5.30am

We arrived at the hospital. Your mothe refused an internal check and takes her time to settle down. She asked if standing up will help speed up the labor and I said I think she is ok for now, there is no need to speed it up.

Your daddy went to do admissions. Your mother reported that she feels you pushing your way down.

6.15am

Your mother goes for a pee and is beginning to sound like she is slowly bearing down.

6.22am

She consented to an internal check and yay, she was 7cm dilated!

We were still talking and joking around at this point!

7.12am

Decides to stands up to labor but found that difficult. Dr. Adrian Tan came and commented on how well she was doing and encouraged her. Surges were getting very intense at this point and your mother was finding it very difficult to manage. She asked for the epidural and your Daddy and I encouraged her. She was slowly moving from a state of coping with the pain to a state of suffering, so your Daddy consented to an epidural and I informed the nurses.

I do not know how but I passed from managing comfortably to barely coping with the pain.  Labour seemed to have stalled at 7cm. At this point, I was physically exhausted and could hardly cope with the surges.  For my first two births, I had to push for a long time without progress.  Since I knew this baby would be the biggest of the three, I was not confident that I would have the energy to last that long considering I was only 7 cm dilated.  Hence I begged for epidural.

9.30am

The epidural was administered. I went home for a break.

Eventually, I got my relief (epidural) and managed to rest for 2 hours, during which time my cervix only dilated to 9cm!

11:55:10 sms

Cervix dilation at 9cm. Nurse says another hour will be ready for delivery.

12:10:50 sms

Doc passed instruction to nurse that we should start pushing now.