i have ballooned~

 That's me at 31 weeks! errr...blur? can't really see the size of my belly? hmm...

okay, okay,....look how huge this belly is. how the heck did i balloon to this extend? i also have the same question on my mind sometimes.. *sigh* looking at this picture i thought i was carrying twins instead of one little girl. hahahah... i have the feelings that most of the weight i have gained so far are not so much of the baby's weight. from the previous check up which was last week the baby weigh 1.5kg. so i was confused, was it because of my eating habits ( which a healthy one ok) that led me to balloon so big?? i must admid i get really hugry almost every 2-3 hours and i have to eat something to curb the feelings.heheheh...

back to my baby's weight so far, the doctor said that the baby is developing normally in terms of her weight according to my weeks of pregnancy. so i asked him what would be the expected weight when i have come to my full term? he said that we're expecting the baby to be at 3kg something! phewwww....i was speechless because i must admid that i'm a little bit afraid i will have to push out a 4kg baby insted! CAN I?? i may seem big, but i posses a very little courage. hukhuk... but, never mind, i should be more positive from now on because that's my only hope! ;) if others can do it, i should too. right?? but i still hope that the doctor's prediction is correct which is 3kg! hahahah...

currently, i am in my final trimester which is not a very comfortable one as compared to the 2nd trimester which was HEAVEN!! i walk very slow nowadays cos i feel so heavy. i'm always short of breath especially during giving my lecture which i have to talk a lot and i can't do anything about it. it's my job. the students notice that i guess and i frequently say "sorry class, give me a few seconds to catch my breath" and the would laugh. many of my colleagues and family actually said that i need to slow down a bit. very true indeed. i tend to forget that i'm pregnant sometimes. :)

my current goal now is just to quickly finish the syllabus so i can go for my maternity leave peacefully.the students are having their finals this end of november so i will have to make sure i finish all the assessments before i start to take leave which is in the early november ,insyaAllah.

in terms of the preparations for the arriving of this lil' one, i have to say, we almost there...hehehhe..almost complete. i am such a shopaholic when it comes to buying baby's clothes. so far we have bought too many clothes for baby and that makes my mak decided to step forward to and say "STOP BUYING ALREADY" hahaha..i can't recall how many times my mak has reminded me to stop buying the clothes. too many.

i can't help myself. buying for baby equals to buying for me although i can't wear them. hahaha..my favourite brand for new born is Pegion, also Truddy & Teddy as these brands have very creative designs for new borns as well as the good quality.so cute!the prices are reasonably good.not as expensive as others kot? besides, we should support the local brands kan! ;) they're very high quality okay.



Hasil tawanan for baby from shopping malls.berbaloi2!

Last time Mothercare had promotion so we took that advantage to buy a few items there as well. i don't really fond of buying baby's stuffs through online though.i'd rather go and choose on my own. besides, i love Modernmun also Momscare, these are the regular places i go to buy 80% of my baby's stuffs during the Megasales season cos the prices are extremely low during that time.

Now, i think for the next baby's stuffs hunting i should focus more on my needs cos i think we have almost all the baby's essentials. i don't have the brest pump yet. i don't have the warmer & steralizer yet, i don't even have the maternity pad yet! banyak laa...hahaha...never mind, i still have the time kot.

Nowadays, my prayers mostly concentrated on the baby and i always ask for Allah's help to give me strenghts to continue working normally. i must say that i'm getting very very tired easily now. i'm very concern of my students if can't really perfom well in front of them. kesian jugak...

monday evening mood

my beautiful lil' niece, Aisyah Humaira...she's just too adorable! baru 3 months of age. :) awwww.....



Comfort and Discomfort

Orang kata i am now HEAVILY PREGNANT looking... ya laa, pregnant at 7 month memang la heavy kan...currently, i'm experiencing the uncomfortable stage of my pregnancy and when i say uncomfortable it is very very uncomfortable indeed. apa kebenda yg uncomfortable tu? well, i guess all pregnant women are going through almost the same experince that i'm enduring now. I couldn't sleep well at night eventhough i was dead tired! pusing kanan salah, pusing kiri salah, tidur straight lagi salah! i felt that the baby was giving me a sign macam dia tesepit dalam perut ni everytime i turn to the side. but to sleep straight is alomos impossible cos when we are pregnant, our uterus is stretched and rasa sangat tak selesa for me. the only solution is to sleep with both legs bent and put many pillows all around me. sangat pelik if anybosy see me sleeping nowadays, bantal penuh keliling!

