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Making A Decision As A Father

It’s a heavy burden for being a father.

A father has to make sure members of a family get the basic needs, such as, food for eating, a shelter to cover from rain and to have a warm sleep at night, and clothes for them to wear. The moment Amirul was born, I knew it’s going to be fighting tooth and nail to make sure my family to get they are deserved to. Now our second baby has knocked on our door of life, our obligation as a parent becomes more heavy as the needs are growing in multiply, yet our both income remain the same.

For me, single and married life are equal it comes to making decision. What differs between this two entities are when you are single, you and you only gain benefits or harms from what you have chose, but in married life, there will be chains of good or bad implications affect your family members upon your decision.

Alhamdullilah, in our blessed country, we are offered with full of choices and varieties in everything. You always can get what you want. In perfect world, we can choose whatever we want because there’s no opportunity cost. Unfortunately, in our imperfect world, money is one of our major limitations. When there are limitations, there are several T-junctions or choices that I have to make, such as;

  • Public Hospital or Private Hospital.
  • Buying single-storey house or double-storey house.
  • To seek immediate consultation with speech therapy specialist about Amirul’s speech delay, or to let Amirul gains his voice naturally.
  • Buy something that gains family interest, instead of your self-interest.
  • Hire a maid or send our kids to daycare.

Making decisions on the five issues above affect my family life. Sometimes, it’s hard to make decision when there are no guidelines to tell me whether they are right or wrong. I guess all my banking and economic studies may apply to my practical life. I have to look back the economy of my household, the kind of social life that my family lead, and the people that live in our surroundings. The decision making will be made only after carefully taking that aspects into considerations .

Why Making decision is important?
Making decision wisely is very important to me and my family. It protects the value of my family’s principle; buy only things or services that give benefit to our family, and not to someone else. For example, in future, we need a bigger vehicle if we have four children, we only buy the cheapest family MPV (hmm.. Proton Exora Basic everyone?), regardless of how hype the Toyota Estima is or how cool the people think when we drive latest MPV. We do not seek the people’s approval, even though we have all the money in the world. We have to fulfill our family value first. That our principal.

Just for the thought. In Islamic perspective, a father has to meet the requirement of the basic needs as well, Islam called it nafkah.  A father also has been obligated to lead a family to the right path. Every decision have to maintain the prosperity of a family without being slipped off from Islamic taughts.

My Baby is A Stress Ball

“A stress ball is a malleable toy, usually not more than 7 cm in diameter. It is squeezed in the hand and manipulated by the fingers, ostensibly to either help relieve stress and muscle tension or to exercise the muscles of the hand.” quoted from wiki.

A stress ball is a stress relief. It is recommended to locate it on your workstation, so that whenever you get blatantly bashed by your boss because of your laziness, you can always reduce the stress the easiest way.

When I look into the eyes of my 2 months baby, I can say that my baby is a stress ball. She is the source of stress relief when I get back home; all the tense of workload in the office, a chain of needless meetings, and battered sparring of different ideas between colleagues are vaporizing in the air.

To me, baby is as good as physical therapy. There are five ways she can reduce my work stress;

  1. The way she smiling. The miracle of smiling is that the moment I see my baby smile, all stressful thoughts are gone.
  2. The way of responding to me. When I clap my hand softly on her right ear, she turns and looks at where that sound came from.
  3. Her pupil enlarge when she sees me. She would recognize me as her parent when she widens her pupils. I think.
  4. Her eyes are fixated on me. Once she looks at me, she never takes off. That’s mesmerizing.
  5. Sleeping in a cutest way. Putting her both hands on both cheeks makes me laugh a lot.

I know that you can’t use baby like a stress ball, because I had squeezed the baby one time like a stress ball, and she went crying over an hour. That’s a lot of stress.

On the other hand, baby can gives you the stress you can’t imagine such as;

  1. Still crying when you fulfill all the checklist. I often frustrated when I did all the checklist to soothe out my baby, and fail to stop her crying.
  2. Wants to be hugged all the time. She has one behavior that I don’t understand. She turns on her crying sound when I put her on bed.
  3. Crying out loud at least three times at night. It’s really stressful to find out that I am overslept and late for work.

Ok, now she gives me stress. I was thinking that if I complaint about how stressful I am when taking care of my children, and then let my stress seduced my feelings, I am going nowhere and stay on a very airtight situations.

Eventually the stress I will burn me out. But if I refused to let the stress eats me alive, I may have chance to understand and manipulate it.

