Shannon @ Day 7

 

Do I look a Cocoon??

How long I need to be swaddled like this?? *_*

 

First Smile.. ^_^

Shannon's First Smile...

Going Home..

I am ready to go home..

Daddy burping me while mummy is talking to the nurse.

Yiyi, I am going home...


..Home Sweet Home..

^_^ First Timer ^_^

Hmmm.. All our very precious first time .....

Visiting Hours

Relatives and friends filled the room with laughter and happiness!
Thanks for everything!

 

Eyes Wide Opened

Let me take a good look at this beautiful world. I was too tired yesterday to even peek at my parents. Now, I finally get to see my daddy and mummy. So who do I look like? Hmmm.. I heard that most of them say I look like daddy. Hey! It's still too early to tell isn't it? 

First Family Photo

Our First Family Photo...

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for"

Take a Closer Look at ME

I know I know.. I look SWOLLEN :)

The Very First Photo of Shannon

Shannon @ 36 minutes old - Mummy still in the operating theatre while Daddy can have a look at me before I go for a quick shower....

Mummy: Phew!! After 19hrs of labor, Shannon finally arrived. I was very upset and disappointed when the gynea said I need a caesarean. I cried uncontrollably on my way to the operating theatre. It's a scary encounter.. And I feel so awkward having so many people surrounding me during the procudure. Shannon was "pulled" out from my tummy @ 1727 and is showed to me shortly. I was glad that everything is over now and the most important thing is our precious Shannon is fair and healthy!

GOD'S GIFT

We never have contraceptives measure ever since we are married in 1996.. We thought of let it go natural. Then in 2004, we were posted to France and decided to have a baby there since I am so free there..

We visited a gynae after one year of trying, then go thru alot test and trying for another one year and finally was referred to Fertility Clinic. My fertilty "system" is certified good after all scary and painful test. While hb have low sperm count and the motibility of the sperm also no good. I think its because he got one undecended testicle lah, he is supposed to do a small operation after 1 year old but he only decended his testicle when he is 21 years old which i think its kinda of "spoilt" liao, thus cannot produce good quality sperm.

We went on for the (IVF)ICSI(Injecting a single sperm into an egg) althought we are due to go back Singapore. I was given Synarel nasel spray for about 3 weeks to suppress my hormone from ovaluting, then Gonal F injection for 2 weeks to stimulate egg productions.

At the end of 2 weeks, i have got about 11 eggs with the right size and they do a egg retriever. This is a really painful ordeal to go thru because the stupid gynae did not book the anesthesia for me.

After Egg retriever, they did the egg insemination (for my case ICSI) and luckily 9 embryos out of 11 survived! Then they transfer 2 eggs into my uteros and freeze my 7 others embryos in France.We started weekly Progestrone IM injection at the same time and need to do it for 3 mths. This time, the needle is slightly longer and thicker!! to be injected into my buttock!! sigh

After one week of rest, we flew back to singapore and wait for the result. I tested on the pregnancy stick faithfully every morning since week 1 and was confirmed pregnant after a visit to kkh. However, only one embryo managed to survive and till now i still don't know where the 2nd embryos gone. hehe

Then at first trimester scan (NT Scan), I failed the test and was told that my baby might have down symdrome with the ratio of 1 out 99 babies. Thus BO BIAN, went for the Amniocentesis Test, this time the needle is much more longer and thicker and was injected into my abdomen !!

Sometimes, i think i cannot hate or scare something in my life, the more i hate, the most likely i will get to taste it!

We are so blessed to have a postive result, so i thot pregnancy will be a breeze.. But... in the end, i need to induce labor cos its more than one week overdue.

I admitted early monday morning for induction, on Tuesday Night, I was wheeled to the delivery ward as the pain on my waist caused by the medcine is getting intense. I was checked and only 2 cm dilated! My gynae burst the waterbag thinking of the dilation will be faster and i gave in to the pain and opt for the epidural after awhile.

Wednesday @ 1630pm, after more epidural and the "laughing gas", I am only 7cm dilated!! My gynae do not want to wait anymore in case of complication and inform me that i will be going for caesarean which I am avoiding. I was still weeping when I was wheeled into OP, they injected more epidural and my mouth cannot stop trembling.Although you don't the pain during the procedure, but i still can feel the slight movement of my body.

At the BIG Moment, i heard the doc saying" ok? Ready? then... one doc behind me give a push down on my upper abdomen and the other pull from my abdomen. After a while,the nurse carried my dd for me to see and placed her cheek on mine. The feeling of that moment is really undescrible.

I thank God for giving me such a healthy and beautiful daughter.