Safe to say it's a...

I have been pretty much agitated with my unborn baby's gender eversince *that* doctor told me I was to be expecting a boy (when the first doctor has already confirmed to me that it's gonna be a girl), so I went to get a 3D scan on 6th January. Well, the main reason for me to get (such unnecessary) 3D+4D scan was not mainly due to the reason to confirmed the gender entirely but since we did it for Shareese, we've promised ourselves that all our babies will have 3D+4D scans aswell just to be fair. I don't want one day when I show them their baby sonographic images and videos, the other siblings might ask "Eh mama, where's MINE?".
Nope.
Don't want that.

This time around, the sonographer seems like she's not able to get as much clear images of my second baby compared to the sonographer that did Shareese's back in 2010. Most of the images seems to be... blurry? Indistinguishable? And we couldn't get a proper image of the baby's face because my little one is covering the face with ALL of her hands and feet. Kinda like this position...

(sorry my drawing skills a little rusty)

They could only get the face as clear as this.

And.. dumdumdum~~ From the scan, it shows that the sonographer is 95% sure that the baby's gonna be a girl, based on this picture of the baby's genitalia. She said there's a clitoris and labia, means for sure it's a girl. Plus there's no scrotum. So hopefully... : )

Second baby's 3D gender scan

This was Shareese's genitalia scan. You can clearly see the birdy.

I CAN HAZ A PAIR OF BABIES~ ❤ ❤ ❤ 

 Lol.. I'm pretty worked up over the gender. Hope she'll be born healthy and bubbly! From the 3D detailed scan, the sonographer said all the organs are developing well and there's no sign of cleft lip. Also, the baby's size is OK (not too big, not too small), amniotic fluid is sufficient, baby's position is good and ready to go (not breech), and her placenta is in posterior position (normal). No gross structural abnormalities noted.

Alhamdulillah.

Hoping all goes well with this pregnancy. 9 more weeks to go!

Muddy Playtime

It's rainy season. Yes, it is. The sky is cloudy, the road is wet and the playground near our housing area is all muddy and dirty. But that doesn't stop us from bringing our son to play! He loves the slide. He has been talking and requesting to us to bring him to play the slide for a few weeks now. Luckily today is a holiday and the weather this morning looks pretty nice to go out for a play at the playground, (also husband has been saying he needed a jog) so we brought him out to play! Look at this happy face!

Happy? or not?

Dirty shoes. But it's okay. At least you're having fun!

Cheaper Food at Gourmessa by Pok Brothers, Glenmarie

Husband and I took leave today to settle off some errands that we have been postponing. It has been a very great and productive day today. Let's see what we did today

1. We managed to get the GL (guarantee letter) from Proton (husband's employee) for ante-natal checkup and delivery at PPUM.
2. We managed to book for delivery at PPUM. They only accept bookings for delivery after 7 months of pregnancy (unless for special cases with doctor's referral note).
3. We managed to set an appointment for the 3D scan at Klinik Ajwa, Section 7. Going for my scan on December 6th 2013. Hoping to see my baby's gender more clearly with the scan (as well as to monitor baby's development clearly) Since we did one for Shareese last time, I think it's fair we do it for all our children. :)
4.  We (finally) managed to open up a savings account for Shareese. Took us long enough. He's already two and a half years old and we have been keeping all his money we got from relatives and friends in a box on the top shelf. (.-.) Talk about security. haha...ha... So anyways, that's done!
5. We did our usual grocery shopping
6. And after a long time of planning and wanting to pay a visit here, we finally made it to GOURMESSA.

