Baby Carrier VS Stroller

First thing first, these are all my personal opinion.
I'm not going to talk about the material or technical stuff, but only focus on what ease me the most.

So, don't judge.

Baby Carrier

Kami pernah guna these two well-known brand :

Ergo Baby

Baby Bjorn

Please please please do not use or buy the imitation carrier. In terms of material, memang sangat-sangat berbeza. Dari segi buckle, safety, etc etc perlu diambil kira.

Ergo baby:

Throw back gambar lama.. aksi suami memujuk anaknya masuk dalam carrier. Adhwa memang akan bertambah kuat lalak kalau bapak dia pakai carrier. 

 

Kenapa beli carrier?

Motif utama, sebab Adhwa tersangatlah kuat melalak. Walau kat rumah dengan umi dan bapak.

Nak berdukung 24 x 7.

So aku saja la beli carrier ni, kot mudah sikit nak buat keje rumah. Takyah pegang-pegang dah. Masuk dalam beg je.

Tapi dia tak nak dengan bapak dia. 

Nak dengan umi dia jugak. Agaknya dengan umi dia je dia boleh bau susu. huhu.

Kami guna carrier ni sampai la Adhwa dah setahun lebih. 

Pro - Adhwa cepat tertidur. Sebab dia ada hood. Kalau pasang hood, dlm beg tu jadi gelap, so mudah dia tertidur.

Pro - Senang nak breastfeed. Walaupun tengah berjalan di pasaraya. Pasang hood aje.

Con - inwards facing sahaja. Samada kepala dia stay kanan, or stay kat kiri je.

Baby Bjorn:

Carrier ni facing outwards. Meaning, baby tak nampak muka kita.

Banyak con dari pro sebenarnya. 

Tapi forward outwards ni la aku rasa best jugak. 

Pro - anak kurang melalak mungkin sebab dia boleh nampak orang dan kepala dia free to move.

Con - aku rasa aku tak cukup gagah untuk carry yang over 8kg untuk forward outwards carrier ni.

Cuma serious sakit belakang kalau baby dah over 9kg dan kita masih guna baby bjorn ni.

Pakai baby bjorn time gi jogging dengan family.

Stroller:

Kalau berjalan jauh / lama-lama, memang sangat-sangat lah digalakkan pakai stroller.

Kami pakai brand Combi.

Sebab dah tertidur, baru lah dia boleh diletakkan dalam stroller. Muka heaven baru bangun tido.

Jangan tertipu. Duduk 10 min je tu. Lepas tu lalak nak turun. Oh maii

Pro - Lightweight : 7kg, Easy to fold and unfold, Single handed je nak fold / unfold, ada basket besar untuk letak beg-beg shopping.

Con - makan banyak space kalau simpan dalam boot. Kalau buat forward facing, susah nak control the stroller.

Verdict :

Between carrier and stroller, I would say I prefer stroller. Nowadays dah banyak design yang boleh fold to the very small size kan? Beli la yang tu kalau ada duit lebih. Sebab? Now that Adhwa is 26 months old, and she get used to being carried in a baby carrier, dia malas nak berjalan. 

With her current weight now which is 13kg, we can only carry her for about.. 10min, maximum 15min.

Not more. Else kita akan grow muscle. Pehhhh

But honestly, kalau boleh diputar balik masa, chewahhh..

Kami akan didik dia untuk duduk dalam stroller bila keluar berjalan.

Sebab dia dah terlalu biasa dalam baby carrier, Adhwa dah tak nak berjalan. Even dalam trolley supermarket tu pun dia tahan 15 min je.

Jadi bagi ibu bapa diluar sana, percayalah. Kami dah menyesal. Sebab anak kami taknak langsung duduk dalam stoller. 

Start early (using stroller).

Stop early (from using baby carrier). Mungkin boleh stop as soon as your baby turns 12 months old.

Review : Supplement Untuk Wanita Mengandung

Assalamualaikum,

Saja nak sharing supplement atau makanan tambahan untuk wanita mengandung.

Kenapa perlu supplement? Sebab supplement ni sangat-sangat membantu wanita mengandung. Yelah.. time mengandung la itu tak boleh makan, ini tak boleh makan. HB low lah. Tekanan darah rendah lah. Macam-macam. 

Nak-nak pulak yang underweight macam aku.. supplement ni sangat membantu untuk seimbangkan berat badan dan ketinggian kita. TAPI kene ikut cara makan yang betul la kan. Jangan kejap makan, kejap tak makan. Malas-malas tak membantu ye.

