The Belly Has Burst!

Alhamdulillah, Kak Peachy sudah selamat melahirkan seorang baby boy, Shaqeel, di Pantai Medical Centre pada 25.07.2009 tepat jam 5.27 petang seberat 2.7 kilo.

What is it with the 2s, 5s & 7s, eh?

Long labour, close to 12 hours! Ack! Didn't take epidural. Says she'll definitely go for epidural the 2nd time around. Haha.

Rasanya besok baru discharge. Oh aku tak bawak camera when we went visiting. Next time I go I'll take some pix ok. Kemudia tayangkan kecomelan anak buah latest ku pada semua. Huhu.

All I Want For My Birthday Is..

Kepala aku terasa bengap. Bukan macam bangang, tapi macam ada satu selaput covering my brain. Tiada konsentrasi terhadap kerja. The fact that I am constantly hungry does not help at all. Argh.

So people have been asking me, what I (hehe) want for Emma’s birthday.

Ok first on the list is a maxi-cosi toby carseat (which I know no one will buy, sob sob).

Next would be bunches of cloth diapers! Kesian Emma tau, dia cirit birit sejak hari Isnin. Her once RFC (hoho Radix Fried Chicken. Lain kali aku cerita) thighs or drumstick if you’d like dah jadi macam drumstick ayam kampung, OK! Begitu juga her Michelin arms. Er itu masih kelihatan seperti Michelin. Tapi Alhamdulillah she’s almost better now. Oh kaitannya adalah bontot dia melecet, due to the frequent contact with her own shit, I think. Dan jia anda refer kepada beberapa post sebelum ni, cara terbaik untuk memperbaiki keadaan ini adalah dengan menggunakan Huggies Ultra. Ataupun cloth diaper. Jadi takkan aku nak mintak Huggies Ultra, kan?

So next on the list is mainan-mainan yang age appropriate dan membuka minda. Oh speaking of which, I never did tell about the time I bought a Fisher Price Stride-To-Ride Something at my beloved Tesco, huh? Retail price is around RM169.00, which I know because I have been eyeing this particular thing for ages. Tapi rasa macam membazirlah nak beli begitu mahal kan. Tapi satu hari Pipi cakap kat aku, “kesian Emma. Dia main dengan household items je (like lotion bottles, mineral water bottles, tupperwares, boxes and the likes). Jadi aku terus bertekad untuk membeli the above item (herein known as STR).

The next night we were girls (hehehe aku dan Emma. Zufri golf. Pipi dating. Yelah budak-budak baru bercinta, meman dating saja kerjanya) on a mission. I was focused. Cari-cari tak ada, ada yang model baru gambar macam harimau apa semua tu. That’s even more expensive at RM259 or something! Aku kecewa tapi pasal aku seorang yang focus dan berdedikasi (cheh) aku pun mencari sesuatu yang seakan-akan STR. Tak kisahlah apa brand pun, hatta brand Tesco sekalipun. Finally I saw STR at their babies’ clothes section. Tapi masyaAllah, kotaknya koyak rabak! Bila aku cuba on, lampu tak menyala. Aku tanya salesgirl dia kata takleh try. So I said screw it, I’m just gonna buy it. They had a nice discount because of the condition, so I took it to the cashier, preparing myself to fork out RM94.50 for this (possible) piece of crap.

The cashier looked at me like I was mad for buying a torn and tattered package. Tapi aku kan tak kisah apa orang fikir pasal aku. Or do I? Hahaha. Sekali dia scan harga yang keluar adalah RM47.90! Aku cakap kat cashier tu, eh salah ni. Kat tempat tadi dia tulis RM94.50. Oh jujurnya aku ini. But the cashier just shrugged her shoulders and said takpelah. Like she was doing me a favour like that. Cheh. Padahal mestilah dia tak update harga kat aisle tadi. But anyhow, woot! Kuikuikui. Murah OK (compared to the original price) and amazingly, it works A-OK! Emma loves it. I love it. Zufri loves it. And we love each other. Wakaka.

Jadi, itulah saja antara hadiah-hadiah yang dihajati hati. Kalau nak bagi baju pun takpe.

But as I’ve said before, even if there’s no present(s), your presence is more than enough.

