She is ONE!

A baby girl brings sunshine to brighten your day.
A baby girl brings joy through her loving ways.
A baby girl is a blessing that comes from above.
A special and beautiful treasure to love. -Unknown-

THEN...

NOW...

My baby Hana officially turned one today and Alhamdulillah until this point of time though it's not easy, I am happy that she is still growing fully on mommy's milk without dairy formula substitutes. How can such a little person have such a big effect in such a little amount of time and I can’t believe how she has evolved from a very teeny tiny infant to a sweet little princess. It's amazing how much she has transformed from a baby into nearly a toddler and the next thing before i knew it, she will be getting married.huhu. ok chill, she just got one year older.;p

We had celebrated her birthday few days earlier. My initial plan is to throw an elaborate party at home but since we hardly have time to do it I just scrapped off the idea and go for a cozy little party instead. She may be just a year old and hardly cares about birthdays now, but the first birthday is more about the parents surviving the first year, so perhaps a simple celebration will do. Since my close colleague is expecting her first child, we decided to have a combo celebration - birthday n baby shower.

We got Hana a small yummylicious Baskin Robbins's ice-cream cake and sang her Happy Birthday.

sorry baby, that cake is too cold and too sweet for u. just let us the adults eat...

Happy Birthday sunshine, I know u won't be little forever but please don't grow up so fast..Mama sooo in love with you...!

Hello December.

Ok where should I start. I've promised to update at least once a month but I barely have time to sit properly and throw something in this little space of mine. I can’t help it since I've other priorities to be straightened out. Life has been pretty hectic with workloads in the office (the new boss zeriously driving me kerazyyy..!) and motherhood keeps me busy especially when u have fully breastfed baby and most of the time she needs me for her milk supply as I need her too to avoid breast engorgement.

Not much to blog about just on Hana's development .Btw my baby turned 10 months recently. She's now expert in crawling around the house, pulling herself up to standing that still need extra vigilance, climbing the stairs and cruising the furniture. She loves to cruise along the furniture we had to sell our teak sofa sets since they got sharp edges that may create hazards to Hana. Ok, that justified reason to buy a new one.hehe.

Part of the sofa set that were sold within 3 days after hubby advertised em in mudah.my. so mudah..Just ignore the little explorer behind the sofa ;p

Hana is 10 months ...

On a different note, went to office annual dinner last Friday night. Didn't get the chance to join the dinner last year since I was expecting Hana. The theme was glamorous night, I seriously have no idea on what to wear but thanks to FashionValet, their Radzwan Radziwil's kaftan caught my eyes although I need to cut em off for a good 6 inches..;p Go check their website, feast your eyes and itchy hands clicking their lines of local and designer's brands.

Basically the night was filled with laughters, karaoke, food and camwhoring. There were nominees like the best dress, the most masculine etc like an Oscar. I cant believe was dragged on the stage by colleagues and sang our discordant version of Untukmu, Feminin. Yeah like those old days...And thanks to hubby for taking care of Hana on that particular night..You're simply the best..;D

And for now, the bed is calling...:)

Fasting...

Hows your fasting today?Mine is pretty much under control besides worrying too much that it will deplete my milk supply for Hana. Yups i am very concern about doing this whilst I am still exclusively breastfeeding..I have read numerous articles mentioning that nursing while fasting somehow will not only affect the quantity but also the quality of the breast milk. Hana's turning 6 month old this month and I'm about to start giving her solid so she has other eating option besides milk especially during this fasting month. So there's other alternatives, there is no reasonable excuse not to fast although breastfeed women have that special permission during Ramadhan..hehe.

I think as long as I don't skip sahur and drink plenty of water I'll be fine.;)

So happy fasting everyone and let's make the best of it since we've been given another opportunity by Him to experience this again.

Feasting your eyes on the first Ramadhan with this delicious red velvet I ordered from Yantie. She baked the yummiest RV that really suits my tastebud at least..;p *salivating already*

RV anyone??

Terdapat 58 balasan pahala untuk wanita dan 3 di antaranya ialah:

1) " Wanita yang memberi minum susu kepada anaknya dari badannya (susu badan) akan mendapat satu pahala dari tiap - tiap titik susu yang diberikannya."

2) "Jika wanita menyusui anaknya sehingga 2 1/2 tahun maka malaikat-malaikat di langit akan khabarkan berita bahawa syurga wajib baginya."

3) "Jika wanita memberi susu badan kepada anaknya yang menangis Allah akan memberi pahala satu tahun solat & puasa"

^_^v

Little Update...

For quite sometime after my last entry ( Wordless Wednesday can be considered an entry,no) I didn’t feel like saying, share or express anything. Finally have time to sit down and update my little blog. Having a baby with a cough and runny nose is heartbreaking. My baby Hana got this some sort of dry cough and her incessant cough wakes her up every few minutes in a wee hour. She will cry and cough for a bit, then settle back down, only to wake up again coughing. Even after I breastfed her, everything would just come out again and we had to deal with fountains of vomit especially during the night. I tried everything to make her feel comfortable. She does not have a fever but a blocking nose and really hate it everytime hubby use that big suction bulb to get rid of the congested nostrils.

