Mommy discharged without Calyce

today from the hospital.  Calyce was diagnosed with high jaundice level (11.6) this morning by the PD and we were advised to leave her in the hospital for observation and phototherapy.  

Recalling what have happened for the past three days as time flies in a flash.  I started to have labor contractions and sleepless night on the 9th Feb itself after 3am.  Similar to Cepheus, both kiddos just refuse to let me have a 'painless' procedure probably knowing that i am going through c-sec.  However, both are just as guai as to come out on the planned date itself and not earlier.

I was wheeled into the OT at around 745am, as i have opted for LA (LSCS with Spinal) earlier on, i was filled with anxiety and nervousness.  After i was given the injection in the spinal, i was numbed from waist down, and when my gynae first cut me up, i just freaked out although there was no reasonable pain, but i freaked out due to the feeling of the tugging and pulling and i just cried out and shout very pain!  The anesthetist have no choice but to 'shut me up' with laughing gas which makes me 'blurred' out for awhile. And although Dear told me that i did kiss Calyce on the nose twice.. i couldnt recall anything at all.  After i was fully awake and conscious in my room, i was told that Calyce weighed a good 3.5 kg which was a big baby and that my gynae actually have problem pulling her out of my tummy due to the size and have to 'forcep' her out..

I stayed in a 2 bedder room for the first half of the day after the op and was later transferred to our one bedder as per request as when we checked in earlier, there were simply no vacancy for any one bedder except those premier wards at SGD1688 per night rate!  Staying in a one bedder was really an experience for me as when Cepheus was born, i have to stay in a 6-bedder non air con ward due to the high expensive operation costs involved.  I am so glad that we stayed in a one bedder this time, as there were so much more privacy and freedom in a one bedder compared to a shared room.  The food in Thomson was just so-so only but the best that i am missing right now is the 'papaya fish soup' that they served me everyday which was yummy!  Dear doesnt like the food at all and claims that he actually lose weight these few days as he was not fed well enough in the hospital!

The nurses at Thomson were friendly and professional as one of them actually helped me off bed and to the toilet itself and encouraged me to pee and shit on the second day itself!  But there are also certain nurses that simply 'bo-chap' with a bad attitude.. but overall, most of the nurses there are kind and helpful still.  I do not really think that they are very pro-breastfeeding as they do not really help me much in lactating this time round, compared to NUH which is very professional and pro in breastfeeding.  

Oh yah, this is also the first time in my life that i ever knew i was ever allergic to something, and its a painkiller called 'Synflex'.  I suffered from a swollen eye for good two days while on that painkiller.. Oh yah! the hospital is supposed to give me a letter noting down my allergy but they have forgotten to do that!  i am going to demand that from them tomorrow when i go down to visit Calyce.  Thinking of that.. the nurses there can be quite blur as well.. as they always forgot to give me things requested and today i even waited for 2 hours just to discharge (waiting to pay for my bill) only to be informed by the senior nurse that i can be discharged without paying first since Calyce is still in hospital and i could opt to settle the bill once and for all when she is discharged...