome part of post natal, in my opinion. How on earth am I going to manage 2 babies in the middle of the night, and what if they both wake up at different times?
Thank goodness, they have been wonderful. They wake up only once between 11pm and 6am, and they do wake up together. And yes, you can bottle feed at the same time. Illustration another time.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Sounds weird but yes, I've got 3!
This time around, I haven't got any gory pictures for this show and tell session. Even without any pictures to qualify for it, I did deliver my girls on the 9th April 2010, as promised. It was an uneventful day, I had more worries about Eddie than the impending birth of my twins.
Unsurprisingly, there were administration hiccups at the hospital. It was not too bad, I arrived at about 11am and was supposed to have my surgery a about 2pm. As the staff prepared me for my surgery, my ob-gyn was paged to attend another emergency delivery.
There I was, sitting on the metal cold surgery table. I couldn't lie down, as it was physically impossible. I did not realise how narrow surgery table was until then. The nurses in the operating theatre were very nice, and we were chit-chatting about what they were going to have for dinner. The anaesthetist turned up as he was oblivious to the news that surgery has been postponed. Good that he did, so I used the opportunity to tell him that I did not want my wrists bound during the surgery. Gasp, I know, that's another story for another day.
We waited for almost an hour before the doctor finally came. The anaesthetist stepped in for the job. I may not have had many spinal anaethesia for that compared to the first one I had 2 years ago, was not as pleasant. Even after the first pin-pricked injection, I could feel the liquid gushing into my spinal column. It was not painful, but rather an unpleasant sensation.
My ob-gyn proceeded to cut me up, which was still alright. However half way through the surgery, I had the oddest sensation in my legs. It feels exactly like the numbness before the pins and needles? You couldn't quite feel your leg but you do? Get what I mean. So here goes, I felt no pain but that sensation drove me nuts. So I got extremely agitated and kept telling the doctor how uncomfortable I was feeling and they must do something about it. I felt like getting up and reach out for my legs, but I could not do that as half my body was paralysed from the anaesthesia. You could imagine the feeling of helplessness. The only thing the anesthetist could do was to feed me for drugs to make me drowsy.
Thank goodness all went well, and I recovered with itch all over my body. Apparently that was the side effect from the drugs. Nurses and the services were crap. Insufficient communication between the nurses and the doctors, shortage of nurses. In the 3 days and 2 nights I was there, I was served 2 bowls of rice porridge (lukewarm), lots of milo and crackers. Crap.
Unsurprisingly, there were administration hiccups at the hospital. It was not too bad, I arrived at about 11am and was supposed to have my surgery a about 2pm. As the staff prepared me for my surgery, my ob-gyn was paged to attend another emergency delivery.
There I was, sitting on the metal cold surgery table. I couldn't lie down, as it was physically impossible. I did not realise how narrow surgery table was until then. The nurses in the operating theatre were very nice, and we were chit-chatting about what they were going to have for dinner. The anaesthetist turned up as he was oblivious to the news that surgery has been postponed. Good that he did, so I used the opportunity to tell him that I did not want my wrists bound during the surgery. Gasp, I know, that's another story for another day.
We waited for almost an hour before the doctor finally came. The anaesthetist stepped in for the job. I may not have had many spinal anaethesia for that compared to the first one I had 2 years ago, was not as pleasant. Even after the first pin-pricked injection, I could feel the liquid gushing into my spinal column. It was not painful, but rather an unpleasant sensation.
My ob-gyn proceeded to cut me up, which was still alright. However half way through the surgery, I had the oddest sensation in my legs. It feels exactly like the numbness before the pins and needles? You couldn't quite feel your leg but you do? Get what I mean. So here goes, I felt no pain but that sensation drove me nuts. So I got extremely agitated and kept telling the doctor how uncomfortable I was feeling and they must do something about it. I felt like getting up and reach out for my legs, but I could not do that as half my body was paralysed from the anaesthesia. You could imagine the feeling of helplessness. The only thing the anesthetist could do was to feed me for drugs to make me drowsy.
Thank goodness all went well, and I recovered with itch all over my body. Apparently that was the side effect from the drugs. Nurses and the services were crap. Insufficient communication between the nurses and the doctors, shortage of nurses. In the 3 days and 2 nights I was there, I was served 2 bowls of rice porridge (lukewarm), lots of milo and crackers. Crap.
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