Entrance Gate to Gourmessa

So what is Gourmessa? In Malaysia, it's a brand name of the frozen food sold at the grocery store. They mostly sell processed meat like salami, pastrami, ham, breakfast strips, etc. One of the distributor of Gourmessa is POK Brothers. It's warehouse is located in Glenmarie, Shah Alam and my husband's supervisor said that they sell the items so much cheaper here at the warehouse compared to the retails. They not only sell the processed meat here but also other products like dairy, frozen meat, frozen seafood, imported veges, imported canned food and much more at very low price! We bought Beef Pastrami, Turkey Breakfast strips and Chicken ham for roughly RM6 or less each. It gets cheaper if you buy in bulk though. 1kg of beef pepperoni only costs RM30+ (the last time I checked). 1kg is A LOT. We also bought Salmon chunks for RM22 (they sell it for RM45 per kg) and a large dory fillet for RM2.80! (which they normally sell such a size for RM6.50)

Do check out the place if you have time. I'm sure you'll find the place saves a lot of money for you. :p

Oh by the way, their products sold here are all HALAL and certified by JAKIM.

p/s: Did I mention they sell whipping cream, Millac Gold Brand, 1L box for RM10++... :O SUPERCHEAP!

The retail mart

Meat!!!

Seafood!

Photos of the shop. Taken from Pok Brothers Facebook Site.

Gourmessa Retail Mart at Pok Brothers
2, Jalan U1/24,
Hicom-Glenmarie Industrial Park,
40150 Shah Alam,
Selangor Darul Ehsan,
Malaysia 
Opening hours 8.00am - 5.00pm (Monday - Saturday). Closed on Sunday.

+603 7805 1001
pokbros@pokbrothers.com

Facebook page

Of Disappointment and Expectations

I've been going for my antenatal checkup at Klinik Soraya section 3 out of recommendation from husband's supervisor/team leader. She said that the dcotors who are doing the check-ups are all female and very kind and helpful towards their patients. My first few visits there was pleasant, up till a point when two of their doctors decided to take a long leave for vacation, only to have just ONE available doctor. ONE. FRIGGIN ONE. My trips there used to only take about 30 ~ 45 minutes tops but lately I have to wait for TWO HOURS (sometimes THREEEEEEE) to just see a doctor for my urine test, blood pressure checkup and the usual ultrasound. Feck... It's worst than going to goverment clinic.

Today is my 28th week checkup. It's a different doctor from my last month checkup, and also different from my usual doctor who have done my first few ultrasounds and confirmed that I am going to have a baby girl. This doctor said my baby is a BOY. lolwhut? BOY? I asked if she was sure because previously the other doctor said my baby is a girl and that she didn't find any signs of neither a penis or a scrotum. She checked again, this time harder and longer. She said she found something "long" (ahahahaha...) and said it might be his penis. Looks like a boy. Hurr...?? I was.. feeling very disappointed because I really wished I am going to have a girl! A pair! She said she will check again next month just to confirm the gender. Yeah...... no.

I'm going for a 3D ultrasound in 2 weeks at Klinik Ajwa, section 7 as how I did for Shareese when I was pregnant with him during my 30th week. Hope to see a better and clearer and more comfirmed images of my baby's gender.

Boy? Or Girl?

; _ ;

Most of my friends says I shouldn't hope too much, as long as he/she is healthy, I should be thankful. Yes, of course but I can't help it. If I wasn't expecting a girl when the first doctor confirmed to me that it's going to be a girl, I wouldn't feel so devastated. *sigh*

Lucky I never bought any girly clothes yet.

Big Bad Wolf 2012

So.. Big Bad Wolf... The Biggest and Baddest Booksale of all time. Atleast 75% discounts on ALL books and up to 95% discounts for selected books. Whoppeeee!!! I have been hearing about BBW (Big Bad Wolf) since last year but I wasn't really sure what it was all about and this year the hype about the sale was crazy. Even my friends whom I never thought would pick up books went there and spent hundreds of ringgit to buy books. The first BBW sale was held back in 2009 at Amcorp Mall and it was organized by the very sweet husband and wife who owns BookXcess. I love everything about BookXcess. They may not have a lot of titles up for sell there (since they only buy overprinted books, and that's the reason why they are able to sell their books so cheap!), but they got most of the non-fiction writers I love. Jodi Picoult especially. Oh Oh! And their kiddy books are really REALLY worth buying. RM19.90 for a kiddy book that can play sounds and music? That's a bargain!

