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Smoking and Children
Posted on 01 February 2012by Mamapumpkin
My mother smokes. For as long as I’ve known her, she has smoked. My brothers smoke and I have also smoked. I’m asthmatic. Is there a co-relation? Who knows? But what I do know is that smoking in front of kids is bad. Almost everybody knows that but what many people don’t know is that if second hand smoke (the inhalation of passive smoke) is bad, then what about third hand smoke? What exactly is third hand smoke?
Comments(0)Dealing With Husayn’s First Day At The Kindergarten
Posted on 25 January 2012by Intan
5th of January was a big day for my son, Husayn since it was his first day at the kindergarten!
Comments(0)What’s Your Parenting Style?
Posted on 18 January 2012by Mommy Lyna
Have you ever observed your parenting style? Or you just don’t have any ‘style’ at all? Autopilot maybe? 
Psychologists Maccoby & Martin suggested these 4 parenting styles that we may adapt or practice unconsciously!
Comments(0)Poo Baby Poo!
Posted on 04 January 2012by Intan
I have 5 younger siblings, but never once in my life have I ever cleaned their stools. Well, except once when my youngest sister was 3 and I had to clean up her poo as my mother was not at home. Guess what I did? While holding my breath, I took the toilet brush (yes, the one that you use to clean toilet bowls) and as careful as I could I cleaned her using that brush! Maybe, that’s what being “geli” can do to you and maybe, that’s why my mother never asked me to wash my other siblings’ stools ever again.
Comments(0)Healthy Birthday Bash! DOs and DON’Ts?
Posted on 28 December 2011by Mommy Lyna
My boy Hafiy turned 4 in October and we had his small birthday party at the nursery. It is actually our family tradition to have birthday celebrations. It’s a day for family gathering. Each year we’ll go back to my home town to celebrate our grandmother’s birthday and she’s 71 this year.
Comments(0)Recycling Presents for Christmas
Posted on 21 December 2011by Mamapumpkin
Tis’ the season of merry making and good cheer arriving once again at the speed of light, as mothers all get busy to make Christmas as special as possible for the children, for the needy and for the families……….why is it always the Moms who do most of the work???
Comments(0)Amber Chia’s Best Birthday Gift Ever From Baby Ashton
Posted on 14 December 2011by Amber Chia
It has been a great year. I shall certainly remember 2011 as a year of achievements! I am very happy with what I have done this year. My son, Ashton is healthy and happy. I have never been so busy with modeling and acting engagements. I opened four academies in one year. My business is growing and getting better but the most satisfying part is being able to help my students make their dreams come true. Of course, I wouldn’t have done all these without the generous support of my sponsors, friends and members of the media.
Comments(0)Getting Your Child To SLEEP!!!
Posted on 30 November 2011by Mamapumpkin
Another big, BIG problem for parents the world over is getting their children to sleep independently. It is amazing how much time parents waste just trying to get their kids into bed and you really haven’t a clue how a child rocks your world with such an impact till you have a child who refuses to eat, sleep and listen. Sometimes I do ask myself why anyone has kids. I myself have literally just come out of the kids’ bedroom after wasting 1.5 hours lying down in a darkened room with about 58 intermittent threats that if you don’t lie down right now, I will leave the room!
Comments(0)Shopping With Kids In Tow
Posted on 23 November 2011by Intan
I love shopping ( at times even window shopping can do wonders to my stressed soul!) and I usually bring along my two kids if I go to the mall during the weekends.
Comments(0)What to Do When Your Child is Hospitalized
Posted on 16 November 2011by Mommy Lyna
I had ‘beautiful’ experiences when my children were hospitalized. It began when Hafiy’s temperature hit 40 degrees Celcius. He was sent to the Emergency Department and admitted immediately. Then, Fahry was nursed in a hospital incubator for 30 days, followed by another twelve days in Special Care Nursery.
Comments(0)Oops, I Did It Again! – How to Switch Bag without Forgetting Anything
Posted on 02 November 2011by Mommy Lyna
I don’t have many handbags but switching my bag from office-bag to diaper-bag, to casual hand-bag, often makes me forget stuff. Don’t be surprised that I lost my house key and parking card when they were actually safely placed inside my other bags.