if i want to turn to the side, i have to make sure i have one pillow to support my big belly at the side. kalau tak, i could fell the baby was frantically kicking cam nak mintak tolong lepaskan dia dari tesepit! hahaha..seriously, i'm not kidding! and i realized that, turning to the right when sleeping is much more ok than turning to the left. baby tak kick kuat2 or laju2 sgt.but, i would wake up feeling sooooo numbed on my right hand la pulak.kebas abeh.. ;( * sigh* what to do? harus terus sabar dan sabar lagi la.

hmm, sometimes i really miss my pre-pregnancy sleep. sesuka hati ja nak tidur cemana. definitely boleh dengan selamba tidur kuak dada. hahaha....but since i got pregnant, rasanya dh 7 bulan jugak la tak tidur kuak dada ni. bahaya kan. ;p

i know that i can actually buy a specific pillow for pregnancy but i don't think i need. plus, it costly, rasa cam bazir ja. so i decided to find my own solution by putting many pillows all around me and i just need to bear with the discomfort for the next 2 months or so. patience is virtue after all.

well, i have also made some preparation for tha baby and i bought many of the baby's stuffs during the mega sale that ended last month. i don't really take photos of all the things i bought for baby cos many of the things are normal stuffs that all mom-to-be buy for baby. but, after we discovered the baby's gender, may of the stuffs are specifically for baby girl. we even bough skirts for baby! imagine if my doctor misscalculate in his predictions? according to the 3D it's a girl, but kalau yg pop out nanti a boy? kesian laa my baby...mom dah beli skirts bagai. so for next baby's stuffs hunting i think i should buy more white color attire for baby.

many of the things we bought for baby at modernmun

Besides modernmun, moms'care pun best jugak. these two boutiques have a complete range of baby's neccessities and mother's as well. and the price are resonably good la especially during mega sales. puas hati rasanya. from baju to newborn carseat all were offered at good deal during last mega sales. and we have yet to buy the stroller as i reckon, i might not need it yet. so we decided to wait for the next mega sales this end of the year.

the best thing to buy for baby at this stage i guess the clothes. especially girl's clothes kan?? Rizal is always more excited than myself when it comes to buying baju baby nih...

an excited papa-to-be asked to snap this picture of his baby girl's romper! over~

Hmm... we still have a a lot to buy actually, being me who is not so organised, i don't really keep a proper list to buy. everything we bought so far was based on what we feel like buying. so i guess for the next baby's stuffs hunting, we should write all properly cos takot makin lama makin tak larat nak bejalan pusing shopping malls..

okay, have a nice weekend people! much love to all~

SELAMAT HARI RAYA

Dearest Family & Friends ( online and offline ),
as the Eid is fast approaching, i would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone including those who drop by at this humble blog, A VERY HAPPY EID MUBARAK EVERYONE!! hope that you guys will have a great and joyous time celebrating, eating, chatting, minggling, hehehe...

SELAMAT HARI RAYA MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN & DRIVE SAFE, PEOPLE!! 

 with that, i announce that this blog will officially be "on leave" starting tomorrow and for the next 1 week as i will be leaving for hometown penang tomorrow.

Pregnancy Week 27

That's my baby bump at week 27. it actually bigger that it looks in the picture cos i asked rizal to snap the belly exactly from the side so i look i would smaller. hohhh!!tak sedar diri!

majority of the clothes can't fit me anymore. but never mind, baju2 untuk dipakai di rumah, i still wear and often i have to strecth them to make the bajus bigger. rosak baju.

ohh, surprisingly, last week check up, the doctor said i lost weight...but Alhamdulillah, the baby weight increase and almost 1kg already!! whatttt??? i can't imagine at week 40 how much weight would the baby gain?? takot la pulak if the baby would be too big and hard for me to push her out...but, InsyaAllah, i know pertolongan Allah sentiasa ada untuk hambaNya kan... just have to relax and leave it to Allah.

the most important part is that the baby is doing fine inside as what the doctor said. Syukur. hope she will continue to be strong and active as usual.. :)

At week 27, i decided to take neurogain PB vitamin. i know i kinda left out... i should have taken it earlier but i didn't know about it. even my doctor didn't prescribe me with any vitamins for the baby's brain development. so i decided to take my own initiative and bought it. a friend of mine said that this neurogain is not only for the development of baby's brain, but also for baby's skin and also to help us produce more milk after delivery. she said i should continus taking it after deliver as well.

