Angeleena Mumbi Mutahi

It has been a while again since I last wrote something, but I have been busy/lazy recently. Well, now I thought that since I don't have any other urgent thing to take care of, I give an introduction about our youngest daughter, Angeleena Mumbi. We call her Mumbi and that is the name she even knows best. :) It is easiest to say I guess? :) But I love her name and she is my mother. :)

Ok, here it comes....

Angeleena Mumbi was born on a grey day on 22nd of November at exactly 17.24. She didn't come out the normal way as we wished that she would. It had the be the c-section again, just like it was with my first born. This time I was so disappointed at myself there in the hospital and kept on wondering why my body fails this way. But anyway, I thank God for the healthy daughter we got! :)
Let me tell you a little bit of the pregnancy with Mumbi...what I can remember. In the beginning I only had like pain in my stomach and joints abit and the headache was the one that was killing me. It just hit some days and I had to be in bed for like whole day....those days were awful...but after week 12 they just stopped. Then I started gaining weight and got so much swellings in my legs...at pretty early stage already...started having some rashes and oh boy those nights that I scratched myself...nothing was helping..had to go to see a doctor many times until they sent me to a bigger hospital for some skin treatment...I had to walk with bandages on my legs for several weeks....guess how much they were itching? :D hehe...well, but it all helped...although the swelling kept on staying until the end.
But all in all, I was feeling ok and most important thing was that Mumbi was doing fine all the time in my womb :) <3

The due day was 15.11.2011 but Mumbi did not want to come out then...I had contractions already before 15th...and we even went I think once to the hospital when I woke up at night having so much pain....well, ofcourse we were sent back home. :) Then after 15th we went like one more time, but for nothing...:)....I had a check-up on 21st and then the doctor said that the head is down and it can be touched so anytime soon...well, in the morning on 22nd I started getting strong contractions and around 1am the water broke. I called the hospital and they told me to wait so that the contractions would be like between 1-5 minutes...I tried to sleep and rest but the pain just got worse..I told my husband that we really need to go now, I can't stand this anymore....I called my mum to come and stay at home with Isabella and Simon and then we left...in the hospital they saw that I was open like 2 cm.....they gave me some gas and it helped in the beginning...Phares had to go to work but he promised to come back when things start really happening...I just waited and waited and when he left the contractions came even stronger and I asked for the epidural...well...the anestecia doctors came and started putting the needle on my back but then they got an emergency call and had to leave..so it was not fully done....I just cried coz the pain was sooo much and the gas did not help anything...just made me sick. I waited for the doctor for an hr or so before they came and now finished with the epidural....pheeww that was the relief and I could actually now rest a little bit...I was open like 4 cm and the midwives just kept on saying that I'm doing fine....8 hrs or more had gone...not much happening...Phares came back from work....the midwives changed...I mean the shift changed and an older nurse came....she checked me and suddenly told me that I have constant contractions but I am not opening and head is still too far up and seems to be a little bit in a wrong position...and that my hips are too narrow...the baby cannot come normal way....when we heard that, I just started crying and I was so shocked...and so was my husband..he got angry and told that we will just wait and the baby will come out the normal way. At that point my contractions were back very strongly and the epidural did not help anything anymore. I was screaming out of pain and didn't even have 30 seconds between the contractions...I vormited and got fever and when they tried to put some antibiotics in me, they couldn't find my vains and kept on pushing the needle in so many places and oh boy that was hurting even more...I just wanted to go home...I hated that place at that stage....I wished everything would start from the beginning but way much differently....but there I was...and we were.....we told the doctors to wait still before we go ahead with the c-section....they said it's not healthy for me or for the baby to wait...Phares was confused also, but after a while he told that let's just do that now because he didn't want to see me in such pain even. I told that we wait but finally gave in...so they started preparing the operation room....since the spinal anestecia didn't help, they had to put me to sleep and I thank God they did because I had so much fear from the time with Isabella. Well, they pulled out healthy girl at exactly 17:24 swedish time. :) <3

Well, around 7pm (I think) they woke me up and took me to the room in ward 11 and there was Phares and our dear little princess waiting. I had been told that I got a baby girl and she was 52cm tall and 3670g heavy. Oh, I was so happy to see them and finally hold my baby. :) I got some food and now started the recovery again from the operation. Didn't like that so much. Was feeling down because of all that had happened. And disappointed. But what can I do? My body just failed me. I hope next time everything will be ok.





Angeleena Mumbi Mutahi



Proud sister came to visit :)




The view from the dining room in the hospital

Aand finally some few short facts about Mumbi:

First time:
smile: 26.12.2011
laughter: 2.2.2012
words: "äiti" 18.6.2012, baba/daddy summer-12, teetä 20.6.12, mitä (what) august-12
turned: 24.6.2012 from stomach to her back, 8.3.12 from her back to her stomach
sitting: April -12 somehow, but balanced sitting and supporting with her hands if falling 11.5.12
crawling: backwards 15.7.12, forward 12.8.08
be on all fours: 10.9.12
standing up: 5.9.12 she stood up by herself against her feeding chair
walking: one week after we arrived to Kenya...around 13.12.2012 :)
eating solid food: 10.3.2012, she liked potatoes with butter and carrots and then later on pasta. :)