Comments(1)Toddlers and Drinking WATER in their Terrible Twos!
Posted on 26 October 2011by Mamapumpkin
A perennial challenge for parents the world over, here’s how we have dealt with kids not wanting to drink anything. It’s OK if your kids will still drink juice or other liquids but it becomes a real problem when they won’t drink ANYTHING, and only drink when extreme thirst strikes them. My 2 girls are like that. It’s completely genetic. Their mother hardly gets thirsty and the same goes for their grandmother. We have to literally set our alarm clocks to remind us to drink. So how do you get a toddler to drink then?
Comments(0)Why All Moms Should Blog
Posted on 19 October 2011by Intan
I started my own blog back when my eldest son was 1 year old. Looking back, I wish I had started blogging much more earlier - back before I got married!
Why you may ask?
Comments(1)Amber Chia’s Little Darling Ashton just turned ONE year old!
Posted on 12 October 2011by Amber Chia
I just got back from my movie shoot in Sabah. I have been away for about two weeks. I missed Baby Ashton!
Comments(1)Choose Homemade Baby Food!
Posted on 22 September 2011by Mommy Lyna
My baby Danny turns 6 months in September, so it’s the right time to introduce him to solid food. Nowadays, back- to-basic lifestyle becomes so popular that making homemade baby food is a choice for modern parents. Homemade baby food is our choice too! I homemade food for my babies since then and it is more satisfying than buying it from stores and feeding them from cans.
Comments(0)Almira’s First Step
Posted on 14 September 2011by Intan
My daughter, Almira has finally started walking last month at 13 months! To me, it was quite a long wait since family and friends kept saying that baby girl usually takes their first step early. So there I was expecting my daughter to start walking before she turns 1. Well, I thought at least she will start walking earlier than her brother, Husayn but in the end she started walking at the age when her brother took his first step too!
Comments(0)Paying Attention to Your Children
Posted on 07 September 2011by Mamapumpkin
It is no doubt that raising children WELL forms one of the most difficult tasks one ever has to achieve but do children ever ask to be born? When you decide to have children, you are taking on the huge responsibility to care for them, and that includes ensuring that they are fed, clean, clothed, sheltered and are healthy and well. More importantly, you have to ensure they grow happily, steadily and safely. This means you fulfil their emotional needs and provide lots of affection, attention and supervision. This means you make sure that they are not harmed by anyone, yourself included. As a parent, you take care of your child’s healthy development by not putting him down, blaming him or excessively screaming/shouting at him or shaming him. This means you spend quality time with him.
Comments(1)Managing your Mother-In-Law
Posted on 24 August 2011by Mamapumpkin
The perennial problem since the beginning of time, 98% of women in Asia don’t want to get on with their daughters-in-laws. No girl is ever good enough for their son. Would you agree? It’s an historical fact of life so rather than fight it, why not do the best with what we’ve got?
Comments(0)Amber Chia Just Can’t Get Enough Of Baby Ashton Calling Her Mama
Posted on 12 August 2011by Amber Chia
Baby Ashton just started calling me Mama. Isn’t that wonderful? The first time he looked at me and said: “Mama”, my heart just flipped over - it was the most incredible feeling. I just can’t get enough of hearing him call me Mama. It’s sweet music to my ears. I love hearing it. I don’t know if he gets tired of saying Mama but I am always prompting him to say Mama.
Comments(0)Taking Small Kids For A Short Vacation
Posted on 10 August 2011by Mommy Lyna
I talked to my friend about bringing kids on a family vacation. She said it is quite impossible to take the whole family for a vacation while kids are still small. It won’t be a vacation, but chaos.
Comments(0)The Truth About Scolding Your Kids
Posted on 20 July 2011by Intan
Back when I was a growing up kid, I always hated listening to my mom giving me her series of ‘lectures’. The scolding was horrible since I even ended up refusing to help her in the kitchen just because she will start telling me off again when something goes wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I love my mother unconditionally, but sometimes her scolding drives me up the wall!