Anyways, back to BBW, The Big Bad Wolf Sale 2012 started on 6th December till 23rd of December (i heard/hope they will prolong their sale if possible) and they opened up their sale with a crazy 63 hour straight of non-stop shopping hour. I didn't manage to go on the first weekend due to the fact that my husband's grandma was sick with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and we spent most of our weekend at his parent's house helping his family in any way possible. I heard the crowd during the first weekend was crazy and packed, and driving there will result you getting stuck in massive traffic jam even in the wee hours of the morning. Ohhkayy....

Lucky for me, they have another 60 hour shopping marathon for the second weekend and I went there at 12am and there was NO JAM! NO CROWD! And i spent more than 4 walking around the exhibition hall scouting for books, books, BOOKS, AND MORE BOOKS!!!! Imagine a big belly 27 weeks pregnant lady walking around with a roller bag full of books in her totoro poncho. (it was quite cold and i wanted to wear it. so,yeah!) I bought books for Shareese. Not baby books, not storybooks, but mostly hardcover non-fiction books like the introduction to the solar system, facts about the earth, rocks, cars, planes, trains. LOL. I know one day he will be very much into these factual books as much as me and my husband was keen and interested in it eventhough we've already turned 26 years old. XD


The reason why I didn't buy much storybooks or fiction books for little one is because he had quite a lot of hand me downs storybook from my mom and aunts. I still haven't cover most of it with him yet and he's pretty much more interested in the interactive e-book on his iPad. Simply because it's more, interactive. : /   Who doesn't love reading books that reads out loud to you with wonderful animations and beautiful songs and encouraging sound effects?

I hope he will love books as much as his parents does.
I will make sure he does. : )

These are our stash of the day for 4.5 hours at BBW 2012.

Left : Shareese's   Middle : MINE!    Right : His

Steal of the day. Thick hardcover animation
artbook of BOLT and BEE MOVIE for
just RM10!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome or what???!!!!

My favourite. The illustrated art is wonderful!

❤❤❤

I will definitely save up and go again for next year's stash!

The Birth of Azzahra

My sister in law has safely gave birth to her third child, and her first daughter (and also the first grand-daughter for my husband's parents) today at 8:01am. Weighing 3.5kg! Alhamdulillah.

Fresh from the womb

Chubby Cheeks!!!

They still haven't decided on her full name yet. Brother in law have three names in mind, Damia Azzahra, Alia Azzahra and Husna Azzahra. My vote goes to Husna Azzahra. : )  Less commonly heard and I think it's more uniquely special compared to Damia or Alia. We'll see what's his pick.

Can't wait for my little girl to arrive. >v<

My Neighbour Totoro Cloak!

I have been wanting the cute Totoro costume for toddlers.(pictures are from http://youandmie.wordpress.com/) But most of the site I found either doesn't sell it (means they are only just for show), or is really damn ridiculously expensive. (Talk about RM400 for a costume for toddlers. Not within my budget. 9_9) So there I was talking to my friend June about wanting to get this costume, and for some reason she managed to find an AFFORDABLE totoro hoodie on ebay! Not for toddlers though, and it's not really a hoodie but more like a cloak/poncho/snuggie.

FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THIS!!!!!!!!!! 

 (more pictures here)

OAIJDSLKAFLKAJGKSLAJDALKJFGOAIGJHOUADSLJSFS!!!!

(yeap that's ugly ol'me)

*sniff* The material is really soft! Made out of fleece!! FLEECE!! WARM AND FUZZY FLEEEEEECE!!!!! *snuggles snuggles* And best of all it's just RM70 (when June helped me buy it on ebay. Sorry couldn't find the link on ebay anymore. hmm...) I am gonna use this as my nursing cover. :3 Yesh~~ I will! So happy!!! Thankyou for helping me buy, June!!! <3

