Birth Story of Nur Arif Nawfal

As'salam and Hi!

(Yeah, office still fill with boxes and movers been ignoring our dept for the past 2 days already..)

Lets continue to Birth Story shall we? Before I change mind and somehow jump to another post that is not related to the previous post..Hahaha!

My Estimate Due Date (EDD ) should be on 27th April which falls on Sunday. Yezza,the same birth date as Zettong,nak jugak sama2 kan..hihi. My gynae kept on talking about induction and until the last check-up, we still can't figure out wth is induction! LOL sangat..talking about au-naturale process kan, konon nak water birth but the only hospital offering it is Pantai Hospital and the gynae is a guy.Back to the story, Dr Jumeah gave us 2 dates which were 2 days after 39-weeks's check-up OR a day after EDD for induction. After a good talk, we opted for later date or direct admission if contractions begin. Took a week off from work,just to have more time with each other, relaxing,more eating and trying to be ready. Managed to get one of the craving fixed which was any crab dish at Mohd Chan's Muslim Restaurant Shah Alam.

So,days passed by and it's Thursday morning,earlyyyy morning around 3.30 am where I started to feel discomfort in sleeping,some-kind of menstrual cramps.. (you're period free for 9 months and when it comes back, you just can't recall it, :D). I thought it must be something that I wrongly ate the night before. Grab the phone and started to track the gaps..and asked few opinions on twitter, but the pain are still manageable where I decided to informed my husband..of course he continues to sleep cause we're not really in hurry.. -__-"

Rise and shine, it's already 7 am and yeah, pain comes and go, have a shower, called my mama and of course she panicked, a lil..asking us to rush to hospital but I refused as I know I'm not in the 3rd stage of labour,just yet.. So,what a mom do best, she came along with breakfast! Yippie yeayyy!

Chat over breakfast, my mom made a few rounds of her laundry too.. called the labour room,asking whether should we register ourselves since I'm having 5 minutes gap and then decided it's too early to enter.Then called both of my grandparents to make dua for easy labour and fast forward to evening, managed to get few hours of sleep and woke up screaming pain! Hahaha..Hubs scolded me,telling instead of screaming I should be doing zikir or selawat..Well, Helllooo.. the screaming was out of nowhere in my sleep.. huh!

Then, we knew, we can't be forever holding onto waiting game in our house,get ready for another round of shower,grab our bags and walked down the apartment. Drove to hospital and arrived around Maghrib,check ourselves in labour room and happily settled for a night out.

Dr Jumeah performed VE and I'm only 3-cm dilated!! OK, agreed on epidural before I drained out of energy to push which gonna take another-god-knows-how-many-hours..Asked for last round of blended mocha but hubs bought Choc Blended instead! Still no coffee allowed,even at the very last moments before deliver..bosan jer!

Around 11 at night, Anesthetic came and explained a lil' and performed the epidural injection procedure.Few minutes after that, I can actually fall asleep..till the next major contractions came around 2 ish am.Asked whether the dosage was enough and the nurse claimed it was sufficient enough and not to be overdose..she performed another VE and yup,it's already 8 cm dilated!Weeeeee....

She asked me to practice on breathing techniques while she's arranging the tools around the labour room...From what I can recall, hubs already stand beside me,on my left..few nurses walking,relax phase and helping me (you know,the position of the leg, and etc).. After few blinks my gynae was already in front of me and confirmed it's time as it's already 10 cm dilated!! WOWWWW!

Few pushes,with eyes wide open,a cut and with the help of forceps, at 3.48 am on Friday 25th,my son was born! Alhamdulillah!!!

He was so tiny,light and immediately placed on top of my chest for skin to skin moment...and you know what, I did not CRY!! Like I used to when I watched tv series of people giving birth!! Soo weird Tasya,soo weird! Plus,my husband helped to informed the nurse and doctor prior to giving birth that we wanna breastfeed him.

I didn't dare to asked for how many stitches I get, and you know what, my legs were crazily shaking when my gynae perform the stitching!! I guess it's one of the epidural effects. Few hours later we're already moved to maternity ward and before you know what's coming, lets try to sleeeepppppp.... LOL!

Welcome to our world, Nur Arif Nawfal bin Nur Afiq.We love you!!

Till then,

1st Pregnancy

As'salam and Hello world!

My office is in the midst of moving to new place ( further away and time consuming eventho' it's bigger) hence explained my free time for 3 days in a row.

