Choo Choo Train

It's public holiday today. Salam Maludirrasul!

We've taken the opportunity to bring our little one on his first train ride. (on the commuter) He's very excited and was very amazed by how the train works. At first he was more interested on the view outside but at the end, he keeps on pointing to various parts of the train, the blinking lights on the map above the door, the announcement in the train, the sound of the door opening and closing, and most of all he is very interested with the connectors between the two train coaches. My curious little boy. :)

Oh, on another note, the service and infrastructure of the latest commuter is pretty damn smooth (for me, compared to the last time I took a ride on the commuter). The coaches are plentiful, speed is much faster, seats provided are a lot more, and gotta love the new map on top of the doors that is updated in time as to where the next stop will be. Thumbs up for for improving the facilities. About time.

Improving His Appetite

I'm glad Shareese has recovered. He's starting to gain back his appetite, but the problem is he still refuses to eat what he used to eat (rice, pasta, soups, all the "healthy" stuff) and only wants those he used to have when he was fevering. (Cold stuff, packet milo drinks, cookies) Haihz.. Headache lor. What's worst is he refuses to drink his plain water. Normally he would consume atleast 500ml ~ 700ml of plain water (His full sippy-cup is 500ml), but now he's refusing to drink at all. He just wants his yoghurt drink.(Nestle Bliss) Aiyooo cannot la like this little boy. You need to drink plain water also. How to keep yourself hydrated???

Well, atleast his milk consumption is back to normal. Just having problems to get him back to his usual appetite on food.

Since we've stopped him on medications already, we've decided to start him back on his usual dose of vitamins. My mom would usually give him the gummy vitamin C, and we would feed him with multivitamins + Lysine. I used to give him Appeton with Lysine, but seems like it doesn't work as well as Nutrolplex Liquid With Iron And Lysine.

This multivitamin work wonders! In less than 3 days, we managed to get Shareese back to his usual appetite, and he gained back all the weight he lost when he was sick. I highly recommend this to moms with picky eaters. Hope it helps with your children as it helped with mine.

p/s: Shareese lost 2 ~ 3kg when he was fevering. Now he's back to his usual 13kg! Oh my... It's getting pretty hard to carry him around now. Mummy loves this!

One of the reason why I hate (seeing) doctors

Shareese was fevering for more than a week, and after starting on antibiotics on the fifth day, his condition doesn't seem to improve even on day eight. We brought him to the hospital (DEMC) upon recommendation from the clinic we usually go to do blood test and to be admitted. We're so relieved that it's not dengue fever, and also not HFMD. Just viral. The doctor at DEMC wanted to admit him to further check on him but unfortunately the pediatrics ward is full. So we brought him back home and do our best to alleviate the fever. He has been very very weak due to lack of food consumption. His lips are cracked and chapped. His eyes are watery. And he is becoming very manja. Always wants to be held and he cries of the slightest thing. (which is normal for a sick child)

On 10th February (the next day after the bloodtest), his temperature seems to become more normal and stays normal for longer time. But as of 11th February it shoots back up to 37.5°C. We got worried and brought him to another hospital (KPJ Specialist Center) to be checked upon again. At first we went to see the MO (medical officer), and it frustrates me as how little attention she paid to the reports we brought in of our child. We told her our son has been fevering for more than a week. She suggested we go get his blood tested. We told her we have already got his blood tested and we have handed the report along during registration. She didn't even bother checking the file on her table. Duh... after browsing through the report (baru nak browse through?), she said that there is no danger signs. Platlet counts normal, slightly higher white blood cells to fight the viral fever, blablabla... And then... and then.. AND THEN.. She got the nerves to ask us "So, what do you expect me to do?"

WTF? You're the doctor and you're asking us...? In a very condescending manner? So much for professionalism. We explained to her that we went to DEMC last night and the doctor suggested our son to be admitted for further inspection but the pediatric ward was full so they suggest us to bring to KPJ if fever still does not subside. She just said... "oh.. well judging from this bloodtest I don't think there's a need to be admitted. But anyways, I will refer your case to the specialist and see what they have to say about it"

Okay well thankyou very much... Shareese was being fussy all the time at the hospital and keep on telling us he wants to go back. The doc inserts a fever medicine for Shareese through his rectum to help alleviate the temperature a bit while waiting to see the specialist. While waiting to see the specialist, Shareese seems to be on his sunny side. Starts to ask for food (like cheese and cookies) and he doesn't seem all that sick anymore. I'm glad but then since we have to see the specialist, we might as well just wait for him to check up on our son first.

After waiting for 20 minutes or so, we finally get to see the specialist and turns out Shareese's tempature is already normal. Doc still examines him. Hand, Foot, throat and all... and he said Shareese shouldn't need to be admitted. He also don't really know what to do. (what...??) He ask us to show him the meds and antibiotics we've been giving him, and although the doctor at DEMC says the meds was already good enough for him, the specialist at KPJ insisted on us to change meds and prescribed a stronger antibiotics for him. We've been giving Shareese ibuprofen to alleviate his fever, and was pretty damn surprised that the specialist only prescribed paracetamol 250mg for him which is the simple panadol (?)... I thought ibuprofen works better for fever with ulcer and sore throat.

We spent like RM200+ (such money draining for us) for the visit to KPJ and guess what, we didn't even start Shareese on the medications prescribed by the specialist because the first antibiotic dose wasn't finished yet. To our surprise, Shareese seems to be a lot better the next day. I think it was about time for him to recover, but his temperature just suddenly shoots back up to counter? i dunno... hahaha.. but we're sooo soooo soooo glad that he is all better now. Alhamdulillah.

Now we just have to worry about increasing his appetite coz all he ever wants to eat is cookies and packet milo. >.<

Fevering and Ulcer

Shareese have been down with the fever for 5 days now, and we just bought him to another trip to the doctor this morning. The doctor said if the fever goes on for more than 2 days, it might be viral and we have to start him on antibiotics, so I guess it is viral then. Hubby and I was at the verge of getting sick a few days ago after his late grandmother passed away, we didn't expect it'd be contagious since we weren't really down with the flu, yet. Guess we were wrong.

I'm glad his temperature is slowly subsiding, from 39°C to 37.2°C after we have start him the antibiotics.

Shareese has also been complaining that his mouth hurts. We thought it was because his lips cracked due to him not taking enough fluid (more like REFUSING to take fluids, or food), but it turns out he's developing ulcers inside of his mouth. Poor thing.... Doc gave him a numbing spray to help alleviate the pain and to help bring back his appetite. He usually would go to 5-6 bottles of 180ml milk, and atleast a bowl of rice a day (with random snacking of biscuits and cakes and stuff). But now it's hard to get him to drink just 1 bottle of milk. He only seems interested in his cold Milo packet drinks. Doc said since he's not coughing and no signs of flu, she suggested we feed him cold stuff like ice cream, cold packet drinks, cold yoghurt, cold jelly, yoghurt drinks, and anything that's chilled. It helps to soothe the throbbing pain from the ulcers too. 

Wow!
This is the first time I heard that doctors says ice cream is good for sick babies. XD Anyways, followed her advice and seems like he's atleast taking a bowl of nestum now. And lots of fluid from yoghurt drinks, and packet Milo. Atleast it'll give him some energy.

Little one, please recover soon!!!

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

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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<