hello again all!
k i don't have much time to come online now, as i'm in my "confinement" period. not sure if they have this in the UK and the US, but the Malay culture has it that if you have a baby, you have to be in confinement period for 44 days! that means no leaving the room for 44 days, eating only selected types of food (more like fish in black pepper and vege all the way) and also going through hot stone massages and bathing with water mixed with herbs etc.
so i only get to steal time every once in a while when the confinement lady (we have this lady who comes to do the cooking, the bath water, the massages) goes downstairs to prepare food or to heat up the massaging stone.
anyhuuu, it was a gruelling 8-9hours of labour for me. got a jab, and also epidural, only to find out that it wasnt the contractions that was causing me pain. Little alisha's head was tilted up hence she was pressing against the back of my cervix and my pelvic bone. So no amount of epidural helped.
But, in the end, she came out a healthy pink baby with just three pushes!! so yay!!
to date, i have not done a single diaper change, nor have i bathed her, or changed her clothes etc. My husband's the bestest. he does ALL of that. even the waking up in the middle of the night to change her diapers. All i do is feed the baby, lol.
here are more pictures of tiny alisha on my husband's facebook
https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=139038&id=577733528
Lea, good luck!! GOOOOOOO PUDAH!!