Remember that I was rather anxious about when Joash will be coming out? I am indeed a woman of little faith as I should have trusted that God's timing is always perfect. I couldn't have chosen any other better time to deliver him. Here are some of the reasons, courtesy of my husband who complied them:
1) It's a public holiday. Joshua didn't need to take leave for the day. So we had one more day of paternity leave to play around with.
2) It happened in the morning. Or else we would both have been too tired to go through with the whole draining process.
3) The baby was fully developed already, so if he had stayed in the womb for some more days, it might have been bad for his health because faeces might start to accumulate in the water bag. The nurse showed my husband the evidence of Joash's first stools at his anus when he was just delivered.
4) News spreaded fast because a number of church members were fellowshipping together. So many of my church mates were praying for us!
5) Joshua and I had prayed for the baby to come out soon just some 4 hours before the water bag broke! God answered so clearly and quickly!
6) The hospital had just finished some renovations the day before, so we had peace and quiet throughout our hospital stay.
7) There were quite a number of people who discharged from the hospital the day before. This made it possible for Joshua to secure a good single room to stay over in the hospital with me. I really needed the help to move around as I was in great pain. (The hospital only allows those in single wards to have a companion stay over)
8) Joshua had a rather large amount of work to be cleared the day after delivery... But his boss reduced it because of changes in the project! So he finished his work even though he was only working half-day on Friday.
9) Joshua's boss flew off on Sunday so the next week was rather lull... A good time to take paternity leave!
These are only the thanksgivings concerning the delivery. Little did we know that later on, our confinement lady was hospitalized after her first day at our place! Poor woman, she must have been overworking herself. I hope that she'll be able to nurse back her health eventually. We were also concerned that I would not have anyone to help me or cook for me while she tries to find a replacement for us (that is so responsible of her to do that!)
By the grace of God, the Monday she was hospitalized was the day we found out that Joash had very bad jaundice during our doctor's appointment. He had to be hospitalized too. Since I was breastfeeding him, I wanted to stay with him and the hospital serves good confinement food and has nurses to help me. Thus, we decided to spend the money to admit myself into a ward for the two days. Thank God too that a replacement was found and she could come the day after I discharge! What's more, the new lady is a Christian and we could come up with a better arrangement with her than the previous one concerning going for Sunday service. Yeah!
Praise God for healing Joash of jaundice and my recovery from the episiotomy is unexpectedly quick. I am now able to move around without too much pain and I think I am able to attend church this Sunday. Really looking forward to it.
Joash undergoing photo-therapy (Looks like he is sleeping on a scanner... Ha ha)
1) It's a public holiday. Joshua didn't need to take leave for the day. So we had one more day of paternity leave to play around with.
2) It happened in the morning. Or else we would both have been too tired to go through with the whole draining process.
3) The baby was fully developed already, so if he had stayed in the womb for some more days, it might have been bad for his health because faeces might start to accumulate in the water bag. The nurse showed my husband the evidence of Joash's first stools at his anus when he was just delivered.
4) News spreaded fast because a number of church members were fellowshipping together. So many of my church mates were praying for us!
5) Joshua and I had prayed for the baby to come out soon just some 4 hours before the water bag broke! God answered so clearly and quickly!
6) The hospital had just finished some renovations the day before, so we had peace and quiet throughout our hospital stay.
7) There were quite a number of people who discharged from the hospital the day before. This made it possible for Joshua to secure a good single room to stay over in the hospital with me. I really needed the help to move around as I was in great pain. (The hospital only allows those in single wards to have a companion stay over)
8) Joshua had a rather large amount of work to be cleared the day after delivery... But his boss reduced it because of changes in the project! So he finished his work even though he was only working half-day on Friday.
9) Joshua's boss flew off on Sunday so the next week was rather lull... A good time to take paternity leave!
These are only the thanksgivings concerning the delivery. Little did we know that later on, our confinement lady was hospitalized after her first day at our place! Poor woman, she must have been overworking herself. I hope that she'll be able to nurse back her health eventually. We were also concerned that I would not have anyone to help me or cook for me while she tries to find a replacement for us (that is so responsible of her to do that!)
By the grace of God, the Monday she was hospitalized was the day we found out that Joash had very bad jaundice during our doctor's appointment. He had to be hospitalized too. Since I was breastfeeding him, I wanted to stay with him and the hospital serves good confinement food and has nurses to help me. Thus, we decided to spend the money to admit myself into a ward for the two days. Thank God too that a replacement was found and she could come the day after I discharge! What's more, the new lady is a Christian and we could come up with a better arrangement with her than the previous one concerning going for Sunday service. Yeah!
Praise God for healing Joash of jaundice and my recovery from the episiotomy is unexpectedly quick. I am now able to move around without too much pain and I think I am able to attend church this Sunday. Really looking forward to it.
Joash undergoing photo-therapy (Looks like he is sleeping on a scanner... Ha ha)
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