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Hospital Story - Baby Part I

I was awakened by a soft touch on my cheek. It was my baby! They showed me his genital and asked what was the gender. It's a boy weighed 2.75kg. The specialist already cut his tali pusat and wrap him with a towel. When I held him for the first time, I was quite blank. No special feeling at the moment but only felt that now I am someone's mother! A nurse squeezed my breast and some milk came out. But I was far from knowing how to nurse my baby. Both of my legs also very numb so I couldnt move as I pleased. They put baby on a crib but then he cried, I asked to put him with me again. I tried to nursed him but felt very hard, with my body still very weak and numb and the urge to sleep still very strong. We both then pushed into the High Dependency Ward (HDW). Then my parents, husband and my younger sister Fara went there. To my relief, one of the nurse in the ward was my junior in high school. I was half asleep. Afterwards I learnt that I was injected with magnesium sulphate solu