We took her to Annur Specialist on Friday to see the baby doctor and was given 3 prescriptions for cough and runny nose. Poor little Hana had to taste the yucky medicine, but no, I didnt gave her all the prescriptions. I am too worried that the medicine might harm my 3 month old baby. I dont really blame the erratic weather but possibly the apparent reason is she got it from the babysitter's house. The babysitter has a 6 month old baby with runny nose, she babysit Hana and surprisingly she took another 3 month old baby. I don't think she can handle 3 babies at one time though she try to convince me so, I'm gonna change Hana's baby sitter next month. Someone who doesn't have little baby.Yeah, I'm a fussy mother.

Pictorial update..hehe. Last Sunday I attended my cousin's son aqiqah, baby Adam Faris .My cousin's Kak ya was blessed with baby boy. Finally a boy after two girls. Some of the pics:

pretty decorated cradle

introducing, Adam Faris

with Adam's adorable sisters, Nurin n Humaira

zanji

desserts station for the sweet tooth


goodies for the guests..

excuse the peace sign..i know its lame ;p

with Adam's mommy

the tired baby..

~ Dear weekend please come fast..

Wordless Wednesday-Gotta Be More...

Birth story...

Hi. I really wanna blog but I just cannot find the time to do so. My life is now pretty much occupied with more exciting stuff. Yup our little bundle of joy is finally here..! Have i told u its a girl? She was born on 8th February 2011 @ 9.45 pm. Induced at 38 weeks of pregnancy. Her name is HANA SOFEA. Hana means happiness,bliss. Or flower in Japanese and Sofea means pure or wisdom.

I think I better briefly blog down my labour story first of all, while Hana is asleep or before I start to forget it. As you know I went for induce labour. Although most birth begin naturally and it's usually best to let nature take its course, but sometimes the birth process may need a little help if the risks of prolonging your pregnancy are more serious than the risks of delivering your baby straight away. (source : i read somewhere about induce labour)

So in my case, since i had an IUD case during my first pregnancy, I was advised to be induced at 38 weeks. At the given date, 7th February 2011 we got to the hospital then went for the ward registration. Checked myself in, it felt more like I was going for a check in a hotel than going to pop out a baby into the world. I’ve been told by the doc that they will start the induction process the next morning. I was pretty relaxed and the waiting game began.

8th February 2011- exactly about 6.30 am, the doctor inserted a tablet, pessary or gel containing prostaglandin to help stimulate the uterine contractions. However I didnt feel any contractions for the next 6 hours and can happily eating and chatting with hubby and family in laws. In the meantime the nurse kept coming in to check on the baby's heart beat and my contraction on the CTG machine. The doc was pretty amazed I didnt feel any contractions yet and at 2 pm i was given the second prostaglandin. She even helped me opening the cervix to 2cm. The contractions started to build up a bit by 3pm but it was still bearable. The biggest mistake i’ve done is i drank the "air selusuh" that MIL gave too early and it made the contractions went stronger but not the opening of my cervix. Haha. U should drink it when u’re about to deliver. At this moment i tried to read every single doa that i had memorised while hubby recited Surah Yassin from his phone. We even walked around the ward to ease the pain.

The contractions grew stronger i couldn't even bother to eat my dinner. At about 7 pm, the doctor decided to break my waterbag to speed things up and i was then pushed to the labour room downstair. As I entered the labour room, I was again being monitored with the CTG thingy and everytime the contractions came i kept telling myself ‘its all in your mind’ though i knew it didn’t help at all.Hehe.The pain was unbearable! The midwife gave me the ethonox gas and showed me how to use it if I needed to. You're supposed to breathe in throughout the contractions. I tried to give it a go, but I found that it didn't really help, just made me feel high and dizzy and wanna puke. Hubby was there all the time, and to my surprise I threw up everytime the major contractions came while hubby hold the plastic bag and massaging my back. The doctor came in and checked my dilation progress. 5cm. ..I was only 5cm dilated! What???after all of that pain, only 5cm??? The doctor asked me to try pushing slowly, like practising pushing and said i was doing well. Then the midwife told hubby to take the air selusuh. Hubby went upstairs to get the "air selusuh" and after drinking the water, I felt the urge of pushing so bad. It was like a magic when the midwife said I am fully dilated and can push now.

I can remember i told hubby to just stay beside me and dont look down where I’m going to push the baby.haha. i still remember that he once said that he’s afraid of the big amount of blood. And the next thing I know, I was pushing and pushing and pushing... and then the baby's head popped out and i can hear her crying. It was the most beautiful moment..Alhamdulillah was all I could think as they placed Hana on me. I survived the normal labour without taking pethidine or epidural. ;) (give a pat on the tummy)

reciting Azan/Qamat to her ears...

1 day old Hana Sofea..

So that's it...that's "not so briefly" about Hana's birth story.. Now that I have my own mini family and all I can say thank u Allah for this gift and really glad He gives me a chance to experience this again in a truly different ambiance.