Introducing new Baby Tay!

We have a new addition to the Tay family in the form of a baby boy. Baby T was born on Oct 9th, 2008 (10-09-08) at 2:36AM at the Markham-Stouffville hospital. We are still working on a name for him.




His arrival was a journey... Shubing was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes in the second trimester, so she had to go on a strict low-carb diet; we found out the baby was breeched late in the third trimester, so we tried some methods to help the baby turn but decided to stop after a few attempts as we felt there must be a good reason why baby did not turn by himself; the original due date was Oct 15th, but due to the breech we were scheduled for a C-Section on Oct 10th; even with the C-Section, the baby decided to come out early!

Here's a story of what happened before the birth: we went to visit Shubing's good friend Gaoshan, and ended staying for dinner. Their place was in Stouffville, so we were only 15 minutes from the hospital. When we were ready to leave, Shubing felt a gush of liquid. She checked and noticed the liquid was reddish in colour. We proceeded to head home immediately and she experienced another small gush while we were on the road. Shubing called her friend, A-Mao, to get an opinion on this and also called our midwife. The midwife said this is a sign of the water starting to break, and instructed us to go to the hospital right away! The reason is labour can start within 24 hours from the water breaking, and because of the C-Section, it is important that the mother does not go into labour or complications may arise. Well, we have already passed the hospital and am 20 minutes to our house, and we needed to get our supplies, so we continued home as planned.

At this moment, we were taking a slight left curve on the road and the on-coming car in the opposite direction did not turn and headed straight for us in our lane! I swerved left into the on-coming lane and just missed a head-on collision with this jerk, and looking at the rear-view mirror, the vehicle almost hit the cars behind us too. Fortunately for everyone, an accident did not occur.

So we got home safely, grabbed our pre-packed supplies and headed back out to the hospital. We got there at 10:30PM Oct 8th, and got checked into a private labour room. Shubing was put on the IV, and we were told that we'll likely get into the Operating Room by midnight. But then we got bumped as there was someone in a more urgent condition, and we just rested and waited. By 2:00AM Oct 9th, Shubing was brought into the OR, while I waited (with my camera) outside. And then they called me in to be with Shubing, and my pictures will tell the rest of the story :-)

Check out the pictures here

We were not released from the hospital until Sunday, as the nurses wanted us to stay an extra night because Baby T was losing too much weight. It turns out the there wasn't enough milk from breast-feeding, and supplementing the feeding with formula helped Baby T to regain his weight. We didn't have any real issues with jaundance as well. We are home now and everyone is recovering well.

See new pictures of Baby T in his photo gallery!