Comments(0)Breastfeeding For The Travelling Mom
Posted on 13 July 2011by Mommy Lyna
Many working mothers now choose to breastfeed their babies despite their tight working schedule. Some of them even have to travel on a regular basis.
Comments(2)Cleansing Fahry’s Prosthesis
Posted on 06 July 2011by Mommy Lyna
Fahry has been using a foot prosthesis since he was 9 months old. It’s quite good but one thing I can’t stand is the smell… since he uses it almost all the time except when he goes to the bathroom and to bed. So you can guess how much perspiration there is in the very confined space between his leg and the prosthesis.
Comments(0)Breast Milk Pumping with Dettol
Posted on 06 July 2011by Mommy Lyna
As a breastfeeding mother, milk pumping at work is my duty. For milk pumping mothers, hygiene is the main concern. Not only do we have to ensure that the precious milk is always safe for babies’ feed later, we also have to ensure that the residue does not disturb anyone. As you know, breast milk is rich in nutrients that attract bacteria and will smell just like other rotten food. Breast milk as well attracts bacterial growth so it must be kept in a cool environment. In this case, I use a cooler bag with chillers that may last for 10 hours.
Comments(0)My Little Girl Is An Expert On Hygiene
Posted on 29 June 2011by Mamapumpkin
I grew up with Dettol and now my kids are growing up with Dettol.
Here’s my little superstar showing you the proper way to wash your hands with Dettol Handwash. Give my girls Dettol and water any day and they are happy!
Comments(0)Growing Up with Dettol
Posted on 29 June 2011by Mamapumpkin
As a child, whenever the name Dettol was heard, we could smell it. We knew it was that brown liquid that was used to sanitise. That’s what hospitals smelt like and that’s what toilets smelt like. Today, Dettol is very different! It still hints wafts of traditional Dettol but there is a lot more perfume added in today’s Dettol. After all, we use Dettol today in almost everything; body soap, liquid soap, wet wipes, hand sanitisers, you name it. Soon they will have Dettol moisturisers!
Comments(0)Intan Gives The Thumbs Up For Dettol Products
Posted on 23 June 2011by Intan
Having two kids at home means staying hygienic is super important since kids are more easily exposed to germs. My son, Husayn loves playing outside the house and sometimes to my utter horror, he will simply roll his body all over the place without caring whether the surface is clean or not. As for my 11-month old baby Almira, she is really into crawling all around the house and it got me worried because I’m sure even though it is indoors, the floor surface is not 100% clean.
Comments(0)Motherhood Affirmations
Posted on 15 June 2011by Mommy Lyna
Now with 3 kids in the house, it is enough to make me really tired. Tired, tired and tired again, LOL. My eldest son is still breastfeeding (athough I have always wanted to wean him off, he sneaks in to have his dose). My second one just had his new prosthesis and is still adapting to it. So I have to make sure he’s not falling or stumbling on anything. And the baby still needs my full attention especially when his brothers are around!
Comments(0)Juggling kids and work ALONE
Posted on 08 June 2011by Mamapumpkin
All too often I’ve been known to be the family whinger. I admit, my princess life has not prepared me for real life and although I have enough zeal to get things moving, I MUST moan. It releases my stress and makes me feel better, so shoosh. If you don’t want to listen, close your ears.
Comments(0)Amber Chia’s Baby Ashton Has Two New Front Teeth
Posted on 01 June 2011by Amber Chia
Baby Ashton started teething and he now has two small front teeth. It was only yesterday that I saw the teeth. Before that, he had me worried as he was having fever on and off for awhile. I found out later that it was because he was teething. He kept biting his toys and other objects he can grab because his gums were itching. I will be able to teach him to brush his teeth soon!
Comments(0)Surviving Long Distance Marriage
Posted on 18 May 2011by Intan
It has been approximately one month since my husband left to work overseas. How am I holding up handling two kids and working full time? It’s been ok so far, I did miss my husband occasionally but I guess living with my parents and with a little extra help from them and my sisters, it is not that bad.