How I handle the stress when my baby did the three things above?

  1. Set my mind. Now I have to set my mind that making milk in the middle of night is not that bad. May be it’s not bad at all.
  2. Forgive her. Just forgive my baby for every stressful situation she made. It’s nothing personal. She just want something, yet she don’t know how to express. 
  3. Go with the flow. Sometimes your heart filled with torment when things don’t go the way you want. It’s okay if I late for work for three times, it’s okay if I can’t watch my favorite True Blood, it’s okay to miss lepak at Kedai Mamak with fellow friends. None of them are important, and there’s not a single tangible object that is above my children’s priority.

My baby is a stress ball. That’s my opinion. What’s yours?

Why Introducing Baby Hatch Is A Really Bad Idea

The Baby Hatch has been introduced in Malaysia. Yes. Another step, I shall say giant step, toward higher society; to make our country a better place. The statistic showed that dumping the babies cases are surprisingly increasing every year, where 407 babies were abandoned throughout 2005 to 2008.

We should expect decrease in numbers of abandoned babies for the next year when The Baby Hatch has extended its landing gear, establishing its operation for good.

ORPHANCare is an NGO charity organization which offers stability for abandoned babies. They provide several small spaces, somewhat incubators, for a person to put babies at provided locations. Now, unprepared mothers can officially or anonymously hand over the unwanted babies. The mother can choose whether or not to sign registration form.

We, as the people of Malaysia, should be proud and give good appraisal to the one who spark a solution for the abandoned baby thing. Many advantages we can get from the baby hatch:

(1) It will reduce  the number of abandoned babies dramatically.
(2) The rate of infant mortality will increases. [via indexmundi]
(3) The willing parents now are able to choose more babies for adoption? A lot of cute unwanted babies. (Just like choosing your t-shirt at J-Card Day)
(4) A Change For Better Life. [via thestar]
(5) Malaysia as efficient as developed countries in handling abandoned babies issues.

But then I look and read again the baby hatch articles, the surprising overall statistics, and rethink on the issues of teenagers these days.

When I try to stand from Islamic angle, I see things different. I changed my mind and I am strictly opposing of what our beloved Datuk Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has introduced.

The act of taking care of abandoned baby is, indeed, very noble and charitable. No doubt about it. But when we have buried one problem, another hole appears on our land. I see that we resolved the problems aroused with short-term method.

The baby hatch is one example. When we have buried the problem of abandoned child, a new and complicated problem is coming on our way.

I think the hatch is a really, really, bad idea. In the a long term, another problems emerge on our Islamic society, which give us nightmare and bad image as an Islamic country.

So, why it is a bad idea:

Encourage People To Do Premarital Sex.

  • I always know, in my mind, that someday we will be just like the people in the west, where premarital sex is a common practice among Malaysian. Although our religion has   taught us adultery is a deadly sin, yet we ignore it. And Indirectly, the baby hatch may contribute to the increasing rate of premarital sex, fornication, zina, or whatever you want to call it, especially among teenagers because they don’t worry about the consequences. We have baby hatch. We can throw our non-marital baby over there.

Increasing the number of Non-Marital Children.

  • The people look back on their shoulder and see worrying numbers of non-marital chidren or anak luar nikah is climbing a ladder steadily. I realized that our marriage constitution is falling apart that divorces below 5 years has became a common trend among our local artists and celebrities


Westernization.

  • We have seen how Japan embraced Westernization where they’re transforming every aspect in their life, from laws to religions, and everything in between. We have seen Turkey had corrupted their own religion by worshiping the secularism idea. The Baby Hatch is the preliminary step into the future of modernization, where religion requirement seen as an obsolete and dusty, morality is a minor issues, and modernization is the sacred of the highest truth.

Insulting the section 317 of the Penal Code.

  • MyArticlesUnite has brought issues regarding penal code where if you intentionally abandon a child below age of 12. The parent of the child could get 7 years of living life as a prisoner.

Some of us blessed The Hatch with applauds, and some of us don’t. I’m one of the concerned publics who thinks Baby Hatch is a very bad idea. I’ve read several articles that don’t agree with the baby hatch. I hope the government heard our voice that it only brings disaster rather than solution.

