{"id":18851,"date":"2013-06-26T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18851"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:39:23","slug":"new-life-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/26\/new-life-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter was born at 0913 hrs this morning. Definitely a harder exercise this time round compared to Hannah&#8217;s turn at it 4 years ago too. The both of us have not slept since arriving at the hospital, and Ling is looking really worn out. She was in labor for more than 7 hours (Hannah took just 4 hours), and there were also more post-delivery issues too. The actual delivery was, thankfully, as brisk before too &#8211; just about 10 minutes of &#8216;pushing&#8217; and out he came. Peter was a healthy 3.34 kg (very slightly lighter than Hannah) and 50 cm tall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18852\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18852\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-OMDA6514-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"The attending nurses took a look and said Peter looked like Daddy LOL.\" width=\"550\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-OMDA6514-flickr.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-OMDA6514-flickr-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The attending nurses took one look and said Peter looked like Daddy LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mommy fared somewhat less well than before though, with a lot more vomiting before and after the delivery. Might had been because of the two large slices of chiffon cake she ate last evening!<\/p>\n<p>All thing said, we&#8217;re thankful it was still a smooth delivery, and on a relatively clear and haze-free day too; Ling had been dreading having to deliver in haze, especially after the two days last week when the smog reached hazardous levels here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter was born at 0913 hrs this morning. Definitely a harder exercise this time round compared to Hannah&#8217;s turn at it 4 years ago too. The both of us have not slept since arriving at the hospital, and Ling is<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/06\/26\/new-life-part-2\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  New Life &#8211; Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-blues","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blog-OMDA6514-flickr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}