{"id":4011,"date":"2009-06-06T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T06:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/06\/06\/baby-to-go-1-epidural-baby\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T06:41:15","slug":"baby-to-go-2-epidural-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/06\/06\/baby-to-go-2-epidural-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby-to-go 2: Epidural, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-P1000699\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blog2009babyp1000699.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-P1000699\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" align=\"right\" \/> Would you believe it\u2026 I\u2019m typing this with one hand, and standing outside the birth room. I got chased out by the nurses\u2026 yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The nurses walking past me are looking at me real funny at this guy balancing on one hand a netbook that\u2019s hooked up to an iphone and a Starhub USB dongle, and the other hand typing away LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Ling\u2019s too funny. A couple of months ago she\u2019d been reading up loads of stuff on having natural births. So, typical conversations in the car when we were heading back home went like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDarling, I\u2019m thinking of going natural for Hannah\u2019s birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAre you sure you\u2019d be able to bear the pain of contractions? I thought you have a low threshold for pain, dear?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cI can one. No problem!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes after we got to TMC and I\u2019d completed registration at the front floor counter, she was wincing in pain, and saying \u201cWah lau. Cannot tahan @@$%#@!\u201d LOL.<\/p>\n<p>So she got everything short of gas. The doctor administering the epidural completed the procedure an hour ago. It\u2019s apparently a lot more bearable now, and she can manage conversations too.<\/p>\n<p>Dilation at 5 cm now too, and her water bag just broke 10 minutes ago. Sure is quick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe it\u2026 I\u2019m typing this with one hand, and standing outside the birth room. I got chased out by the nurses\u2026 yet again. The nurses walking past me are looking at me real funny at this guy balancing<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/06\/06\/baby-to-go-2-epidural-baby\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Baby-to-go 2: Epidural, baby!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","tag-birth","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}