nadia nasira's first "driving" experience

one her first birthday, mami zeenath bought little nadia nasira a playskool car. one evening, mummy and daddy wanted to let her explore it and to our surprise, she kept going on the reverse..... i thought it was abnormal and tried to teach her to go forward, this i kept doing very often and got frustrated. She did the same while we were at her pead and only when another mother commented that her son did the same, i sighed. seems like children learn to reverse first before discovering how to move forward, wonder if that is true with all the children.

getting all warmed up with her aunt's lazy cat....

little nadia nasira has a passenger........

all set for an outdoor ride....

i thought the episode was so cute and decided to record it.

how time flies....

I have used this phrase so often that i wondered if I actually know the real meaning of it. I really do now.

Only when I went for my pregnancy check up, did I realise that I am already 33 week plus pregnant and that means I have about 5 weeks before I deliver my second child!!! Oh my God, so much to do….. I need to prepare for this delivery, my confinement trip to Ipoh, little nasira’s stuff as she is going to follow me to ipoh and pack as much as possible as we will be moving house (maybe my husband will do all the moving) when I come home from confinement!!!!

I wonder if every one would experience their second pregnancy the same way I do. I have no time to focus on my second pregnancy as my current life demands so much that I cannot really pay much attention to the little one in me. This baby as compared to my elder one moves a lot, probably to remind me of his existance or more so because i am having a boy this time. I have not yet read the doa and the Quranic verses that I did for my elder one..... I need to do that real soon although it should have been a continous thing. I started last night and hope to continue everyday therefrom.

Sigh.... to think that both me and my husband really paid so much attention to the first pregnancy.... maybe all first time parents would be like us. hahahah at least this time, we have the names ready unlike the last time where we were busy looking for names when the doctor announced that I have already dialated 1 cm.

babies and hospitals....

ever since nadia nasira turned one last march, we had been in and out of the hospital too many times that a whole two months simply slipped away without us realising it. first she had croup and she was admitted (in fact both mummy and daughter was), then a week later, she had tonsillitis and she got admitted again. since i cared for her, the virus had happily found the next victim in me for which i was admitted. during the hospital stay, i contracted conjunctivitis from god knows where. when we thought everything was over and came back to the hospital for nadia nasira’s follow-up. her pead was so happy with her progress and said she was perfectly alright.

to our dismay, nadia nasira started coughing the very next day!!!! i sighed to myself… is this a never ending story???!!!! she got worst the next day, or so we thought. we took her again to the hospital and again the next day, this time me alone. that was it!! her pead could not take it anymore with our ‘run to the pead at the first instance’ attitude and ended up giving me a long lecture about the danger in bringing the little girl to the hospital. he got upset because she was very fine on monday and he suspected that she could have picked up some virus each time we brought her to the hospital. he told me that i probably thought i was doing her a service by visiting a doctor but it doesn’t seem to be the case, i could be doing her more harm than good. he also added that he has given us enough medicine for us to keep and treat her at home after a phone call to him for simple fever and flu and cough and rashes and etc!!! only then i understood why he kept giving so much medicine after each visit as well as at the time we got discharged. so i went home, continued treating her at home, figuring out which medicine to give her with some advice from my doctor sister in law and my husband’s friend as well as our own instinct. she coughed less but i could hear some phlegm when she coughed.

i told myself enough is enough with all these drugs that is going into my daughter’s body. really sad to see her lose weight and lose her baby look and chubby cheeks. i told myself that i must resort to traditional medicine as well as preventive methods in caring for her. i followed my mum’s advice of using ‘chitterattai’ (a type of root) to treat her phlegm and the result was wonderful. i cut the root as small as a pepper, mix it with the hot water that i use to for her milk preparation. i gave it to her for three days, on the second day itself, she was ok. alhamdullillah.