Wow... that was slightly unexpected! My brother, Brendan was staying with us in Sydney, and we were still three weeks early of our due date. We had a full weekend planned: board games and drinks on Friday night, Dim Sum Saturday morning, going out Saturday night... we didn't expect an early arrival. Dzung's waters broke at 2am on Thursday night, after which neither of us could sleep. Brendan was asleep in the other room, unaware of what was going on. By the time we'd got up in the morning, he was already off to work, and back in Perth by the time the baby arrived.
We hung around the house Friday morning, trying to take it easy and make sure everything was packed. Eventually we decided to go in to hospital so the baby could be monitored, as Dzung hadn't felt it moving for a while, which panicked us a bit. Of course, nothing was wrong, and when we arrived they told us that Dzung was 4cm dilated and we weren't to go home again. Painful contractions started soon after we arrived, so our timing was pretty good.
Dzungy did such a great job, and it was only when she was almost fully dilated that she asked for an epidural, which means she was experiencing the absolute worst of the pain, and decided she didn't want to contnue that experience. Luckily it was 4pm on a Friday, so it literally took five minutes and three contractions for the pain relief to do its work.
After that, the labour slowed down, as they do. But, after a lot more work, our little baby girl arrived at 9:33pm. For those mum and dad statisticians out there, she weighed in at 2.533kg, and was 46cm long. For the midwives out there, "crickey, she's a small one".
We're all going great, we're over the moon and loving every minute of it. We're at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital for Women, which is on Barker Street in Randwick. Right now, we're staying in the birthing suite, because, believe it or not, all the rooms are full, and five of the six birthing suites are being used for new mums and bubs. Wouldn't like to be arriving to give birth today!
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