Freemie Collection Cups

OMG I noticed 2 new acne today!!! Memang subur gila jerawat tumbuh. But this is nowhere near my experience pregnant with Faheem. Penuh jerawat 1 muka, muka berminyak gila2 and I think I looked so hideous like a 50 year old woman! Bukan setakat jerawat, tapi hyperpigmentation everywhere and stretch mark. Tapi Alhamdulillah semua hilang lepas bersalin.

Oh sebenarnya nak cerita pasal Freemie Collection Cups as promised ;P

Hari tu search pasal breastpump, terjumpa Freemie Cups (FC) ni. Terus rasa macam sangat practical dan wajib dimiliki. Of course orang first yang saya akan consult tentang benda2 macamni tentulah my sisters yang dua2 ada baby dan memang agak gila into baby stuff. Asma and Kakak kata benda ni receive many good reviews so i became more confident to buy. I tried to search pengalaman orang yang pernah guna ni dan ramai kata best. Tapi initially Asma cadangkan beli FC sekali dengan Freemie breast pump. Tengok harga sekali dengan postage lebih kurang 1.4k. Itu kalau beli direct dari Freemie (a US company) Kat Malaysia tak ramai guna Freemie breastpump rasanya tapi this pump memang receive good reviews. Padahal kalau pos ke US, harga lebih kurang RM700 je huhu.

Apa benda sebenarnya ni??

Ok kan biasa kalau beli breastpump, kita akan dapat breast shield yang disambungkan ke botol susu. Bila kita pump, susu akan terus masuk dalam botol. Masalahnya agak leceh sebab kita kena pegang botol tu dekat dengan breast. So tak handsfree.

Lepastu orang start guna handsfree breastpump bra which looks something like this. Still i think it makes a woman look like a female version of inspector gadget huhu, and I just cant imagine doing that at home or work

So FC kind of solve the problem. A woman only need to put the cups in their bra, and they can connect the tubing to a breastpump. Some put a small BP in their pocket or at their belt. A small and silent breastpump wont give you away, and you are free to pump anytime! In the clinic, while doing ward rounds etc.

Tengok harganya agak mahal. Rata rata jual dengan harga lebih kurang RM330. Rasa macam tak berbaloi beli cup sahaja dengan harga tu. Gigih search, akhirnya terjumpa satu kedai yang jual dengan harga RM249! Kebetulan saya beli breastpump yang compatible dengan FC, so tak perlu beli anti backflow yang berharga lebih kurang RM55.

Alhamdulillah dah jimat sikit :)

Saya beli kat sini http://www.lelong.com.my/merchant/livelystore.htm tak pasal2 dia dapat publisiti free haha.
Saya letak juga link ni sebab dah tahu dah mesti ramai PM minta link kedai

Milkman with fresh milk at my doorstep!

I woke up today with high hopes, but Allah knows best. Pregnancy is a bumpy ride, you just don’t know when you are going to hit the bump. And it turns out today is one of my bad day. The pregnancy symptom is a bit worse today and I’m on my back all day long.

I actually woke up at 3 am today. I don’t sleep through the night these days because of the gastritis. At most I need to fill up my stomache at 4 hourly interval. Sometimes 2 hourly or I’ll end up having a nasty vomiting. When I woke up, I was immediately reminded of a slot I heard in IKIM recently about Camel Milk. Susu Unta. A new enterprise that imports camel milk in 2 forms- fresh and premix. Switched on my laptop and searched hard, at 3am in the morning!

Last week I asked abang whether Rasulullah drank goat’s milk or camel’s milk. Abang said both. I want to minimize taking processed, flavoured and preserved food as much as possible during pregnancy and breastfeeding and throughout my whole life. I am done with Maggi. The writing 'monosodium gluatamate, colouring' glares at me and gave me nightmares T_T And I have promised myself that I will do whatever it takes to have a healthy baby weighing between 3-3.5kg at birth. Choosing a good milk is important in my knowledge and by maternal instinct haha

I drink ESP- Energizing Soy Protein. ESP is very good in my opinion as it gives me the energy that I need, rich in minerals and vitamins and it keep my skin health checked! But I also want to practice Sunnah. After much consideration (and I fail to find imported fresh camel milk) I resort to Goat Milk. I was very surprised to find that we can actually hire the service of a milkman! Right here in Malaysia. They deliver fresh goat milk right to our doorstep at an affordable cost!!! Oh yes, I was so excited that  after Subuh, I smsed this milkman asking whether he could deliver it today. He said yes, and I patiently waited ;P

He came at 3pm on a motorcycle. Ameer Faheem went to the gate, paid him and took the milk. Frozen. 12 bottles at RM68, 250ml. Coinicidentally his cousin safiyya was there. Safiyya tanya, “Apa ni?” Faheem answered, “Susu kambing untuk mommy and faheem” Eh??? Bila masa pula susu ni untuk faheem?? Hahaha. Tapi Faheem memang suka minum fresh milk pun, kalau beli susu lembu, sekejap je dah habis.

