06-29-2008, 01:39 PM
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My baby was born just before 2am on Saturday. 3.63Kg / 8lbs. It was a horrible day. Here is an email I sent to family afterwards: Quote:
What a day I had yesterday!
7:30 PM and the missus woke with evil contractions. They were every 5 minutes, and were stopping her dead in her tracks. I called work and got ready to take her to the hospital.
After she insisted on doing housework and taking a bath before we left, we never got to the hospital until around 10:30. The first thing we were told was that our doctor was at a seminar all day and could not be contacted. No biggie though right? Wrong! The bastards were trying to tell us, in their round about way, that we had to wait for our doctor because no other docs wanted to deal with the headache of labour when our regular doc had made all the money from the relatively easy monthly/weekly check-ups.
We were told that she was not in labour, and that we should come back on Monday. We had an appointment to be induced on Saturday, so this was a bit off. We were told that this was not a good idea, because the hospital is understaffed on the weekends, and they are not sure if out doc would be there. She better fucking be!
The missus had a pre-natal class at 1pm, so we went for lunch and she went to piss before going to class. She noticed that she was bleeding heavily. We went to the delivery ward again, and they were quick to offer a solution. They handed over a sanitary towel, and told us to come back on Monday. Bastards!!!
The nurse at the class saw the state the missus was in, and went apeshit. She managed to get hold of out doc, who in turn went ape. She was planning to come in on Saturday to induce and stay with us for as long as it all took. She ordered the delivery ward to take her in, and to start induction at 10pm, so our doc could attend the birth first thing.
I left at 6:30, to go and grab a few hours sleep, as were told that there was no way she was in labour, despite the pains being much stronger and much longer. I got home, cooked some food and before I started to eat I had a call from the wife: The baby was coming, and I was to get to the hospital. Fantastic. I ate and showered in 15 minutes, and was there 45 minutes after that.
The baby was coming, and the night nurses were doing their best to ignore the fact. When they did come in to assist, they did little more than get the wife to hold her legs open, and then they PUSHED DOWN ON HER STOMACH!!! It was more like squeezing a tube of toothpaste than delivering a baby. The missus was in agony.
We had signed all the paperwork saying that I would be present for the birth and would cut the cord. They obviously didn't want a foreigner in the room though - at one point they shoved me outside and drew the curtains. Fuckers. I was trying to get a friend to translate, but they heard my complaints and let me back in. Then I was handed a phone saying that the baby was coming out sideways and they needed my consent for an emergency C-Section. I gave it, and off they went.
The baby was born at 1:57am local time. I saw her 13 minutes later, was allowed to hold her and then she was taken to the nursery whilst I dealt with checking her into the hospital, and the country. I had a minor spat about them giving her a foreigner ID number, but that was fixed. Fuckers. Could have screwed her future up if that was allowed to go unchecked. She would have been ineligible for any Korean schooling, medical care, etc, with a foreigner number.
Mum came to at 4am. She was wheeled into the new private room that had finally become available. She was groggy, but wanted to know about the baby as she had not seen her or been told anything. Thankfully I had a picture to show her, and we then got 4 hours sleep. At 8am the baby also moved in the room with us (they are not allowed on the public wards, which is why we are paying for a private room).
The wife is determined to get up and about. I am determined to keep her in bed as long as possible. It should be an interesting few weeks.
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