My first son - Ahmad Afi

Afi was born on Oct 4th 1997 (1 jamidilakhir 1418), saturday subuh about 5am in North Middlesex hospital in London. His labour was the longest - it was almost 24 hours. I started of with 10-20 minutes break of pain and being anxious and afraid of course, we went straight to the hospital..i was like 2cm opened..the waiting was like forever with me in lots of pain..we are so blessed having abah who was not even a second, away from my side...i still cannot recall if abah actually ate anything the whole day (from the morning of 3rd until the moment afi was born)..so we walked around the labour ward (mummy & abah) to help the "opening".....with 5 minutes pain, i had gas then epidural ...and somehow the opening reached 6cm and stopped...after a long breathtaking struggling...caesarian is the answer...so afi was born through the "tingkap" as the malay calls it......i was put in half anaes so i could actually see the whole procedure from reflection on the lamp cover on top of me...but i did not ..the only hope at that time is to get you out and to hold you and hoping for health...
i praised to Allah the moment i heard your first cries...afi weigthed at 3.88kg, ..the biggest among the 3...do remember the first person who changed your diaper was abah, with the sticky black poo ..messy!!! Afi was 1 month old in the picture