Toxin!!!

Hubby woke up one day and said we are both filthy loaded with toxin, I say what…..?!!!!???!!!!!

The next day we were signed up for a product demo at a “health centre”, somewhere at a residential area, huh? What?

 It was a great demo, even Ava liked it. The lady basically prepared for us a fruit+vege smoothie, prune cake, peanut butter and a multigrain drink all in under ½ hrs… we were full including Ava who keep on asking for more prunecake with peanut butter and multi grain drink.

I feel like a super woman, I can do the above recipe and more just with one simply powerful food processor /blender. Little do I know what hubby have in mind.

After 2 days sleeping on the idea we went back to get “the” food processor.  On the way back home, wait we made a few stop over, buying apples and oranges and; pineapples and papayas and; sawi and bakchoi; and a lot of lime. I was thinking “who is going to eat all these”

Hubby was so excited, he browse youtube and a lot of detox webpage, top on the list the trusted Mercola.com to get recipes for fruit+vege smoothies, the next thing you know he is in the kitchen, cleaning the vegie and cutting the fruits, dividing them into morning, afternoon and dinner portion.

And out of the kitchen, two glass of cold and refreshing fruit juice… WOW nice…

The thing is by the next day the juice get greener and greener and by the 3^rd day the juice is plain dark green… Oh no… what have I got myself into… for one I am not a veggie person, I only eat veggie with belacan, no belacan me no eating veggie…

Today is the 7^th day we are on vegiefrutt smoothies, 3 times a day for 7 days of vegiefrutt…..

After more research Hubby is now thinking if we should we get a Juicer (Omega 8003)???!!!!!! I will need to take a deep breath and see if I can dive with him on this.

P/S : Yesterday we went out and I bought three pcs of different type of taste Secret Recipe cakes(I was having sugar deprivation after 1 week detoxifying with raw veggies!!). One down, 2 more to go..I am heavenly eating  pumpkin cheese cake while writing this post.yummy!!!...

I was completely out of the world!

I had a seriously terrible nightmare this morning..When I awake, I was nearly screamed for help when I felt someone was crawling on my chest, actually it was Ava who’s taking her early breakfast. Hubby already left to work before I woke up. I glanced  at the clock, it’s almost 9.am.Usually all of us will be waking up around 7am but probably yesterday activities and topsy turvy emotions have made me felt extra tired. When hubby went back home for lunch I asked him why he didn’t wake me up? Then he told me what had happened last night after I went to sleep.
So the story goes like this, Ava woke up needing to be nursed. I was sleeping like a log. She kept on crying and hubby (who actually was sleeping soundly before that ) pushed Ava to my side and pat my shoulder to wake me up. With a murmured (grumpy kind of sound) I pulled Ava to nurse with me and continued to sleep…according to hubby I was SNORING!!! I never ever snore in my sleep!!!(hmmmm?I need to re-check it again)Hubby tried to go back to sleep but after a few minutes Ava was wailing again and I was lying still and talking nonsense in my sleep. “
“Kurang asam”..he sighed, that's what hubby told me.
Again, he pushed Ava to my side and she went to nurse some more with her mummy still much sleeping though hubby can hear me murmured on something which also making his night even more troublesome. A wailing baby and a grumpy sleeping wife, poor him had to endure both of us through the night. So basically for last night, hubby was having difficulty to sleep , Ava kept on wailing asking for more milk  and I was struggling with my never ending dream!!!

Frisbee

    Yesterday evening after pigging out on KFC for late lunch/early dinner, hubby decided that all of us should go out and play the newly bought frisbee. I thought we were just going to play in front of our house. 
While I was still sitting in front of the pc checking at Diaper Asia site( hoping to catch any mama who is selling  any new cute printed cloth diaper, hahaha lets not speak about my addiction for now, I will save it for another post!!)
Hubby was yelling from outside of the house asking me to go out as soon as possible..Ava was already buckled up in her stroller( I was wondering why hubby brought the stroller along, I thought we were just going to play in front of our house.)
I was still in my blouse and skirt, I went out and ready to play..(konon la, my mind was still on the forum site). Instead hubby told me to lock the house as we are going out. Going out!!! where? I was following them from behind and was thinking where were we going?Play frisbee in front of our neighbor house?By the way I passed one of our neighbor house and she was standing outside and was yelling at me with a smile,
"Your baby's face look just like her father already lor!!" 
Hehehe..yeahh she is!!Don't you love your neighbors?!:)..


