Deep condolences

Our deep & heartfelt condolences to my blog-friend, Ina & hubby who has just lost their unborn 1st child at 38weeks.

I come to know the news when I visited her web just now.

Dear Ina, tabahkan hatimu dan kuatkan semangatmu menempuhi dugaan dari Yang Maha Esa. Sesungguhnya, anakmu itu adalah bidadari syurga yang hanya dipinjamkan sementara oleh-Nya. InsyAllah, akan berjumpa kalian di sana nanti

 

*hugs*

~little Tasneem, lovelyummi and MGH

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Update version. More stories, click here.

Special little princess

Can you spot the 3 pusar?

Special my daughter is, born with 3 pusar.

After we gonjeng-ed her head, her hair is growing OK but extra growing in the pusar part.

We used to hear this..

kalau 2 pusar, degil budak ni nanti… 

tapi, kalau 3 pusar??
haih, adakah akan menjadi degil² ??

halamakkk !!

Updates

Tasneem’s almost 3 months now. Yippiee !!

A bit on her milestone as for now:

• She now can mengiring.

trying hard to roll over

• She’s very babbly. Tak kira lah dengan siapa. Lagi org tu layan laaaaggiii dia suka.

borak with ummi

• She laughs now, especially when ummi tickled her. Tp kalau abi buat Tasneem x gelak pulak.
• Likes to watch TV. Seldom ummi told her TV is not good for babies. hhehe

concentrating watching the TV

• Likes to play with her playgym. (TQ makngah, pakngah & abg afeef, Tasneem likes it so much!!)
• Likes to be bedung when sleeping.
• Discovers her hands and feet.
• When changing her diaper, she voluntarily lifts her feet.
• Sangat2 suka masukkan penumbuk tangan dalam mulut sampai gag. For ummi, baguslah tu dari dia nak paci.
• As she is getting more playful now, during weekends she will have a short nap especially during after the afternoon. Sometimes during weekdays, her bbsitter claimed that she didn’t sleep much that day especially during school holidays since there were quite a handful of kids around the house. Ramai lah tukang borak dgn dia.
• Her night sleeps almost in a regular mode. Normally, by 8.30pm she will be sleeping and wakes up 2x at night for her feed.

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Now that ummi recieved a good response and testi from mommies regarding the diaper brand, after much considerable ummi decided to try huggies dry comfort. Ummi’s 1st impression was “wah, tebalnye cotton dia..”. Then bila pakai pada Tasneem, the cutting was nice. The sealer was nice too, easy to re-adjust. Price-wise is OK lah, takde lah mahal sangat but not so cheap either. So far, Tasneem xde buat perangai menangis nak bugil x suka dgn diaper dia tu. heh heh.

On the other hands, in the previous post regarding the petua of dried longan; it does work for me. I had a few series of bengkak susu especially in the morning after a few drinks. Walaupun sakit tapi rasa seronok kena bengkak susu tu. Now I can store 3.5 - 4oz of EBM each. Cuma I still failed to follow 4x pumping session as planned before. Weekends pun x pump. Plan nye nak pump while direct feeding Tasneem tapi plan aje lebih.Hmm…bad ummi. I really have to be discipline from now on.

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Oh, 19/3 was abi’s birthday. Ummi managed to suprise abi with cute cupcakes with his favourite sport as the theme and the most special suprise of all was the birthday card signed by Tasneem herself.

Her cute little thumb print

  

 

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Little Tasneem is having a viral fever as this post is written. She was having a running nose since yesterday but her temperature was OK. However, when I picked her from the bbsitter, I felt her body was quite hot and upon reaching home, her temperature was at 38.0°C when measured. Abi & I then decided to bring her to see Paed as we dont have paracetamol (PCM) for her. When we reached home, I gave her the PCM and you know what, she refused to swallow the medicine. Habis dia keluarkan balik ubat tu kena baju, mitten sume. Hmm, belum pun 3 bulan lg dah tunjuk dia x suka makan makan ubat. Abi cakap ikut ummi x suka makan ubat. Haihh..

She’s sleeping now, hope that the temperature will subside. Its the 1st time for Tasneem & us; the parents to handle a sick child. Harap2nya ummi tak over paranoid bila Tasneem sakit macam ni.

Dry/Wet- pers

Our little Tasneem is getting wiser each day. She started to tell us her likes & hates. Likes- bubbles & smiles. Hates- wailing cry.

For instance, she hates her (current) diapers. Brand = D*ypers.

It started a few nights ago, as usual she will have a bit of tantrum when I wanted to put her to sleep. Obviously, she was sleepy with that red-eye socket but she refused to be put down, her bum-bum was clean, rejected her milk and gave a wailing cry. Abi took her over and she was calmed for about 5mins and started the tantrum-drama all over again.

Despite her angry cry, abi put her down , undressed her pants and opened her diaper. Terus berhenti menangis. The diaper was slightly wet. We changed to a new one but she started to cry again afterwards.

But when we opened her newly-changed diaper, she stopped crying. We changed her into nappy cloth instead.