Super Mummy Huda ; A day of housewife and Mummy for 2 kids

Another 1 week left before I need to go back to normal lifestyle. Early morning busy with Amirul to BBsitter’s house and Mr Hubby and myself get ready to office, 9 hours spend time doing all not-so-passion works at office.. Ohhh how I will miss the moment spend time with family, my ‘me’ time, shopping without destruction of 2 kids, time where I can do anything that i like without hesitatation. So I’d decided to become a fulltime mummy to them and no nursey for today. Difficult to handle Widad & Amirul??? Its not hard actually as Widad only sleep and woke up for milk and time where she want to play and Amirul knew how to entertain himself. The thing would turn up side down when :

  • Widad want to drink milk, then Amirul asked for his milk.
  • Mummy want to take shower, Widad crying till the neighbour next door would hear, but Amirul do nothing beside his little sister like nothing happened
  • Mummy play cak-cak with Widad, then Amirul asked to draw crane on his doodle pro board
  • Amirul sleep, then Widad lak yg meragam2 xmo sleep..ishhhhh
  • Amirul become so jealous when mummy breastfeed widad. He would ask me to do this and that..

So here goes our activity:

Mummy activities:

Tidy up our room

Drying Clothes

Sweep the floor

Chef of the day

Milk for Widad

Food of love

Amirul activities

Dancing

Susun block

Kacau baby sister sleep

Eat for energy

Fishing

Drawing & Colouring

Mummy little helper

Sleep

Widad activities

Widad sleep in actions

Widad feeding time

Note : Eventho is tiring. but I enjoy every moment become a full-time mummy to them..

Lastly, the moment that i will remember most

Both are sleeping after tired playing with Mummy

My Confinement Diary : Confinement Set

3 weeks earlier than expected date and my confinement set this at the jamu shop.. (tak beli lagi lor)..huhuh. Should I asked Mr Hubby to buy or just wait until I’m finished my confinement period and I’d buy myself??? I just afraid Mr Hubby will buy different thing from what i’d described and to avoid this, my MIL made homemade jamuor me and myself also buy few vitamins to replace jamu. In fact, I think much better as the vitamins are clinically tested. So here goes my confinement set :

A mixture of turmeric,tamarind and rock sugar drink

Turmeric – Is a common spice normally use in culinary. Its make  foods like masak lemak, curry and rendang tastier. Besides culinary usage, turmeric also give health benefit including  for postnatal treatment; shrink the uterus, stimulate milk flow and production of red blood cells, dissolving blood clots, easing pain in the abdomen and to treat irregular menstruation. Read here for more info on tumeric

Tamarind – Similar to turmeric, tamarind also use in culinary. Its sweet sour taste make food tastier. Tamarind also gives good health benefit like mild laxative, ease sore throat, reduce fever and protect against colds,etc. For postnatal usage, tamarind either in drink or foods can soften the stool as bowel problem is common during confinement period. Read here for more info on tamarind

Rock sugar – To sweeten the drink..nyumnyumnyum. Without this sweetener, you will feel brackish when drink it.

Shaklee Vitamins
B Complex – Maintaining good health and good effect in reducing the postnatal depression
Vitalea – contains Beta Carotene that help in maintenance of growth, vision and tissue development. During child birth, some of the tissue body were tear out, by taking this vitamin, the healing process will speed up.
Alfafa – contains Medico sativa which is good for breastfeeding. Alfafa were among the milk booster that recommended to take during lactating
Calcium – Calcium requirement is very high during lactating since breast milk contains calcium

If you interested to buy Shaklee product, do contact :
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The Unexpected Call

As soon as the nurse made a confirmation to transfer my wife to Kajang General Hospital, I kissed my wife goodbye, informing her that I had to make a pit stop at home to take iPod charger. I didn’t want to let the time killed me with infinite boredom. We went to different vehicle. I crawled up inside my BLM car and she was escorted by nurse to take a ride with Ambulance.

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Using KTM Komuter To Commute

Using public transport especially KTM Komuter often frustrates you. Many occasions involving delays, and a few train broke down. What irritates me more is that my work attendance record for the last month has showed three red colors, which means I was being late for three times. It’s all because of that train.

I used to go to work using Rapid LRT train. The train’s frequency is satisfying. Every 5 minutes a train arrives at a station. The train’s schedule is accurate that you can rely on. You stuck in a delay incident once in a while.
When my office was relocated, I have no other choice but to take KTM Komuter. The distance to my office is about 30 km, and I think driving is the most convenient way to commute to work. I can reach my office early and no sign of red in attendance anymore.