Then I started to wonder where he want to take us when he crossed the road out from our neighborhood and went straight to the outside of school area ( our housing area is near to the school),. After reached at the end of the road just beside the school gate which I was already out of breath. He stopped and  started to throw the frisbee to me. Being a beginner on a frisbee, after I received it from hubby I threw it without aiming properly to him( plus I was still tired due on 15 minutes walking). The frisbee flew straight to the drain and we are not talking a small drain here..it was a flood drain it is so deep!! Hubby cannot blame me since he really didn't took a lot of effort to take the flying frisbee without expecting it to fell into the drain! 
Ava on the other hand enjoying the evening scenery and standing beside Bumble. After giving a second thought, hubby went down the drain and took the frisbee out and then figuring out how to get out from the drain .
"Here, give your hand to me," I said. Our hands reaching but Ava was nearly walking to the drain and I quickly let go my hand and he stumbled back inside the drain..
" Ops sorry! ."   
Put Ava back on the stroller and meanwhile hubby successfully climbed out from the drain.
The school guard who watched us from the beginning asked hubby to play at the school field. And all this while we thought outsider is not allowed to enter the school area!!
So off we walked towards the school field with lots of kids playing soccer and we found an empty ground to play the frisbee.                 Jumping, running,yelling, sweating and laughing at the same time when both of us throwing and catching frisbee made me so relief I got off on my knee to play on that evening. Plus watching Ava was getting so excited walking on the grass field really makes my day!She even yelled at us whenever we missed to catch the frisbee on our hand!!
Today we will be going out again to play and I bet this time around will be going to be merrier!!

"Mommy, I m hungry.."

This last few days my lil princess would awake on the very early hours in the morning(3-4 a.m) and crying. I wonder if this is because of her teething discomfort, hungry or just a bad dream. Today we increased her food intake to 5 meals a day(instead of the usual 3 times a day) and surprisingly she finished up each of the meal. Probably she's hungry the whole morning and mommy's milk alone just ain't enough for her anymore..

"Are you kidding me?"

There would be always a story to tell when every time we went to board a flight. We went to the airport for our 7.20 am morning flight bound for Miri. I was wearing a black sleeveless tops and a rag jeans which I fold up a quarter up my knee (imagine Tom Sawyer overall). We were still drowsy from sleep deprivation when we reached the airport. I was especially drowsy because Ava’s feeding time +/-3 in the morning, I just can’t get myself to sleep after feeding her. I was carrying Ava in the Jumpsac SSC. Hubby walked way ahead of me and handed over our passports and Ava’s birth certificate to the immigration officer. The Immigration Officer was half  asleep and was asking,
“How old is your kid?”
Hubby simply pointed at the back said,
“ Ah… em.. she is around 7 months old today”.
The immigration officer looked bewildered, fully awake,
“What?? 7 months old, cannot be!!
"Yes, she’s just reached 7 months on the last Saturday"… Hubby nodded with a sober face.
“You mean that girl with the backpack, worn in front is 7 months old?”
Hubby answered,“Oh that one (pointing at me) is not my daughter that’s my wife, we have a baby sleeping inside that “back pack.”
Apparently the officer was wondering why hubby handed him 3 documents, when he can only see 2 people. The thing is I must have looked like a school kid with my jeans rolled up, wearing sandals (looks extra short with any heels), bare naked sleepy face (no make-up) and carrying a “back pack”.

"A priceless treasure to be kept"

I  found something which I didn't expect I would find it at the rare area.
My heart was beating faster when I saw it, was that what I thought it would be?
"Am I dreaming? Is this real?I can't believe myself finally gotta chance to have it!!!The most miraculous thing is, I only have to pay  less than 5 bucks !!! Oh I love everything  about it!!

"Twilight."

I know.......probably I am the last woman on the earth who just watched this movie.
By the time I was looking forward to watch Twilight, "New Moon" the 2nd saga of Twilight is already in the cinema, ..( still haven't watch it yet, have to wait for the original DVD out ).

Initially I was searching for the paperback but there were no where to be found in town. I asked Popular and they are on the way to re-stock the item. I really cannot wait for the paperback to arrive so I went to buy the DVD, luckily there're some left at the SPEEDY.

Watched the movie last night when Ava was sleeping and guess what...I found the story line was very simple, no extraordinary scene which amazed me but...............I fall in love with the vampire ( Edward Cullen ), if I am a teenager, this is the man of my dream !!!grrrrrrrr  ;p hahahaha, silly me....

