My dove, My Baby Love

Monday 28/04/2008

My pregnant sis-in-law, kak aida was due on 12.05. But due to her high blood pressure, the doctor advised her to be 'induced' (the way I heard it). This morning me and umi went to the hospital and waited in her room (312). The will-be mother was in the labor room.
We waited.
Ok, things got a little bored, so me and umi walked to Ampang Point having one of those, you know, girlie times? sounds weird.

Umi got a call from my oldest bro, abang, and we scuttled back to the hospital. It was afalse alarm though. The baby was supposed to be matured (the way i heard it, with some doubts. Even a 16-year old can be quite immature, how could this niece of mine...oh, never mind) but looked like the baby wasn't very keen to see the world.

The water broke at about 3pm. Kak aida's temperature started to rise.She had to be given the epidural. She was suposed to give birth hours ago!

So the doctor decided to operate her. Caesars.

You know how in the movies the concerned relatives all wait anxiously outside the surgery room, and when the doctor came out, everyone surrounded the doctor, sent the doctor suffocated, asking how's my baby was, or how's my wife was, or how's my sister was, and everything?

It wasn't quite like that.

We waited in a room with a TV (Impak Maksima, starring Fasha Sandha and Awal Ashaari), and a nurse asked abang if he wanted to come inside and watch, and he wore this green uniform and a scrub, looked very cool and went inside. and the grown-ups talked about how the weather was shih shah shih shah. and the kids (kak aida's nieces and nephews) hoo haa n hoo haa. Yiyi and Imie sat talking, watching Impak Maksima. Me sat silently reading a Jeffrey Archer.

There was this cute little boy, aged two I think, called Muszaphar (or so I heard), kept playing near me. since I wasn't really err.. kids-friendly, I just smiled, and continued the reading. My brother Imie played with him. And they got real closed. He had a gift with kids.

Suddenly the door opened. My brother got out. Everyone just stared (no rushing). He said she was okay. The baby was okay. and we all rushed back to third floor, to see the baby. We could only watched the baby from outside the room with a big glass window. She was so tiny!
The nurses gave her a bath.

And Imie held Muszaphar up and pointed at the baby. he whispered in an sad-mocked voice.
"Tengok tu.. dah ada baby.. Apar dah x comel dah.."
Muszaphar's sister continued "yelah.. apar dh xglamer dah.."
The toodler's face was so funny! He looked so gob smacked and kinda blurred and you know, terlopong.

Imie continued " lepas ni kalau orang tanya, mana baby?? Apar dah x boleh angkat tgn dah.. org x tgk apar dah... " His voice was really gloomy and conspiratorial as he added a very slow and deliberate whisper.
"Booooooo..."

I coudnt stop laughing.