Week 27-28 – Threathened preterm labour

Nearer to the end of week 27, I visited NUH clinic G for the purpose of my babies blood flow issue as I couldn’t downgrade at KKH to subsidized patient. During the consultation, I thought it’s just normal follow up and close monitoring for blood flow. I told the doctor I was having frequent cramps since the day before. Immediately, the doctor put me on CTG monitoring. Then they detected contractions. 

Immediately, I was brought to labour ward for close CTG monitoring. The team of doctors came in and checked for dilation, swipe test and gave me oral pills (nifedipine) to slow down the contractions as I was contracting every 2-3 mins and I thought it’s just normal cramps. There was no sign of bleeding or dilation yet I was still given steroid jabs in case I need to deliver that day. 

I was not allowed to eat from 10am until 6pm. In the evening, the next shift of doctors came in and idiotic sarcastic Senior consultant, Dr Lim Min Yu, was on duty at labour ward.  A few years back, when I was diagnosed with PCOS, he was the one who keep prescribing me with clomid and even wanted to double the dosage when I was having side effects. 

Then when I was having emotional roller coaster at the labour ward, he brought in his team of Kakias and started to say some grandfather stories. The conclusion was to transfer me back to KKH because in case of labor, there would not be enuf incubator in NICU for babies. I broke down when I heard this kind of stupid excuse and felt they just wanted to get rid of me due to high risk pregnancy case. 

Guess what? When I’m back at KKH,  I had whole night of monitoring and when they are transferring me to normal ward, the beds for me are FULL. I chose C ward as the estimated bill per baby in case of labour in NICU for 100 days was $40,000. When I was pushed to C ward, surprisingly there was air cooler and it wasn’t as hot as I thought. However, it was a noisy environment as there’s babies crying, people snoring and a Malay family who always raise their voices. 

Anyway, I was discharged on the 3rd day as I don’t feel comfortable at C ward and my contractions were stabilized. 

The bills have not been mailed to me yet. 

Week 27 – blood flow scan

Results were getting worst as baby 2 blood flow resistance get higher and his weight was almost out of the range. 

Baby 1’s weight – 1000g 

Baby 2’s weight – 800g 

I was kind of devastated and stress over their weight management. So I got some advices from Dr Tan to get subsidized rates until nearer to my delivery date. 

As I was a subsidized patient at NUH, I called for an appointment to continue as subsidized patient there and planned to return to KKH when everything is stabilized. 

Total duration: 3hrs

Total bill – $300 

Week 25 – blood flow scan

This was the first blood flow scan and to my horror, my baby 2 had shown blood flow resistance and was prompt to IUGR. 

Baby 1 weight – 750g

Baby 2 weight – 580g 

As Dr Tan HH was on leave, I was advised by a resident Doctor that there’s nothing that can be done at the moment except of be closely monitored.

Perhaps worries are never ending since before pregnancy. As we have come so far, we are not giving up and trying to find some remedies to help our babies. I started to eat more especially avocado and durian so I can try to gain more weight and hoping they grow well. 

   

 

Total duration: 2hrs 

Total payment: $200