Little Muhammad - One Shy Guy

Pejam celik pejam celik, I'm in week 30 already. 10 more to go! Kalau dikenang-kenangkan backpain dan termengah-mengah,.. tak sabar tunggu another 10 weeks. Kalau diingat-ingatkan sakit bersalin, ngeri you. Mintak-mintak kali ni I can be as calm as I was the time I was in labour with Athirah.

Tadi pegi check-up. Last monthly check-up. Lepas ni every 2 weeks pulak. Apart from discussing about him, Tebby and Dr Ashar were dicussing about, whatelse, the coming election.

Anyway, our Muhammad is doing well. We saw his kidneys, heart, spine, limbs, arms but he kept on hiding his face. One shy guy I think. He is so unlike Iman who kept showing his face, licked his lips and spread his feet wide apart so we could see his lil-john-and-the-twins so clearly. I think he has a movement pattern already. He wakes up early at 5a.m (good thing since I need to get up and get Kakak's breakfast and bekal ready by 6a.m). He'll be less active until noon. Then he'll move about kicking and poking me everywhere. He'd be most active from the time we get home until my bedtime. Tebby said, even when I'm already sleeping, he saw Muhammad moves about in my stomach. And oh yes, his sister and brother, would, unmercily, poke my stomach just to make Muhammad responds and moves. When he does, they'd shrieked with laughter and run away.

Muhammad is now weighing 1764gm (nearing 2kg already!). From the machine simulation and if he waits until 40-weeks, he'd make his debut into this world at approximately 3.5kg.
Huffs and puffs.

Huffs and puffs.

Let's push in a count of 20. One two three.. bla.. bla.. bla...

(I think the labour room was more like a sport spot with people counting and cheering me out.. sampaikan lepas bersalin, makcik cleaner masuk nak tengok what was that all about he he)

Kakak and abang dia could not turn into proper position during labor and both gave me prolong labor dengan muka mendongak diorang tu. Dr Ashar said it could due to their size (3.5kg and 3.3kg) in relation to my pelvic size. For those who never met me, I am a small woman. Now, please understand when I tell that I am on carbo diet. I hardly get fat but the baby does. Oh, wasn't it me who gobbled down cubes after cubes of dodol my friend brought back from Melaka? I can control myself from shopping but eating... adeh.. susahlah.

Oh btw, I got an MC.. la la la.. another bliss of being pregnant...

Menyampah..

Nak tau tak antara jenis-jenis orang yang saya tak suka? At this particular moment, orang yang bossy sedangkan dia bukan bos saya pun. Amboi, menyuruh tu macam dia pulak bayor gaji saya. Tak koser tau.

Hem, lebih baik saya fikir jamu apa nak beli untuk kembali ke bentuk asal lepas bersalin nanti. Oh bukan. Ke bentuk yang lebih baik dari sebelum mengandung. Any idea? Pse discount on exercise at this point okeh.

34 and going

Saya sibuk! Kadang-kadang muak dengan remark 'ASAP' atau deadline yang diberi cuma 1-2 jam saja. As if we don't have any other things to do. Sibuk-sibuk pun saya tak pernah miss lunch. Tanyalah Zarid dengan Smah. (Orang tingkat bawah ni dah tak sudi makan dengan kami...). Most of the time kami ke Menara TM. Kalau time pegi tu turun bukit so senang ajelah saya 'meluncur' pegi makan. Time balik kena mendaki. At 29 weeks, saya memang dah slow sangat. Budak-budak nih kata (mmg diorang ni budak-budak, saya ni kakak 7 tahun dari diorang) tak lama lagi diorang kena tolak saya naik bukit lepas makan. He.. he.. ada jugak kemungkinan tu nanti. At 34 (dan tak fit), this pregnancy really takes its toll on me.

34. Dah tua kan? Maybe I've spent 1/2 of my life already. Tu pun kalau umur panjang hidup sampai 60 over. Kalau Allah jemput awal, lain cerita pulak kan. At this age, saya mula mendengar kisah-kisah rumahtangga, cerai-berai, gaduh-gaduh, affair-affair. In fact I have a few friends yang dah single balik. Yang sedang menjalani percintaan kali ke-2 dan macam-macam lagi. Kalau dulu, dok dengar kisah-kisah romantik 'laki aku bagi roses satu bouquet' (bukan saya), 'laki aku bawak pegi candle light dinner' (juga bukan saya). Kiranya mostly yang indah-indah disaat baru melayari alam rumahtangga. Masa bergerak, hidup berubah. Mungkin dulu sang isterilah sorang-sorangnya dambaan hati. Sang suami lah superhero tiada tandingan. Lama-kelamaan dunia yang diteroka semakin luas. Di mata sang suami, isteri yang dipuja-puja dulu sudah hilang tarikannya. Menu sediaan isteri yang dulu ditunggu-tunggu sudah tak sedap lagi. Pada si isteri pula, perut gendut suami yang tak pernah dikisahkan sebelum ini boleh jadi agenda utama pergaduhan. Atau mungkin gaji suami seciput yang dulu tak pernah jadi isu perbahasan. But now, it is. Why?

