All New Soemardjan

Oh what a day!

I have become.... a father... to a baby boy.

Our baby boy Noë Soemardjan was born in Thomson Medical Centre, Singapura.

• Date/Time: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 / 17:36
• Weight: 2.765 kg
• Length: 47 cm
• Head Cir.: 33 cm

Noë is now healthy and adjusting to the new environment really well. He wishes to have breast milk but Rani apparently is not yet ready to give it to Noë yet. Why?

Immediately after giving birth, Dr. TC Chang told me that my dear wife Rani experienced "postpartum haemorrhage" and is currently being taken care of inside a high dependency room. When I left the hospital at 10:00 pm, she said there was still some sign of bleeding, although it may have been caused by the uterus pushing exceess blood out of the system, but I am not so sure about the cause of it. I have yet to find out more when I return at 7:30 am. Surprisingly, her blood pressure was quite normal even though she had lost about 1000 cc of blood.

Let us hope and pray for her speedy recovery as she is fighting hard to overcome the challenges.


Fotografer.net members may view the coverage done by our good friend Judhi Prasetyo: with some photos to view. All New Soemardjan

I must admit that Rani is much tougher than I am... I am speechless when seeing how well she handled the pain. Her pain threshold is way way above average.




Noë's umbilical cord blood was extracted and cryogennically frozen in CordLife , a private bank for cord blood stem cell



Noë opened his eyes after being cleaned up and weighed.



That's all for now, folks... I shall get back to you with more details soon.