But,

instead of driving for 45 minutes, I rather take public transport. Why? [1] Because I was once stuck in a traffic jam when I was travelling from office to home and I didn’t like it. [2] The parking at my new office is very expensive, that you have to spend more than RM10 per day. I chose to commute using KTM Komuter. I can do three productive things while I’m travelling:

  • Read Books – It’s hard to read my favorite books at home when I have to look after two children. Using train as a place to read is the only way I can fulfill my desire.
  • Organize Calendar - Every monday, I used my precious 45 minutes planning my whole my weekday and weekend in the train coach.
  • Mind Map. While standing inside the train, I usually draw mind map to note some ideas I have thought by using notepad or iPod Mind map apps.
  • Track Your Expense. If I can’t find time to do my account, I may do it inside the train using iPod budget apps or notepad. But it’s hard to find some privacy space. So I only doing it if I really don’t have time at home.

Most of the books that I’ve finished reading, I did it inside the train. I completed my weekly plan when I was standing inside the train. I find that the 45-minute of travelling is very valuable to do something productive.

My Confinement Diary : 5 weeks confinement

Now I started my confinemt at my house;Kelantan. Unfortuantely, the house is under renovation and more like ‘rumah bersamu Tv3′ . Pity to Widad, day time is so damn hot and night time so freezing cold plus dusty and noise from construction works. She hardly sleep during day time and sometimes becomes so cranky.

My Confinement Routine & Diary

  • Wake up quite late as i cant sleep at night. Now no more hot shower for me & Widad. Widad screaming bler air sejuk touch her skin
  • After 30days confinement at MIL’s which I was served with all kind of foods, now its time for me to berpantang makan.. Hahhhh. My mom really practice all those pantang larang including pantang makan, cara duduk, not all fruit boleh makan,acara “pelepas” etc. Antara foods that not allow to eat ; putu mayam sebab putu mayam bentuk dier berpintal2, kalu makan sakit urat, duduk kena kaki straight tak boleh bersilang sbb nanti angin tak kuar dok berpintal kat kaki.. acara “pelepas” iaitu acara halau hantu or anasir2 jahat after bersalin. Kalu nak bawa BB kuar, have to bring along black papper plus paku tuk avoid hantu datang dekat ngn BB. etc.
  • Reduce few more pound, now my weight is 61kg

61kg – Mummy

  • Widad 2nd dose Hep  B injection at Poliklinik Kg Penambang. She now weighted 4.3kg.

4.3kg – Widad

  • Widad already circumcise – Me tak sanggup tgk Widad kena circumcise, so MamaAtok yg pegang and handle .
  • My parent not so supportive in breastfeeding. Lack of info and knowledge were the major factors why they are not sopportive. Nangis je dorang igt Widad lapar..adussss.Pastu sibok nak kasik makan nasik lenyek. Yang paling sedih bler my mom cakap cami ” Ala Widad, dok jela kat sini MamaAtok jaga, kalu lapa MamaAtok kasik susu cap LEMBU”..adoii geramnya

Subsidies Removed, And How You Should React

Sooner or later, the government will eventually remove the subsidies that we have enjoyed for all these years. For the next several years or several decades, we have to face our own battle of surviving without much helps from them.

I was so full of rage when I heard the report presented by Idris Jala, that Malaysia will be a BANKRUPT COUNTRY in 2019, if the government didn’t take prudent actions about the expenses leaking such as subsidies.

I still believe that the government of Malaysia works in mysterious and secretive ways, which they didn’t 100% transparently announced what they are doing.

And when they mismanaged the country and have no money, they listed out all the things they have done to Rakyat. They said that they gave too much to their citizens. They blamed us, that we didn’t appreciate the subsidies.

When the debts outpaced the income by a lighting year, they looked back the deficit and reorganized the public spending.

So tell me, how they sniff the government goes bankrupt at the first place. Is it because of subsidies alone? Or is it government has spent too much on bad investments?

Thinking in macro makes you angrier with your own regulator of the country, so I proceed to look into my own household economy.
Now lets think if the government take away our subsidies (and they will), we should be prepared for the high rises in the consumer items price. Like a smack landed on your left ear, how you should react?:

  • Take charge on your money and start saving. I suggest this is the easiest way to contain your valuable money. Stay with the maximum amount that you can save from your salary. Say at least 10% if you can. As for me, I can only save RM100 per month.
  • Eat Less Food, Malaysian!!. When all the consumable items is increased, all we have to do is eat less. Tell your partner to cook not too delicious to prevent temptation of eating 2 plates of rice for dinner. Four of every 10 Malaysian are overweight. Hope that the high price will result lower our food consumption. As for me, I ask my wife to limit our food consumption.
  • Cut Your Credit Card in two pieces. Since the government introduced tax imposement on credit card, we should be aware that using credit card debt can make you go bankrupt. Stop swiping your card before you are being declared legally insolvent.
  • Lower Your Standard of Living. This is the hardest part. Even I refuse let go of my lifestyle. But this suggestion is at least not impossible to do. Changing the lifestyle can’t be done within overnight. It can eat years to cope with the new lower one.
  • Reformat Your Mind. Let’s reset our mind for not to fall for buying temptation. Avoid looking at juicy advertisement and cool fashion. Here’s how to do it.

