His and Her Hand Foot and Mouth

Ihsan and princess Huda just recovered from HFMD couple of weeks ago. Quite a tough week for me. But yeah motherhood comes in this package don't they?

So, the eldest started to show the symptoms first. I only realized that she's actually having the disease after the visit to Dr Sheila's clinic for her flu jab. She got a fever a day earlier then she started to have the oral ulcers.

So when her Paeds started to examine her after she knew she had a fever, that I came to realize that she has those suspicious red spot on her palm too. Tricky it is.

Then her oral ulcer started to grow more and more, a day after. So there she was screaming in pain each time she was about to take anything orally. Irritable she was. Very furious. Not a darling princess anymore.. Sigh -__-

We visited ED the next day, worried because she could not take anything orally. Worried because she was so irritable and clingy and furious too.

That was when she had her blood drawn from her vein for the very first time of her life. Luckily the hospital never collapsed from her screaming. If not, I would have been given a new place to work. Haha not funny..!

Luckily she has not met the criteria for admission. She can still walk around, jumping about, teary and could still, at least took fluids although not much but pretty enough for a day at least.



You have to understand that this disease does not have any specific therapy. Meaning to say, they don't have the drugs to stop the infection. Its solely supportive measures. In which paracetamol would be given to control the fever and the pain, the spray to minimize the pain form the ulcer and fluids therapy for hydration. The disease will eventually goes away on their own with the help of our immune system. Hooray!!



So comes my number two worry.



How on earth can I separate her from her little brother??

Obviously they are sleeping in the same room and on the same bed. And its pretty hard to strain her from kissing her dear little brother.



Couple of days after, the brother started to show some signs. My enemy, the ORAL ULCERS! He refused to drink his milk. And he's becoming irritable too. My Oh my!

Thank goodness we have the magic spray. HAHA! So we spray here and there each time he's having his feed. Alhamdulillah, the ulcers went away after a couple of days.







TAKE HOME MESSAGE: Beware of the disease spread guys! Its really painful for a mother to see their children having the ulcers. We, our self could not tolerate even a single ulcer. So, can you imagine having a lot of ulcers in your mouth. Seriously, it is painful! Not my mouth but my heart. OUCH!



- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

Adrenaline vs Atropine

Good bye my maternity leaves. The 4 months of stay at home motherhood is now over. I've resumed working for 2 days already.
Tired, sleep deprived, anxious of going back to work; you name it, I'm experiencing it now.
My lil hero stayed at my hub's auntie in Jasa Utama. So, at 630am I'll drive him there and off to work after that. And the big sister stays at home with Acu.
So far he behaved well in his first day of stay there. I really hoped that this can stayed on at least till I finished my internship. Well roughly I've about 1 and a half months more to go. Then there'll be another day of the story. Sigh!
But seriously, how can I get confused about the emergency drugs in operation theatre. How can I even mixed up between adrenaline and atropine. Duhh!


- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

From the forest to the sea..

My maternity leaves are coming to an end. Sob sob..
Soon I have to leave my two lovelies at home. I wonder, when will I ever be a SAHM? (read: stay-at-home-mom). Even though it's not easy to be a mom to a new baby and a toddler, it is something truly worth it. The satisfaction is there. Tired? Distressing? I can be a tiger and an angel mom at the same time. At the end of the day, what can I ask more? Being home with them is what I really wished for.

Back to our topic of the day..

The Forest; Sept 27 - 29

I waited for 27 years of my life to be at our National Park in Pahang. But my sweet little boy was able to set his tiny foot there at the age of only 85 days old. How lucky!
We went there together with wany and aki. Daddy's not coming as he should be working. My mom got a meeting there, hence our short escapade to the forest.
The journey was quite tiring. With the estate and whatnots, thankfully we were safe and soundly arrived after 6 hours drive. Tiring of course but not as a driver, only as a passenger. Haha.
Now lets move on. Let the pictures do all the talking. Don't They used to say that a picture tells a tthousand words.

We started off our journey from home at 10am, picked up Aki from his dialysis at Hospital Putrajaya and then had our lunch at Nandos Alamanda.



Smiley Aki and Wany

The 'live' radio

Mom used to call me her 'tail'.
Now I drag together mine

We reached there near sunset. We stayed at Mutiara Taman Negara.
To reach the room, first you have to get off from your car with all your luggage and all the passengers, hop onto a boat, climb up flights of stair, check in and get your key then steps to your doorstep. Phew! Sure a long way to go, especially for Aki of course. But, hey lets stay positive. When will Aki be coming here if not now, right when a private doctor can follow him around.