Feeling like making this special post on pregnancy and birth or maybe I should separate it? Ok,lets make this as THE ONLY post on my first pregnancy :)

Married in May 2014, and down the road to August 2014 I was confirmed positive as no show of red flag. Of course with 2-3 test kits to triple confirm it as we don't want to get false hopes before going out to gynae.

The first month of pregnancy were nothing abnormal (since I wasn't aware of this pregnancy). The moment we found out about me pregnant, my appetite dropped and HELLOOO Nauseaaa!! To make it worse, it was right after Raya where people were still celebrating it and open houses were everywhere! I hates the smell of curry,rendang and whatever related to Raya. Please don't offer me Roti Jala people! Hehehe..it was so funny to recap back.

Went to nearby clinic which have female doctor to make this pregnancy official and it continued for 2 consecutive months.

When the pregnancy hits 3 months and it was time to break the news to family members, extended family members, Girlfriends and the boss (my work-boss ;)). Remember that we don't get to have a proper honeymoon as time doesn't permit? Right after we make the announcement, off we go to our long-waited honeymoon,or might I say baby-moon :D

Nausea was my bestfriend throughout this pregnancy, right until admission to labour room. I can't really cook hence dining out almost every night and yuppp,Finance 101 problem over here! From 1st to 2nd trimester, Fried Kuey Teow was my FAVORITE and Nasi Kandar was my 3rd trimester FAV!! Not really into sour stuff like asam jeruk whatnot but I really love this childhood sour candy.

Other than that, fruits always been my remedy in treating nausea. Coconut drink was my fav since the early stage of pregnancy. But many told that it's not really safe to drink plain coconut at te very early stage of pregnancy..being said that, I already passed my first trimester, Alhamdulillah :) 

Crazy craving was watermelon juice at 3 AM!!! Hahahaha, nope my husband does not tolerate with my womb service order :p But on any other time, this were fully APPROVED!

On another note, we opted DEMC as our preference hospital and Dr.Jumeah as my O&G throughout this pregnancy ,started at the 4th month as my mom said early and thorough checks would prevent anything bad that might affect the baby, inshaaAllah as she already experienced with 2 miscarriages before.

We learnt that morning appointment(s) would result to happier doctor.. hehehe! Alhamdulillah, I don't have to experienced "mium air gula test"..maybe my weight gain was at par level,maybe? 

The only thing that we didn't really manage to do for this pregnancy was to capture 4D Scan of lil'guy in there as he'd be hiding around and not showing his face, Side face ada la..bazir je kalau mcm tu..

Total weight gain for this pregnancy till labour was at 7 kilos. Happy me :)

Don't really experience on morning sickness but more to evening sickness ..that's why I can still hide the pregnancy news from workmate during 1st trimester. I also have lil routines such as drinking milk (first Anmum,then Hi-Goat) twice a day, and listening to Surah to sleep.

Pregnancy journey were not always cheerful, Right after 36-weeks checkup, I experienced non-stop,an hour of contraction, the pain was the most intense on the right side of my tummy. It just doesn't feel the same as what my Gynae told me on signs of labour. No gap for contraction and I can't really catch my breath.This happened when we actually in my SIL's house to pack up the baby's crib.Thank God that it's only 15 minutes away from the hospital.My husband then called up DEMC's labour room and they asked us to admit right away. 

Upon admission into the labour room, I got "lucky" to be attend by the most rough nurse there and she performed VE on me and I cried..then the Gynae came,and you know what, her VE procedure weren't as hurt as the nurse!I just don't get the old nurse -_-" Gynae confirmed that cervix's opening was just at 1cm and she knew that it's not the right time just yet. She suspected that it's my appendix and few minutes later, a GP came in, made checks and confirmed that the contractions that I've been feeling was my swollen appendix.Because I was pregnant and the baby pushed the appendix's position to the upper side and when it got swollen,then the contractions came.

So yeah, hospitalized for almost a week,continued resting at home for another week and antibiotics was the only remedy (no operation just yet cause appendix and pregnancy are just plain messyyy). Owh, on another note, my BFF-Zetti was also admitted into the labour room on the same day as me! (Except that she's in different hospital , how I wish she could be next door and I just can visit her right after deliver) She came out with a beautiful baby girl named Zaara and me,baby still happily moving around in my belly..hehehe,Alhamdulillah for both occasions :)

Anyway, time really move fast than you can realize it and I'm already in the labour room,for the 2nd time. That time,reality hits me that I'm really going to be a mother !!

Till then,