Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Of Preparation of Home-Cooked Babyfood

It can be tiring to prepare for your baby's food every 2-3 days. Or at least for me.

I'm a full time working mom and I hardly cook for my family during the weekdays. Else, I'll be exhausted of doing things before and after the cooking. And even though cooking for Eivie's food is easy, but the preparation, the choppings are still time-consuming.

So I'll buy and prepare the raw ingredients days ahead.

Once we are running out of ingredients, we'll purchase new ones and I'll siang and chopped all ingredients at once. We'll use all the ingredients as long as the freshness permits.

For chicken, it's ok to clean and wash and freeze it.

But for veges, I would usually siang all but not wash them. Get rid off the rotten part and inshaAllah they will still tahan for another 1+ weeks.




Monday, February 25, 2013

Home-prepared Baby Food.

Dasar pemalas, aku 'screen capture' kan je perbualan dengan seorang kawan, perihal cara aku buat makanan Eivie. Buat masa ni si kecil molek ni masih malas mengunyah, lalu semua makanan pun tetap kena diperhalusi.




Oh ya. Apabila baby dah jangkau 8 bulan ke atas, boleh cuba broccoli dan cauliflower pula. Ada yang cuba awal, tapi kenapa aku mula cuba pada Eivie lewat? Sebab ada yang mengatakan kedua-dua sayur ni bersifat gassy. Boleh bagi kembung kat baby. So aku memang malas nak carik hal yang boleh membuatkan aku tak tidur malam, lalu aku ikut guideline tu. So far Eivie boleh terima kedua-dua sayur dengan baik sekali.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Mengepam Dan Memalas

Sesungguhnya stock EBM untuk Eivie hanyalah tak sampai 50 oz. Tapi kadang-kadang dalam berjuang untuk sekurang-kurangnya tak sentuh stock tu, datang jugak penyakit malas. Malas nak menapak ke surau dan mengepam. Padahal surau tu satu level je dengan ofis aku.

Oleh itu aku buat perjanjian dengan diri aku. Setiap kali lepas mengepam aku boleh makan keropok bantal dan keropok roda! Yosh mengepam!




Baby's Food While On The Go

Eivie is still being fed with home-prepared food, even when she's at her daycare.

One batch could usually last for 3 days, so far it's a bit tiring but manageable. And since Eivie loves my humble campak campak cooking, it makes me happy preparing for her food.

We are going for a birthday vacation this early March. It's going to be 4 days and 3 nights and even if I prepare her food in the morning of the very first day, it is afraid that the batch would not last until day 4. Of course we'll keep it refrigerated or cold but it's quite risky for not having new batch prepared on day 2 or 3.

And to prepare for her food, even though it's easy, it still requires pot and stove. Mana aku nak cekau pot and stove masa vacation? Yes there's some options like small rice cooker, small slow cooker, small portable cooker but the fact that we have to carry those just to be used once throughout the vacation, hmmm... Ada yang tak pasal-pasal mengamuk sebab beg berat.

Thank God for the more and more non-added additive or foreign ingredients baby food available in the market nowadays.

I'll try this Happybaby sweet potato plus apricot instant puree, plan to add this with instant brown rice powder, for some 'weight'.

Eivie who is currently enjoy the one and only snacks Baby Bites, will also be given the opportunity to try these new snacks. And they are going to be her (and Eirsa's) bekal during the vacation too.

Important note : Chick Chick Happy Baby was not given to Eivie  since it contains chicken and this is a US product in which the halal status is not certain.

I'm soooo excited to let her try and of course to start packing for the holiday! Yiahu!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

My Sick Baby

Aku rasa aku tak tidur malam yang terus 4-5 jam dekat 2 bulan dah. Biasanya Eivie akan bangun setiap 2 jam, tapi yang paling teruk sebulan kebelakangan ni; setiap sejam dan kadang-kadang 1/2 jam! Memang rasa nak mengamuk. Capricorn adalah insan yang akan mengamuk kalau tak cukup tidur. Aku bukan nak banyak tidur, tapi kalau dah terjaga setiap 1/2 jam, kepala memang rasa berpusing.

