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Wife INR is 2.3

After the c-section on 20 May, they put her back on Warfarin, wife said they gave her 4mg per day, yesterday I saw that they gave a blue tablet, which means 3mg, and today I checked with the nurse in-charge, she told me wife's INR is at 2.3, very good, I think very high chances that she can be discharged tomorrow, but I think they will probably drag until around 3pm+, so in the morning I can bring MIL and wife's cousin to ICA to do the extension. Hopefully tomorrow can get the extension, if MIL have to go back, wife say ok but I have to help, I think going to be very difficult, best is still have MIL to help out, if hire confinement nanny it will be very expensive, also don't think my wife want my mother to help. Anyway today baby kena jaundice, I think didn't feed enough, so the nurse put baby under the light, told wife to feed and pump so baby have enough to eat.
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Super Long Queue at ICA

So yesterday MIL and wife's cousin social visit pass online extension got rejected, this morning I woke up at 6.30am and brought them to ICA. We reached there at about 7.30am, the security guard told everyone to queue up by the side entrance, they don't want people to crowd at the main entrance, end up the queue is ridiculously long, SG, PR, foreigners all one queue, can imagine how long, can fight with Hello Kitty queue, so instead of queuing, I brought them for breakfast at golden mile food centre, ate the Bak Chor Mee not bad. After breakfast, at about 8.30am, we went back and the queue disappeared as expected, we went to the ticket counter at level 4, queue also long but at least clear quite fast, finally our turn and the counter staff told me to prove my relationship with my wife, I didn't bring my ROM cert so cannot prove, she also asked about the cousin, that one I really stunned, then she handed me two form 14 and said, "subjected to approval lor", NB, m
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Wife Still in ICU

Alamak, actually she is doing really well, now can eat normal food except food has to be soft like porridge, she also can sit on chair, think also can walk but they didn't let her try, these nurses really bo chup, they just wait for time to pass and handover to next shift, next shift also do the same, aiyoh these people really cannot make it, just now a nurse changed my wife's heparin and forgot to unlock the tubing and the liquid cannot flow in, the alarm went off so many times and the nurse also bo chup, finally I walked to the nurse and alerted her then she come, wah piang, ICU this kind of standard, I think patient die already they still don't know. Negative shit aside, just now I finally got to hold baby in arms, wah skin so soft, so cute, eyes closed, I didn't know how to pick up the baby, the nurse showed me, I think I can carry baby all day, then nurse want me to put back I don't know how to put back lol, want to stay with baby more also cannot, now mother
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This Guy Really Anti-Foreigner to the Max LOL

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I really don't understand how some people can hate foreigners so much, even spouse of Singaporeans also hate lol. Well, life goes on, I can't stop them from being bitter all the time right ;) By the way the forum is sgtalk, it's getting worse, too many negative people there, most discussions end up in mudslinging and moderator doesn't seem to bother, maybe they gave up lol, if me I also give up, I visit lesser nowadays. That's why forum is never a good place for discussion, at least not our local forums, if you see ang moh forums, it's much more serious, they can discuss topics maturely and you can mostly get your queries answered.
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Got Baby's SG50 Birth Certificate and Good News

Today the nurse at my wife's ward passed me the Notification of Live Birth, I didn't register at NUH, went down to ICA instead because I thought since I also need to extend MIL and wife's cousin social visit pass might as well go do together. By the way NUH charge $40 for the birth registration, ICA charge $18. No need to wait too long because not many people register birth today. Just for info, birth registration is at level 3. The birth certificate looks awesome with a message from our PM. Oh I also got the SG50 Baby Jubilee Gift box at ICA, they will ask you whether you want or not after the birth registration, at first I thought 5KG nothing la, when the girl brought out the box, wah so bulky, really regret taking it, might as well register online and they it send to me for free. But if you have car then ok. Everything seems useful except the medal, probably just keep the medal in my cupboard forever, I think a milk bottle will be much more useful. The baby clothes are
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Forgot to Get the Notification of Live Birth

After I went home and checked how to register birth, found that need a Notification of Live Birth from the hospital, for us also need our identity cards i.e. my Singapore NRIC and wife's PR blue card, also need our Marriage Certificate, all must be original, also have to think of name first which I already have. More details here . So tomorrow have to go back to the neonatal ward, anyway I also have to go there first and pass my wife her phone, pack some stuff for wife, give her then go to neonatal ward and get the document and go to ICA to register, also might as well bring mother-in-law and cousin to golden mile complex since it is nearby. So remember friends, after your wife deliver, ask for the Notification of Live Birth.
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Wife C-Section Success!

