Fatin's Journal: Hello Baby Wira!

Assalamualaikum... How are you people? I'm fine. My kids are happy and my hubby is in the house. yes, he is not travelling abroad this week. I can sleep with him every night though I'll go to sleep first and he will stays up late, attending his work. But I'm blessed!

On 18 May 2013, my big family welcomed a new addition, Wira bin Syarimie. The first son my my beloved cousin and the second child in their family. Syarimie, or I call him Imie, is my cousin that I treat like my own big brother. We grew up together by our grandparents. Our parents are so close and when we started dating, we always double date. His wife, Suraya, is my good friend. The three of us attended the same university.

Rambut lebat

Hidung mancung

Maleec is enjoying Anggun's toys room

The mess

On that day itself, I was scheduled to fly to Seoul, Korea. Yes, I went to South Korea. And I'll blog about my visit very soon! So stay tune!!!

Suraya was due a day before, but the baby was still comfortably stayed in his mother's womb. I called her on that and promised her that I'll stop by to her house tomorrow, before I fly off to Seoul. Unfortunately, my car couldn't get started because of the battery. And I have a lot of packing work to be done.

When I reached my phone to call Suraya, I saw a message from Imie that Suraya is safely delivered a healthy baby boy. I called him up and he told me that Suraya delivered the baby through normal mannered. However, Suraya had been bleeding heavily since the delivery. I couldn't give any advise since I never experience that before. Right after returning from my mother's house (I went back to fetch the kids since I left them to their grandparents while I ent to South Korea), I went to pay her a visit.

Suraya told me the story which still haunt me till now. I wish to have a daughter some day, but her story made me think twice. Here's what happen. I jot it down in point form as I'm afraid I might miss out few things if I write it in para.

1. 17 May 2013- Suraya met her gynae and seek for advise. The baby is exactly 40 weeks today. The doctor said that it is not possible that she is giving birth today. Therefore he performed sweeping technique. You can read more about it here.

2. 18 May 2013, 6am - Suraya felt the pain and contraction. Imie sent Anggun, their daughter, to her grandparents' house. Later Imie sent Suraya to the hospital. She was sent straight to the labor room. The nurse reported that Suraya is 6cm dilated.

3. 18 May 2013, 8am- Suraya was fully dilated. The doctor, nurses, Suraya and Imie, all were ready to welcome the precious baby. Suraya pushed few times but the baby isn't out yet. While pushing, Suraya heard a loud beeps at a machine that monitor the baby's heart beat. Suraya saw the doctor's eyes were glaring and heard that the doctor instructored the nurses to look for pediatrician. Suraya also heard the announcement from the PA system that pediatrician is needed urgently to her labor room. The doctor said to Suraya, 'Ummi, you have to push hard now. Your baby has no heart beat.' With the pressure from the doctor and the energy that left, she pushed. But there was no cooperation from the baby. The doctor vacuum the baby out as she could see that Suraya couldn't help to push any longer. The baby was out and the nurses were working on the baby. Later the pediatrician arrived. Actually, the baby's umbilical cord came out first, before the head. With that, the baby had not enough oxygen and lost his consciousness.

4. 18 May 2013, late morning - Suraya been pushed to her ward. She complained to the nurses that she still felt the contraction, as strong as when she was about to deliver. The nurses checked her wound and pressed her stomach. The nurses told her that it is normal and gave her pain relief pills. Suraya had to keep on changing her sanitary pad since it was soaking wet with blood.

5. 18 May 2013, late evening - The gynae came to check on her. She told the doctor about the bleeding. The doctor checked on her wound and pressed her stomach. She put her hand in her vagina, searching for the source of the blood. Suraya was losing her consciousness. Her blood pressure was dropping. And was almost dozed off, the gynae instructed he to sign a consent paper and explained that she has to through a surgery.

6. 19 May 2013, morning - Suraya was awake, in the ICU room. The doctor explained that she just went through a minor surgery. They found a cut/tear in her vagina. This is might due to the vacuum machine entering her vagina roughly. So Suraya been stitched twice; one when the delivery and the other one during the operation. As she lost too much blood, she went through blood transfusion and four bags of blood is inserted through her vein.

7. 19 May 2013, afternoon - Imie was called to the hospital to sign a consent form for the baby to go through a minor surgery. Apparently there is air in the baby's lung. The lung was pushing the heart further and for a longer period it will crash the heart. The air was in the lung perhaps due the massage performed by the doctor and nurses to gain the heart beat.

8. 22 May 2013 - Suraya and her baby, Wira, were discharged from the hospital.

Oh my! I'm happy that both mother and child are healthy. Baby Wira looks like his daddy a lot. Love love love you guys!