You Today

it's been a month since our last visit to dr aida's clinic. last time via 3d scan we couldn't see your face clearly cos you were hiding behind the placenta. hopefully you won't be that mean tomorrow.

you're 6 month now. and your behavior become more consistent than before. now mommy can read your sleep time and your happy time. usually your routine (up to now):-

early morning
- wake mommy up. then continue sleeping.

mommy at work
- sleep and sleep until mommy have discussion or meeting. u'll join the discussion very excitedly.
- playing football the whole session.

evening
- play football until mommy go to bed.

nite
-sleep together with mommy & abi until the next morning to wake mommy up.

what excites me is, you really love to join any discussion i attend (maybe it just the time you become very active :P). abi said maybe you wanted to be a CEO someday :) anyway, your activity hinders me from sleeping in the meeting :P

mommy can see, since last month, your behavior is more or less like your abi. abi, when i ask for something, he'll buat don-no, until when i stop asking, then the starts to offer. hmm... and you.. when mommy call your name "H****....H****....." you don't respond. but when mommy buat don-no, who'll kick, punch, roll, etc.etc., but again during the extreme session if mommy call your name, you'll stop. hmm... like to play-play ek... mommy rotan-rotan nanti...

however, mommy really love this experience. everymorning, my tummy will be seen bigger at one side. and you like to kick the left side of my tummy, if not my lower ribs. and when you kick & punch at the same time making me feel like my tummy is going to explode. and when you roll, i feel soooo geli-geli. and my tummy is getting bigger day by day. during the 1st trimester it was seemed like months to see my tummy become big.

now i become fatigue, and very easy to get tired. it's different than during we entered the 2nd trimester where i felt a bit more energetic. maybe this just the transition, of preparation for us to enter 3rd trimester in the next 4 weeks. i guess the honeymoon period is about to get over...

nonetheless, i feel so proud of you. you don't cause me backache, or any ache over my body, i don't have health problem (except the sob, but i already have it long ago) i can walk like usual, even my body maintains its shape (except at the tummy part, tight, bum & boops).

so my good boy, just give mommy chance to sleep soundly tonight, don't be like last nite ok...

Carry Cot, Pushchair, Carrier, Carseat or Sling?

we are not-so-rich parents to be,so we find the cheapest solution to buy your goodies, but still in the highest satisfaction. people always mention that buying thing for newborn especially the first child is an investment. yeah, we are strongly agree since invest itself means to give or devote something to achieve something. so we give our $$$ to have a better you and better future for your siblings. that's why we don't count for each money flies into the supermarkets' tokey as long as it is for your good.

we have no experience in choosing your travel set. only when we started our survey by visiting almost all baby stores in KL, then we began to learn. until we found out that the cheapest solution is having a travel system set with push chair and the carrier. buying a separate carry cot is quite costly for us, and we decide to have the carrier as carry cot even if it is curvy, not straightly horizontal like a carry cot. this curvy is not good for baby's spine development but we hope you'll just be fine. mommy will not putting you in the carrier for a day!

infant carrier

carrycot

for carrier, we sought for something multipurpose, i.e. can be used as carry cot, carseat, bouncer and swing. we went to several stores, looked for travel systems and try the carrier, whether it can swing or not. finally we found something attractive at sogo.this is safety 1st acella LX travel system. it's a bit bulky but we found it's very convenience and comfortable. we saw it as a solid performer, and the carseat has 5-points harness. the stroller also has trays for parents and the baby. and, we found the infant car seat clipped easily yet securely into the stroller to use it as a complete travel system. plus, the wheels have absorbers so that it won't go toing..toing... and most importantly we adore the design.

but we didn't buy it at sogo. still sought for another options like graco, chicco, peg-perego, maclaren, recaro, sweet cherry, elego, cosco, maxi cosi, combi, etc. finally we found one at mom's care 1utama with discount price! same brand, same model. safety 1st acella LX.

considering after your 1st year, you may not using the carrier anymore, we will spend for a toddler carseat later (we didn't buy a carseat for newborn-toddler bcos its not functioning as carrier or carrycot). long way to go, still have time to save money! :D and considering spaces at miri's shopping complex is very small, we'll get a sling once we back to semenanjung later.

so many things to consider before buying your thingies. we asked around about the most popular brands and styles, read the reviews, compare prices, etc. and we found out that this is the best choice. the cheapest in its class --after discount.

