3.485 kg boy

He's here. At 3.485 kg. Exhausted. 

No epidural nor any pain medication, just gas (nitrous oxide). After oxytocin induction to pick up the rate of contraction, pain reigned over as nature intended. Such sacrifice and bravery that moms have to go through! More than 10 hours of pain to bring a life. Yet, they are never considered the heroes. 

Purple hearts should be given to moms instead. 

Updates:

• Contraction started getting unbearable at 7 am while frequency was sparse at one per 7 min. Mommy used only laughing gas (or nitrous oxide).
• At 11.50 am, a nurse measured 9 cm on mommy and asked her to push (but didn't realize that the baby was too big for mommy, i.e. 3.6 kg heavy baby in 145 cm tall mommy). Mommy got "boo boo" (vaginal hematoma). The nurse asked us to stop the push immediately and went to see the doctor. The doctor measured 8 cm (how subjective was that!). We were told to wait for another 2 hours for mommy to dilate to 10 cm.
• Waiting for another 2 hours was unbearable for mommy. She took in the gas regularly (as the contractions became frequent at 4 min intervals). It was so unbearable that we decided to get the anesthetic injection (I think it was Pethidine; other types are Diamorphine or Meptazinol; see pain killing injections). However, we were later told that if the delivery falls short of 2 hours, then the baby will be warded to high dependency (HD) room for monitoring, which means that mommy will not be able to see our baby as regularly.We were too late to opt for the injection.
• Mommy opted to bear the pain (without injection) for the sake of baby. Daddy cringed each time mommy had pain. Soon, we overheard the staff saying that there was no attending gynaecologist for us. Ours was in Myanmar, while one was going off work after 12 pm, and the other one was on leave. Must be a shock to anyone, no?
• At 2 pm and the dilation was at max. All the equipment were made ready. Midwife, nurses, attending doctor, and last-minute gynaecologist (who was supposed to be on leave) attended.
• The pushes lasted almost an hour. Final push saw the gynaecologist pulling our baby's head and twisting his body to orientate him out from mommy.
• I was so happy to see the baby while mommy was exhausted.
• After the postpartum procedure, the gynaecologist came over to tell us that during the delivery, one of the midwife/nurse heard a cracking sound (suggesting that there could have been a broken bone, and probably the collar bone). The gynaecologist said that it was a common thing, considering that babies need to traverse a narrow canal from mother's pelvic cavity. She said that normally the broken clavicle (or collarbone) will heal by itself. Anyway, she said that a pediatrician will attend to our baby shortly for assessment.That was not what all parents wanted to hear... but for the doctor to come clean and thorough is better than hiding this fact from us.
• In retrospect, during the whole waiting time, I was irritated by the nurse (who had asked mommy to push earlier) who kept on telling everyone that the patient had vaginal hematoma because the patient pushed prematurely and how the nurse stopped mommy from pushing. It was an irritating lie but we bore with it. What was more important to me was asking these questions to the attending midwife, (1) how common is vaginal hematoma? she said it was a common problem, (2) is it treatable and how do you treat it? she replied that you just have to apply a cooling pad (with ice) to sooth the swell and keep monitoring if the swelling recede over time. Thank goodness!

 In conclusion, I am happy to be with my wife. I saw how awfully painful labour is and how much braver mothers really are. If the Purple heart goes to soldiers, a Gold or Diamond heart belongs to mothers.