Mysterious, unpredictable  and forbidden love  ...everything about this Edward Cullen character energize and make me feel lively like a teenager. "You know", those were the time when you have all the silly dreams and fantasy. Head over heel kind of love.
Forget for awhile that I am a mother of one and it will be months before i say goodbye to my twenties.
Edward Cullen ( Robert Pattinson)..you are truly something!

By the way, in real life, I don't think I wanted to have a vampire( even as handsome as Edward ) staring and looking at me while  I am sleeping ...Freaky!!!!!

 

Just another ordinary day....

Yesterday was just like any other day. Hubby went to work, me with Ava in the house, doing laundry and house chores and trying to be supermom. I am kidding! It will be a crazy life if I want to be one of the supermom,I cannot make everything perfect!
Back to my story, yesterday was a bit struggle because I felt extra tired and lacked of sleep. And the tiredness lead to impatient, angry, snappy and resentful. Ava from the starting of the day was a bit crancky, maybe because of the effect from the last injection making her felt restless and some mood swing ( luckily no fever. ) so she needed me more than usual. She doesn't want to be alone most of the time which usually she would be playing on her own. Put her in the sarong she would wailed asking to be putting off from it. She's wailing whenever mommy was out of sight and cried for no reason. I was very exhausted and trying to control my nerve, I would reached and embraced her even I was desperately need to take the time off for myself even only a minute! Deep reflection is a luxury when time is short and baby are calling.
Hubby came from work, he took turn to take care our little baby and me fetched the laundry and dried them up.  At last by 1.30 pm Ava fell asleep for almost one in a half hours and instead taking a nap, I went to internet surf. Biggest mistake! I should take my nap because after that I became even resentful. Ava woke up wanting to have more attention. With my head desperately need a back up I took my pouch, took Ava in it and walked to the outside of the house. Outside the surrounding was very calming. The wind blows softly and the birds were chirping, that was my back up mode, I need some fresh air. When I looked around all the plants and flowers, I noticed some of the tree had grown taller and some of them has turned to yellows and while others had fallen, leaving the branches bare. Meanwhile my little one seemed very quiet looking and observing around her surrounding. She quietly watched me took the dry laundry, water the plants and feeding Bumble. I was very relieved I could overcome my emotion and made Ava comfortable at last.
Even with all of this and more upcoming challenging which I need to face up front each day, especially in overcoming my emotion, I'd never felt happier and more filled with love than I'd ever thought possible.

Today : Very excited, trying to reach her cloth diaper

 

Al....most th..ere..

 

                                  Instead try to grab her cds, she played with mummy's littlepod pouch.

Laundry, laundry, laundry......(sigh)

Just came back from KK on Monday afternoon and looked what we had brought along with us..tons of laundry to be wash and tons of laundry to be dry up. At the same time,its raining cats and dogs, so not in the right timing... All this pictures below taken a few hours after we reached home.

Hanging the clothes inside the house..

Laundry in the basket ready to be dry up..

 

As you can see, Ava's cot has turned into a clean laundry pick up since she didn't like to be put inside..lalala..

 

Another baby laundry in the pail waiting their turn to be put in the washing machine..not to mention there were another me and Flo laundry in another basket.

The smell of damp clothes in the house makes me suffocating..so we transferred all the damp laundry in the guest room and switch on the conditioner through the whole day!!!

Early Christmas Gift from Santa Rina..

Yesterday Ava received a mysterious parcel..we didn't actually knew it's coming. It turned out the parcel was from her Grand Aunt Emily aka grandaunt Ua. This would be her first Christmas gift and it's came all the way from UK. I am so excited on Ava's behalf!!

 

                                    Two baby overalls, one t'shirt and a knitted sweater..I loved all of it!!!

Hmmm..The future of Oxford? Hopefully will hit the lottery jackpot anytime soon!

Mummy also got one and luckily it fit!!!

Thanks Ua!

6 months and snacking at Mc Donald...

