Good Morning my love....

Good morning my love, we had waited you patiently for 9 mths and you arrived right on schedule... surprised how medical science can be so accurate....

The arrival process was quite expeditious putting the doctors and nurses off guard... According to the doctor's estimate was 2-3 hours if everything was smooth. There i was clearing up the private care room (we had upgraded earlier in the day so that at least one of us could be with her til the final moments...if not, under normal procedures here, all family members will wait at the lift lobby while the patients in labour are put into the same ward monitored by the nurse there(beyond visual range). When someone is due for the delivery, she is then wheeled in to delivery room and the family members is informed. After delivery, then the mother will be warded and depending on luck, if the mother-child ward is full, then the child will remain in the baby's ward while the mother remained at the adult ward until such time the mother-child bed is available. If not, there will be no access to the baby, not even to look til the time you are discharged. Private care room allows 1 family member to accompany the patient til delivery and if everything goes on well then the baby and the mother will return to this room for further 2 hours before transferring to a normal ward, subjecting to the conditions stated above), stuffs were flying around trying to locate items which the doctors wanted before wheeling Jessica into the delivery room. I remembered it was here and there but I could not find any. In the end, almost every contents was almost emptied out(nurse at the side keep saying,''relax relax...slowly, slowly" before the required stuffs were found. **Sweat** Pre-delivery syndrome ?? or Post labour blurs...?? Being with Jessica thru the labour meaning witnessing her scream in pain with me unable to do much.... Luckily the doctor came and said she was ready...

After they left, a nurse came over for me to sign the endorsement form or consent form (dunno what u called it) I could hear Jessica' scream across the hallway..... then silence... guess she was finally pushed into the delivery ward (dunno where is it) . After packing the room, feeling hungry, i finished Jessica's untouched dinner and just when i settled comfortably into the couch, SMSing all the kins about the progress, the nurse came in with a baby in hand, "Congrats... it's a gal"

I was totally stunned....thought supposed to be 2-3 hrs ? It's just 45 mins or so since she last left.....The nurse started to joke, "Yeah she came in 20 mins... we were all caught in a mess... she already had her jabs done".... and then the nurse carried the baby back to the mother..

After that sms start buzzing out to all our folks announcing the arrival of our latest member into the family, Carissa Ong , 王卿雅.

Guessed I waited for another 20 mins before the mother and baby is wheeled in together. Finally I got the chance to take a close look at her, she was the centre of arguement between us for 9 mths... boy or gal. Coming to Shanghai for delivery means the sex of the baby is unknown to the parents til the baby is borned. For the past few months we had to get 2 sets of everything or we settle for neutral colours haha... Yes, we had a boy's name in mind and hope we get to use it on our number 2 if it materialise the right way. ;p

I managed to catch her yawn,sneeze, cry...and of course sleeping... she is still sleeping so soundly... lazily opening one eye to see who is carrying her occasionally....and then falling back into sleep.

So far so good.... hope she will not become the terror that I had heard of newborns in the next 1 mth or so haha...

Then came the unfortunate news is that all the wards are full, so baby is to remain at the baby ward while Jessica is transferred to the adult ward, but due to insufficient bed space in the ward, she would had to settle by the corridor.... *faint*

Luckily when we arrived at the ward, someone checked out early, so we managed to get a space in the ward, but still no mother-child ward yet. But at least we settle for some much needed rest while we wait for the bed to become available. Jessica is scheduled to stay til monday, if no beds became available... we will not be able to see our daughter til the day she discharged. ( si mi law lai ay ????!@#$%$#^%%$^^%&^#) so in the mean time crossed our fingers and hope the bed becomes available soon.


Here's some of Carissa's first few moments ...






Can someone tell me how singapore/malaysia system works ??