A call at 5.30am start the morning! and I mean an important phone call... I was expecting the call but out of sudden I get so nervouse! Luckily I pack everything on the night before and most importantly my phone need to be fully charged!
It was my wife who called, this was the moment we waited after 9 months! She called from the Hospital! and saying she will be admitted to the labour room at any moment... Happy, nervous and worry was the feeling that surround me.. I really do not know how this feelings can mix arround.. I set my thought up straight, I must drive carefully and must reach the Hospital as soon as possible, She told me to drive carefully and do not speed before ending our conversation.
I departed at 6am and the journey takes around half an hour, while driving I'm wondering what time will she give birth? admmited at 5.30am then most probably by 11.30am she will be out? or anytime from now? Scarry! Just thought I must reach there before she is out from the labour room or else she will be frighten!
I reached the lobby! Wow! there are few people waiting already! At least I'm in the top 5 list of waiting... there is a board indicated who has been admmited to the labour room but Lim Wee Ling was not in the list? I asked the nurse then she called in to labour room to ask is she really admitted? Yes, she has been inside since 5.30am++..... Glad she is well taking care of.
It's already 11.30am... no news yet, so I approach the nurse again but this time get scolded... She did not answer my question but intercepted a question "Anak ke berapa?!? Pertama?! Kurang kurang 8jam!!" She is quite harsh but they are the pro and any news from my wife will be from them so.... I smile and get sitted back. Pray! Pray! and Pray! is what I can do... I seek for Ma cho Keng god, Dua yi ah peh and my pass away grandma to bless my wife deliver safely and for a healthy baby....
Sad feeling struck me when there is no news yet until 12.30pm where all the top 3 waiting dadies sucecessfuly saw their wife and babies! She sacrifice alot, she suffer all the pain and I can't do anything!!! I felt I have let her down, this is the 1st time I cant help her when I know she needs me! She is in pain!! How are she going through this?!? She suffered for 7 hours already! Is she okay?? Is the nurse/Doctor treating her?? I want to know what is happening....
It's 1.30pm! I rush to the counter to ask, the nurse called and say "she still needs to wait" and a senior nurse say "we will wait until 12hours just decide what to do if she can't deliver". Felt so dissapointed at them, they at least should comfort us.... we are left without anything but just to worry on negative thoughts. Many mothers been sent in and out but no sign of my wife, and at once i chase a mother who is being sent out thinking that must be her because I've waited the longest among all... but that is not her, so i return to my sit. God and grandma, you must protect and bless her and my son.. please please please....
Around 2.30pm, there was a dad been called by the nurse, his son is critical in the womb! the child heart beat is getting softer and operation must be done to take the son out ASAP! the dad quickily agree for the operation and he is been left outside to wait... Sorrow is what I can see from his face... After an hour, another guy been called up and saying operation must be done for his wife because she can't deliver naturally......!! OMG, please do not let my wife go into operation.... this will really cause alot of pain!!
It's 4.00pm, everyone who has waited already gone and come a new batch in which i call the night shift waiting daddy. I'm the last of the morning shift! I've been keeping my tears up, I must be strong and supportive when she is out! This is the only thing I can do... 4.45pm... Nurse called me, my wife needs and operation too! What!?!? I agreed immediately! Nurse ask me to go in and accompany her! Why? no one else was allowed to enter although their wife need to perform operation! I'm so worried! I ran into the labour hall and saw my wife in one of the room!
She told me, Doctor need to do operation on her because she cant deliver naturally so the operation was normal... that relieve me abit.. I keep her accompany because operation theatre is fully occupied! I stand beside her and saw look into her face, she was so tired, pain, sleepy and exhausted. From 5.30am without food and support she gone through all of it alone, unspeakable pain was with her all the time... Tears almost cant stop itself, but I hold it, I must give all the support to her and not her feeling worry about me! Every 30seconds the pain comes once! and the pain isn't what we can imagine.. I almost fell from where I'm standing seeing the pain and all the equipment, needles been poke around her hand.... Sorry my dear to cause you so much pain...
We was talking as usual and I ask her try to sleep, she barely can sleep more than 1min becauses of the pain.... it was a heartbreaking moment.. I promise to myself to treat her better, will forgive her in any wrong doings that might occur in the future and always keep the promises we had together forever! It is 5pm! time for her to go into operation theatre... I told her, I will be waiting her outside! be strong! "Chia Yu!! Chia Yu!!".
My dad and her parents keep on calling and I will update them about what happened, I try to keep things as normal as possible so that they wont be so worry but when I'm told them she needs to go through operation, my voice was shaking, I couldnl't talk smoothly.....
My mum arrive from KL to see the baby but was not expecting my wife haven't deliver! my wife's family rush from Batu Pahat once they heard the news. Everyone gather around 7.30pm, still waiting for her... worries is what all is seeing, we have an instant dinner but i couln't swallow the food... no appettite.. really can not swallow at all.
8.00pm.... I went to operation theatre's counter to check, the nurse told me she already delivered and I can see her in a while.. I was so happy until I can sit to wait, finaly she is out! she was lying on a bed, tired but relieve... She say she is okay and she saw our son while in operation theatre..... Double happiness!! I'm a dad!!
I didn't saw my son yet, so the worry is not over yet. I accompanied my wife to the ward, let her lie down on the ward's bed and after that I requested the nurse to show me my son ASAP, She took me into a room and ask me to check on a baby's tag, She ask "Mother name Lim Wee Ling?" I replied a loud "YES!" He is my son!!!!!!!
My Son(Chee Hong) was carried to his Mum and finally she manage to touch him... The feeling was strange, last time he is kicking and doing all sort of funny things in the womb but now we can see him! Miracle that god creates! I have my own family now and I'm a dad! Looking forward to this family of mine!!
