Pantang 3.0

Haha. Pantang the third time. No joke man. I have always dreaded being in pantang despite the appealing 2 months maternity leave. Every pantang comes with different challenges and the third one is the worst. Huhu, but alhamdulillah i have survived it and today is the 47th day post partum. Yea!!! Yesterday we went out to see my gynae dr siti in salam and yea, no more blood clots, uterus has gone back to its normal shape and place, and the dr has given us the green light to actually be together again. Eh. No no that one needs to wait until 100 days. Kahkah. She wanted to inject me with something to prevent pregnancy - epo something,  i cant remember the name. But since it will last only three months we figured better to wait until pantang 100 hari habis kan. :p

Aaah, so after our final check up (dr siti and kak seri was so happy to finally discharge us, no more appoinments!woohoo!love them, very motherly and kind, genuinely worried when i was not recovering well after the delivery) we went to setia city mall to have our celebratory lunch at tony romas. I said we cause syafik had also survived my notorious pantang. Ok he survived the not so fun and emotional me during pantang. Haha. Seriously kudos to him for enduring my pantang days. May Allah grant u jannah ya sayang. And back to the story, so we went to tony romas, i brought a good deal from groupon rm40 bucks for a set of meal that consist of ribs, roasted chicken, 2 side dishes, soup and drinks. A steal, right?and i added on the kicking shrimp and shared all of it. First time going out of tony romas without leftovers. Haha. Habis licin. And what i want to share here is, lepas makan shrimp luka caesar gatal2. Haha padan muka. Dah tau allergic udang tak sabar2 nak makan udang lepas pantang. So this serves as a reminder ok nordina. Jgn makan udang cpt sgt lepas pantang. Nasib baik kejap je gatal2, malam dah hilang dah. Pheww. And we went around setia city mall saja senaman. Hehe. And after that went to little whiz as they are moving out to a new shop and they had clearance sale. Since aqeef and adam are sleeping in their own room we got a baby monitoring to monitor them in case they wake up in the middle of the night kan. Ok lah. Dpt murah due to the clearance sale. Yea. And after that went to citta mall beli wondermilk! Ahaha. Byk betul mengidam lepas pantang. So ayden byk berjalan hari ni ya. And dia punya penat, malam tadi tido nyenyak alhamdulilllah. Yea. Ke sbb kekenyangan makan ribs jugak dgn mama. Hehe. Selalu makan lauk pantang je ikan singgang dgn sawi celur campur lobak putih kan. Hihi.

Ok habis cerita celebrate pantang. So back to pantang story. So i was admitted after the 10th day of pantang kan. And after being discharged dr siti asked me to come again 5 days after that to see how i was doing, so on the 17th day i went to see her again. I was feeling fine at the time with bearable pain but surprisingly she mentioned that i had a big blood clot in my uterus! Like very big, the size of a football!(ok i'm exagerrating kot, but its big la). Muka dia risau siap panggil kak seri utk check out the clots. Adoi. So she was so worried, wanted to give me some medicine to contract my uterus so that the blood clots can be forced to come out but worried that my csec wound will be affected. She wanted to scrape out the clot manually but it would be too painful for me. Huwaa. Of course i rejected la kan. And finally she said, "cuba tungku dulu. After one week kalau tak keluar jugak we'll see how". Ok cuak tak? After asking kak seri how to tungku and so on we went out of the hospital and i was so scared. Thats it about being in pantang i often feel so scared and paranoid, so emotional to the point of not thinking clearly. So not me. Benci. Thankfully hubby was calm and we stopped by at marissa shoppe on the way back  to get the tungku besi and herbal cover. And alhamdulillah for that, sgt bagus ok. Higly recommended. Senang nak panaskan and easy to be used. All for around rm60 je kot.

And so for one week, saya bertungku perut siang dan malam. Eh taklah. At least 2 times lepas mandi pagi and ptg for at least 30 minutes. Sedap bertungku ni sebenarnya. Angin semua keluar and blood clots pun keluar. And since i was desperate to expel the clots out, i googled A LOT on how to make blood clots come out faster. I tried to put minyak panas (syafik punya krim mustajab halia tu best. Panas gila) and pakai bengkung, pastu on the 20th day lepas pakai minyak panas and bengkung tu, start rengat2, and dari google diorang ckp utk hilangkan rengat minum kopi panas. So i did and start pukul tiga petang start sakit perut gila2 mcm nak beranak punya contraction. Mcm senggugut sakit gila! Berpeluh2 rasa nak pengsan sampai pukul 4 pagi. Mmg tak tidur malam, berpeluh2 tahan sakit. Nangis2 bagai. Oh man, my stomach hurts just writing about it. Serious sakit weh tak tipu. But alhamdulillah at 4am, 4 blood clots the size of my fist came out like a baby and alhamdulillah the pain just went away. Lepas darah beku keluar tu terus lega. Pheww.. i think the coffee yg trigger dia nak keluar kot. Sbb tu orang tua2 kata dlm pantang elok minum kopi panas kot kan. Sbb boleh elak darah beku and keluarkan saki baki darah beku kot. But in my case, darah beku tu sebab trauma kena henjut dgn adam T-T. Lepas beranak tak sepatutnya ada darah beku besar penumbuk sampai 4. Adoi.

Tapi lepas keluar darah beku, bleeding byk pulak, sekali dgn sakit perut belah kanan. sebelum tu sikit2 je bleeding. I remember it was syafik's birthday 21 days postpartum and he took leave to see dr siti again. Pheww. And alhamdulillah uterus is clear of blood clots but they found a cyst on my right ovary pulak. Thats what causing then pain on my right stomach. Adoi. A 5cm cyst and i was shocked again. But the dr siti gave daisy based supplement that was to be taken orally 3 times a day for a month and after a month she'll measure again whether or not the cyst needs to be surgically removed. She also said to not consume chicken T-T. Nangis la.

Of course being a paranoid pantang lady i googled and studied about cyst. (I remember typing "possibility of dying from cyst" haha.sekarang gelak la). And the main reasons of cysts are abnormal hormon change (its very common for pregnant woman to have cyst actually, i had one when i was pregnant with aqeef and it was removed during csec), obesity, pesticide, and so on. So thats why the dr asked me not to take chicken. Sbb ayam byk sgt hormon pelik pembesaran pantas sgt bagai kan. So i stopped taking chicken and strictly controlled my diet for a month( sblm tu main2 jugak. Makan ayam jugak sbb nak sumber protein kan) and alhamdulillah, the cyst shrunk to normal size after a month and i lost 17kg after 44 days of pantang. Yea! I gained 16kg during pregnancy and lost 17kg postpartum. See how chicken can affect your weight. Now to keep on losing or at least maintaining the weight. That is the challenge.

Anyhow alhamdulillah for everything. My point of this story is to remind me that there is rainbow after every storm inshaAllah. Though it was hard for me to picture the rainbow during the confinement (trust me, i was really messed up. So hormonal it made my head haywire like crazy couldnt even psyched myself to calm down and think properly), alhamdulillah it has ended. And the best part of going through a hard time is, everything else after that seems simple and manageable hehe. And even though i still have minor pains here and there (i have the common throbing post csec pain now and then - which i didnt get for  the first two operation. Every csec is different i guess) but its nothing compared to the pain when the blood clots came out. Huhu. So, i am thankful. Hehe.

I think thats about it kot. My 3rd pantang story. The last one, hopefully?muahahaha.