Jan - found out I was 2 weeks pregnant. somewhere around the Thaipusam Day. then we decided to inform Luke's mum on her birthday, letting her know that she's getting her first grandchild as her 53rd birthday present.
Feb until Jun - basically dealing with worst morning sickness. but I would go through again if that what it takes to bring the love of my heart to this world. the sweetest boy, the one that has my whole heart. thank you Allah for this gift ♡
Jul - finally enjoying foods, satisfying my cravings to the max, gained 10kgs from my before-pregnant-weight, literally no regrets. still drinking coffee up to this day, eventho my hb was below than normal level (8-9) on daily basis.
Aug - what was the most significant changes caused by this pregnancy hormone (other than my weight) ? well, my nose. it got swollen for some reason. like it's tryna tell the world that I'm pregnant. as if my tummy was not obvious enough hm! anyhoo, this month we started our checkup at Hospital UiTM Puncak Alam, as we planned to give birth there. semoga aura pensyarah and all the medics got passed to my child aminnn! OH. here's the part I don't wanna forget :- on 29th, I was having a false contraction, which I initially I felt pain around my pelvic bone. so we visited the PAC and the nurses did a check up, which turn out normal because baby's head has gone down the pelvic area, getting ready to be delivered. after that, I was sent home and get scheduled for another check up on 1st Sep. then, on 31st Aug around Asar time, Luke & I went out on a date to eat Asam Laksa at Ah Cheng Lotus Setia Alam (because I figured I can't eat laksa for a long time after giving birth), but I was having a bearable cramp the whole time we're out. then we came home, I just sat and breath while trying to endure the cramp, like the whole night actually. the reason I didn't go to the PAC again was because the nurse said earlier that the contraction pain would be greater than the period cramp pain. so I figured, I should just wait for the check up on the next day lah.
Sep - we went to the check up as scheduled on 1st Sep. I thought it would be a quick one, so I didn't had any breakfast earlier because we planned to go eat Nasi Kerabu at Hayaki after the check up. Dr did the check up and turns out I already had a 2cm opening ?!! the pain that I had yesterday was actually coming from my child tryna get out LOL. around 11am, Dr said "jom beranak today?" but I was freaking out because I've got task pending on my side to be commit to the github. plus I haven't eat anything ahahhaha. wrong thing to be think of at that moment but I just told her, "OK jomlah". then I informed my husband, the one guy that can't think shit under pressure, he said "should I go buy that nasi kerabu for you right now?" hahahahhahah! then I told him to forget about nasi kerabu, just come here to the hospital, bring the bag we prepared, charger and some bread & cheese. he (literally) didn't even bring the powerbank because I didn't mentioned it and he can't think of it. really can't work under pressure lah this guy. anyhoo, our healthy precious son arrived at 6:59 pm, Friday, looking so hairy and pink, we named him: Dzar Haziq ❥
Oct - life has been an 180°, in a blessing way Alhamdulillah. son has been diagnosed for prolong jaundice, mainly because I fed him ebm only. but now that he's a month old, I can mix-feed him with formula, which we did. and thank God, his jaundice gone down a lot. within two weeks, he don't have to get blood drawn out of him anymore, Alhamdulillah. it was so painful to see him crying so hard everytime the he got poke with the needles.
Nov & Dec - I don't really remember what was happening around this time, mainly because I was completely occupied with the new lil guy, and... my maternity leave ended which mean I was juggling between two different roles; a software engineer and a mother, which I was really grateful for.
2023
Jan until Aug - tbh, I don't remember any specific event that was happening this year. I bet mainly because both Luke & I had to work our 9-5 job as a software and network engineers, at the same time had to work on our 5-9 job a new parent. oh actually, the new parent thingy is a 24 hours job lah, but we did it anyway. together. beautifully. however, it's putting our 9-5 job on the line. so we had to find a way to handle this. which we did. with Allah's guidance, we found AKE SA. 10 minutes from our house. we gambled on this one, paid almost RM1.9k for the annual fee & registration + first month payment. having child cost a lot huh? hahahahahah. giving birth at Hospital UiTM costs us around RM3.5k (that include minor op & epidural). nevertheless, I will do that again without any second thought. I was and still am, eternally grateful that we're able to withness all of son's milestone, all of his firsts, all of his baby languages, we didn't missed out anything, Alhamdulillah for that. Working while taking care of a less than a year old lil guy was definitely tiring but worth it. Working from home made it happened.
Sep - son's first birthday! it was a bless and blast.
2024
Jan - son started his first playschool. I remembered he fell sick, like a lot. the runny nose phase suddenly started and lasted a while. Oh! 2 weeks after started school, he caught Influenza A and that's not funny ok! but that's what we had to deal with lah since his antibody was never got exposed to outside world before. and mind ya, kids carry lots of germs. mami abi also got flu from kissing the boy, like countless time.
Feb until Dec - to be continued... because I've got a Kubernetes setup to do. till then!
Love, H