This is how our chalet looks like

Chalet suite

On Saturday morning, mom attended her meeting. Me of course was occupied with the kids, bathing, breakfast, poo the pee argh and the list goes on.
Out of all the out door activities that can be done there, Huda and me only went for boat cruise to Lata Berkoh. You see, we were in the middle of the world's oldest rainforest. I wouldn't dare to bring my little hero walks about in the jungle. If you understand what I meant.
So off we went on a boat cruise, yes only me and my daughter. Ihsan was left in the hand of Wany and Aki in the chalet.

That is how our boat looks like

Us, cruising to Lata Berkoh

At the fish sanctuary

" Fish, mamam la..", she said.

Tired. Full stop

The siblings and her Mr Penguin

And its already Sunday. Time to go home. Daddy is waiting..

We had our breakfast at Mutiara restaurant.
 The chef is quite nice though

Aki's private doctor with her son

She and her boat that we used to cross the river

That's the other side of the river, the main land

Can you see the flights of stairs.
Want to lose weight? Come and join them

Aki inside the boat

Time to say goodbye to Taman Negara

The siblings in the car, heading back home

Next up; The Sea. Oct 4-6

The subsequent weekend, we followed Wany to her meeting in Pantai Morib. There's not much of activity that can be done here, apart from the pool. So, most of the time we just stayed in the room.

She and he

He who always smile

View from our window
Hotel Impian, Morib

Nice pool

The comrades

The room is pretty small to her
that she was bored to death sleep

The victim
 who always been bullied by his big sister

Apa lah nasibku begini..

The 3rd Jab

Ihsan is now 5.3kg. Just few grams heavier than last month. He is otherwise fit and healthy, alhamdulillah.
His development is appropriate.
He is getting stronger. He is able to lift his head, while lying on hid back, and hold it for several minutes. He also loves waving his arms and kicking his legs enthusiastically. And, if you hold him up with his feet touching the floor, he would push down on his legs.
He can also bring both hands together, open his fists, and play with his fingers. Sometimes he may even use a closed fist to bat at dangling objects.

When he hears my voice, he will look directly and start gurgling, as if he is trying to talk back. Auww cutey!

Even with others, he is becoming more responsive and engaging, by flashing smiles, oohing and cooing. The fun has really begun. His social skills are blossoming.

This month he got his jab against pneumococcal. He just started to giggle with all the toys surrounding him when he suddenly felt a pinch on his thigh. Ouch!

- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

Copy Cat

I have one at home
Not a cat exactly
But someone who copies my every intention and every move
Bahah!
I cook, she cook
She mopped here when I mopped there
I breastfeed her brother and she will breastfeed her penguin
Isnt she just so lovely...



- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

Waiting For A Better Tomorrow

Nothing seems to move on well. Completely nothing. Hardships are everywhere, in every single corner.


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The sorrow days

He's down with bronchiolitis since few days ago. Who else would infect him if not his dearly loving big sister who always kiss him not only on the cheek but on his nose too with her nose running. Duhh..
He's been nebulized for 2 days already. The cough doesn't get any better though his lungs are quite clear. His nose stuffed up too. Thanks to the big sister really. So he is quite clingy and also getting urm... His cries changed. And sometimes he would just unknowingly cry sorrowly. Why oh why I wonder..










- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

A year older, a year wiser

Happy birthday to you Yobo!~



Nope, not this one..
I mean the senior.. Hehehe



Yup, this one..

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4.9

Little Mister just got his 2nd month jab last Saturday; DPT vaccine against diphtheria, polio and tetanus.
He gained 1.2kg from last month. And he is now 4.9kilos, it's just like a bag of rice. Bahah!
He cried of course from the jab. Well, who doesn't isn't it? And everything went well until late that night, he started to have spiking of temperature. He was feverish! My oh my?!! And then he gets cranky. It is the first time he became like that. He is such a good boy all this while. Such a sweetheart with a lovely smile. Melts ^_^
At first I was quite reluctant to give him fever medicine cause I'm afraid his stomach will gets upset from the meds. However seeing him so cranky and his boy was so hot ooh what I meant was warm to touch I don't dare to wait any longer. So, Here we go syrup paracetamol.. Yummeh!



A day before the jab..




We are siblings!

You see babies are a little creature with really underdeveloped system, I mean their body system. They cannot regulate their body temperature well like we do. So their brain are very sensitive to the change of temperature. That's why they can get easily get fit if they have fever.
If you wanted to avoid meds for your little ones, tepid sponging really does help to cool them down. Using a Luke warm water, sponge them especially on the forehead and also below the armpit area. Remember to remove the clothes first. Just make them wear the diapers. Covering them up with more layers of cloth will not bring down the fever.
Why lukewarm, not cold water? You see, when we sponge our babies, the process of evaporation happens. Evaporation is a cooling process because when water is put over a hot body, heat from the hot body transferred, from the body to the water. The heat causes the water to evaporate and hence heat energy is transferred from the body to water resulting in cooling of the body. In this case, if we were to use cold water it will only results in shivering. Just like when we were out in winter, automatically our body begins to shiver ain't they? It is just a normal body reaction to cold, for our body to heat itself. Hence our body temperature will continue to rise and it is not good for our babies. Got that mommies??