let's see what week 27 has in store for me,..ohh...WELCOME STRECTHMARK!! i hope it won't be so bad. from the beginning of my pregnancy, i have used BIO OIL to avoid strecthmark but i guess i can't escape...redha ja la...luckily it's not that bad...just emerge sikit2 kat bawah perut.

i am so thankful to Allah for the good health granted to me so far and i can still get up every morning to go to work, going up and down to classes... :)

BOY OR GIRL- The anwer has been revealed~

For some parents-to-be- they decide to keep to themselves about their baby's gender and surprise everybody later. BUT i'm not gonna do that! heheheh...as i always wanted to know what baby am i having since the first day i discovered i was pregnant.

for the past 2 months during the routine check up we have not managed to find out the baby's gender as my baby is a shy type i reckon. it always frustrated me and hubs everytime we saw the ultrasound the baby would always asleep and kept the legs so closed together. so last tuesday we decided to go for 3D scan cos i wanted to know it so bad and also i didn't want to but baby's stuffs in all natural or unisex color.

so Ahamdulillah, before the check up, i did a small talk to the baby asking for baby to spread the legs so i could buy a blue or pink color baju. hahahah... guess what? the method worked! the baby was co-operating BUT this time, the baby decided to look away and not showing the face and was deep asleep! adoi..mak silap teknik la pulak....mak suruh buka kaki lupa suruh tunjuk muka skali...hahahah...tak pa la baby...

so InsyaAllah, both me and rizal will be having a baby.......

my doctor was 100% sure with his result by saying "CONFIRMED! baby girl~" hehe..but kuasa Allah kan...who knows if the doctor was wrong in his desicion.

i think the happiest person is Rizal, as he wanted so much that this baby to be a girl...i don't really bother as for me, girl or boy, it's my baby. but i am very happy cos i get to buy this baby most of HER stuffs in PINK cos it's my favourite color~ hahaha...

Syukur Alhamdulillah...the baby is getting stronger in terms of her kicks and movements these days...very active girl!

haaa....i can't wait to hold u baby girl! ;)

100 days to go!

I’m approximately 100 days to go before I start to PUSH this baby out! HOOOOO MY GOODNESS!!

I am scared to think of all the possibilities. No doubt about it, a very paranoid person like me can’t seem to think positively most of the time. I have started having dreams about going through labour which was a real nightmare. Then I also dreamt about my baby. The pathetic part was I dreamt about how careless I was taking care of the baby. The baby fell down, the baby hit the table and the baby would cry when I was handling. Adoi…Nampak sangat la semua kerisauan ni masuk dlm mimpi. Hopefully they won’t be a reality.

I am a person with zero experience when it comes to handling a child and stuff cos I’m the youngest in my family. My mak would do everything for me and my siblings. So, I guess for the first 30 days upon the baby arrival I would let my mak do everything and I would just observe and learn everything as much as I could before handling everything about the baby’s need on my own. I can’t imagine how it would be. I totally believe that when the time comes, things will also comes naturally for me, HOPEFULLY!

As for the mental preparation so far… I guess I try to not think too much about all my worries. I really don’t need to stress myself. My biggest worry is of course going through labour. What if I can’t stand the pain? What if I die??? But I always try to overcome these fears by asking a lot of help from Allah, to help me when the time comes. And insyaAllah, Allah will always help those in need kan?

I also find myself in tears when I read people’s experience of giving birth. I find all birthing stories very touching laa… and I admire those who manage to go through it successfully despite all the circumstances.

At this point, I really enjoy doing the shopping for baby. LOVE IT! (As if I’m doing the shopping for myself pulak…)hopefully next week we will complete all the major items for baby. Such as clothings, stroller, baby carseat, etc. we have ordered the playpen from Bumble Bee yesterday and I love, love,love it to the max~ they have too many cute designs I couldn’t make up my mind at first. I can’t wait for this Saturday to come, cos we’re going shopping for more. hubs doesn’t want to wait until I hit 7 or 8 months to complete our list of items to buy, cos obviously I think I’m going to be more tired or lazy to be walking up and down the shopping malls.

My doa is always about the baby. I hope everything will be ok, I will be ok. And I hope everybody will pray for me too ya! I’m scared…