This morning I woke up at around 6.45am, took taxi together with mother-in-law and wife's cousin to wife's ward. The c-section was scheduled at 10am, a nurse came at around 8+ and prepared my wife, showered and dressed her in the operating theatre clothes, we waited until about 10am before they started to move my wife to the OT. Oh by the way they told my wife to fast from 1am onwards, no food and water. So we arrived at the OT, waited outside at the visitor's lounge, wife went in and the nurse told me they will call me when I can view the procedure. She also gave me a paper with my wife's patient code so I can track her progress from the screen inside the lounge. I forgot how long we waited and finally someone from inside the OT called me and told me to go inside, she told me to change into the OT clothes and she will call me when it's my wife's turn, she also said they will try epidural, I got a shock because yesterday the anesthetist told me it would b
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Tomorrow is the Big Day!

The c-section is at 10am, they will bring her to the surgery ward at around 9am so I'll be waking up at 6.30am and bring her mother and cousin over. Just now the anesthetist came and spoke to my wife, once I arrived I went to speak with her again. She said my wife is not suitable for epidural because she is on Heparin and she is at risk of bleeding, so she told me my wife would be on general anesthesia instead, which is a full body anesthesia, the completely knock out type, which I think is good, save the pain, if I were to choose I would choose general anesthesia too. The anesthetist also said after the c-section, my wife would be placed in ICU for monitoring, hopefully all goes well and then her and baby can discharge by this weekend.
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Wife's Urine is Now Yellow

Now I am pretty sure the reason why blood was in her urine was because of the IV Heparin, now that they reduced the dosage from 17+ to 15+, her urine started to become normal yellowish colour, they also did a kidney xray for her, don't think they detected anything, I was quite worried about the xray but actually nothing much to worry about if the person doing the scan knows she is pregnant, they will be more careful such that they don't scan the foetus. But now I have another thing to worry about, recently wife started to develop a cough, today was quite serious when I visited, must be she shared utensils with her cousin, I think pregnant women should never share anything with anyone, it's just 2 days to her c-section and she has a serious cough, I hope it doesn't develop into something more serious, sigh, one thing over another thing come, never-ending worries. Hope everything goes well, just 2 more days, please let us get through this safely.
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Negative Comments Early in the Morning

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Look at this: 11 Negative Comments The first comment came at 6.01am, you can't see the time from the screenshot but I can see from my email because whenever someone posted a comment on my blog, I will receive an email notification. I am guessing it is from the same person, he/she posted 11 comments over a time frame of about 1 hour, at 6am+ in the morning, this person must be really free, nothing better to do, but I appreciate the hits he/she has given to my site so I still have to thank this person.
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4 More Days to C-Section

Visited wife today and seems like she is doing fine, there is still blood in her urine but we have come to believe that it is not going to be a big problem, there is blood because she is on Heparin, she doesn't have any history of blood in urine so shouldn't be a big issue unless she really lose a lot of blood which obviously isn't the case. Nurse also did a scan for baby everyday and baby is doing fine too, just now I was there when the nurse did the scan, she was using a mobile scanner to listen to baby's heartbeat, it was very clear and had good rhythm, not sure if that is the way to know if heartbeat is good but if it is beating uninterrupted I guess it is good, anyway nurse also say good. While I was there, I also dropped by the patient services centre to grab a copy of the bill, so far the bill for 11 days of stay is: C class room charge: $2200 C class daily treatment fee: $1133 Lab investigations: $953.70 Specialised investigation: $130 Treatme
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Wife Got Injection and Drip

My wife told me a nurse gave her an injection on her thigh this morning and told her it is for her baby, she is supposed to get another injection 11 hours later, so when I visited, I asked the nurse about it, nurse told me it is meant to help the baby's lungs develop quickly. I did a search and seems like it is a very common thing to do, it is some sort of insurance in case the baby needs to be delivered earlier than planned, no side effects if only one course is administered. Nurse also told me wife's blood pressure went down to 80+, so they put a drip on her to increase her blood pressure to 90+. But there is still blood in her urine, not sure if it is getting better or worse, still waiting for urologist findings, but overall her and baby seems to be doing fine. She also went for an ultrasound at the gynae, baby is 2.2KG, gynae says ok, google tells me normal range is 5.5 to 10 pounds, so seems to be okay, baby also doing ok. So 6 more days to the c-section, please le
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Wife's Urine Still have Blood

So it has been 2 days since blood appeared in her urine, when I visited her just now there's still blood, doesn't seem to be getting better, at least it's not getting worse, I think the colour is the same as what I saw yesterday, maybe yesterday was a bit darker. Today I tried to contact her cardiologist but didn't manage to get him, the duty doctor called me up and said the gynae doesn't think it is serious problem, can't remember exactly what else the doctor said but generally he was saying it's not serious to the extent that they have to do something, they did send my wife's urine/blood sample for testing, he thinks might be some sort of infection or some other non-pregnancy related problem, he also called in a urologist. So just now I spoke to the urologist, he was at my wife's ward, he saw my wife's bloodied urine and he thinks it is mild, he was asking if my wife had any kidney stone previously, or backache, or urinary infection prio
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