i heard my husband scream outside and say nurses come in my wife has fainted
natural births usually the next day you get to go home i had to stay there for
another like three days so when the baby's ready the baby just shoots out
hello my friends um today i'm going to talk about my birth story
and it's been so long ago because my daughter's five years old and my son is three already however
i just realized that i never shared my experience with you guys and i think it may be helpful to
anyone that is um you know either wanting to get pregnant or pregnant or going to deliver soon um
so let me try to gather all my memories and try to share as much information as i can with you
guys i went to a class called baby prep and with my daughter i saw an ob gyn which was really good
um so anyways so what happened when i knew that i was should i share my
it was a birthing and my birthing story right yeah my birth experience so it wouldn't be the
pregnancy experience the birth experience okay so what happened with my daughter i'm
a first-time mother i've never experienced contractions but all i know is that within
two to five minutes apart there would be 45 to 60 seconds um of like a feeling like a maybe like a
like a contraction feeling right so i was aware of that and the day and then i i thought that
you're supposed to have you know your water break first but some people don't and i never
had my water broken first for both pregnancies so what happened with kelly was that when it
was when it was the day that she was to arrive on this earth i remember at 7 00 pm
i started to feel something weird within me i couldn't explain what it was
okay they're really loud okay so yeah so at 7 pm i remember after dinner i started feeling
a bit weird i couldn't explain what it was so i told my husband and i also called my
ob gyn she told me to just monitor myself it may or may not be the day of my daughter's arrival
and so i did and until we fell asleep and she also told me to make sure i rest a lot
i didn't have my water broken at all so what happened when i slept was um at around like 10 11
i started feeling weirder and weirder and i can't explain what it was but i started
feeling something underneath under under my body and the lower part of my body and i was like
this is weird but i didn't think it was contractions i just thought maybe
i don't know was expanding or something i don't know i was getting prepared i couldn't even
explain what it was it was it was interesting so anyways so slowly slowly after an hour an
hour an hour and it became one being two those i started timing myself and the contractions were
real my husband was sleeping and i didn't want to wake him up beside him because
in vancouver if you go to the hospital and you are not five centimeters dilated yet the doctor will
tell you to come home and wait until you are so i didn't want to be overreactive over nervous or you
know making a big deal but this is the thing um my contractions were not normal the timing of it was
very off and it wasn't exactly what the doctor guided me in so i kept on thinking no i'm not even
close to being five centimeters dilated but i was in major major yum tong for a long time like and
i had to hold it in i didn't want to wake up my husband and i started getting cold sweats
um cool hot flashes cold sweats hot flashes and it just felt like really super duper duper duper
duper bad menstrual cramps and then what happened was the hospital told me that to time it and if
it's not you still can't go to the hospital yet so i never did until it was literally like six a.m in
the morning so from 7 00 pm all the way till 6am i was just holding in my pain and i never felt
that went to rest and then i woke up and i was like i can't handle anymore so when it
was finally right i woke up and i went to the shower and i turned on the hot water
and i started to spray myself and make myself super duper duper duper hot on my waist area
on my tummy area just to make myself relax and feel better because i was in so
much pain but i was so hungry and because i took a shower my husband heard me and
he woke up and he's like lo por what are you doing and i was like lo gong i think it's time
so my husband woke up and he asked me what what's going on and i was like lo gong i think it's time i
think Kelly's gonna come today and then he was like oh my god and then he quickly called his
office you know called my in-laws because they're gonna drive me to the hospital my husband called
his office to make sure all the patients know and he's gonna
you know skip out on work because he's gonna go with me in the hospital it's our big day
and so what happened was afterwards i got out of the shower
and out we were packing we had our we already had my um baby bag prepped right my hospital
bag prepped everything was in there already and um i went downstairs man that's when like
i was already in so much pain but when i went downstairs walking down the stairs it was even
worse but i was so hungry and i knew that if i didn't eat something i would not have the
strength to push and so my in-laws came finally i wouldn't go to the hospital yet because i was so
hungry i told my husband i told my mother-in-law i was like i need to eat something before i go
right and i can't handle anything when i'm hungry i'm just that type of person
and so i asked if my mother-in-law could make me i think it was an egg sandwich or something
and then my hus and i also had a cheerios i was really addicted to cheerios when i was pregnant
