November 18, 2009

Cookies!

I got the recipe from a friend. She received it from her friend and there is actually a story behind the recipe... Want to know more? can visit her wonderful blog here. hehe.... sorry my friend (Mrs Z), didn't ask your permission first to link it to yours :)


So this is how the cookies look like. Looks yummy? I am not a big fan of cookies so I don't know how to grade it whether it is oklah or yummy or super duper delicious! I made this on my hubby's birthday. He gave 10 out of 10 marks... wow! ye ke ni?? tak tau lah kalau saja nak ambik hati tapi dia cakap betul2 best. The kids simply love it especially Isya. It contains a lot of oats, nuts and chocolates that made it delicious and also healthy. Thank you Mrs Z for the recipe... :)

November 16, 2009

From breastfeeding to bottle feeding

Now I'm trying hard to change (breastfeed to bottle feed). Why? Because I'll be back to work soon. I don't have any problem with my eldest daughter as she was breastfed for only 2 months and she refused it once I start working. But Mia is different... she never use bottle before so it is very difficult to make her use it. Got few tips from my friends on how to change to bottle but so far none is successful yet. Mia will throw tantrum whenever she doesn't get it. I tried to ignore the tantrum episode but she will keep on screaming no matter how long would it takes. I had once let her cried for nearly an hour but then i give in. I know I should never give in easily when it comes to this situation but I just can't stand the screaming and crying.

So what I'm doing now is trying to reduce the frequency of feeding during the day. Whenever she comes near to me for breast feeding quickly I will distract her by taking her to the kitchen and get something to snack... usually i give her some fruits. Luckily she likes fruits especially apple and grapes. Night time, I try to sleep separately from her so that she would not 'smell' my presence. I have been trying this for a week but so far not much improvement seen. Arghh... what else should I do?

If only Mia can read and understand..
My darling Mia, mama have to go to work soon and you must start using the bottle now. I will not be at home to feed you as frequent as you want or as long as you wish. You will be staying with nenek at home so please darling mia, start using the bottle, please behave when mama is away and no more tantrums.... I promise to feed you when I'm home.

November 09, 2009

29 years of life...

Today I'm 29 years old! .... ada yg cakap muda lagi, ada yg cakap dah tua. I don't judge it by being young or old, but by what I have achieved for the past 29 years... Hmmm, where should I start....

Before I start listing my achievements or maybe my life chronology.. (not much achievements though) let me tell you a bit about my birthday. I was born in Hospital Besar Kangar now known as Hospital Tuanku Fauziah on 10th November 1980 @ 700am. This was my mom's first hospital delivery as her previous two delivery were at home (my grandma's house). She told me it was easy except at that time the hospital was black-out... no electricity. So I was delivered in the dark...:) My mum told me I'm a good girl when I was small. Not a trouble-maker, very quiet and not talkative

So what I have achieved so far....

1) Of course I'm totally grown up... :) from a little girl to a lady, a wife to a loving husband and a mum to a wonderful daughters. Thanks a lot to my beloved mum and dad for bringing me to this world
My dear mama and abah

2) I had completed my pre-school, primary education in Perlis, secondary education in Perlis and Perak at 4 different schools. That's why sometimes I got confused with my friends, can't really remember them well.
3) Received my M.D. at the age of 24... started working in Sabah. I have been working in 3 different places in Sabah within 2 years. First was posted to QEH for my housemanship, then to KK Luyang OPD and the last was in KKIA Pekan before being transferred to KL.
4) Got married at the same age, 24.... then we flew together to Sabah. starting our career and family there. Now we are married for 5 years and still a long journey to go...
KK memory, I was pregnant @ 7months (kalau x silap). Picture taken at Mount Kinabalu park

5) I'm a mum at the age of 25. My first daughter, Darwisya Nadia was born in Sabah. And we welcomed our second daughter, Damia Hayfa at the age of 28.

yang mana satu darwisya and damia? sama tapi x serupa

6) Already bought our dream car and dream house. Planning to do some renovation to the house before we move in.

I think that's all that i have achieved so far. Basically my life is rather complete, having a degree, a noble career and a wonderful family.What's next? Only God knows. So birthday is not just a day for us to do the counting. It is more of remembering the important things in our life so far. Happy 29th birthday to me.... see ya!

November 07, 2009

The products


These are few products under 4life company. Previous entry, I have explained a bit about Transfer Factor TF. So today, just loading up a picture of the products for you guys to have a look. By the way, have you guys study/ read about TF? If still not, don't forget to do so ya!
Nothing much to say this time, just have a nice and wonderful day. See ya!

November 05, 2009

It's all about....

my little family; my precious

"I want the best for them... and luckily I found one. :)" This was the last sentence from my previous entry. And here I am again to tell you what this 'thing' is about :)

A friend of mine had introduced me to this supplement called Transfer Factor (TF) a year ago. Lama kan?... At first I didn't even made an effort to look what TF is all about. I don't even bother about it. Until when my mia is unwell and with the up shooting number of diseases reported daily, I decided to study about this product and I am very impressed.