Nak marahkan si kecik tu bukan dapat apa. Kadang memang marah jugak, aku tak tahu apa masalah dia, tak tau macam mana nak bagi dia tidur lena.

Dalam sebulan ni macam-macam yang dia kena hadapi, kesian dia. Mula-mula selsema demam. Lepas 2-3 hari baik, tumbuh gigi atas pulak. Lepas tu sambung selsema baru yang berlarutan sampai sekarang. Dah ada tanda baik tapi masih tak selesa rupanya. Selsema yang kali ini aku dan Papa tak bagi ubat sangat kat dia. Kesian pulak hari tu dah makan ubat, ni makan ubat lagi. Lalu, berpanjanganlah selsema Eivie. Kami hanya pancitkan Sterimar dalam hidung dia dan sedut hingus. Masa Eirsa dulu papa sedut pakai mulut je, tapi masa Eivie ni dah ada nasal aspirator yang berfungsi baik; Nasal Aspirator Nose Frida. Tambah dengan ada 2 hari tu eczema dia naik satu badan, alahai, kesian betul! Hidung meleleh, muka merah, badan merah. Kau bayangkan. Nak berdukung je. Aku bogelkan dia dan peluk sepuas-puasnya.

Setakat pagi ni, masih kekadang dedar badan dia, selsema dah kurang, hampir-hampir nak baik. 3 hari lepas bawa dia jumpa Dr. Altaf (di Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, he's very good dan ramai patient juga!), doktor kata paru-paru, telinga semua ok. Doktor kata teruskan je cara sekarang jika itu yang kami pilih dan jika perlu, doktor bekalkan juga ubat flu. Tengok! Dia tidak prejudis dan tidak influence ibu bapa tak tentu hala, walaupun kita tahu dia ada preference sebagai doktor.

Selain dari selsema, demam dan eczema, Eivie tetap aktif (kekadang rebah masa demam) dan berselera makan. Alhamdulillah, if it's not getting, we have to be thankful as it's not getting worse either. Dan dua malam kebelakangan ini, Eivie dah tidur dengan lebih lama, 3 jam berselang susu. Alhamdulillah. Badan aku pun dan kembali ok daripada menzombie.

God, please help us to get through this dan pulihkan anak saya seperti biasa. Harap-harapnya Hawa ku ini baik segera. Kita ada rancangan hebat sempena harijadi kamu yang pertama!


Monday, February 18, 2013

Raya Selama 30 Minit

Aku nak on kan Waze.

Tapi bateri phone tinggal sikit.

Lalu aku kena charge. Melalui USB port dalam kereta.

Tapi pada masa yang sama kena dengar mak cik Waze cakap apa.

Speaker phone tak berfungsi kalau bersambung dengan USB kereta. Satu-satunya cara kena on 'dengar lagu' melalui phone; MP3. Lalu suara mak cik Waze ni akan kedengaran di speaker radio kereta.

Lalu aku on kan MP3.

Koleksi MP3 di phone aku adalah koleksi lagu raya tahun lepas.

Tiada pilihan.

Suara mak cik Waze berselang dengan lagu raya di sepanjang perjalanan. Tapi aku selamat tidak meredah trafik yang gila.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Three Or Four?

Eivie baru 11 bulan, aku dah fikir pasal next baby. Not about making another one but about how many do we actually want. No, I'm not the ambitious and yet very patient mothers who would want many children, I'm just not that strong mentally and emotionally (physical and financial, let God decide).

It;s about my health condition and the limitations, since I already had two c-sections. In Malaysia, the maximum number of children that a mother could go after two c-sections is 4 (all via c-sections, of course). That would still depend on the thickness layer of the old incision (acceptable thickness, then four is ok).

In my case I was advised to get this information from the previous gynecologist and this could affect my decision to stop at three or four (number of children). If I am to have three children, I might as well opt for tubal ligation or tubectomy  during my third c-sections procedure.

BUT.

If I could actually give birth to the maximum four children, it is still a dilemma whether or not to proceed with tubal ligation during the same c-section procedure for child number 3. May be I might want to stop at three with no regret but, kalau dah tiba-tiba rasa nak beranak kecil pada usia 40, tak ke dah menyesal kalau buat tubal ligation awal-awal.

Nanti lah fikir.
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