The day Harvynna was born.......

Harvynna was born on April 12, 2004 at 1.39pm at the Damansara Specialist Hospital (room 216). It was an elective C-Section as we wanted her to be born before the Hindu New year on April 13, plus Dr Guna was not going to be around after that for a week and I did not want any other dr. This was a precious pregnancy and could not afford anything to go wrong as we had waited and planned for this precious miracle to happen.

I can still remember how I used to rush to the hospital to do a CTG because she did not move the whole day and I will panic and imagine the worse. Went to go the CTG almost every week!!! Luckily the bill was paid for by DH company. (not anymore, though. Sigh!) And at 7 months, the dr mentioned that I had low amniotic fluid and it did not seem to get better at every check-up. Constant worry and paranoia was my companion. In the end, most of my friends that were due around the same time as me had delivered their precious babies, so I was only too happy to do the C-section. All I wanted was to see my precious Harvynna and hold her in my arms.

So on 12 April 2004, I checked in to the hospital at 8.00am as my operation was scheduled for 12.00noon. Upon checking in, we were informed that there were no more single rooms available. (which I hear seems to be the norm at DSH - could be their devious ploy to get customers to book the suite). Which is exactly what we did! We went to a double room first, but felt funny as the other patient had already checked in and her things were all over the place. Plus, double room means, DH cannot room in. Plus, worried of the after effects of the operation, so we went to the Permata suite,which was really worth it. The rooms was great and had a nice living room which came in handy after the operation. The visitors were ushered to the living room as Mummy wanted to recuperate quietly after the operation. Meals were served in nice silverware and DH got a free meal as well. There was full ASTRO in the room and toilet was nice.

Anyway, at 1.00 plus was wheeled into the OT area....at 1.30 the operation started and at 1.39 pm, wuaaaaaghh! - the little princess was out! She gave the loudest cry and it was hard to believe, Princess Harvynna was finally here!

After that, was all the boring stuff like stitching the cut and cleaning up. DH was sent out of the OT and Harvynna was taken to the nursery for her bath and immunisations etc. DH took a video of her first bath while mummy was left in the recovery area. Felt like forever!

Harvynna was 3.2kg and 50cm long, healthy and absolutely beautiful!