June9, Monday the first visitors were cos mai mai and auntie neth, I was trying to stand already and I can walk about 3 steps. Then after lunch came uncle nestor then later came mommy, auntie tinay and cos wendy then AWS’ ACTION batch 6 with Lee and Hannah then Jai’s mom and Janelle with chicken tinola to help me produce milk ’cause I’m still not producing any! Later St. Scho’s Rock-on visited with Joe, but they have to leave early because whenever they’re around I can’t help but laugh! And damn my cut hurts! hahahaha! Dra. Manahan lately came in again to dress my wounds and asked when do I want to go home, I said I already want to go home tomorrow so she prepared my release! I told her that I still don’t have milk so she prescribed prolacta or natalac.
At this time, I was really trying hard to walk and I wanted to force bowel movement. So after dinner, as I really wanted as well to wash my face, brush my teeth and others, I forced myself with Jai’s help to walk to the CR and I successfully did but it took me maybe 7-9minutes of slow walk to the restroom(Jai can walk to the CR in a minute).
My mom just arrived then from Saudi, so it was then that she visited with cos len,kuya dan and kuya bong. She brought in my favorite shawarma straight from Riyadh and thatwas Jai’s only dinner ’cause he likes them as well(but he always argue that it was all fries inside!). Then, kuya jed and grace came in to visit us again.
As I was still not producing milk, and we can feel baby’s getting hungry as he could not stop crying and I was getting depressed and then at the verge of crying I called in the resident pedia. I asked if we could feed him formula already, but the pedia said according to the milk code they cannot! I was already mad at this time ’cause they won’t feed my baby anything. I couldn’t wait to go home then we could feed him something!
Anyway as night falls it was again just the 3 of us, this was probably the hardest night because my baby was crying all through the night! And I couldn’t sleep because my baby don’t want to lay on his own bed, so he was in my arms the whole night! And what’s worse is that my back is having bed sore already! haayy..
Around 3AM, I woke Jai up and I was already crying because my baby doesn’t seem to want to stop crying and then we heard his tummy growl! He was awfully hungry!he didn’t have anything yet from the time he was born! So we decided to call in the nurse and ask that my son be given at least glucose water. At first, it seemed that the nurse don’t want to but I insisted and demanded! So they did. 10ml of glucose water from a medicine cup seemed to calm him and put him to sleep, but he still wants to be in my arms. Thanks to boppy pillow, he stayed in my arms.
Morning came, the nurse came in to check my BP as usual and it peaked to 90/130 again. She was rather doubtful if I was hypertensive when I gave birth, and I told her that my BP was normal at 70/110 when I gave birth. My BP rose ’cause I had literally no sleep, and my back pains me so much! She asked me to get some rest ’cause I won’t be released if I’m still not in good shape. But as much as I wanted to sleep, baby doesn’t want to be out of my arms. So after breakfast Jai laid beside me to support my son as he was just in my arms and I went to sleep.
Later, my mom came in with lots of malunggay leaves to help me produce milk and Jai prepared everything for our release. Finally we were out of the hospital, and on our way home we bought NAN formula milk and as soon as we reached home we gave him formula milk. He was so relieved and slept. Later at around 3PM, I tried pumping to stimulate and whalla! collostrum! I’m so glad he was able to take those first drops! He now has unlimited source of milk!