We were here at The Bintang Mall again!!! but no shopping spree this time, we just here to grab some express dinner. We're suppose to attend the church mass on 5.30 pm at St.Joseph but apparently today just had only one mass at Carmellite church which is on 9.00 a.m. So we stop for a few minutes to do a prayer and off we go to the Mc Donald, Bintang Mall.
While I was digging my Big Mac which was so ridiculously delicious !!! Ava's in hubby supervision so I can just concentrating on me, myself and I..hahaha..among  the crowd who chosed Mc D as their dinner menu, I spotted a mother with her baby from across the table. The baby was similar sized like Ava and the mother happily put the french fries in her baby's mouth and the baby happily chewing on it..I was flabbergasted..I struggled to get a better view of the baby's inside mouth.."is she's teething already?" Right, yeah I realized I was quite of being kepoh throughout of this weekend but I cannot helped it..I am a new mother and of course my curiosity is high on how possible it is a baby can eat "fast food" while the baby is still a baby? If they just starting to eat solid food is that a proper intro for a solid to a baby? The mum noticed me staring at her and quickly I gave her a warm smile but looking at her kept on giving her baby the fries and the baby  kept on eating on it..."I was not sure".......Again, the woman gave her friendly smile toward me before their left from the table and she passed by hubby with Ava at the foyer. Hubby curiously "sempat" asked the mother how old was her baby and she's  6 months old, that's after the mother asked him whether Ava is a boy or a girl..I should put ribbon or something pinkish on Ava's head because she's always has been mistaken as a baby boy. Sometimes people would passed by and said "Oh..your baby boy is so cute and fair..." and I would answered sweetly,"No, she is a girl and no she don't have a fair skin, it's only nearly fair...", the last sentences after the word "and", I left it with by myself.
I don't know about others but do every parents would just let their baby eating any kind of solid food without properly doing any research on the nutrition contains or is it only me who don't t know about this fact?

Do I look like a boy to you even I am all pink?? wink wink....

A lady, lingeries and credit cards....

Last night we went for "jalan-jalan cari makan" at the town,..well not exactly jalan-jalan cari makan, I went to deposit money to my account so that I can transferred the money to the account of MyBabyPitStop and TinyTapir. ( You know what it is...)
Went to Parkson mall and saw a few blouses which got 70 percent sales!!Yummy!!Then I lined up to the cashier counter and a woman in front of me got some issues with her payment method, at first she gave her HSBC credit card,  the payment was rejected , another Ambank credit card, also got rejected, Standard Chartered credit card ( yeah I know I am a bit "kepoh" but sometimes it's kinda fun!!hahaha) also got rejected. I took a glance at her merchandise and wooo...among of it was a corset, push up bras, thongs, girdles and so on. (all the lingeries from Triumph brand I would say )..I wonder what she wants to do with all of those..hmmmm?. So after everything got rejected, with a sour face,she took out her money, luckily she's got cash with her. The things that bothered me was why didn't she just used the cash instead of giving the cashier an extra work and making customers who had been lining up behind her grunting and gave a bitter look on her. I was by the way enjoying the short drama..Later after paid my stuff, I got problems finding hubby with Ava, apparently I had left my mobile phone with him and I let my instinct to guide me to where they were.."Aah, so true, they're at the Guardian store"..hahaha..

Amazing Race?

Having raised in a family which normally do upfront planning and preparation made this kind of scene was totally alien for me, luckily I didn't get a heart attack! If we are deviated from our plan, normally everybody would be getting edgy, anxious and the occasion of people snapping is expected. So deviate from plan or not preparing very early is a no no for my upbringing especially not in front of my dad.
The trip going back to Kota Kinabalu was totally like an amazing race. We suppose to fly on Friday afternoon but when we woke up on friday morning, we haven't packed up anything yet, not even sure what to bring, well of course we have to bring baby's stuff and the baby herself. We just about to pack up when I sprained my wrist for the " I dunno how many" times already and this time I cannot take the pain anymore so we decided to go for a quick traditional massage. When we reached there, apparently I was recommended to do a full body massage. We were thinking for a short while and thought still had lots of time in our hand. There I was having a full body massage, it's not a luxurious trip, it was like tortures! after delivery apparently wind had stiffen all of my vein!!Then after one in a half hour doing the massage , we went for a quick breakfast and after b'fastr we realized we really need to get back home and do the packing. When we reached home, it was already 10.30 am and thought still had time and slowly packed our bag. By 12 noon, we re still not even half way finished packing and we need to leave by 12.30 noon.
To cut the story short, we just dumped everything in the bag and ends up with three bag and gave Ava a quick dip in the tub. Normally we just used two bag. By 12.30 noon, moving from the door house to the gate took about 20 mins. We had to carry Ava.. Bumble escaped from the house and hubby had to chase after him. Halfway chasing Bumble, it started to rain cats and dogs. By the time put Bumble inside and locked the gate, it was 12.55pm!!
We rushed to the airport, when we 're few miles away from the house hubby asked me,
"Did you already take Ava's birth certi?"
I answered,
"Yeah, it's in the bag..you didn't put it somewhere else do you?"
"Huh, I put in on the file"...
The clock stroked 1.00 pm and we made a u turn to go back to the house. The ticket counter closed by 1.30pm. Noted that our house from the airport is 40 miles away. During that time, I started to have panicked attacked. Rushing from the house to the airport, knowing that you could missed the flight was very tense. It was silent in the car and luckily Ava's sleeping. I tried not to look at the clock in the car because it really made me edgy and I already thinking to pay more additional RM300 to fly in the evening. I was sure we're not be able to catch the flight.