If you feel the government play unfair game with us, you are not alone. We all felt the same. There’s no time to question back “Why BN Goverment? Why?”, just do preparation for the worst to come. This time, go put your power of vote to other party for the next Malaysia General Election.

Link of the Week: The 12 Malaysian Volunteers Edition

It’s good to hear our malaysian Astro crews are safe, and will be back to our country this coming Sunday. I was in shocked when I heard the news for the first time. Turned up the radio volume in the sense of hardly believing at that moment. Then I continue driving off to my office.

I didn’t do my urgent work when I reached to my office. Turn on the PC and read the news. I couldn’t believe our people were involved. With my heart sank and my faith filled with  disbelief, I reread the news all over again.
Anyway, The Links of The Week are:

  • Top 10 Tips For Skillful Parenting. One of the 10 Tips that interesting is allow your children make mistakes. I agree that it is a part of the development process. You can’t remove it.
  • Which Parenting Jobs Are His, Yours?. “In fact, the article says, 38 percent of men say they would take a pay cut to spend more time with their children (Honey, if you’re reading, let’s not get carried away)” Wow, I can’t believe this.

IF you have better links that you would to share, do not hesitate to put comments below. thanks.

I hope this incident didn’t give even a scratch on their determination in helping people in Gaza, in the name of humanity.

Why I shouldn’t watch too much TV

Watching too much TV?  During dark ages of my 8-months unemployment, TV used to be my best friend. I woke up in the morning (forced by my mom), held the remote like a sword of destiny, and changed to HBO Channel. My daily activity was watching movies like a stone until the sun set. Then I had break time for dinner, continue my activity until 2.00 am.
I’ve experienced with TV addiction, and I want to share with you that I’m not very proud of it. Those were the days that I got so much time in the world, and I was completely wasting it with watching TV. I wished I could turn back time, and learn so many good things; writing, blogging, ebaying, and even photography technique.

There are bad things about watching too much TV such as;
./1. I may have no time for writing for this blog and my wife will absolutely angry with me. I’ve a deal with my wife that I will support her blog to the point of successful goals. Writing will consume about 1-2 hour.Preparation of the proper materials will add another hour to the schedule. If I was not letting go of my watching TV habit, I would disappointing my partner.

./2. Less productivity when you sit your butt all day in Sofa. What if I’m watching TV and let my partner do the house cleaning alone? What if I’m watching my favorite movie while my partner losing her breath to tidy up the mess Amirul made? What if I’m so arrogance that I’m pleasuring my TV addict when my partner needs someone to spread our clothes in the sun, washing the dishes, and changing the baby diaper?

At the end of the day, you never get anything done and your house is messed up, as well as your life.

./3. Too much TV develop risk of Death. I couldn’t believe that watching too much TV could trouble you so much.

“Prolonged watching of television equals a lot of sitting, which invariably means there’s an absence of muscle movement,”

Dr. David Dunstan argued that sitting still is unhealthy, and you will consume he the habits of smoking, eating snacks, and drinking soda. TV itself doesn’t harm you, but the activities that comes along with it may extend your cholesterol and blood pressure level.

./4. I become angry and intolerable person. When I was watching my favorite movie, I said to myself that I wanted to watch it without blinking my eyes, without being interrupted. So I was interrupted, tense was infiltrating my brain when my partner asks to do this and that.

Afraid of missing any critical points of the story, I ignored her request. She began to cry when interrupted me once again because I responded with a raised, angrier voice. On the good side, I have finished watching my favorite movie.On the bad side, I hurt my partner’s feeling, which I realized that I was a self-absorbed person who didn’t deserve her.

So I chose not to pamper my TV addiction, it will only bring destruction to myself and my family.

Alternative activities to fulfill your beautiful day without TV programs.
A lot of beneficial activities to replace your favorite programs. Here are the suggestion alternatives to TV:

./1. Reading Books. May be life without visual image and audio sound are dull. But reading books helps you to construct  knowledge and self-development. Learn how to be a good father or mother. Read books that gains knowledge about babies, toddlers, children.

