Do you feel that that just has to be a better way a better way to parent a better way to live a
Better way to learn just overall a better way
So did I?
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Giving birth in Hong Kong Oh
Being an American giving birth in Hong Kong you just kind of keep going "but no, it's not how we do it!"
so that was pretty much my
Mantra for a few days
But there are a lot of good things that happen here in Hong Kong
But my story is up on the blog you can go and see it
lots of pictures and a lot of details
But I just want to give you a quick overview in case you don't have time to read the whole thing
Basically, I had to go in for induction because little man was not coming out no matter what I tried
I mean, I tried walking up Buddha steps and around town.
I tried everything. Okay. It wasn't working
So I had to be induced
However, what I didn't realize when I went in to be induced was it wasn't just like in America you say,
"Oh, I'm gonna be induced on this day" and then you get induced on that day
Being induced meant days in the hospital. In fact, it could have been up to a week in the hospital
But I was quite pushy it included the gel it included
lots of non-stress tests
I
walked
Up and down up and down over and over. I wanted that baby. It wasn't working
it included a
lot of
Aggravating moments of no communication
forcing communication and even the foley balloon,
You can read all about it again on the blog
but it was
Let's see, I went on a Wednesday,
Saturday I finally had the pitocin and the water breaking. That's the way they do it here
Automatically break your water and put you on the pitocin and I want you to get up to
three to five
Contraction every three to five minutes. I think it is
Four minutes exactly within 30 minutes.
They want you to be an active labor
immediately and I was
and I had pure back pain and it was
It was awful it
Was so bad
My husband would try to like knead my back
To the point where it kind of a bruise on my spine
I couldn't use the ball because I've got a tummy and the fetal monitor kept moving and they didn't like that
I couldn't walk around cuz again the fetal monitor would move and they didn't like that the room was so tiny
To go to the bathroom. I didn't sit on the chair kinda like this and with arms though. I had an armrest and
Sit on a bedpan because you were not allowed to go to bathroom
Even though going and sitting on the toilet has been known to help with dilation and moving down and all that stuff, but nope
But nope, couldn't go to the bathroom
So very very bad
But I fought the epidural I fought, and I fought, and I fought, and I fought. Especially because there was a woman
the anesthesiologist that I met before
getting induced who basically told me I would have to have an epidural because I'm fat, I'm white and
It was the other thing. I'm fat, I'm white,
And I'm a first-time mom, and so she said I basically have to have an epidural
And in the end I did it simply because I knew I wasn't progressing I spent
four hours
No progress four hours of active labor
zero progress
In fact, I had eight hours with I think one or two of those hours on the epidural was zero progress
That's quite scary because if I had not gotten to a three within 12 hours
I would have had an emergency c-section because that's the rule here
They break your waters and they give you and they give you the pitocin and they give you 12 hours
To get to a 3 if you're not a degree you go for emergency c-section
And if you don't have the baby within 24 hours after water breaking you go in for emergency c-section
There is a lot of pressure that comes with that
So I ended up getting the epidural
I had them turn down the pitocin because what I finally agreed to the epidural, I didn't even ask for it
They asked me to get it
which is unheard of in Hong Kong if you're a normal birth, you go into labor by yourself that kind of stuff they usually
Don't advocate for an epidural in a public hospital
private yes, public no.
But they they begged me quite often until I finally gave in
because I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything.
It was so hard! and I wanted to progress. I didn't want a c-section and I remembered from my research
that's for a very small percentage of women an
Epidural will actually help instead of hinder for most women an epidural could actually slow your labor down
But for a small percentage of women, they actually kind of need it in order to prevent a c-section. That was me.
So I got the epidural and it was so nice I finally slept I hadn't really slept in days and
I still had some pain... I had to like be on my side
And after a few hours, I would start to have one side
Not feeling anything and one I would start to have back labor again
So I'd have to switch and then it was only ever at 60% epidural was never full hundred-percent. He was always at 60
It was a drip
and
Then when I finally did progress
to four and then I
Kept progressing they wanted me to do a centimeter an hour
After that, and I did I kept it up. There was some scares in there. There was heart rates dropping
there was me getting chills and and
slight feverish and whatnot
But we made it through all of that. We were able to push through and then I finally got to
Right before I would have to start pushing
But I couldn't feel the need to push and so they asked me to stop the epidural altogether
Are the very least go to half dose?
The problem was even at the 60% I was still feeling the back pain
I guess becauseI have sciatica or he had moved. I'm not really sure exactly why but
I had major back pain
It literally felt like my spine was being split open so I could not
As much as I wanted to I couldn't just stop the epidural. I knew I wouldn't be able to make it
And so we cut down on half
And
They basically told me to push when I needed to push
And they told me even though I know I remember now. We were told let your body do its thing
Don't force the pushing all that stuff,
She just told me if I wanted the back pain to go away I had to push
Let me tell you what
you will do anything to get rid of that pain
So like pushed I even popped a blood vessel in my eye, and I still deal with to this day
It didn't tear a little bit, but not much
Yeah, you will get rid of that pain you'll do what you got to do
So I did I pushed he came out. Unfortunately there was meconium in the fluid and so they had to have the pediatrician on
Standby to make sure he was okay. He was lucky started crying on his own after a little bit was a little scary at first
They did have to kind of clean him up to make sure he was okay. I was completely out of it. I I
Was so out of it, I don't even kind of really remember most of that time. I just remember being like
I was I on a high and
I
Did luckily get my one hour?
Of skin to skin afterwards, so it's probably the calmest hour of the whole entire Hospital experience
just the three of us and
It was really
Odd so after that hour they took him to the NICU , you can hear him below,
And I
Got taken to the post labor board cuz there's a pre-labor ward and
then there's the labor award where you change into purple clothes in the pre labor ward you're in pink clothes post labor you're in purple clothes and then
post labor you're back in pink clothes and
All different sections of the hospital and you're in these tiny little cubicles
With curtains sharing a bigger room with lots of people
But they had to take the baby to the NICU and I came and they they wheeled me on on the bed
To the post ward post labor ward and then they showed me how to hand express
they had these little syringes
I had to use
And I had to like while I'm out of it
I had to learn how to hand express and fill this little syringe and then I took a nap and OH!
Such a nice nap. I felt so revived after that nap
unfortunately
There's nobody there to tell you when you need to
Feed your baby who's in the NICU?
Right. There's no one to tell you until the baby is already really really hungry
That they need you to hand express so,
unfortunately, that was a bit of a setback but luckily not a setback in my breastfeeding journey. It was just a little
Difficult with the nurse yelling at me, they like to yell at you. Um, but overall it
It was exhausting. It was frustrating. I ended up leaving after a day
In post labor. Luckily, he came back to me 12 hours later. I was able to go to feed him
you know that kind of stuff and we were all okay, but oh man if you have to have a
Baby in the public hospital system of Hong Kong bring a ton of snacks
Bring a portable charger or two
and headphones, an eye mask, and
Your own pillow definitely bring your own pillow,
and then get
Outside help like a lactation consultant a midwife to come and visit your home. I use Annerly to come and visit your home
So you can leave the hospital
You will not get sleep in the hospital
So you might as well if you have like a helper husband at home that can help you take care of your baby and whatnot
Go home. That's my biggest advice
They tried to get me to stay
Even Annerly tried to get me to stay because they couldn't come see me the next day and I was like "no!'
No, I would be better off at home a lot less stress at home. So that's my advice,
It's not everybody agrees because what it is
So if you have more questions about my my experience
I tried to get this short you can ask them down below and I'll try to make you another video
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