When we're about to reach at the airport, I placed Ava in the carrier and rushed out from the car and ran to the ticket counter. Imagine me running with baby hanging in front of me. When I reached there, it was one mins before the closing and the story didn't stop there..the boarding pass already in my hand but without our luggage! Hubby was still struggling to unload the bags not to mention the car park is quiet far from the "ticket counter", not the airport building. The ticketing counter kept on informing me we;re already running out of time and our luggage probably had to leave behind, ..I was so edgy and kept on searching and hoping that hubby's head would pop from the crowd anytime soon. Luckily we managed to put all our luggage to the cargo. It was such a relief when everything settled down and we' re on our way to board the flight . Me and hubby had a good laugh after that and thought that this incident was such an amazing race for us!!

Oh My Gosh, what a weekend..

Last weekend, we're planning to buy a new carrier for Ava, since she's already getting bigger its a bit difficult for us to carry her with sarong sling anymore. Hubby got a shoulder pain and I had a back pain. We went to Baby's Gallery at Bintang megamall and found a carrier which has a back support feature. I tried it on, put Ava in it and walk around the store like hubby said to get 'the feel of it',.. As i  looked myself at the mirror with Ava inside the carrier, Flo called, "How is it?"
I spun around and knocked the toys display and I stumbled down the floor, the first thing I grab was Ava and luckily she's safely wrap around my body..the sales man hurriedly came to me asking if I am alright..of course I didn't! my leg bruised and my butt in pain add up with huge embarrassment, luckily the store is empty with customer except us.  But surely I 'm going to get the carrier, surprisingly it came with the safety feature as well...

Hair Fall, am I going bald?

I heard that there will be  a period of hair loss and fall after a few months of delivery, and I didn't expected it could be quite worst! My hair stranded everywhere. At the bathroom, on the bed, at the living room , at the kitchen...it's everywhere in the house.It started when Ava reached 3 months, my hair started to fall down. At first it's just a few but lately, almost everyday I can felt a few strand of my hair falling on my shoulder!!
Sometimes Ava's face would be covered by strands of hair and she usually try to lick it and put it on her mouth.
Hair loss in particular is very common and should not cause undue concern, but it's the matter of figure..my hair is thin and oily, add up with the warm weather makes me very uncomfortable with my dull and oily looking hair, now I realize the statement of "hair is the crown of glory " has a really deep meaning toward people. I thought by cutting my hair short would make the hair fall slow down but it still keep on falling!
However, referring to the articles that I read, this condition does not cause permanent hair loss or obvious bald patches. Telogen effluvium resolves slowly beginning six to 12 weeks postpartum. There is no medical treatment available.  Well hopefully the hair loss would be gone by anytime soon, I have a wedding reception to attend this end of the month and I want to look fabulous on that day.

Down to my 90's Memory Lane...

I have a recollection of my teen life last nite as I watched one of the 80's movie titled "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" co star by Sarah Jessica Parker.

On my teen years, I wanted to :

1. Have a boyfriend just like everyone else.
2. Dreaming to be like the Wakefields twins. ( Remember the novel from the teenager series about Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield (Sweet Valley High)?) I want to be like Elizabeth, the miss goody two shoes yet got a very strong personality like her rebellious twin sister Jessica.

