Singapore's 2 is enough policy in the early years
Singaporeans are mostly law abiding and tends to 'listen' to the government. Otherwise there would be fines. So whatever they said people would tend to abide by them. How many women in my family follow this policy? My sister has 2 children, my sister-in-law also has two children. I used to think of only having 2 children too. However, I was wrong.
Photograph of my new family portrait
At the age of 38 I gave birth to another tiny human being. I had to carry my cross and bare all hardship to juggle my pregnancy with caring for the home and children. How precious is a life?
I had Isaac in my womb for nine months. I did not know how much it means to me until I was almost losing it at the time of birth.
There was bleeding and I quickly went to the hospital with Richard. At the hospital, I was asked to lay in the bed to rest.
Photograph of me at Mount Alvernia Hospital 2009
I stayed there for almost one two days and one night then I was pushed to the delivery ward. Over there, I still need to wait for the uterus to open up. It was early in the morning when I still need to wait for the doctor to arrive. By the time I had epidural and the doctor came it was quite some time. Finally the baby came out from my womb.
Isaac cried and the nurse carried him to show me. However later on, the doctor and nurse seemed to be doing something which I did not know. Later on I was informed by the doctor that the baby was in critical state. He was in the womb for too long, and he had eaten his own feaces. The baby was a bit blue. The doctor said the baby need to be pushed to the critical care unit.
At that moment, I was so scared of losing him. I did not want to carry him for nine months and lost him in the end. We prayed. I called home to the children and told them about it. I asked them to help to pray too. Luckily, soon Isaac was fine ultimately. We thanked God that he was well at that moment.