Saya tak tau kenapa ini yang saya blog kan hari ini. Sebetul-betulnya tiada kaitan dengan kisah rumahtangga saya, jangan salah faham. Saya teringat Tebby pernah cakap, memang perempuan takkan setuju dengan poligami tapi jangan berbincang berapi-api seolah-olah mengharamkan apa yang halal. And kalau si lelaki dah berhajat tambah cawangan, dia akan berusaha ke arah itu.

Teringat juga tulisan KakLong di blognya sewaktu nak ke bilik bersalin. Pesan KakLong pada suaminya, kalau saya mati waktu bersalin ni, abang kawinlah lain. Tapi kalau saya tak mati, abang janganlah kawin lain!

Growing Pains

He made my heart skipped beats. It was neither V-day thingy, nor am I referring to Tebby.

As me and Tebby were travelling along Mines yesterday, got a call from Atfal. Siti (Iman's favourite nanny) sounded so panic, so naturally, I became panic as well before I even got to know what the matter was.

Iman fell and hit the floor at the right side of his head. It happended at around 4.30pm. Later he napped and when he woke up, he vomitted. It was around 6.45pm that we picked him and Kakak. He looked lethargic (which is a so so not good sign after a fall), a bit pale and so passive. As some of you might have known, Iman is diagnosed as having mild-hyperactivity symptoms. When he kept on sitting still and quiet, it really disturbed me. We kept quiet along the way until we reached the nearby clinic. There he vomitted once more and we were granted an excuse to cut Q and see Dr Salmi right away. He immediately issue a referral letter to seek further medical help in hospital.

We rushed back home for quick clean-up and prayer and then off to APSH. His condition was assessed and a neurosurgeon-on-call was immediately contacted. They feared crack in the skull or even a blood clot in the brain. I felt half of my spirit flew away. Iman even shivered from time to time. While waiting, he slowly gained himself back. Started walking, then climbing and then running about. It was such a relief. In fact when the neurosurgeon came, took a look, did physical checks on Iman, he told us there was nothing to worry about and we could go home. There was no need for CT-scan (which he told us is not good for developing brain and as much as possible, he'd want to avoid doing). But we need to monitor him for vomitting, fever or becoming lethargic again.

We came back home close to 11pm. Only then we could smile again. Adehlah Iman.. you didn't know how panic we were.

Between Career and Motherhood

Kalau diikutkan hati saya, saya nak membebel pasal kerja. It's been such a long time since I last complained here kan. Tapi takpelah. Bila fikir-fikirkan balik, what goes around comes around kan. If you've not been fair to others, maybe someday orang lain will do the same thing to you. Who knows, without me realising, I've been unfair to others at any point in my career life kan.

Isnin lepas saya bercuti. Semalam dan hari ni saya hadir kursus untuk ISO9001-2000. Maknanya lebih kurang seminggu tak menjengah office (kalau dicampur dengan cuti CNY). Petang tadi dapat special message from GM, minta saya hadir meeting. Nak tak nak saya terpaksa ke ofis untuk ambik dokumen.

Terserempak dengan kawan-kawan se ofis. Komen mereka...
La... saya ingatkan awak dah bersalin.
Eh, awak due bila? Macam dah nak bersalin sangat dah.
Baru seminggu tak jumpa, cepatnya membesar.
Eii.. lagi 3 bulan? Taktaulah saya rupa awak bila dekat-dekat due nanti.

Ramai jugak yang suka usik-usik Muhammad saya nih. Sebabnya perut saya sungguh bulat!

Little Muhammad buat saya pening 3-4 bulan saja..
Kerja buat saya pening memanjang..
Lebih baik saya fikir pasal Little Muhammad dari pasal kerja kan....

Mom's Little Ones..

Like planned, we took 1/2 day off on Monday nak settlekan beberapa perkara. Went to IRB in Jalan Duta to returned the cheque. Then off to MV for lunch and nak cari Buku Rampaian Matematik si Kakak. Cikgu math dia yang paling sangat garang, dia kata. Kat MPH takde. Kat Carrefour takde jugek. Rushed back to BTHO, singgah sekolah dia. Beli kat kedai buku sekolah. Adehh... berkejar-kejar. Sib baik sempat beli Beard Papa saya!

