All in one

Last Friday was my last day in school. I am currently sitting on my sofa thinking what to have for breakfast. It's 10:30 at the moment.

Reading a case happened in one of the private hospitals here in HK, the Baptist Hospital, about a pregnant woman from the mainland died of a complication during labor called amniotic fluid embolism. This complication will cause the placenta to break down, allowing the amniotic fluid, fetal cell and hair and other debris to enter the mother's blood stream causing serious allergic reaction. She was given drips of oxytocin to hasten the labor since she wasn't dilated. After a couple of hours, she was complaining about the pain and was then not responsive and needed to be resuscitated. Shortly after she died....

I know I shouldn't be reading news like this to stir my emotions. News said it is a rare pregnancy complication and no one could have prevented it. The death rate is 60% if it happens... What bothers me the most is that it said 'private hospitals have found more and more of these death cases and that the level of management and services have to improve'. The fact that I am going to have Xiaobao in a private hospital is now slightly bothering me...

This doesn't help with my already anxious feeling about giving birth. Everyday I wake up, thinking 'is today the big day?' since Xiaobao technically is full term size wise. God bless that everything's gonna be alright...

Today we are planning to go to the British consulate and immigration department to pick up forms about applying passport and return home permit. We've read up information online about the procedures and thought we could do with going there and ask any final doubts that we have about how all these will go... reading it online and actually having it done is always different. After that we might travel to North Point and take the ferry across to Nick's and hand in the form about the resident octopus card registration, so that we can get in and out of the flat without hassle.