Succeed

Still about potty training. I can say its quite a success. Of course theres still so much to be done. But at least she can say when she need to go to the toilet, you know doing that business thing. Well i still make her wear the drypantz pretending its her underwear, yup like something you wear underneath the pants since our water supply is cut off since that day. Thanks to that oily thing in the water plant treatment place whatever you call that. We are affected by that issue too.
So back to our business. It's a huge success. Hooray!!?!
I can say she became dry by the third day of training.. She can tell she need to pee or poop and she really did it in her potty
You see, potty training is one of the milestone in your child's development. I know it's not like you won a jackpot or lottery. It's just a potty training by the way, if you may say. In other words she just learnt that she need to pee or poop in the toilet. Yeah, it's not something to brag about but talking about being a parent it sure really feel like you hit one!
Being a parent, specifically a mother,
it's no more me nor you, it's all about them. My baby this my daughter that blar blar blar. Ahh, the sweetness of being a mother. I thank you Lord!




The jackpot..

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Is it the right time

Shes nearly three by the end of next month but she yet to be potty trained. We've been thinking about it for quite some time already. Even her paediatrician already suggested to us when she got her jab early this year. But we are just not ready. With the work shifts, non conducive surrounding, how will I train her effectively. I know practice makes perfect but if theres no continuity, lets just forget it. Well maybe even she is still not ready yet, at that point of time I mean. Well that would just be my guess. Ha ha.
So, since I'm on my maternity leaves and I'm out of my confinement period, we thought maybe this is the right time for the training. My mother also already started nagging her to be diaper free since she is smart enough err by that she would mean very talkative enough to tell " mom I wanna pee.."
First, we bought the most important tool for potty training, A Potty.

The next step is of course her undies.



She's really excited about that due to few reasons that I don't think I need to state here. Bahah!.!. Don't you know how adorable kiddy undies nowadays! I would wanna grab them too.. err of I'm not yet married, of course!
Since she is so into becoming a princess.. blame the ads of Sofia the First from Disney junior channel; mom started to tell her that she needs to be diaper free, to be a princess. And with due respect, she needs to wear her cutie undies.
Truthfully, I'm quite worried of the outcomes of the training. It will be her first time to be out of her diapers, the first time in her 3 years of life. Can you even imagine that. Accidents may occur at any time, any where. And this accidents involve err pee.. yeah urine to be exact! Stinks! Gahh.
We've been slow talk to her all the time that she needs to be diaper free and that she needs to go to the toilet just like how adults did. And she seems to understand it really well. Still, I'm worried! She's just three after all.
Day 1
Total failure. She only tells me that she peed after she finished her business. And yup it's everywhere, on my mom's carpet like twice, under the stairs and even in her own house.
So hello mop. We've been like the best of friends today huh. I've been mopping the house since morning.
Lesson of the day: I need to get her the training pants.



I can't just spending my whole day tomorrow mopping the floor, can't I..
Training pants please come to me ASAP!
- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

The Fifth

It's been 5 years..
It's been that long since we into this road together.
5 years full of spices.
Full of love and laughter.
Full of bitter and sweatiness

People say if you passed the first 5 years, you have already passed the first test.

It is the test of a lifetime.

Just like a chain of metamorphosis.
From the single you, you become two then three and then comes the number four. Oh boy, It is sure not easy!

Well I would say the first year is the toughest when you try to blend yourself and the other self together. Clash of conflicts, different thoughts bla bla bla but love brings us back together.

The second year is the honeymoon period when you and I becomes one. Err well i might say the blender works! Ha ha!!

Then comes the third year. alhamdulillah our life is blessed with the born of our adorable princess.

Journey continues with the fourth year.
And then the fifth. Our family expands more. Alhamdulillah. It's not part of the plan, but God knows better. Didn't they say err the more the merrier!

It's not just about love, but this journey trip also needs the package of commitments and responsibilities.

The 5ive is just a figure. Marriage either is out of love or the arranged one needs not only love but the work of a couple; me and you. He and she. Him or her.

I'm hoping our love will grow stronger and fonder with time, insyallah. Till death do us apart.

Five years and counting..

I loved you, loving you and will always love you.

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Plans & Destiny

Sometimes Allah breaks our spirit to save our soul
Sometimes Allah breaks our heart to make us whole
Sometimes Allah allows pain so we can be strong
Sometimes Allah sends us failure so we can be humble
Sometimes Allah allows illness so we can take better care of ourselves
Sometimes Allah takes everything away from us so we can learn the value of everything He gave us

Make plans but understand that we live by Allah's grace..

Allah please give me sabr to endure all this..


- FrOm My iPhOnE fOuR -

Fate II

She, who grew up in IJN for 5 months