Shaklee yang aku amik adalah set ibu mengandung, kecuali ESP tu. ESP tu soya kan. Aku tak berapa jalan sangat dengan soya. So aku tak amik la ESP. Aku amik set ni :

B-Complex: RM55 = 120 biji
Vita-C Plus: RM94 = 180 biji
Ostematrix: RM63 = 120 biji 

Vitalea : RM90 = 120 biji
Omega Guard : RM136 = 90 biji

Harga tak termasuk pengeposan. Harga ikut siapa seller korang kot.

Ini set yang aku bawak gi opis. Lagi 2 botol tertinggal kat rumah.

Makan kasik habis setiap botol ye. Takmo malas-malas. Beratus beli supplement tak sayang kat duit ke? (mood membebel)

Kenapa share Shaklee ni? Aku meniaga ke?
Oh tidak. Aku pun beli kat orang.

Bila start makan supplement? Setelah 13 minggu mengandung.
Tapi ni aku la. Aku beli lepas dah 12 minggu. Saja nak tunggu kandungan stabil. Insyaallah mudah-mudahan Allah permudahkan.

Kenapa nak share pasal Shaklee?
Sebab ramai yang tengok anak sulung kami - Adhwa, dan pastu tanya

"Akak makan apa masa mengandung? Cerah, gebu, montel, tough betul tengok baby akak ni.."

So aku share la rahsia. Rahsia la sangat!

Selain mengamalkan pemakanan yang sihat, dan rajin stock up susu dutch lady 1liter banyak-banyak dalam peti ais, Shaklee ni antara yang membantu.

Ohh ye.. dulu laki aku rajin ajak aku gi jogging. Hujung minggu je mesti jogging. Tapi bila mengandung, dia je la jogging 2 round kat Tasik Permaisuri tu. Aku jalan 1 round je pastu tunggu dia habis jogging.

AMARAN : Ini bukan tips untuk elak jaundice / demam kuning ye.

Oh ini aku share gambar Adhwa. 

Berketak-ketak tangan dia. Masa ni dia baru 7-8 bulan kalau tak silap. Dia pakai gaun sepupu dia yang umur 4 tahun.

Masa umur 6 bulan. Berat 8kg.

Ok. Itulah sharing saya buat masa ini.

Amalkan gaya hidup yang sihat :)

Fashion Ring

Do you love fashion?

I do! I do!

But only on rings.

People willing to spent so much money on ring. Be it silver ring, platinum ring, golden ring... you name it, we have it.

Apart from being a mother and a wife, and also a slave (ohh yes Im ma slave..) to my current company that I worked with for almost 5 years now, I have venture to a new arena. 

Business. 

Yepp that's right. 

Aku dah cuba drop ship. It worked for me. But then it makes me spent my time mostly on facebook or instagram for trying to get buyer. I've been into many groups in facebook especially just to sell my item. But then again.. too much time on facebook and I dont really like that attitude. Sometimes I have to steal my work time and really, I don't like it.

Jadi aku decide untuk jual what girl / women want. Hehe

Fashion Ring!

Yes Yes Yes.

And because Im still new with this business, it took me a while before I managed to get my own follower and regular customer. I try to maintain a good buyer-seller relationship. I try to improve the packaging and maintain the price.

Honestly, Im just the ikan bilis.

I could not compete with the shark.

My initial deal was, I will charged my customer with flat rate of postage. Be it in West Malaysia or East Malaysia. Mind you, East Malaysia postage is RM10! And Im using Pos Laju for all delivery.

First few months, the packaging was..

1. Put the ring in a small plastic. 

2. Put the plastic in a small pouch. (When I say small, I mean it. It really is SMALL).

3. Put the pouch in poslaju plastic. You know, the RM6 one.

And after I managed to get the crowd, I try to improve the packaging. This time, there will be NO plastic, but the ring will be placed in the pouch, and keep in a small DIY box.

Im trying to clear the stocks before adding more designs into my collection. 

Trust me, girl / women loves this!

Visit my instagram at iBuruj

Throwback : Food Poisoning anddddd.. pregnant. [Part 2]

Part 2

First night warded in hospital.

My baby sleeps with my husband.

On the floor! 

I'm still in pain.

I could not stand straight. 

I could not lift my baby. But I keep breastfeed her.

I have to continuously breastfeed her as that is the only way to keep milk coming.  

And I still want to breastfeed her. I love the bond that we have.

The bond that God give to us. Mother & baby.

But because of this food poisoning, I can barely eat.

I have to avoid dairy food - my fav!

I woke up every 2-3 hours not because I want to breastfeed my baby, but I have to get in the toilet! Its so painful plus..

I have to drag along the IV drip bottle everywhere I go!

Giler kau! Sakit kot.

Gambar Pakcik Google

Tangan dah start membengkak. And according to Dr Tan, I need 6 bottle! 

Walawehhhh..

2nd day

Terpaksa minta nurse cabut jarum kat tangan sebab tangan dah membengkak.