so i ate a bowl and my mother-in-law made me an egg sandwich and i was still hungry i was still
hungry and so i asked my mother-in-law if she could make me one more and then she did and but
the thing was when i went to the washroom i was bleeding my mother-in-law was like you have to
go now when you're when you're almost like gonna give birth when you're sitting in a car trying
to go get to the hospital on time that little rocks of bumping bumpiness during the car ride
was so hard to deal with like you were just gonna like oh my god hurry up you know hurry up i gotta
get to the hospital you know and then finally when we arrived i couldn't even walk anymore because
i was in so much pain and my my husband got a a wheelchair and i sat in there and he wheelchaired
me up trying to find the place and i go in there and i have to give them my id and i'm already like
oh my god i gotta handle it and then afterwards there was like a asian nurse and then she came and
she recognized who i was like Linda Chung and then she like looked at my reaction and she was like
no you got to get into the room now like don't even do any of the papers anymore because she
could tell that i was ready so i went into the hospital into the into my own room and i was
so blessed that you know vancouver has these big you know like individual rooms for you when you're
when you're delivering babies and then my ob-gyn finally came and she had to
you know stick her finger just to see how how much dilated i was and when she took it out she was
like linda why did you come so late you're already eight centimeters dilated and i was just like
what you know i was like eight i didn't even think i was five yet because i could i was handling it
very well well i was in pain but i could handle it and then she was like yep within an hour or so
you're gonna start pushing because once you're 10 centimeters dilated you get to push right and so she went out
to do a few more of her things and the nurses was prepping me and man when you i think it's
mind over matter definitely because when i wasn't at the hospital i wasn't i wasn't going like in
major pain mode i was still very like calm and collected and just like holding on to my pain
but when i was at the hospital and they tell me that i'm ready almost then my barrier of strength
just went down and i started feeling like this is so painful yeah i started needing those like
i think it's like what is it those masks those like oxygen masks i don't really think they help
um but it's kind of like a psycho psychological thing where you kind of feel better
so you just kind of breathe it in but it was funny because i kind of got high just breathing in that
thing when it wasn't even medicine it wasn't any drug or anything it was just i just used that mask
the whole time and you know another thing that i used to cope with my pain was my mother-in-law
gave me a water like ice water like cold water gave me popsicle sticks and um that really i
think that really helped because every time during a contraction i was just like give me the popsicle
give me the water you know or give me the orange juice whatever it was right
there were a lot of people in the room you know there were nurses there was my ob-gyn that was
my husband holding onto my hand and trying his best to calm me down there was my mother-in-law
my father-in-law was outside waiting for me my mother was there my sister was there
and in the end it was really time to push i must say i think i did well um it was so painful
and i just had to push but when i pushed i didn't scream
i didn't cry i was so determined and i was so calm and you know what i did the
nurse was so nice because i told her to write my daughter's name Kelly on the board with a heart
circled around it it was like a white board and i could see her name and every time i
had to like push i just looked at Kelly's name and i was like Kelly
and then breathe in Kelly you know and the only thing i was thinking was i need
to make sure that i bring my daughter out safely and another strength for me
was that my mother was there and so i would look at her and i would just imagine all the pain that
and all the hardship that she went through to give birth to me my sister and my brother
and that gave me strength to go on also of course my husband he was there and i was just like
you know we're making this family together and we're going to be together forever you know
and it's going to be so exciting to get to meet our little girl you know our gift from from god
and in the end push push push push push you know what it felt like it felt like i was
being burned down there you know you don't even have to push at the end you know what happens
when the baby's ready the baby just comes out like it just shoots out right and it's like it
feels like a wall like a this size watermelon trying to just push out of a small hole and
oh god it just felt like it was so painful
so funny but anyways and then when the baby came out guess what a special thing
that my daughter does did my daughter used her pinky or used her finger to to to like pinky
hi to pinky my ob-gyn before she came out and so and also my water broke at that time so what
you know thanks thanks god is that because that watermelon was going to come out
my i finally broke my water during that time and it just like water it helped to ease the situation
and just smooth in and come out and there you go baby kelly has arrived to this world
hallelujah my daughter baby Kelly Linda Leung has arrived to this world but
