Earlier this month, I've been feeling extremely tired and my belly was cutting off the circulation of my left leg. I was having difficulty in walking but couldn't really take it easy with a toddler around the house. I started to feel what I thought were braxton hicks contractions. My belly would stiffen up and felt hard like a basketball. It didn't feel like contractions at all. It felt as though my belly was too small for my growing baby!
By Tuesday, as I was having lunch with my good friend, Jen, I was exhausted. I am so thankful that Jen was persistent and told me to start preparing. With alot of convincing, I finally went out and got some newborn diapers and started on my hospital bag. I still figured I had 3 more weeks till the due date!!!
All of our baby stuff was shipped to Shanghai and just arrived to Jonathan's company warehouse that week. We haven't gotten around to pick it up since we've been busy with Halloween stuff and figured we would have time to pick it up that weekend.
Little did we know that I will go into labor Wednesday nite. I started to feel pain earlier in the day and thought that maybe I had digestive problems. Every day I usually pick up Kyle (Jonathan's youngest brother) from football practice and on that day, I told him that starting tomorrow I wouldn't be able to pick him up. I was too tired carrying Akemi into the car seat and driving the short 15 min to school to get him everyday. Ironically I didn't think it would be my last day to get him anyways.
By 10pm, I started to realize that the 'gas' pains were not going away. I took a hot shower to see if it would subside and it didn't. By the time I realize what was going on, my contractions were 5 mins apart. It only took an hour or so to be at that rate.
It is definitely not easy packing the hospital bag in between contractions!!!! I called my doctor's office and the on call doctor asked me to wait till the contractions were 5 mins apart for an hour. From the 1st pregnancy, I was like 'no way, I'm not waiting till then'. We went right to the hospital.
I thought I was 37 weeks already into the pregnancy, but after calculations, the oncall doctor said I was 36 weeks and 4 days. Because I didn't make the 37th week, the baby was considered preterm and he was wanted to hold off my delivery. He blabbed about how if the baby came early, she might have to go to the NICU and I won't see her for 2 weeks. He basically scared me to delay the delivery. I agreed to the medicine to try to subside the contractions but after 4 hours of the stuff, AYUMI was determined to still come!!
The nurse convinced the doctor that was I was 2 cm dilated and I was admitted into the hospital. 6 hours later after the medicine subsided, Ayumi arrived screaming into the world!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Ayumi Fu is Born!!
Our second daughter, Ayumi Chloe Fu, was born on November 5, 2009. She was technically a "pre-late term" baby since she was delivered at 36 weeks and 4 days (anything under 37 weeks is considered pre-term). But according to all the nurses and doctors, she appears to be full term and perfectly normal.
It's been four days since she was born. I preparing myself mentally the first couple sleepness nights. Its all sort of fuzzy in my head, but I have memories of Akemi constanly crying when we were in the hospital, so Karen and I never got any sleep. But Ayumi was very quiet for the most part. Whenever she was in her bassinet, she just slept peacefully or made very little noise.
So I was pleasantly surprised with our stay in the hospital. Karen and I actually got to watch a netflix movie on my laptop and catch up on a lot of Law & Order.
Ok...so the hospital stay wasn't too bad. But I still had to go back to reality which was a hyper-active 22 month year old waiting for me at home. I wasn't sure what to expect. Would she be jealous and have temper tantrums? Would she let me put her to sleep (she always wants Mommy)?
Surprisingly, Akemi has taken very well to Ayumi. Of course its too early to say. Even the pediatrician said that the first week would be fine, but once the novelty wore off, we should expect some resistance from Akemi. She let me give her a batch and put her to sleep, despite some crying.
I was also worried about Karen, who was in quite a bit more post partum pain then she was hoping for. Again, I had these fuzzy memories of the first few days home with Akemi, and all I remember was constant crying. But we have been lucky so far today that Ayumi for the most part does not cry very much. This has allowed Karen to actually shower today, have dinner with me and Akemi, and watch some TV (for thost of you who don't have kids, you probably won't appreciate what I am saying).
Today I took Akemi to Kids Space so Karen could stay home and rest. I had alot fun just hanging out with her. I was a bit tired, but nothing a couple cups of coffee and diet cokes, couldn't remedy. I was able to take a short nap when we got back since Akemi knocked out around 12:30 on the way home.
I hope I am not jinxing myself with this blog. Its onl'y been two days since we got home, so its still to early to start planning my next vacation. But so far so good..:)
Jonathan
It's been four days since she was born. I preparing myself mentally the first couple sleepness nights. Its all sort of fuzzy in my head, but I have memories of Akemi constanly crying when we were in the hospital, so Karen and I never got any sleep. But Ayumi was very quiet for the most part. Whenever she was in her bassinet, she just slept peacefully or made very little noise.
So I was pleasantly surprised with our stay in the hospital. Karen and I actually got to watch a netflix movie on my laptop and catch up on a lot of Law & Order.
Ok...so the hospital stay wasn't too bad. But I still had to go back to reality which was a hyper-active 22 month year old waiting for me at home. I wasn't sure what to expect. Would she be jealous and have temper tantrums? Would she let me put her to sleep (she always wants Mommy)?
Surprisingly, Akemi has taken very well to Ayumi. Of course its too early to say. Even the pediatrician said that the first week would be fine, but once the novelty wore off, we should expect some resistance from Akemi. She let me give her a batch and put her to sleep, despite some crying.
I was also worried about Karen, who was in quite a bit more post partum pain then she was hoping for. Again, I had these fuzzy memories of the first few days home with Akemi, and all I remember was constant crying. But we have been lucky so far today that Ayumi for the most part does not cry very much. This has allowed Karen to actually shower today, have dinner with me and Akemi, and watch some TV (for thost of you who don't have kids, you probably won't appreciate what I am saying).
Today I took Akemi to Kids Space so Karen could stay home and rest. I had alot fun just hanging out with her. I was a bit tired, but nothing a couple cups of coffee and diet cokes, couldn't remedy. I was able to take a short nap when we got back since Akemi knocked out around 12:30 on the way home.
I hope I am not jinxing myself with this blog. Its onl'y been two days since we got home, so its still to early to start planning my next vacation. But so far so good..:)
Jonathan
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