After I was sick and took MC for Thursday, I already felt better, and would be going to office on Friday. Unknown to me, at 1.15 AM in the morning, my sis woke me up, telling me that she’s on her way to the hospital as she felt pain in her stomach. My dad accompanying her also sms-ed me to rush to the hospital to help him as he can’t take care my first niece, Kylie, and my sister all by himself. So, I quickly changed and rushed to Mt. Alvernia Hospital. As my brother-in-law was only planning to reach Singapore in the evening, my dad and myself are the only ones my sis had to help her.
1.45 AM: When I reached the hospital, my sis was already admitted to the delivery suite for check-up, my mom and my brother-in-law clearly nervous back in Jakarta, we had to sms and call them for any minute details update on my sis.
2.00 AM: The nurse told us that it’s time for delivery and they’ll be bringing my sister for operation now. The initial estimate for delivery that we have known for weeks were between 3-6 March, but this one was early.
2.10 AM: My sister was brought out from delivery suite into operating theatre, and we followed them. We, however, could only wait outside, as only the husband are allowed into the operating theatre.
My dad was visibly concerned and my niece not knowing what were happening. Poor girl that we had to wake her up 1 AM in the morning and brought her here.
2.30 AM: A nurse came out, asked me, “Are you the husband?“. “No“, I said. “Where’s the husband, he can go in.”. I replied, “He’s not here.“
29 February 2008 02.50 AM: This cute little baby girl pops out, well and healthy.
3.00 AM: As her father were not around, the nurse asked me, together with her, to check the baby. It was something that I have never seen nor experienced, so I just stood there, nodding on every statement as the nurse took her measurements 3.020 kg weight, 32 cm head circumference, and 50 cm length. Two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, two hands and two legs, with five fingers in each. Well, at least now I know that they checked all these, I totally looked silly.
Hey!! Don’t laugh, I was a total n00b when it came to checking baby. But now I can safely say I got the experience haha….
I now know what need to be done when I’ll be a daddy one day haha…
4.30 AM: My sis was done with her operation, ushered into the room, and the baby was wrapped in blanket and slept quietly. I was just sitting there, waiting, using my Nokia N95 with Mt. Alvernia free wireless LAN to send the leap-year baby pictures to my brother-in-law back in Jakarta, who undoubtedly were very anxious.
5.00 AM: As we were not allowed to stay, we went back home, and had a short sleep. The main reason was that Kylie couldn’t sleep at all in the hospital, so we had to bring her back home for a much-needed sleep.
10.00 AM: We reached hospital again, and Kylie was very eager to see her younger sister now.
My brother-in-law and my grandma reached Singapore 8 PM in the evening and rushed to the hospital with all their luggage, can’t wait to see the new born baby
As for me, my flu got worse as I didn’t have enough sleep and was tired with all these, and I didn’t dare to get close to the baby without me holding my breath. Only after I went down to the Pharmacy and got myself some Panadol Cold that I got better, but the ecstasy of having a special leap-year baby in the family will make you forget that you’re sick
Oh yeah, for the name, it’ll likely be Valerie.
