Week 5: Diary of an Incredible Mum – The arrival!

Can someone tell me now how some mothers managed to have more than a child? Maybe your answer might encourage me to go for another round after this. Hmmmmm…seeing a mother of five (5), seven (7), eleven (11)…these days is amazing to me. Please don’t say I am exaggerating because I have a friend who is the eleventh child of her mother and father and she doesn’t have a set of twins or triplets as siblings.  What!? How did they survive the birth drama which is full of different episodes (from ‘you are at the tip’ till you get to 10cm wide)? During delivery no mother will like to think of the phrase ‘Oliver Twist’. Do I have a witness? I read all sorts before that but as they say, experience is the best teacher indeed.

As a first time mother, blowing air, breathing in and out and all sorts sounds easy. In reality, 10cm wide is not a 10 minute-joke, except when you are really favoured. To some of us, it is not even a 10 hour-job but at least I made it after I was ‘induced’ (no, not induced, I can’t remember the right terminology) twice by my Doctor.

Let me whisper to you again, I was told to go for a pelvic scan few days before my EDD majorly because of my petite stature or small frame as one of the doctors described me but I didn’t. Not because I wanted to be heady but I was not ready to be scheduled for a caesarian section…I really wanted to attempt normal delivery before anything. This is risky though but I made it. Thank God for God (lol) and the support of my loving husband and professionals on duty.

Enough stories about the hullabaloo which is easily forgotten after the arrival of the child. As soon as I heard the cry of my son after the third push, tears started rolling down my cheek. Seeing him alone lifted my spirit, I was ready to jump and hold and cuddle but I had to wait for the placenta to be out and a thorough ‘clean up’ to be done. He was placed on my chest, tiny and perfect, the best creature I have ever seen or imagined. Perfect eyes, nose, mouth, ear, hair colour and perfect everything. I love him with all my heart. This is a perfect description of love at first sight. It was and is a nice experience that cannot be described.

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