Today is the day the Triples arrived!!!

Yes people, the day is finally here. The babies are out... yeah!!! "snaps snaps". We arrived at Mt Alvernia at about 5am this morning and got with the registration to admit Sharon into the hospital. If you ask me, that's way too early in the morning to be doing any paperwork. ;-p

After the paperwork was done, Sharon was assigned a ward and we were kinda hoping to get upgraded to the 2 bedder instead of the 4 bedder that we requested for. Upgrades are good... If you get them. Sharon settled into the bed and soon after, a nurse came to do some pre-op checks. While she was checking for their heart-beats, one of the babies (Sharon suspects its Jillian) kept jabbing at the probe where it picked up the heart-beats. As you can imagine, instead of hearing HBs, you kept on hearing to thumping sounds.... hahaha..

Nothing much happened after that till about 7:30 when nurse came in and gave Sharon a solution to drink to help with the recovery process after put into General anesthetic (GA). After that, the male nursed wheeled Sharon into the operation theatre. Her scheduled appointment was 8:30 but I guessed they needed time to prep and all. Having to wake up early in the morning, I did not manage to grab a good solid breakfast so when she was in, I took off to a nearby Mac to grab their $2 breakfast special. Nice...

When I got back about 9:30, I sat outside the op theatre and after about 30 mins of waiting, a nurse called me. With my heart pounding... I quickly rushed up and greeted the nurse and I was escorted to the NIC unit where my babies were. There, was the first time I saw my babies. Jillian, Jared and Joanne. They are the most beautiful babies I could ever wished for and more.

Since they were under-weight, they had to be put into the NIC unit they can reach 2kg. Till then, we need to pray that they don't suffer any complications and all they need to focus on is gaining weight. Pray for us as well.

On another note, I've received comments from both side of the Grand-Parents that our kids have a lot of hair..hmm.. Sharon did eat a lot of beef during her term.. and that could explain it. ;p

On to the mother now, Sharon is doing well with the exception of the pain where the op was done.. that's understandable and the docs are giving her mild pain-relief solutions. Other than that, she did not suffer any issues with the GA recovery and was SMSing and talking on the handphone 2 hours after the op. We all had to report to our fellow friends and colleagues on the progress as they were all equally excited as we were. Sharon would be on a IV diet for the 1st day and if the doc allows, move on to soft-food and later to solids. She should be out by the end of this week and her mother will start the month long process of looking after her and nursing her back to health. Sharon's mother is a fantastic cook and I hope Sharon picks up on that.

More to come on the babies progress and I will try to post something up every night before I sleep. Pray for us if you can and God Bless.

Love and Hugs,
Sharon, Gene, Jillian, Joanne & Jared (in correct order)
;=p

p/s As to what's with the "J" names... I wanted the names to all start with the same letter and they also had to sound great with great history and meaning to it. So we ended up with the "J" sequence. Also, "J" in between the letter "G" and "S". Ha!

p/s p/s. Editing this blog to add in some folks that visited us.

- Mervin, Debbie and Steffie (thanks to the Siows for bring me dinner and the fruits, without it, I think I would have gone home hungry)