I put 1 bottle in the chiller and kept the rest in the freezer. The concept is similar to EBM. You have to thaw it first, and once thawed you cant put it back in the freezer. It has to be drank within 1-2 days, kept in the refrigerator. Rasa dia?? Extremely awesome Alhamdulillah J Rasa macam susu beli dalam kotak, tak berbau pun. And minum sejuk2 memang heavenly. Anything for my baby J Btw mommy terpaksa share dengan faheem huuuu.

So much to share, so much time to spare ahaha~

One thing that i never want to miss is writing a journal of my pregnancy journey. I am sure my kids will love to read them one day ;) as much as i love to listen to ummi's own experience.

I am now in my 10th week of pregnancy but the scan showed 6 weeks. I have to repeat it in 2 weeks time to reconfirm. I am entering my 2nd week of unpaid leave. And I am still down with nausea and vomiting, and abdominal bloating and light headedness and occasionally headache and diarrhea and no-appetite. oh well I can actually give a long list of absolute negativity, but hey I am pregnant! And that word kind of sum up all the wonders in this world ;) Plus what i am experiencing now is not even half of what i experienced during my 1st pregnancy, which was definitely WORSE!!!

Ameer Faheem is 4 years old. By the time I deliver this baby, he'll be almost 5. Everything is going according to the original plan Alhamdulillah. I have always wanted a 5 year gap between my children. I became very confident to get pregnant again because of Ameer Faheem.

My Ameer Faheem is still the same naughty and cheeky Faheem. I can turn into a monster, tarzan, troll or whatever whenever he is around. It is not easy to control a creature which the universe calls b-o-y. He sleep, play, eat and make me mad all the time hahaha. And give me the guilt for being such a momster (monstrous mom). But hey he is growing, he is smart and he is reliable now. He is good around babies and kids, his small cousins love him. He can make babies laugh and he somehow reminds me of my little sister Asma who was like the pied piper to small kids. Kids practically followed her around.

Ameer Faheem calls himself Abang Faheem, he keeps telling everybody that he wants adik, so I guess this is the right time to have another baby. I dont want to have another child simply of having another child. And I dont want to challenge my sanity taking care of a baby when Ameer Faheem himself doesnt understand what does a sibling mean, and try to abuse the baby at all time. Mothers have found their kids (who are still very young and being very clueless) trying to suffocate their babies with a pillow etc, and I dont want to encounter such happening. Thus I delayed till the right time arrives :) Alhamdulillah, thummalhamdulillah. All praises to Allah

Memang abang. Tidur gaya atuk.

Just before we moved to Kelantan, we had my IUCD removed. And since then I was amenorrheic. 4 weeks, 5 weeks, 6 weeks. By then I suspected the pregnancy becuase I had few bouts of light headedness in which i almost blackout in the clinic especially when i try to stand from a sitting position. Few UPT (Urine Pregnancy Test) came back as negative. I let it be. Then came the flood. The massive and ugly flood in K. Krai. For almost a week we stayed in the Clinic, operating it 24 hours. I was tired, I was cranky and emotional, and I was nauseated at almost all time. I kept telling abang rasa nak muntah, rasa pening. And I kept asking abang the same question "Abang rasa ayang pregnant ke tak?" And he said "Kan dah check UPT hari tu, negative" Married to me for 6 years, abang knows his wife very well I guess. Isteri tak tahan duduk dalam keadaan banjir, takde air, takde elektrik, takde proper food, sebab tu tak sihat. At one point I myself believed that. It was just and adjustment thingy to the hardship during the flood. Yet at the back of my mind the issue lingered. I texted my bestfriend, Dr Hana. I asked her, "Hana, you rasa I pregnant ke x?" Hahaha boleh plak tanya kat orang macam tu ;p Hana cakap probably sebab baru buka IUCD, period tak regular.

And then we flew back to KL when abang got 2 days of holiday. I was still not feeling satisifed. Kakak gave me a pregnancy test kit, I tested and saw 2 lines! Alhamdulillah. I felt numb because I planned for the pregnancy, but definitely not in the disastrous condition of Kuala Krai....

My 5th UPT

will continue later ;)