13-July-2010 6am, I went to the toilet & could felt gashing liquid flow out from me. Checked the toilet bowl, not much bleeding, thought of amniotic sac burst came to my mind. Cleaned up, went back to bed for a while and could felt the contraction shortly after. Told Brian the incident and told him we need to either go hospital or clinic 1st thing in the morning. Gave ourselves some time to get ready, sent Beatrice to school, call up the emergency number given by the clinic. Gynea called back shortly, explained to him what happened and he told us to see him at the clinic at 9am when it opens.
Reached the clinic at 8.45am, waited for them to open. Gynea checked the amniotic fluid, baby, placenta etc, told us to be admitted to hospital immediately. Could see the drastic change in amniotic sac size from the scan. He mentioned there was a leaked, should be due to infection. Gave me a double dosage jab to stop the contraction & further bleeding.
At the hospital, went through the tests, given anti-biotics, bedrest, pray & confess. Waited for gynea to drop by during lunch to explain. The test confirmed an infection, cause of infection not known. He asked us to be mentally prepared for the worse.
14-July-2010, gynea came in the morning. Given green light to at least walk to the toilet, and that was the only place. He told the nurse to arrange for a scan to check the amniotic fluid volume. By noon, bleeding stop. Evening, nurse explained amniotic fluid volume too low.
15-July-2010 3.30am: Woken up by the contraction. Told the nurse, they monitor on CTG & told me nothing, very mild.
4.30am: Told the nurse the intensity has increased & bleeding too, asked me to monitor again.
5.30am: Told the nurse more intense than 4.30am, can they called up my gynea & check with him. They put me on CTG again, this time round, they asked for help from labour ward & they managed to detect that I'm having contraction. ~faint~
6.30am: They decided to inform my gynea. Message Brian about the contraction.
7.30am: Brian came. Ask them for pain killer or something. Told me instruction not given, gynea on the way. Argh!
8am: Ask the nurse to call my gynea for some form of pain killer! Throw out the water that I drank earlier & bleeding was horrifying!! I myself was shock by the amount of clot blood & bleeding. Nurse came back with a jab to relieve some pain. (Based on 1st pregnancy experience, I'm not one that can take contraction pain even if it's mild to them on CTG). Well, not much relieve anyway.
8.30am: Gynea call the ward to ask why is patient not in labour ward? They then decided to push me to labour ward. Gynea came, explained the situation to us. Asked for epidural. By this time, the pain was almost unbearable.
9.30am: Epidural given, relieve on my face. The midwives told Brian, she was so pale before the epidural, now she looks so much better. But due to the earlier jab & epidural (double drowsy), my eyes could hardly open the moment epidural was given. They asked me a few questions, and I think I answered correctly.
11am: Contraction intensity increase, asked for higher dosage of epidural. The junior nurse told me only doctor can make decision. Tell her off, ask her to call the senior nurse that has been attending to me previously. Haha! Dosage increased. The next few hours is basically waiting game till gynea came by again.
3pm: Gynea came. Brian decided not to see the procedure which I think it's good for him too. For myself, I decided not to see the foetus but somehow I can still see from some angle. Delivered the foetus in 1 simple push. It's then another waiting game for an operating theatre to do D&C (dilation and curettage).
5pm: D&C. The theatre bed.. I thought I was in space! The nurse was trying to tilt the bed so that the epidural can flow to my left leg which I was still able to move then. But somehow she doesn't know how to control the ball-bearing and I was "flying" in all direction.. left, right, head down, legs down. She apologised. Then they adjusted my lower body to my gynea eye level.. head down! My gynea told the nurse.. "Hello, she is awake, do you know how uneasy it is to be head down?" They then adjusted me back to level. Chatted a little with my gynea at the op theatre during the 15min procedure.
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