After her water breaks, woman braves weekend congestion at Woodlands Checkpoint to deliver baby in JB
So when her water bag broke, Ms Cheng Kai Ling, a Malaysian who has worked and lived in Singapore for more than six years, was determined to cross the Causeway to have her baby delivered at a private hospital in Johor Bahru.
Ms Cheng, 29, was woken up by her husband’s alarm with a sensation that she was lying in a pool of water, at around 7am on March 25, nearly two weeks before she was expected to deliver her first child on April 7. Typically, labour begins after a pregnant woman’s water breaks, and contractions soon follow.Ms Cheng and her husband, a Singapore permanent resident from Malaysia, began the journey to travel from their flat in Woodlands, about 10 minutes’ drive away from the checkpoint.
“We were not thinking about other options, even though I was in some pain and discomfort,” Ms Cheng told The Straits Times over the phone on Saturday. “I thought about losing more amniotic fluid, which would affect the baby’s safety, but just kept going on.” She received the most help at the checkpoint from Singapore’s ICA officers, she said, on a day when it seemed like “there were more people than usual”.
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