3. For Once I just wish I have a more "user friendly" parents. i.e. you understand how they function, and they suits your teenage wants and needs and they don't breakdown so often.
4. Have a slim body just like everyone else.
5. Eat my report card every semester so that mum n dad dun have to see all those marks which were bleeding.( I never regret failing on it as I don't like any of the the subject I took for SPM. I always know that I love to draw and paint but you know lah Malaysia School- Art is not a serious subject. ( Back then my parent didn't realize how much I hate being in the science stream. It's my fault because I just followed what the elderly asked me to do ."Science is good for your future!". As explain in #3 they are not user friendly parents).
6. Wish that I can go back to my old school back in SMK Bundu Tuhan, Ranau. I don't like SM SungSiew Sandakan, the school made me sick. Thinking back I had a culture shock due to transferring school, back than nobody knows of culture shock when you transfer school, you only have culture shock if you move to different country like moving to Japan, but not transferring school. I know now that I suffered culture shock (silently) from transfering school and I never recovered.
7. I feel like I want to strangle my lovely sister most of the time. ( We used to be arch-enemy back then..hahaha )
8. I have the guts to get my own own room without sharing with my little annoying sister. ( But it is just that I am afraid to sleep alone. Scared of the unknown aka ghost kunun, buduh oh..)
9. To have a Baby G watch because everybody have it! ( now,even I've my own money I don't want to waste it on Baby G. )

10.Meet Prince William.;P

11. One of my wishlist for Christmas (when I was 15) was a walkman with ear phone instead I got a first generation Walkman yellow in colour with a muffler head phone..u know the first generation walkman. "Made in China".hahahaha.

I could never showed the Walkman in school because it's so out of fashioned!!! It looks worst than the illustration on the right.

12. Desperately want to be like my mom youngest sister. When I was a kid, I lost my nanny so when I went back to kampung this aunt looked like my nanny so I start to call her with my nanny's name and until these day everybody called her by that name . Not only I named her , I also desperately want  to be like her. Our age  difference is very close so she's become my role model and I admire her so much!

Metarmorphosis

Make-up mania!!

I am a make-up junkie, I can just pick up one similar colour of lipstick which I already got and never regrets buying it. I would browse at the make-up counter for hours and tested here and there but now I have to control myself for trying out the lipstick sample because you just don’t know who was sampling it before you. They might be contaminated with lots of viruses such as H1N1, MRSA, HIV and the list go on. I have tons of make-up before I get pregnant. So many which I didn’t get to finish even half of it. I have more than three kind of blushers, one was powdery matte kind of type, two type of color for creamy and one type of shimmer blush, 3 type of mascaras which every one of it was for volumising,curls and long lasting eyelashes, not to mention tons of different kind of lipsticks and lipgloss and so many different kind of eyeshadows colors. (I wonder if I only bought it just to have the cute pot!)


Anyway back to my story, unlucky for me my pregnancy hormone was seriously hating the smell of my foundation, eyeshadow, lipstick and every powder which I got!! Whenever I put on it, I can suddenly had my gag reflex!!! So, I have to give it all to my cuzy since it would be wasted if I just kept it unused.

Over 10 months, whenever I went out , my face would be naked without any single of make-up with acnes all over on my face.( did I mention that I also got attacked by acnes during my pregnancy?) After holding back on buying new make-up and my skin slowly rejuvenated thou I still had light scars from the acnes, I started to buy my long time “favorites stuff to buy” again!! And this time, I tried to buy only the essential one. A make-up base, one compact powder foundation, 3 shades of eyeshadow( natural color), a black eyeliner, a volumising mascara, 3 lipstick with different colour, a blush which has 3 different tones in it and a concealer. I don’t believe in concealer but this product of Body Shop really makes wonder of my acne scar, my face suddenly looked nearly flawless when it applied on my face! But I really need to practice how to blend it at my skin since the first time I tried I get helped from a lady at the Body Shop kiosk.

I want to share about my new blusher from the Body Shop, it’s called a Blush Trio 3 from the Fall Make-up Collection, new released for this year.

I really adored these blushes because it has 3 beautiful colours on it which can create a 3D effects on our face contour!! This trio collection only available in two shades which makes it easy to decide between settling on a cool or warm look. Warm Sunset is my fav and the flattering of the two. This is a mix of deep shades of coral, orange and bronze. Three shades in one pot! How cool is that!! Cool Dusk was my least favourite as it applied a little too frosty on me and not really suitable with my tanned skin.

I just don’t know how to end this make-up story, it will go on and on……..

I’m So Thrilled I Persevered!

