Baby Renzo Chan on National Day?

From the visit from last week, we knew that our week 38 visit to Tow Yung Clinic is going to be an exciting one. Last week, our gynae, Dr Lim Teck Chye, told us that he will be checking Feli for her dilation and to see if it was time for Renzo to be born.

So excitedly, we trotted pass the shopping arcades down the all-so-familiar route to Tanglin Shopping Centre. Feli and I arrived later than usually do, and to our pleasure, before long, it was our turn to see Dr Lim.

The nurse guided Feli pass the drawn curtains, settled her onto the bed and then ushered me in. Dr Lim emerged from the other room where he just finished consultation with another couple. He gently pressed onto Feli's belly and announced that he predicts Renzo to be about 3.6 to 3.7kg and joked that it must be because Feli is eating real well... making Feli wonder what made Dr Lim think so...haha. A routine scan to hear Renzo's heartbeat soon follows and then the nurse requested that I get back to the seat while Dr Lim examines Feli.

Feli's cervix has opened up just 1 cm and Renzo is not engaged (i.e. His head has not yet entered the birth canal) but Dr Lim said that as Feli's blood pressure is slightly high, he suggests induced labour (as opposed to 100% natural labour), earlier than the expected due date of 22nd August. He gave us a range between 12th August 2009 to 14th August 2009 and explains that Feli should be admitted to Thomson Medical Centre on that chosen date's 00:00 hour because hospitals charge by the day (LoL...) and by doing so, we pay for one less day as compared to if we admitted one day before. He will then arrive at about 08:00 to manually burst the water bag and begin the process.

Well... in a way we got a choice on which date Renzo's Birthday will fall on. I didn't like number 13 and Feli doesn't like 14... so after a discussion that lasted for less than 30 seconds, we decided that 12th August will be the date that we will have to mark on our calendar for the rest of our lives.

He again recited the 6 symptoms that would indicate that we need to go to the hospital to us, "2 in the head, headache and dizziness. 2 in the eyes, blur vision and seeing stars. 2 in the stomach, regular pains or feel of vomiting". Feli immediately informed him of her recent star seeing and feel of vomiting. And when she highlighted that she's having a "contraction kind of pain" (self-proclaimed as she doesn't really know the feeling of real contraction), a shocked Dr Lim enquired on the frequency. Feli's pain was almost a daily thing, though not an unbearable pain, but the menstrual-pain-like feeling isn't something all pregnant ladies have.

Smilingly, Dr Lim said "Good. Go take a CTG test and I'll be seeing you again later." Ah hah... Following my not-so-entertaining-one-hour experience from our previous CTG experience, I know well enough not to hang around there waiting. So i went on to Orchard Ion for the first time and damned, that place is big... 8 Levels of Shopping Paradise for the lonely father-to-be... LoL

The one hour passed and we stepped into the consultation room with Dr Lim again. He took a hard look at the CTG graph and gently told us, "(Judging from the contractions) We might be meeting tonight... But if baby decides not to, then it'll remain as planned... 12th."

For those who are interested on how to read the graph, the top half of the graph is the readings of baby's heartbeat and the bottom half is the contractions of mummy. Dr Lim mentioned that Feli's contractions are still irregular and from the graph (1cm/2 little box = 1 min), it certainly seems that way... lol...

*GASP* Renzo has a chance to be a national day baby!!!

( Mittens, Booties & Baby Scissors courtesy of TMC... passed to us by the clinic assistant as we informed her that we can cancel our week 39 appointment scheduled last week)