Online Shopping Stash

So I was browsing through the web for an online shop that sells nursing wears (that can also be used during maternity period) and nursing bras. The bras I have currently aren't really that comfortable anymore (yay bigger boobies thanx to pregnancy hormones) and I don't think I should spend money buying just new bigger sized bras. I should invest on some good nursing bras. since I want to fully breastfeed my second child. I wasn't able to do that for Shareese due to several reasons. One of the main reason was because my milk supply isn't enough and my nipples were cracking like crazy. One time when I was nursing, blood was coming out from my nipples instead of milk. The nurses assured me that it was normal because breastmilk comes from blood anyways, and that my body wasn't able to convert the blood to breastmilk thus the reason blood was flowing out my milking duct instead. Scary.. (._.) Honestly I was traumatized and opt for formula milk instead, which till now, I think was a bad move. I read that once you've given formula to your baby and stopped/reduced pumping breastmilk for your baby, the milk won't produce as much as it should. I hope I won't do the same mistake again for my second one. I WANT TO FULLY BREASTFEED!!! >.< It's not easy, but I will give my best! No more feeling traumatized or scared or complaining or bitching about how hard it is. Huhuu..

( ; - ; )

Anyways, most of the online shops I found on the net gives me ridiculously high priced items. I don't fancy spending more than RM100 for a single piece of clothing… Urhm wait, more like I DON'T WANT to spend so much on clothes. I can't afford it no matter how they claim that their goods are of high quality. Plus, the designs aren't really that nice either (for me at least). After several minutes of browsing through, finally, I am so glad I bumped into Mammahouse.com, an online maternity/nursing and baby shop that gives affordable price for the stuff I need. Yays! It really is affordable and most importantly, very comfortable! Good enough for me. Doesn't need to be branded. I don't go for brands. I just go for price, and comfort, and looks nice enough to me. Yays cheapskate mom. XD

First time buying stuff there, I only bought two new maternity. Their service is very efficient and fast. I got my stuff delivered the next working day. (i ordered it on Saturday before noon, and got it on Monday but if I ordered it on Monday, for sure I'm gonna get it the next day!) It's a bit too big for me but it IS comfortable. Had to send the pants to be altered. The length is too much for me. (or my legs might be too short for average ahaha..haa… I'm 151cm by the way) I wouldn't recommend buying long pants here because you can get better designs of maternity pants at AEON (previously Jaya Jusco) for roughly the same price. Not sure about their short pants though.

Satisfied with the first purchase in October, I decided to buy more in November. Tried out their nursing bra. I bought this one.

image from mammahouse.com

Tried it out, VERY NICE. Much nicer than those I bought at AEON after I had Shareese. And the design is really cute too.  Gonna stock up more on the
nursing bras. :3 Love~

Here's some of the stash I bought. There's a yellow training pants for Shareese. I recommend that if you want to try and potty train your toddler. The lower part has thicker fabric on it so if your toddler "accidentally" piss, the damage won't be as much on the surface he sits on, but he will still feel soaked and uncomfortable and will (probably) won't want to pee in his pants again. XD

Stuff bought on November 2012 from mammahouse <3

So yeah, if you're planning to buy some affordable maternity/nursing wear, do check out Mammahouse. Recommended by a cheapskate-money-saving-mom like me. :p

His favourite past time

Little one has been so addicted to his iPad. Although it was initially bought for his second birthday by my mom to let him learn alphabets, numbers and stuff from the various apps that is available for iOS, but he has been using it mostly to play games (some educational games, mostly it's either the racing game or Subway Surfers). If not, it's youtube. It amazes me how he learns how to use the gadgets so fast. He knows his way with the gadgets. Honestly, deep inside I am proud. Though I think it's nothing special and kids nowadays, they do learn really fast!

Sometimes when he gets bored of his iPad, he'll ask to play his Papa's phone. One thing that's troubling me is he's a sore loser. XD And he gets frustrated easily when things doesn't go how he wants it to be.

I love to play games~

But if I lose, this is how I will become T_T

He'll throw tantrums.
Or Sulk.

SO CUTE!!! XD
ok.. at times it's annoying. but still~ <3

It's a girl~ ❤

Went for my 19 weeks antenatal check-up today and the doctor confirms the baby's gender. It's a girl!