Serius.

Siapa yang aku tak jemput lagi? Pojan, kau jauh di perantauan lah. Tapi kalau kau rajin, hehe, marilah. Marilah. Nanoor juga. Maafkan aku ye Nanoor kerana lewat menjemput. Marilah.

P/s: Anies dah beli hadiah Emma lama gila dah. Hahaha.

Dalam dunia ni ada 4 jenis orang.

1- Orang yang suka berpura-pura. Belakang orang bukan main lagi mengutuk mengata, tapi depan orang tu manis pulak muka dan perangai dia. Orang macam ni biasalah, menyakitkan hati, jiwa dan raga. Biasa adalah mami mami penang. Wahahaha sukahati je. Weh keluarga ipar aku baca ke blog aku weh?

2- Orang yang depan dan belakang orang sama je. Mulut yang laser. Aku tak suka sangat orang yang laser ni, konon dia bagus sangat. Dia ingat pasal dia laser (dan orang tau dia laser), dia ada hak nak kutuk orang sesuka hati. Oh, go to hell.

3- Orang yang belakang kutuk, dan actually does something about it. Diplomatically. Orang beginilah yang bagus, bukan? Hoho aku bukan orang ini. Unless it has something to do with me, then I act lah. But after a few days or weeks of thinking and pondering. Aku memang pengecut sikit. Hahaha. And I can’t handle authority.

4- Orang yang selalunya mendengar saja bila orang mengutuk atau menumpat orang. Biasanya akan tambah sedikit sebanyak expressions yang menunjukkan bahawa mereka ni paying attention and they care. Hah. I think I belong in this group. Aku tak rasa aku orang yang suka mengutuk orang (stress pada perkataan “aku tak rasa”, ok). Maksud aku, kalau aku mengutuk orang pun, mesti kutukan yang light light je, Aku selalu tak ada gossip yang hangat. Haha. Siapa yang nak bergossip dengan aku mesti kecewa. And I always jumble up my stories. Like what happens first and then what happened. Kalau aku bercerita mesti aku terlupa parts, then kena return balik. Then termasuk citer lain. Oh Zufri mesti sangat bersabar bila aku bercerita gossip ofis.

Apalah kaitannya.

Ada orang kata aku berlagak. Tak tahulah kenapa. Muka aku berlagak ke? Aku berlagak cun ke? Cheh, ni lagi satu jenis orang. Orang yang kata konon dia tak pedulik apa orang nak cakap, tapi dalam hati sebenarnya selalu fikir apa orang cakap (aku le tu)

Ey bencilah. Buat bodoh sudahlah.

Oh I have my own David Tuterra OK. She says she’s a combination between David Tuterra and Nigella Lawson but with (way) smaller boobs. She’s Emma’s birthday party planner! Woot! (Again?)

Harap-harap semua berjalan lancar.

Marilah kita sama-sama mendoakan agar kak Peachy selamat bersalin tanpa intervention. Dia tak nak di induce katanya. Apparently she’s heard a lot of bad experiences of people getting induced. Haha. I’m sure one of it’s mine. Hehe. Mari berdoa OK.

Diaper Review

I read up on quite a few reviews on diapers, so I just thought I'll share my thoughts with mummies, current, new and future hehe.

1-The first diaper we tried was Drypers newborn. OKlah. Not bad at all. The price was reasonable, around 50 sen per piece I think. Why Drypers? Ntah ek. Mungkin pasal itu saja pampers newborn yang kami jumpa kot? But only bought one newborn pack and one size S. I hated the plastic tapes. Woke Emma up at every diaper change. And Emma had severe rashes at her diaper area. So we changed to...

2-Huggies Ultra. Its clinically proven (they claim) to help prevent diaper rash, and prevent it did! Emma's rashes cleared up almost immediately, also with the help of Dr.Siva. Haha see, I told you I like him. But Huggies Ultra ni sangatlah mahalnya, sekeping hampir RM1.00. I think it's more expensive than Mamy Poko, but only by a few sen. So at this time, we alternated between this and...

3-Mamy Poko. The first time I tried Mamy Poko, I hated it because I felt that it was so thin compared to Huggies Ultra! But after a few tries, I thought they were OK. And their sizes were a bit bigger than Huggies Ultra. Tapi lama-lama rasa macam mahal sangat kedua-dua diapers ni, so we tried...

