Defensive mother of 2 updates

Wow! It's been around 4 months since I last posted here. That's what being a mother of 2 did to me. Huhu. But not complaining though. Syukur alhamdulillah for everything I have in my life now, all the good and the bad things. Allah has designed it perfectly for us so we should trust Him wholeheartedly and go through it with smile.

Alhamdulillah, parents are healthy. Mak's health is progressing well, and abah is still going strong at 77, albeit being diagnosed with alzheimer. Kids are doing great alhamdulillah. Aqeef's just started his kindy in genius aulad this week, and adam just started eating solid food last week. :) hubby's doing ok, anxiously waiting for his annual raise and me? Hmm, just started my class for my second last semester of masters class. Took cuti khas last semester to focus on adam and focus on breastfeeding.

Alhamdulillah, he has been breastfed for 6 and a half months now. :) and still going strong insyaAllah. It has not been easy. But we survived. Alhamdulillah. Serious tak senang weh breastfeeding. Whats with the weight gain (of course la by mama), the constant worrying of not having enough supply, the continous latching & so on.

Seriously it was a totally different experience with adam compared to when aqeef was a baby, but I can say that it is a good thing kot. Initially it was soo hard especially during confinement days, when adam was diagnosed with jaundice & I was recuperating from my csecs as well. It was so hard, that I didnt sleep at night at all throughout the confinement days. Adam would want to latch through out the night and I didnt know how to feed him lying down, hence, I didnt sleep through the night,and after subuh would pass the baby to the maid and sleep then with adam having ebm when I take a rest. Phew, seriously, sgt susah kot masa tu.

Then, after pantang everything got easier, and we got better at handling adam kot. Alhamdulillah. I suddenly know how to feed him lying down and adam immediately learnt to sleep through the night at 44 days old. And I feel the one thing that is easier compared to aqeef's time is that we dont have to get up to prepare adam's milk. Jyeah!! Haha.during aqeef's time we used to take turn to get up and prepare aqeef's milk every 3 to 4 hours. But with adam, no more. We can sleep through the night. Woohoo. Thats the best part of breastfeeding him kot, no night feeds that require us to get up from the bed. Teehee. So breastfeeding mom especially yang dalam pantang tu, hang on,the best is yet to come. It will defenitely get better insyaAllah. :)

And I have been using medela freestyle to express milk for adam when I go to work, and it has been a life saver. Used to have spectra 3 during aqeef's time, but never really got to use it cause it was so painful to use, but freestyle is totally the opposite. No pain, easy to use, and comfort all the way. Though my milk supply is not as meriah as most people (urgh stress gak tgk org simpan stok dalam deep freezer bagai kan, especially org2 shaklee yg nk promote set menyusu tu kan) but at all times i managed to have at least 100 oz of frozen ebm as back up when I had to stay back in the office or when I go out for a date with hubby. Murah rezeki adam. But all in all, in the past 6 months I rarely leave the house without adam kot (except to go to work of course), he has been my valuable accesory for the past 6 months. The cutest accesory to date.

And with breastfeeding, came baby wearing. Aqeef is a stroller baby, since he was 2 months old until now. He's most comfortable in his stroller whenever we are outside. So for adam, we thought it would be the same for him, so we bought him another stroller. But, we thought wrong, he didnt like the stroller at all. At all. Kept crying when we put him inside the stroller. Kept wanting to be held when we're out. And I couldnt take it anymore (or rather, my back couldnt take it anymore, huhu). We thought about it and decided to try soft structured carrier like ergo or boba.

And when we were looking around to buy the carrier, studying online and went around baby shops looking at all the available carriers, one of my best friends, nisa gave us their ergo carrier to try out in order for us to decide whether adam is really suitable with carriers or not. And he loved it. Slept the entire time whenever we put him in the carrier.And still do til now.

Thank you nis, kasi pinjam ergo yg sgt best!:) love love you so much. Such a kind and beautiful soul. And after much research, we found out that boba & ergo somewhat has similar functions, quality and reputation - boba originated from australia and ergo from the US,and because we got a really good price during the last baby expo in midvalley, we finally bought the ergo 3g carrier! And alhamdulillah the quality, feeling is same as the ergo original. And hence, with mmour experience with the 2 kids, our theory is, bottle fed baby prefers the stroller and breastfeed baby prefers baby wearing - cause its closer to the breast kot. Hahahaha. Thats only our theory, we shall verify it with the next baby ok, haha. InsyaAllah.  And one more perks of baby wearing compared to stroller is, senangnya nak shop, haha. Takyah handle stroller yang kadang2 susah nak cilok2 dlm kedai yg sempit kan. Kalau dulu aqeef, syafik kena tunggu luar when I shop, tapi sekarang tidak lagi. Yeay to baby wearing. Hihi.

And one more perks of breastfeeding, adam susah sakit, so far sekali je dia demam sepanjang 6 bulan ni, itupun recover within sehari, syukur. Compared to aqeef, dari lahir sampai sekarang mmg selalu sgt sakit, dgn allergic nya dgn demamnya. Dulu mmg asyik2 cuti sbb nak jaga n bawa aqeef pegi clinic. Tapi time adam ni alhamdulillah, kurang emergency leave sbb he's healthier. 

Oh I so love breastfeeding, walaupun susah gila, nasib baik dpt bertahan this far.. seriously terer gila mak2 ni kan. Breastfeed bagai, I have only one breastfeed baby, dah macam2 kesusahan dah rasa, yg 4-5 anak breastfeed tu camne tah. I salute them. Pheww.. tapi seriously breastfeed moms, bertahanlah, kelebihan byk sgt mmg berbaloi dgn kesusahan tu, and insyaAllah Jannah for you, mothers. :)

Ok actually I'm tending to aqeef who is having slight temperature. Risaukan dia, dok sponging kasi sejuk badan. Kalau ikutkan hati dah bawak dia pergi hospital dah, risau yg amat. Tapi papa dia kata tunggu pagi dulu. Maka tidaklah tidur, and dptah tulis post ni. Huhu. Ok nak tukar air tuam aqeef. :)