Disebabkan nurse tu cuba 2-3 kali untuk cucuk di tempat lain tapi tak berjaya, dia panggil Doctor bertugas untuk tolong cucuk.

Tak sampai 5 min, siap!

Ohh im still in pain!

3rd Day in Hospital

Sakit berkurang, but but but.. still sangat sakit. 

I can barely stand up.

Doctor instruct the nurse untuk buat scan kat perut.

So petang tu I went for sonogram check-up. (scan baby tuu)

When the Sonographer do the scanning.. 

I thought... 

You know, I thought I saw a sac. Baby sac!

Baby Sac

You know.. when you are pregnant, you used to see your sonographer to scan you belly, and you see the baby thru the screen. Kan?

But I just kept my mouth shut. 

I mean.. takkan la aku pregnant. Aku test UPT haritu negative kot!

So I just keep my mouth shut. 

Im not going to talk about that to my husband.

Maybe its just me. I see things!

4th Day in Hospital

  

Pagi-pagi lagi Dr Tan dah datang buat round check.

"Siti, please have a seat.. " Sebaik sahaja Dr Tan melangkah masuk.

So there I go. Have a seat on my comfy bed.

"How are you feeling today? Do you still feel the pain?" He asked.

"Much better I guess," Aku senyum. 

So kami borak-borak about when I can discharged. 

What to eat. 

What to avoid...

and then he dropped the bomb.

"You said you're not pregnant. But the result came out positive you now.." Katanya sambil membelek2 fail di tangan.

Terdiam kejap aku. Laki aku pun kaku jap. Blur je muka. 

"Anyways.. congratulations. I would like to advice you to get further check up with gynea about your pregnancy as I could not advice on that. Would you like me to get my nurse to arrange appointment with our doctor here?"

"Yes please."

"Which doctor? Do you any doctor here? 

"Yes, Dr Suriati please."

"Ok Tina, please make an appointment with Dr Sue office'"

to be continue

Throwback : Food Poisoning anddddd.. pregnant. [Part 1]

Assalamualaikum.

Entry ini memang untuk throwback je sebenarnya. 

This happened over a year ago where I have no idea, i mean... seriously, I have NO freaking idea that I was pregnant. I've known for a while that if you're an exclusive breastfeeding mother, you have like zero chance of getting pregnant.

As long as you still and exclusively breastfeed your baby.

Well.. at least that is what I thought.

Until I spoke to a friend who is a doctor that advice me to take urine pregnancy test. And thats because I told her that I am 2 months late. My period never come late. I mean.. NEVER. Not a day or two. NEVER!

So that night I secretly did the urine test. Just to be sure. You know, since I am 2 months late, I dont have to wait early in the morning just to be sure my HCG level is bla bla bla (you will know about this thing if you are a TTC couple). So there I go. Did my urine test.

Andddd

Negative. 

Phewww. Im not pregnant. OK.

NO.

Im not OK. I thought I going to be relieved by the result. Instead, I just want to get pregnant. I love baby. But Im not sure if I could handle 2 babies at a time.

Weeks pass by and I thougt Im having a food poisoning. That night after I went home, I pass Adhwa to my husband and I go straight to my room. No, im not sleepy. Im just not feeling well.

Im having a bad diarrhea. BAD BAD BAD diarehhea.
I keep going in and out of the toilet more than 5 times that night and I cried so hard. One - is because I could not handle the pain. Two - is because Adhwa still breastfeeding and she needed me.

The next day I can never stand the pain and after we sent Adhwa to her babysitter, we go straight to Pantai Hospital and look for Gastroenterology Specialist. 

DR. TAN OOI KEAT

 He goes the interview session with Dr Tan :

Dr Tan : Hi, how are you doing today?

Aku : Im having a bad diarrhea.

Dr Tan : How many times you went to toilet? When it start?

Aku : Yesterday. More than 10 times.

Dr Tan : More than 10? Are you sure? 

OK. Dia terkejut. Then baru dia observe muka aku. Tengok bibir aku yang kering giler then start to write something on his file. 

Sambil-sambil tu dia mintak aku bukak mulut aku untuk check weather Im having dehydration or not. He also check on my temperature - and Im not having fever.

To my horror, he asked :

"Are you pregnant?"

"I dont think so. Im breastfeed my baby, so no - I dont think Im pregnant,"

"When was the last first day of your period?" Ehhh dia tanya lagi. Kan dah aku cakap aku tak pregnant?

"That was 2 months ago. But then again, Im a breastfeeding mother" 

The conversation ended. Until he ask me if Im keen to be hospitalized for further observation. 

So that night aku pun bermalam di hospital Pantai. 

My husband came with Adhwa. And toto. And a beg full of my clothes and Adhwa's diaper.

To be continue..