Jasmine Birth Story
Jasmine Birth Story
My husband, Jimmy aka Iskandar and I have lived in Ho Chi Minh City for about 1 year plus, when the due date for our second baby finally had arrived. Prior to that day, we had many talks about pros and cons about giving birth in here. This was natural; we asked some stories from other expatriates giving birth here. Here, we didn’t have a lot of choices for good maternity hospital. However we ended up choosing FV hospital because it near to our place, 5 mins distance and I heard it one of some good hospitals here. The equipment is good as it bring by France tech.
In order to be properly prepared, my husband and me have asked the hospital for procedure during the admittance, and for me I have packed baby and my stuff to bring to hospital earlier to avoid any important thing that might be left out. Frankly, I can’t hope my husband to bring my stuff, or it will end up with frustration.
On March 21, I gave birth to 2.73kg Princess Jasmine Sufi Toor with joy. My water broke at 3.00am when I was about to sleep after had some chat with jimmy after he returned from work that late nite (morning). I had a calm situation because I didn’t have any contraction during that time. I grabbed my hospital bag then left to hospital. The admittance process when smoothly, I got my labour room and admittance room the moment I registered at the hospital. After we have settled with admittance, jimmy send syarah to my friend’s house, cause I worried jimmy cant handle the situation during the labour. Goodness this clever girl understand the situation, even she said good luck to me before she left. This was the moment I started to cried, I was so scared and terrified to give birth, the pain and I started to think all the negatives. I pray to Allah for everything and I just cried and cried and cried because I was so scared. At about 6.30am I started to feel the contractions, and it’s not so bad so I didn’t take the epidural cause I wanted to feel how bad it would hurt this time (sound foolish ya ). At 7.38 am the freak moment came, I shouted for epidural because I feel so hurt, but it’s too late, I dilated quite fast, in not even 5 mins I got from 6 cm to 8cm. When it’s 8 cm, I shouted that I was so hurt and I knows it was the time, I did the push job and….. I was fainted for few seconds and when I woke up, I heard jimmy asked to push one more time. I did 2 push job, then the baby came out. It was 8.03am the 2nd most precious gift jimmy and me got from god. The doctor put the baby on my tummy before he handed to the nurse to clean up. Jimmy cut the cord and watched the whole thing. He kept saying that he love me so much and adore me because I have gave birth to his 2 princess. He was like “it was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. I admire you so much”. I love and admire you too darling.
To my two lovely princess Syarah and Jasmine, mummy and daddy love u so much.