I’ve been trying for so long to find a time to write this on my blog. So here’s the story..
Before I delivered. Husband and I already decided to breastfeed our baby. Breastfeeding sounds less hassle than having to sterilize bottles and it seem really straightforward, like it is the most natural thing in the world!

Day 1

June 30 after Ava was born and I’ve been sent back to the ward, the nurse came in and asked me, “ Do you want to breastfeed your baby or bottle feed?”

With a confidence answer and not knowing the hardship of breastfeeding I said, ‘Yes, of course”.

They gave Ava to me and this good nurse came and help me how to get started with bfeed. Ava started to latch on and she’s seem quite natural with it. So far so good and I was still excited in doing the breastfeeding.

Day 2

My nipple started to feel sore and I was exhausted. Ava’s been latching on my breast for almost an hour for every feeding and the sometimes almost took every hour. To make the matter worse doctor told us that she’s got jaundice. One of the nurse told me to let her to be fed by formula milk since I haven’t produce enough milk to make Ava enough to passed motion and peeing to decrease the jaundice. Feeling upset, bitter and depress, I let Ava drank formula milk for the whole day.

Day 3
I never realized bfeeding would be such hardwork( especially when you've decided to fully breastfeed from the beginning).Just when I think Ava has finished I pull her off my breast and she start sucking again. I told doctor that my nipples a really really sore. He then told hubby to get a nipple shield and breast cream from the Guardian store.
Day 4
Oh my!!! Why didn't anyone tell you how painfull it can be when your milk comes in?
My boobs are massive, hard and throbbing with pain. Even wearing the shield didn’t lessen the pain! I was sobbing every nursing! The good part is, Ava had no problem in drinking and her weight’s increasing and also the jaundice had gone( the jaundice gone by day 10)!

Day 5

Everytime Ava cries to be fed I felt sick. Both of my nipple were seriously cracked, as it’s taking all the pressure from feeding. A large part of me thought I m just not cut out to do this. So tired I let mother in law take care of Ava and gave her formula for one feeding and other time I expressed my milk so that she can fed her with it.

Day 6

Still in pain, feeling like to give up. She’s feeding every hour. Have to expressed milk again so that mother in law can take care of her while I get my sleep.

Day 7 till 17

Ava’s feeding every 2 hours and though I can’t say I’m loving it, it was definitely less painful ( the nipple sheild really help during this time). But the sleep deprivation is killing me! She spent the evening cluster-feeding until about 10.00pm, dropping off then woke up again at 1 am for more milk.

Day 17 till 22

I ‘ve decided to take each day as it comes rather than set myself a deadline for success.

Everyday my baby gets my milk is a bonus. Hubby had been giving 100 percent fully support from the beginning. I mean seriously a very fully support, he did the research about breastfeeding on how it's really worth to persevered and help me to take care of Ava’s other need. He even bought the best breastpump so that I can express my milk faster and zero hassle and pain. The rest of the time Ava feeds on demand. Perhaps I’m going the hang of this.

2 months day 1

Have a brilliant feed this morning. Ava sucks away for about half an hour before falling asleep. When I see just how content she is, it feels like my heart will burst.

3 months

Nowadays breastfeeding is never an issue for me anymore, my milk has been produce enough for Ava’s need and she’s feeding at 2 to 3 hours interval.

I’m so proud I preservere at breastfeeding and have been given my daughter the very best start. I can believe how close I came to giving that all up. Looking into her eyes as she’s feeding is the best feeling in the whole world.

My Current Routine

6.00 a.m - After feeding Ava,wake up, put all the clothes especially Ava's dirty cloth diapers, lampin, handerkchef, mittens, botties and clothes in the washing machines (thank God for the technology).Taking bath 9the only time I can really wash myself).

7.00 a.m - Ava's waking up..prepare breakfast for Flo while he's attaining Ava.

8.00 a.m until 5.00p.m - Feeding, cleaning ava's puke, change Ava's dirty diaper(thank God with the new invention of cloth diaper, i just change her after 5 to 6 hours if she's not poo poo) , entertain her, put her to nap( i carry her with sling when she's sleeping, she will be sleeping 1 until 2 hour straight and she didnt like to sleep in the sarong).

6.00 pm until 9.00 pm - Feeding, bath Ava and luckily Flo would do the cooking during nighttime kalo tidak..fuyooo panat ohhh!!

9.00pm - Prepare to sleep.Will be sleeping and waking up for feeding every two to three hours after past midnite until morning comes....

Will be continue soon...