New House & Babysitter

yesterday abi got a phone call telling that now it's our turn to move into pcsb's housing at pujut 7. it was a big surprise for both of us, yes we put our name in the list but never expect this soon. we tot it will come in 2-3 years from now.

now our dilemma is... the pujut house is fully furnish but we already bought complete home applicants which are quite bulky and expensive... especially our 2-doors hitachi refrigerator. lucky that the new house has no TV set and washing machine. if not.. how to let go those just-settled-the-payment thingies...

i really want to move to the house. because it's a double storey. we will have more space and more ground for you to play. and the neighborhood is our friends. however, it's a bit far from our office, and make impossible for us having lunch at home anymore :(

but the highest ranking reason why we agree to move because it is not easy to find babysitter in this area. and abi doesn't want to drive out farther just to send you to the nanny. and i prefer if we can send you to anybody who lives on our way to office. i heard that babysitters are available at pujut or piasau rather than lutong. and senadin will be out of our list, because it is at the other side of our globe.

we start to look for babysitter since last month, coz we afraid if we won't have time to find one if we start late. many other mommies will deliver their babies end of this year and we have to compete. furthermore, i have only 2-3 days off after the confinement before go back to work, then it is impossible to grab one in a short duration. to make it worse, we stay soooooo far away from our families, and nobody is going to look after you if we can't find any babysitter.

talking about babysit you, some friends of mine choose to have maids. it is easier, and they have more time to spend with their kids. i have this in my mind, since the rate in sarawak is not very costly, but for now i decided to send you to babysitter. for a newly married couple and abi is full time in house, i refuse to have another lady in my house. unless abi works offshore or not in the house all the time. maybe i would consider this option when the second one comes...

so now we have to find another tenant for this house, and to let go our fridge. anybody interested?

25 week fetus

14 week before i can go back to a single-resident-human and about 3 weeks to leave 2nd trimester. you are getting bigger, about 35cm and weighed 660 gram. and now your skin is no more transparent, it's more opaque-like. i notice you can grasp by now, sometimes you make me surprise by grasping.. i don't know what but it was very obvious. i tot it was abi but abi said he didn't do anything and i knew it was you.

now i notice you are no more laying horizontally, leaning against the placenta. sometimes you put your head down or vice versa. i guess it is because you have more space by staying vertically. and abi loves to listen to your movement by putting his ear on my belly.

you started to deposit your own fat. and i think my belly is about a soccer ball. soccer? hehe. you are the striker what...

now you have more noticeable sleeping pattern. but still, you are a very good boy. you wake mommy up everymorning, and fall asleep back after mommy get up. and you like to listen to conversation. everytime mommy attend engagement sessions with the bosses, or meetings, or at the discussion tables, you'll move vigorously. maybe you are preparing yourself to the business language :)

The Family of Os

i am type O, abi is type O and the most possible type you & your siblings will be are type Os as well. our blood doesn't have A & B antigens, the two distinct chemical molecules present on the surface of the red blood cells. our blood is free from those molecules. we are the universal donors, and we can't accept blood from neither types, because if our blood with no antigen mixed the antigens, our blood cells may begin to clump together in the blood vessels, causing a potentially fatal situation.

on top of this, our blood also has its uniqueness called rhesus factor. my blood does contain a certain blood protein (discovered when scientists do some tests on monkeys to learn about human anatomy), so my blood is said to be rhesus positive or Rh+. if the blood contain none of this protein, it is called rhesus negative or Rh-. alhamdulillah both of us having this kind of rhesus, and you may inherit ours. it is very dangerous if the mom's and baby's blood are not the same rhesus factor. if the baby's blood enter the maternal circulation, the formation of agglutinins against the baby red blood cells may occurs, destroy the fetal red blood cells, causing the severe hemolytic disease of newborns, which is the destruction of redblood cell in bloodstream.

actually i have interesting stories about our blood type. abi & i are kinda leisure persons, we like to read about human including the nonsense fact, especially the zodiac and compare them to ours. abi always says that i am a flirter and i call him an emo. after all, it is what written in our zodiac :P haha, it's just for fun.

but for bloodtype, i dont think this is for fun, because many studies done & i can see it from my observation. especially when type O is said to be high stomach-acid content. i have grandpas who passed away because of gastric or stomach ulcer. and abi also has the similar problem, when he skips his meal, he'll get stomachace.

actually i had plan for our family, since all of us are from the same type, i planned to put us under type O diet program but until now i still fail to because too many dont's than do's. think i can live without wheat??? so i told abi, wait until we have a severe disease that has no other antidot unless we control our diet, and i'll start the diet program. (or maybe i should start now to reduce my short of breath?).

the interesting part about blood type that it carries personality traits with it. from japanese perception, type o's are outgoing, and very social. initiators, although don't always finish what they start. creative and popular, they love to be the center of attention and appear very self confident. i think most of them have reflection to myself. and we are so-called 'the hot ones'. but unfortunately i am not very popular... maybe i'm a loser of this kind. huhu.

well, since all of us are in the same group, i hope it's not that hard to control our family especially when you're getting bigger. and if you may grow up in abi's character, it wont cause any burden for me. live with abi gives me comprehensive and efficient training to grow his kids up.