guess what happens one hour later so i rest because i just deliver a baby and plus you
have to wait for your placenta to come out so besides just pushing out a baby you have
to also push out your placenta no epidural no nothing okay it was all fully 100% natural
okay and plus it was too late anyways i was eight centimeters dilated already when i went in
and but guess what after i rested for an hour the nurse comes in and she's like Linda
you have to get up and you have to start going to the washroom and see if you can go
to the toilet to go um to go pee that's freaky for a just after birth girl because he just
had a major experience so i walked up and i was just like i'm so freaked out all right
once i walk down holy smokes amole it felt like a murder scene i walked one two steps and gush
blood was flying over on the ground you know like on my
on my blue gown hospital gown and i was so freaked out i was like i'm bleeding so much this
is normal the nurse was like keep walking keep walking go to the washroom we'll clean it up
and i didn't think that was normal but anyways i went to the washroom and i started
my husband was helping me and all of a sudden i was just like logo i'm gonna faint oh i'm not
you know and i just like literally first time in my life i went from like you know talking to like
you know like totally out but inside i was awake but outside i was blanked out blacked
out i mean not even blacked out blacked out and i heard my husband scream outside and say
nurses come in my wife has fainted he's trying to pat my face telling me to wake up the the
nurses try to wake me up and i hear them and then because i'm literally like a piece of you know
dead weight all that all four nurses had to carry me one leg and one arm after the other with my
husband to bring me back on the bed once i brought me back on the bed i slowly was almost awakening
and they said that they had to open the er room so emergency room to do reconstructive surgery on me
once i heard that i woke up like i woke up and i was like no i can pee
please i can pee give me a chance and they're like linda you have to calm down um
we don't want to do this but just in case we got a check you know so they had to they had to open
me back up into the birthing position and check me man was it more painful than giving birth and
i had to get that oxygen mask again and i was like like that right natural births usually
the next day you get to go home i had to stay there for another like three days you know like
it was like a c-section or something but i didn't get a c-section
anyways i was really lucky when the ob-gyn came and checked me again after the nurses checked me
very painful but they said that we'll just wait and just see how you do the next day and see how
you do the next day if you start unswelling then you'll get to you don't have to do anything no
surgery no nothing you can go home and praise god thank you very much everything was slowly by hour
dying back down so yeah that was my first birth experience i hope it doesn't scare you and giving
a natural birth i'm not trying to freak you out it didn't it didn't affect me because my second birth
i was even you know even more like determined and even more like uh confident that i could deliver
my baby safely and i could you know handle and do it well
oh my lordy lord um after saying all that story it just brought back so many memories you know
what i'm so thankful that i got to experience giving birth to my daughter um it really empowers
you it really really does because because i always thought i was scared of giving birth
i always thought i would be scared of pregnancy i even remember when i was 20 something years old i had dreams
of myself being pregnant and i was freaked out because it just it felt so like scary because you
have to like give birth to something you know but when you when you get to experience this
you realize that when you're focused when you're determined when you're on a mission
when you believe in yourself and your body and you love something enough
that you don't mind all that pain all that suffering all that sacrifice you know like
you just it it means it doesn't mean anything what means something is my daughter being born and this
time of my life with my husband me making a family that's the beauty of it and there's
it's just so i'm just so thankful like although i wished it didn't have to have the later half where
it was so freaky you know but yeah and i mean it took me another two months to walk properly
but seriously i wouldn't change it for the world and
yeah awesome it's just awesome i wish everyone to have a good smooth delivery and if it isn't
i mean everyone's so unique and everyone has their own story but i'm just saying you know
mummy's out there i support you and i'm so proud of you and i know that you can do it no matter
what type of birth story you choose or you have um yeah just bravo to you guys and uh the hard
part is the taking care of and teaching them and guiding them okay can you get some water
huh okay mama really quick really quick
hello i'm back so anyways i just wanted to say thank you so much for listening to my story and
i hope i didn't gross you out or scare you um that was not my meaning um anyways add oil in
everything you do and thank you from the bottom of my heart for liking my videos and supporting me
bye bye and next video is Jared's birth story
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quiet quiet so and then my husband heard me and he went...