Always seek recomendation before buying from established resources like BabyCenter and Amazon. Read meticulously and in-depth about baby growth and development.

./2. Learn DIY Home repair. DIY world makes you literate with labor skills. You’ll soon get to familiar with hand tool like saw, wrench, pickaxe, and sledgehammer. A lot of new things that excites you, and you can make your children toys using your DIY skills.

Your hand skill getting better, you can save money over easy home repair such as water tank overflowing. Usually plumber overcharges around RM300 when they only changed floating ball that costs RM10-RM50 (depending on quality).

./3. Play with your kids. Back to the point of bonding with your children. Maintain your relationship with your children, in my view, will boost up your self-esteem, and it will make me a better person.

I enjoy watching my kid playing at playground: see-saw, slide, monkey bar, sandbox which can expand Amirul’s physical coordination, motoring, flexibility, and inner strength. Your children feel lovable when you put your children to the center of your attention.

./4. Find a Hobby. Most of hobbies are inexpensive to develop and cheap to maintain. Find one or two hobbies that match your profile. Place your usual watching TV time with your new hobbies. It is recommended to find hobbies that generate money, but stop doing that hobbies if it’s rather stressful than fun.

I have several hobbies to prevent me from watching TV for too long; reading fictions, playing Wii games, and taking photograph of my kids.

I only watch DVD movies two times a month. I only open TV channel just to watch prime news for 30 minutes every other nights. I set many barriers just to prevent from becoming TV addiction again.

Photo Credit: DieselDemon

My Breastfeeding Diary : Medela FreeStyle Breastpump and Expressed Breastmilk

After 3 day of Widad’s birth, my breast milk flow like a waterfall (betul ke perumpamaan ni). After 3day of stressful day of few breast milk, now my milk were produce efficiently until my breast engorge and I need to pump out to avoid breast engorgement. I’d used Medela Freestyle Breast pump and so far I satisfied with it (kalu tak satisfied pun still kena satisfied sbb harga dier mahal ooo).

This is my review on Medela Freestyle Breast pump
Pros

  • Portable and mobile – I can walk around the house and do other works while pumping
  • Hand free – I can write this blog post, reading, chatting while pumping, huhuh

Multitasking Mummy..huhuhuh


Skype with Mr Hubby and Amirul plus pumping time

  • Double electric pump – Quick and reduce time to express the breast milk

    • Approximately 3.5oz for 30mins pumping session

    • Small motor size- A palm size motor is very convenience to hold
    • Lightweight – Easy to carry
    • Rechargeable battery – Convenient and flexible to use when power source is unavailable

    Its Widad’s drink time. So one side for Widad and another side for Medela Freestyle. Don’t waste even a drop.
    Pump on my bed, anywhere everywhere..

    • Timer – I can easily know how long I’ve been pumping without looking at the clock

    Cons

    • Cost – Quiet pricey compare to other brand
    • Noisy motor – Sound like lawn mover.. huhuuh


      A palm size motor with noisy sound.

    • The hand free kit accessories are complicated to use and take few minutes to attach

    Expressed Breast milk
    Alhamdulillah, currently I managed to pump out at least 2oz – 4oz of breast milk per session. Normally my pumping session are early in the morning around 6am and before go to sleep at 11pm. I’m using zip lock liner to store my breast milk. Its to minimize the fridge space usage as currently I’m staying at MIL’s house and travel back to Kelantan.

    Each stock was labeled with date, time and Widad’s name

    Note : Besides its noisy motor, i loves everything about Medela freestyle

    For Medela Freestyle user, do join this forum to share your experience using FS breast pump or you can just leave your comment box. : D

    75 Useful Websites For Moms and Dads

    Now the information is closer than ever. I wake up every morning, slide to unlock my iPod, read news and blog before having breakfast with my family. Before I close my eyes for a good night sleep, I go on to more relaxation reading website like Dooce and GameSpot.

    The internet saves me a lot money these days. And I have never spend a dime on a car magazine like KERETA to know info about new interests in car world, I can have free tech article to digest by clicking Engadget, and my hunger for personal finance tips has come to an end when I read TheSimpleDollar blog.

    So I came up with the idea to collect and put into one post the list of websites to share with you. This are the several websites for Mom and Dad and I’ve found out that they really worth reading and bookmarking. So I breakdown into several categories for easier reference;

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