Alhamdulillah, after a month, nampaknya dia makin riang ke sekolah. That's a tremendous improvement. Want to know why? Barely 2 weeks after starting Tahun 1, she dropped the bomb. She said, school sucks and that it was boring. I know she has short attention span and she daydreams a lot. Punyalah saya berdoa supaya dia lebih gembira ke sekolah. Alhamdulillah sekarang dia dah suka ke sekolah. Recently she brought home a drawing entittled 'RUMAH SAYA'. There was our house and our 2 cars. There was she herself and Iman digging the soil. I was watering the plant and Tebby was doing this 'dumbell' exercise. In fact, our neighbour's cat was also in! The cat sort of makes our porch his home anyway!


As for Iman, he still does things as he likes, where he likes and when he likes. He still spends time kat luar when others are in the classroom. He shows improvement as well. And he counts! Right up to 12. Yes, there's jump here and there but to us, that's a tremendous milestone he has done. His vocab is increasing as well tho he still doesn't grasp the concept of 'conversation' yet. He knows forklift, tracktor, lorry, car, motor, bus and the likes. He has this TONKA book which he flips many-many times everyday. There was one time when we were already sleeping. He suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and took the book and insisted that we read together. He also has this one book which I bought in Manila.. or shall I say, pieces of hardboard which once used to be a book. He also adores that one. Oh yes, there's still 5-6 kids his age that act like him in school. I just hope he's not the ring leader!


Yes, I am a proud mother of 2 (and coming the 3rd one). They tire me, they test me, they drive me up the wall, they deprive me of personal-space but so far it only makes me a better person. I am a lot more patience.


I am a more passionate mother nowadays, so to speak...

Money Matters

I'm taking half day off today. Know what, the refund I was supposed to be getting from IRB was done under Tebby's name. The cheque has his name on it. Not that I mind. I know he won't cheat on me but what happens if one of the married couples cheats? Say if Tebby gets a refund and the cheque is under my name and I secretly cash it? We're returning the cheque in order for them to issue a new one - under my name.

Maybe we'll go to MPH afterwards. From the receipts I have for 2007, I really underspent for books. Barely RM400! Maybe I should make it a habit to spent at least RM100 per month for books, ain't I? Speaking of which, with the cheque, my dream of a small reading area / library / work area is gleaming before my very eyes. I have some sort of ideas already but maybe I should get 1 or 2 quotations for that. Hence, I am also selling my 2 Billy bookcases and one tv rack. Interested, pse leave a message.

OK peeps, have a nice day ahead..

ps:
Diaphragms with Stems for ISIS Manual and ISIS iQ UNO Breast Pumps (AVENT)
Anyone knows where I can get the part? Been looking thru local online stores but haven't found one that sells this. Mine's is a goner already. Yes limaunipis, medela makes me drool also but maybe I should wait until I give birth as see how things go later.

Little Muhammad - One Shy Guy

[1]
Went for a check-up yesteday in APSH. The old scale was right. Indeed, I put on another 3kg within the last month. BP and urine were okay. Surprisingly Dr Ashar was not that concerned about my weight gain tho it has been 6kg within just 2 months.

Anyway.

Little Muhammad is now 26 weeks by calendar age and by size he's 27 weeks. A week or two difference is normal, I was told. He's 1.03kg and doing just fine. If last time he turned his face to the other side and gave us him bottom, yesterday, he did lip-smacking action (as if telling me that he's getting a lot to eat!) before covering his face with his 2 little hands. Ah.. cute. From the look of it, he's one chubby boy with round face and full cheeks. Even his belly was in perfect round shape. I think he resembles Kakak when she was a baby. Tebby doesn't mind if he looks like Kakak or Iman (apparently Kakak and Iman don't resemble each other much. Kakak takes after Tebby almost 90% whereas Iman is a mini-ummi male version!) as long as he's one perfect and healthly baby. Good look would be a bonus, anyway!

My next appointment will be this coming 29th Feb and I'll be a ballon-ed up 30 weeks expectant mom by then. After that my appointments will be 2 weeks apart and then a week apart. And by next appointment, I'd be eligible for a GL already.

I have another 14 weeks to go. How time really flies huh? I guess before I know it, I'd be holding Little Muhammad in my arms. Time to ransack Iman's things and to do detail listing of things to buy huh.


[2]
Got a letter from IRB last week. Good surprises come in small packages huh. I am one happy woman..