TF aren’t vitamins, minerals, herbs, or fruit. They’re messenger molecules that teach immune cells to response effectively by recognizing, react and remember the threats. That's how it work! TF is an immune molecule messenger found in the colostrum. When a baby is born, the nurses and doctors always advice mother to give the baby the early breast milk which is called colostrum. Colostrum contains a lot of TF and antibodies from the mother. TF provides all the information about previous threats that the mother had before. The newborn baby really needs this for her body because her immune system is not yet mature. This is how babies acquire their immunity in the beginning of their life. Later on when they grow up, their own body immune system will take over their own body defense. They will start producing their own immune cells; leucocytes, TF, maccrophages etc. However when we grow up, there will be a lot of things that can lower our immunity; food, environment, pollution, stress, sedentary lifestyle and not to forget all those chronic illnesses such as diabetes etc. So our body immune system might be defective. Whenever an intruder enters our body, our immune cells could not fight effectively resulting in prolong illness and increase the need of antibiotic later on. That is why many scientists even physicians highly recommend us to take TF to educate back our own immune response to work effectively. No more prolong or recurrent illness and most important less usage of antibiotics. TF is safe and natural (from cow colostrum and egg yolk), halal, no side effects and no allergy reaction. Too good to be true ? But all are proven based on the clinical trials/researches. Even in cases of autoimmune diseases, whereby our own body immune response is kinda overactive, TF can actually help to regulate it but still a lot of ongoing clinical research and trials are being carried out to prove about this matter.

To be honest, i'm not a big fan of supplements but after reviewing a lot of articles about nutrition, wellness and health, I think I need that for my own good. And after studying about TF, I decided to try. Why not? I'm not doing any harm to my family but I'm helping them. I want them to be prepared to face this new world. 'Super bugs' are everywhere... these bugs are getting smarter day by day by changing their genetic makeup so that many more medicine needed to kill them. Drug companies are struggling (i guess) to come out with a new powerful antibiotic and vaccine to overcome those new bugs. Why not we just prepare our own 'army' in the body to fight it. It is much better right? After all, our own immune cells are our first line defense. That is why i recommend all my friends to have a look at this product.... go and read about TF. There's nothing to loose.. If you still find that TF is not good for you than that's ok coz at least you have done your work :) Remember, TF is NOT a drug to treat diseases. It is a kind of supplement. If you have any medical problem which needs you to take daily medication, just continue your daily regime. You may add TF as a supplement on top of it.

So this is the website for you to find out about TF; www.4life.com. I am proud to be one of their family. I don't care what people would say as long as I'm doing a good thing. If any of you are interested to know more about the product, you can just email/send a message to me. I'm always there to help as much as I could.

So end of story, a general advice from me: remember to study about the supplement products that you want to try. Choose it according to your priority and needs. Make sure it is safe and has proven clinical studies on it. But even if you take supplements, healthy lifestyle is still crucial. We must live healthily, eat healthily and work healthily. (a reminder for myself too).

Below is a quote taken from an article title 'Total Health and Longevity' published in the Woodland Health Report

It's a hostile world. No matter who we are, where we live or what we do, the immune system is our FIRST and LAST line of defense. No matter the money governments around the world spend on pandemic response strategies. No matter the alleged availability or potency of antibiotics. No matter the research dollars pouring into vaccine development. At the end of the day, one question rises above the rest. How strong is your immune system?

Take care, see ya!

November 01, 2009

The Heartbreaking Moment


I think enough of darwisya's activity for the time being. This entry is all about my little damia. I will never forget the day my little mia was admitted to the hospital... still fresh in my mind. It all happened on 11/8/09...

Mia started having fever the second night after we came back from shenzen for a holiday. Usually her fever subsided after taking a dose of paracetamol however this time the fever was not settling. Worried about her condition we quickly brought her to a nearby private clinic but still her fever not coming down despite doses of PCM and tepid sponging. The most it went down was 37.8 not even reaching normal body temperature. Then that evening as her fever was spiking at 40deg , suddenly i saw her arms n legs were shaking and her eyes were up rolling. Oh my God, she was fitting!

Am panic... don't know what to do. Even am a medical doctor, but when it comes to your own family, you will forget everything! Trust me! I feel like i know nothing... nothing at all. Blurred...what should i do? All I did was crying and crying, calling her name. The fitting episode was brief.... but post fitting she appeared drowsy. She was not responding to me, she kept looking upwards as if somebody was above her head. I couldn't control my fear, I didn't feel good about it. I'm supposed to be calm but i can't control my feelings. Darwisya also cried when she saw me crying. What a terrible moment! Thank goodness Fahmi came home early that day. Quickly he called the ambulance to come and fetch us and bring us to the nearby hospital.

When we arrived at the hospital, mia started crying. She responded and making eye contact with me. Am relieved... a bit. I was praying and hoping that this is just a simple febrile fit not something to do with brain infection/meningitis. I just kept her in my arms and hugs her. I didn't want to be apart from her at that moment.

She was admitted for 4 days with a diagnosis of febrile seizure secondary to influenza A infection.Thank goodness it was not H1N1 subtype. She still having spikes of fever for a week. Now, my mia is healthy. As notty as usual...hehe or maybe a bit more. It was a really bad experience to us.

End of story, I think not even a single mother in the world want their children to be sick... even it is just a simple/uncomplicated flu. It is really heartbreaking to see them unwell. I swear, I don't want to face this experience again. Am traumatized . I don't have any picture of mia in the hospital coz i don't want to remember that moment again. Let the terrible/unpleasant/horrible moment well kept in my mind. Influenza infection was very terrible i must say. In this new world, there are a lot of threats around us, the bugs are getting smarter day by day but do all of us are well prepared to fight those bugs? Some may say 'yes' or 'no' but i'm sure many of us would say 'i dont know'.. Since then I think I need to give something to my beloved family. something that can help their own body to get ready to fight all the threats. I want the best for them... and luckily I found one. :)