4-Pampers All Night. Why Pampers? Because everyone seemed to call diapers Pampers kan, so I felt that it had a good reputation, hehe. Butttt I hated Pampers because of their plastic cover. The other diapers had cloth like outer covers. And they had plastic tapes just like drypers. Otherwise I felt that they did just fine. And they're not so expensive, macam harga Drypers kot? One packet was enough. Then we tried..

5-Huggies Dry Comfort. Ahhh... this one I love. And Emma's butt seems to love this as well. And Zufri's pocket. Hahaha. They can be quite pricey if you don't know where to look. At GiAnt its RM47.90, carre4 is RM51.00 but at lovable Tesco its only RM35.00! Banyak OK beza! Jadi harganya hanya plus minus 58 sen sekeping (compared to 73 sen in Giant!). These little-little expenditures really add up eh. Oh but that's not the end of our diaper experiments. We then tried..

6-Huggies Dry. This one's much cheaper than No.5, and much thinner too. I didn't like this as much. Rasa macam bontot Emma terkepam. Hehe. Then we tried..

7-Tesco Value Diapers! Yup. Generic brand, huh? Tapi pelekat dia plastik. At least outer layer dia breathable cloth. Tapi pelakt dia plastik. Haha. Sangat mementingkan pelekat. Jadi kami kembali ke..

No. 5, Huggies Dry Comfort. Good, in my humble opinion. But I have to say, everytime I go back to JB or SP, I will surprisingly forget to bring Emma's diapers so we always end up buying Mamy Poko Pull Up Pants. Tak tahu kenapa.

But that's all in the past. Emma's a partially green baby, because she wears mostly cloth diapers now. I'll post a review on cloth diapers some other day, OK?

Going off tangent now, Kak Peachy's 37 weeks yesterday! Woot! (I never say woot in real life. I wonder why I use it in my writings? Hmm..) Tak sabar menunggu kelahiran anak buah yang ketiga.

Tomorrow we're going swimming! Yay! Will post pictures tomorrow.

On Breastfeeding

Alhamdulillah, I have been breastfeeding Emma for 11 months now. Dan Alhamdulillah juga kerana perjalanan kami dimudahkan Allah. Like I once said, I’ve been supplying Opah with 15oz of expressed breast milk from the time I started work, but since almost a month ago its been reduced to only 12oz to 13oz daily. Maybe its because she eats more during the day. Its getting harder for me achieve my daily quota of 15oz now. I blame it on the new healthy lifestyle I’m leading. Hehe. Tapi syukurlah kerana Emma anak yang memahami kesulitan mummynya. Huhuhu. When I get more, I will supply her with more.

At home, I do not have an emergency can of formula. I always set in my mind that what I have is enough for my baby. Tapi, aku juga tak bersetuju dengan ibu-ibu yang terlalu fanatik dan taksub dengan susu ibu sehingga sanggup bagi anak mereka minum dan makan benda-benda mengarut instead of feeding them formula. Maka sekiranya terpaksa (aku jatuh sakit ke), aku merelakan Emma diberi formula.

Oh, Emma kelmarin diberi formula oleh Opah kerana katanya susu yang aku bekalkan tak cukup. Memanglah tak cukup. Aku hantar jam 11 pagi berbekalkan 5oz je. Dengan niat agar dia menelefon aku untuk menghantar susu, lalu aku akan ambil Emma pulang siap-siap. (Insiden berlaku pada hari Isnin yang aku MC tu). Remuk redam hati aku, pasal bukannya aku tak ada stok susu di rumah!

Eh apa motif post aku ni? Post post aku semua takde motif, kesinambungan dan kesimpulan lah.

Aku mengantuk and my contact lenses are bothering my eyes. Haha. Dan kekenyangan (baru lepas lunch). Oh lunch tadi dapt banyak sedikit, 4oz. Harap soon akan kembali mencapai quota. Insya Allah.