That was the 1st incident and a few about the same incidents happened nights after. She hates her D*ypers. 

To date, we already consumed 3 brands; Mam*Poko, Pam*ers and D*ypers. She never cries with the previous 2 brands. I noticed that the brand caused marks on my daughter’s thigh eventhough I loosely sealed it. Kesian I tengok peha Tasneem berkesan2 dengan diaper mark. :( Also, I think supposedly the diaper should be in dry condition but with this brand, the diaper felt wet. Takkanlah Tasneem nak wee-wee 8x in 2 hours time. Paling2 banyak pun 2x agaknya.

Ikutkan, I prefer to use nappy cloths for her day-time usage and diaper at night (sebab ummi dia malas nak bangun selalu at night.hehe) In fact, we have been using napply cloths during her day-time since she was born. Eventhough we had to changed her frequently but the result was great; to date Tasneem never had nappy rashes.

But now, she wears diapers all the time eversince I started to work. Ikutkan hati, nak aje mintak bbsitter pakaikan nappy cloth, more economical tapi nanti tak larat pulak kami nak maintain. Bbsitter- tak larat nak selalu cek & tukar lampin mcm x kena jaga budak lain and buat kerja lain; ummi pulak tak larat nak membasuh & menjemur kain2 lampin tu hari2.  

Since Tasneem dislikes this D*ypers brand, kena la pulak pikir brand lain lepas ni. There’s  A LOT of brands in the market tapi bukan senang nak beli, the brand must be economical in price but able to maintain good quality. Because we will be using diapers on daily basis, meaning 4-5 diapers/day; so those criteria are extremely important.

Below are my testimonial on brands that we’ve used so far (based on my experiences).

1. Mam*Poko = too expensive but good quality. Thick & fully-covered area. Maintain the dryness and able to with-stand massive poops. He heh. We might buy this brand and use it on outings ONLY, not on daily usage. Mahal ooo.
2. Pam*ers = price-wise OK but quality-wise NOT ok. Nipis and partial-covered area, especially at the back. Caused catastrophic damaged to outer wear even with normal poops, let alone massive poops. We will never buy again this brand.
3. D*ypers = price-wise OK but narrow-cutting style. Caused tight-marks around the thigh area, even after loosely sealed. Can handle massive poops but downside in handling wee-wee. It felt wet. Should change to Wet-pers instead. hohoh Will not buy in future.

My sister is suggesting P*tP*t brand but I have yet to try it. Diapers yang sekarang ni ada banyak lagi. So kena lah guna sampai habis dulu baru boleh beli yang lain.

So mommies out there, what say you in diapers brand and your testimonial?

Leaving her behind

Sekarang ni pagi2 lepas mandikan Tasneem, masa pakaikan baju tu ummi terbayang2 camana la agaknya Tasneem kat umah babysitter tu bila ummi naik keje nanti.

Sekarang ni Tasneem buat pe’el melalak mase pakai baju, ummi doa janganlah Tasneem buat perangai cam gitu nanti. Malu nanti jiran2 dengar, nanti diorg cakap anak En. Ib ni kuat nangis. Kan dah x comel bunyi nye tu..

Last week, ummi has been contemplating either to ask your Nenek Rom’s favor to babysit you for a month or just send you to babysitter when I started working soon. Ummi talked to abi about it and here’s the conversation looked-alike:

 Abang, rasa2 ok x kita mintak tolong mami jagakan Tasneem utk sebulan ni??

Nape? kata nak hantar kat babysitter?

Alaaaa, kesian la kat Tasneem, kecik lagi.. still lembik nak hantar kat babysitter tu..

Abis tu, kalau mintak mami jaga lepas sebulan nanti dia dah x kecik lagi ke?

Err… *speechless*

Erm, nanti lah abg tanya pada mami.

But the truth is, ummi felt guilty for having to send you away. Also I just hate the feeling of you spending more time with others, not me, not your abi, not your relatives. Jealous. Crazy jealous.

This is the bitter-sweet fact that ummi have to deal. I believe all mother returning to work will feel that way too. IF only I have the option to stop working and stay with Tasneem all day BUT at the same time making money at home. But please, dont suggest me those work-from-home-internet-based-MLM- thing because lets just put it this way; I had enough of it already. I could not afford to stop working because of many reasons. Eventhough the idea of SAHM is fabulous, but its not suitable for us at the moment, especially in financial state. Lagipun, ummi likes to be a professional career woman and I know I’m capable to be a professional career mother too. I just need time to prove it.

Last few days, ummi had a final thought about the matter. I decided to just send you to the babysitter when I start working on 3rd March. I told abi that he doesnt have to ask mami. There are a few reasons why I made the decision and 1 of them is; sooner or later we still have to send Tasneem to babysitter afterall. Lagipun, mami’s has had a history with her hand, so mcm menyusahkan dia pula nanti nak kena jaga Tasneem.

So thats it, harap2 Tasneem behave and be a good little girl masa kat umah babysitter nanti. For the time being, ummi just want to spend the time left with Tasneem because I’ll be missing every moments of that soon.