It's Time

Time to start pushing....

Nurse is preparing the room.

Epidural Time

Dr. Tan stopped by around lunch and at around 6:00pm and Oked the epidural. Christine's not quite dialated to the 4cm mark yet so looks like we've got a ways to go. From what I hear the first 4cm are the toughest and from there it's about 1cm an hour 'till whenver. I guess contractions really hurt because she doesn't like my jokes :) she just tells me to shush.

She tooks some narcotics through the IV that helped the pain however they were short term fixes that lasted about an hour. Geez preganancy is tough because she's been vomiting and just not feeling well at all.

So to ease the pain she's going the natural US route via epidural. Hey if they got it then use it. So now her BP has dropped from the 150-160s to the 120s after the epidural and she's not feeling pain. Hopefully she can get some rest for the main event, according to the doctors once the epi is applied then it will last throughout the labor.

As for me, I've had a large coffee and I'm working on a Venti Latte to make it through the next step. The video camera is ready to go and the elph has batteries...

Broken Water

Around 9:30am Dr. Tan broke Christine's water, so we're moving along the process. Her contractions are more frequent so NOW she knows what they feel like. The baby should come out sometime today according to the nurse, Dr Tan will be back around lunchtime to check on Christine.

Induction

We've begun the induction process. According to the Doctor she should be delivering by tomorrow so we've moved rooms and we are not in the maternity ward. Christine is now on an IV drip just in case we need to do a C section but so far it should be a natural delivery...

We've been Yelping

Lately we've been spending a lot of time on www.yelp.com , it's kinda like myspace but you write reviews about places you've been such as restaurants, stores, etc. I try to bring Christine different foods that we find on Yelp, today we had Frozen Yogurt at "I Love Yogurt" in Cupertino. I'm probably gonna give it 3-4 stars when I write about it :) In any case we are alllllmmmost there.

Check out our yelps at:

http://seasian.yelp.com

http://tinytinc.yelp.com

We're almost there

As of Saturday Christine was 34 weeks along. We checked back in the hospital at approximately 32 weeks. The plan of the Doctors was to induce at the 34th week because it was the optimal point for both Baby and Mother. The reason for the induction is not the overall bloodpressure which has been creeping up and averaging in the high 130/low 140 over 80/90s. The reason for induction is for excess spillage of protein into the urine. This essentially means that the kidneys are working overtime to support mother and baby. Normal protein levels are below 150 and Christine's has gone from the 600s to 700s to 800s and most recently 1100s. This is still considered mild, nevertheless concerning. Quite frankly the doctor has asked us what we are waiting for because many babies are delivered at the 34th week, so we had every intention at delivering at 34 weeks.

Now the Doctors have told us it should be ok to push it back to 36 weeks unless a severe headache sets in which is always a symptom of pre-eclampsia. So I would expect us to induce within the next 12 days.

Well I guess I have to start learning how to change diapers :) Christine and I still haven't decided on a name yet because we just can't agree on one. I'm sure we'll figure it out when he comes. So cross your fingers so we can make it another 12 days and wrap up this rollercoaster ride!

A Surprise Baby Shower

Last night, my closest friends came to visit and threw us a little surprise Baby Shower! It was a lovely surprise! They brought food and even decorated our hospital room! They brought lots of wonderful gifts for baby! It was totally unexpected and opening the presents and seeing all the cute little clothes for baby made everything so real! I don't think it hit both Tom and me that we're actually going to be parents soon until we started seeing onesies, bibs and bottles! I can't believe we're going to have a baby any day now!

The baby shower was such a great surprise! It was the highlight of my week! We had a great time! Thank you all for your continued love, support and all the presents for baby! Our baby is blessed with such wonderful and loving Aunties and Uncles!