Miss Tang busy dengan tender projek Valencia Phase 4F. Mujur bukan aku yang handle. Mujur Valencia yang aku take over dari Soo Lin tu dah nak Final Account. Pasal tu lah aku ada masa nak memblog. Ke meblog? Atau mungkin mengeblog? Aku suka memblog. Oh I’ve come across the word ‘asumsiasi’ which is taken from the English word ‘assumption’. Perlukah? Bukankah kita sudah ada perkataan tanggapan? Berpendapat? Cis sungguh lah author itu. Asumsiasi. Bah!

Oh mungkin kesimpulannya adalah untuk breastfeed your baby for as long as you can, dan dalam Islam mengatakan sehingga 2 tahun, jadi harapan aku adalah agar Emma akan dapat yang terbaik dari aku selama 2 tahun. Lepas tu stop OK. Hehe.

Alright then. Time to go home. Have a happy and safe weekend!

P/s: Malam ni Zufri ajak pergi OU, ada sale di Golf House. I wonder what else he wants to buy.

Mari Kita Berpantang

Come children, gather around. Let me tell you a story.

I was on sick leave Friday afternoon. Then again whole day Monday. Monday morning started well enough. While I was entertaining Emma while watching Jim Jam & Sunny (saluran ceria ya. Rumah aku tiada Disney Playhouse) I suddenly sneezed. Kesejukan. Bersin itu telah mengakibatkan belakang aku yang memang sudah sakit menjadi lebih sakit, bagaikan sakit bersalin. But then again I was on epidural so what do I know about pain, ey? Hehe.

So I waited for the pain to subside. 730 menginjak ke 800, menginjak ke 830 sehinggalah 930 barulah aku menelefon office kesayanganku. Ah! Ruginya! Miss Tang meeting! Biarlah, bukan rezeki aku untuk duduk bersenang lenang di office. Hehe. Zufri bawa aku ke Klinik Siva selepas kami menghantar Emma ke rumah Opah. Sorry Darling, kasihan Emma menangis nangis ditinggalkan Zufri. Huh, bila aku yang hantar takde pun nak nangis nangis. Double standard betullah Emma ni.

Bukan aku tak pernah jumpa doctor regarding sakit belakang aku ni. Tapi biasa aku jumpa doctor panel office aje lah. Biasalah, ada angkat barang berat? Nope. Ada exercise? Hehe nope. Tidur cukup? Oh, cukup. MC mau? Hehe nak! Tu yang aku suka doctor ni. Doktor Siva jauh berbeza. Emma dari dalam perut dah pergi jumpa Dr.Siva ni. Ramai ok dalam klinik dia hari tu. No wonder he drives a 6 series. Dia pun mengurut, merasa dan menanyakan soalan-soalan yang aku kira bernas dan relevan. Kesimpulan yang diberi adalah angin. Cis. OK berikut adalah poin-poin yang diutarakan olehnya :-

1) Jangan minum air ais. Sila minum air panas ya, bukan suam. Panas. A tough one since my breakfast consists of iced Milo & nasi goring every day. Jangan minum ais masa pantang ya! Wakaka nanti jadi macam saya.
2) Jangan mandi lewat malam. Now not so much a problem. When the weather turns warm, we review this point.
3) Jangan hala kipas / air cond direct pada diri anda. Which is also hard because I can’t sleep when my legs are warm. The rest of my body I can take. My legs I can’t. But as a compromise I’ve taken to sleeping with long pants in lieu of the shorts I normally wear.
4) Malam sebelum tidur minum air panas direndam dengan kayu manis dan bunga lawang.
5) Jangan makan makanan yang naturally cooling, like tempe, watermelon, kangkung.

Basically, live my life as if I’m still in my confinement. Oh, man! Tapi ini hanya hipotesis Dr.Siva saja OK. Tak semestinya tepat. Anyway like he said, we eliminate the simplest possibility first, which is angin lah. Remember that painkillers are only to manage your pain, if you don’t change your lifestyle nothing will change.

Dah 4 hari aku berubah. Makcik Selera Kampung pun pelik tengok aku order barli panas. Cheh. Takpe, takpe. Memang salah aku. Zufri pulak beria ikut cakap Dr.Siva tu. Lepas Maghrib aku dilarang mandi dah. Malam kalau aku selak selimut dia mesti sibuk nak selimutkan balik. Alhamdulillh lah.