Welcome Sofia Wing Yin Chin

Sofia is two weeks old and I can't believe how quickly time has passed (not to mention I finally have a few minutes to blog!)

Here's a quickie on Sofia's arrival:

My actual contractions started on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 3am. It was all concentrated on my lower back which was a bit odd for me but the contractions were approx. 5 mins apart and about a min. long. We were pretty excited that finally it was going to happen. I wasn't in too much pain so decided to head to White Spot for our last breakfast before the delivery. However, after breakfast, the contractions went away! We were confused and a bit letdown from all the anticipation but went home and just waited. Late afternoon, the contractions came back but were 10 mins apart but much more painful to endure through than the morning ones. Our doula assessed that I could be having back labor due to the baby being posterior as opposed to anterior so the early labor could take awhile. (YIKES!) I labored at home, watched movies to distract myself and took a warm bath to take some of the pain away but it didn't really work. So at midnight, we headed to the hospital.

The doctor assessed me and I was 5 cm dilated and cervix was fully effaced and thinned out so we weren't going home! I spent the next hour in pain and in the tub with the shower head pointed at my lower back. It helped a bit but man the contractions were coming and going like waves. There was a point where I started noticing urges to push which was new. My water broke in the tub during one of my contractions (actually it exploded in the water which was totally not what I expected).

Finally, the doctor checked me again and what do you know...I was ready to go into active labor. For 15 mins, I was told to hold back my urges to push which is so hard and I had to use laughing gas and breathing techniques to keep from pushing the baby out when I wasn't ready. Finally, I was told to 'push' and five mins after, Sofia was born into this world at 4am. Yes it was a pretty quick delivery and she was the quickest baby to be born that night =)


Here are two photos: Sofia at 1 day old and the other is Sofia at 1.5 weeks old













Notice any changes? Rob thinks she looks different everyday.

Two weeks has passed and Rob is back at work today. I was a bit worried that I would be overwhelmed being alone with Sofia for the whole day but so far it's been ok. I have so much more I want to blog about but this is all the 'my' time I have to use for now. Back to servicing our little princess.