Looking through this bag full of crap we got from the Korean hospital we are discovering lots of wierd stuff. A dirty diaper, so we have a sample to give Yongsan once she arrives there. (Like I am going to have a problem with her making another when its an hour to an hour and a half drive, let alone time to wait to be seen). A CD that with a picture of the X-Ray they took so that Yongsan could see if she had any issues with her internal organs that is causing the diarhea. Not sure I am real crazy about them just x-raying my daughter like this either. Espically all the major organs right down to the reproductive, just about everything but the brain…, maybe they didn’t have enough time. Found a couple more pictures the hospital took of her. (I’ll get them scanned and added to the gallery later when I get home and can use my scanner). Here is the X-Ray though, for shits and giggles.

The bag also contained the smallest bottle of baby oil I have ever seen. The little RazorNylon.com onesie t-shirt I made on cafepress. Yeah I ordered one, now I just have to get pictures of her in it. How it ended up in the bag I don’t know. There was flyers and other worthless samples of stuff we don’t need. It just more crap I have to throw away now.

Staying at the in-laws until monday or tuesday so call me before you stop by.

We solved the problems with the other hospital by saying that our insurance ran out on we will have to pay for it so we needed to transfer to Yonsan hospital so that we could get treatment for the diarhea and jaundice. Both which are common in babies, but neither are reason for keeping the baby isolated in the nursery of the hospital. The jaundice level was at a 13.2 and they wanted to start phototherapy to bring it down below 12. If they started it they would have to monitor it closely to make sure it didn’t rebound back up higher than it was which is common. Yonsan said they wouldn’t of started the phototherapy until level 18. No treatment was done and this morning it had dropped to 10 all on its own.

The diarhea the korean hospital claimed it was a Roto-virus. Yongsan said they will have it tested to see if that is right, but if it is, that just means its easier for her to get de-hydrated. No medicine or anything for it, just let it pass and keep her hydrated. The korean hospital just wanted to keep her to milk more money out of us I think. But because we said we tranfered to Yongsan, (basically it was just a check-up I setup the appointment yesterday) they let us take her. I had to talk them down cause they wanted us to take the ambulance to Yongsan hospital.

After I have gone through all this, let me say that I love Yongsan hospital and forgive them for anything I may of said in the past. If you see me laying in the street missing an arm or leg, I don’t care where I am…, take me to a US hospital.

The wife was supposed to breast feed last night but when we went they said she just ate. Tried again this morning and they said she has diarhea and breast feeding will make it worse. So my wife tries to talk them into just letting us hold her and since this morning she has developed this condition around her eyes where its yellow. I am trying to go see her now for the first time so I can see for myself, they say its quite common though.

I don’t know why and at this point I don’t really care. But my daughter is almost three days old now and I haven’t been allowed to so much as lay a fucking finger on her without the nurse’s bitching at me. I haven’t held her, kissed her, not a god damn thing. My wife hasn’t even been able to breast feed her. They keep telling me something about the room we are in is a dirty room and the nursery is a clean room. LAST I FUCKING CHECKED BOTH ROOMS WERE IN A HOSPITAL!!!! Both rooms should be clean and sterile! Regardless of which we are her damn parents she is going home with us eventually and I sure as hell am not going to hose myself down with disinfectant at 3am when she starts screaming.

They say now that tomorrow my wife gets to breast feed her and we get to hold her…, but I swore they said that about tonight. I have been well-behaved up until this point. Anything happens where I don’t get to hold my daughter or anything of the such, and I am seriously going to to throw one of these 5 pound nurses through the fucking window to the nursery and take both my wife and daughter home. If the wife needs any more medical help she can go to Yongsan. Fuck Korea, Fuck their doctors, and give me my fucking daughter!!!

UPDATE: As suggested here is the name of the hospital so the rest of you can avoid them.
“Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital” - They are in Nowon, which is in the most Northern part of Seoul.
“인제대학교상계백병원” - (ìš°)139-707 서울특별시 노원구 상계7동 761-1
http://www.paik.ac.kr/new/sanggye.asp

OK, I am finally home so I can send one of these out. I am home alone and just to get a shower and some stuff to do cause we are bored.

About 4:30 friday morning Dohee was complaining about passing a lot of fluid when she went to the bathroom. She called her mother and confirmed that her water had broken, then she came and got the two of us and we went to the hospital. Around 1-2pm she had been 3cm dialated for several hours and not progressing. So they decided to do a C-Section. At 2:28pm our time which is 12:28am NY time me and Dohee had a very healthy girl. She was born with a full head of dark hair, hair that was like 2 inches long! She was 3790 grams, and 51cm long. Which I converted to 8lbs 5oz on my phone calculator, but now I got 8lbs 6oz (or 5.688315789oz). The length I converted right to 20 inches.

Dohee is doing ok, bleeding a lot still and difficult to move, but progressing. The thing I am not liking is they aren’t letting me so much as touch my “healthy” daughter. Can’t hold her, touch her, do a thing with her. I am thinking of threatening to put a chair through the window to the nursery and going in and taking my daughter (thats the only way in unless they buzz you in). If that don’t work I can show them my military ID and SOFA card (SOFA is an agreement between Korea and the U.S. saying if Korea arrests me they will turn me over to the U.S., but the Korean police are always too lazy cause of the amount of paperword, and difficulty with translating, so they set us free, and the Korean public knows this, so a threat like this will make them believe every word of it and fear it.) Whether I do that or not I seriuosly doubt it, but a threat doesn’t hurt anyone. But if in the case where you do hear of something on the news where an American soldier tries to take his “healthy” daughter out of the hospital…, change the channel. Seriously I am having Dohee try to explain to them that I am not Korean and keeping my daughter from me is a legal reason to go insane and be unaccountable for my actions in the US. And that all we want too do is hold our daughter and maybe breast feed her.

Anyway I will keep you updated on that situation as it progresses. I do have pictures and everything posted now.

http://www.razornylon.com/modules/xcgal/thumbnails.php?album=142

Not that I had time to actually do this, she just showed up on the right day of the week is all. This week’s Girl Friday is my daughter, Hanna Rachel. The hospital put this pic together.

http://www.paik.ac.kr/etc/newborn/newborn_ed.asp?p_hp=JA&i_seq=884

IT’S A GIRL!!!
Born at 2:28pm today
8lbs 5oz and 20in long.

I have been waiting in the hospital waiting room for several hours now. Aparently the area where my wife is, is for staff and patients only. You have to take your shoes off as soon as you enter the area anyway. Which I guess is a good thing. However I have to pay an extra 150,000 won to get a special room so i can attend the birth. This being my first child I want nothing more than to see this child come into the world.

The doctor here in the hospital speaks very good english, no accent, speaks at a reasonable speed without stuttering, better than any KATUSA I have ever worked with and thats there job is too transalate. He says that his guess is she will have the baby by 3 or 4 this afternoon. I guess we will see… dont even know the sex yet so got a couple surprises coming today. The hard part now is just waiting.

It’s about 5am, and her water broke. Going to hospital now! Hopefully not a false alarm.