Comments(0)A Course in Professional Juggling (something all Moms already do)
Posted on 11 May 2011by Mamapumpkin
But we’re talking about EXPERT level here. All Moms be it Stay-At-Home-Moms, Work-From-Home-Moms or Traditional Working Moms, juggle. It is only a matter of juggling 2 balls or 3 or 4 or quantity X, but how many can juggle with the accompanying cool stunts? How many employed working Moms juggle work and family WITHOUT a babysitter, maid nor Nanny, nor any help at all from anyone? How many Moms are employed and have a real BOSS at work to answer to yet still care for kids FULL TIME? It is literally having TWO jobs with TWO bosses, and a lot of demands.
Comments(0)Save The World, Change to Cloth Diapers!
Posted on 10 May 2011by Mommy Lyna
I was so happy after GCDC organizer (Great Cloth Diapers Change 2011 Malaysia) chose my place as their rendezvous for the greatest event of the year for greeny parents – the Great Cloth Diapers Change 2011. Scriptory Box - that’s the name of my place!
Comments(0)I Love Breastfeeding Because It’s A Brain-feeder!
Posted on 20 April 2011by Mommy Lyna
I fell in love with breastfeeding when my friend who got married before we finished studies showed me her expressed breastmilk. When I got married, my husband told me that he wanted his future children to be breastfed as he noticed the difference between his breastfed cousins and non-breastfed cousins in terms of immunity.
Comments(0)To Work or Not To Work – The Biggest Mommy Dilemma
Posted on 14 April 2011by Mamapumpkin
As luck would have it, I was made an offer recently that seems too good to pass up. For the longest time, I’d been wanting to write about this and suddenly, I am faced with it head on. My head has started spinning and I am stressed just pondering about this major decision – to return to employment or not.
Comments(0)Amber Chia’s Little Darling Ashton Misses Home
Posted on 06 April 2011by Amber Chia
I took Baby Ashton on a trip to my home town, Tawau, Sabah and he did not enjoy it at all!
Comments(2)Choosing The Right Daycare
Posted on 06 April 2011by Mommy Lyna
It’s the norm for working mothers who do not have maids to find daycare i.e. babysitters or nurseries to take care of their babies through out the working hours. It’s not an easy thing leaving your baby with another person, what more with the current hot issues : child abuse by the caregivers, infant death at caregiver’s places and so on.
Comments(0)Training Baby To Drink Milk From The Bottle
Posted on 30 March 2011by Intan
Someone asked me how did I train my baby to drink milk from the bottle.
Back when my eldest was a baby, I did try to feed him my own breast milk from the bottle around 2 weeks before I was due to start going to the office. Guess what he did? He cried loudly and refused the bottle. The same thing happened with my daughter. Latch her on to my breast, no doubt she will suckle happily – but try making her drink from the bottle she will refuse indefinitely!
Comments(0)Occupying Kids Productively over the School Holidays 2011
Posted on 11 March 2011by Mamapumpkin
Oh my goodness, where did time go? Thankfully, the first school holiday for the year eases us in with only 5 days of which to entertain our kids before they drive us absolutely bonkers. Having been through enough school holidays to draw comparisons and conclusions, we now plan our school holidays. Planning them doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be dogmatic about it and follow your plan to the T but at least, it gives you something to work towards and doesn’t idle time away. I’m one for productivity so we even plan to REST!!!
Comments(0)Preparing an optimum homework environment for your child
Posted on 09 March 2011by Mamapumpkin
As Asian parents, majority of us in KL are guilty of being comparable to our Singaporean counterparts – super kiasu! If you picked a thousand Moms from a KL basket, I guarantee 95% of them run the children’s rat race. They want their children to first be able to know their colours and shapes, then their alphabets and numbers, then learn how to read, then score straight A’s for their exams or get a top level position in class, and eventually complete their SPM, go to college and earn a brilliant University degree. We all want the best for our kids after all, but at what expense? Play time and exercise, learning the emotional graces, being confident and self-assured are skills all just as important to succeed in this world and it is no wonder why many straight A Malaysian students at school are now just mediocre adults in society. Sure, they may make it to become doctors or professionals and earn a decent living but when put on the international standards list, they appear at the bottom half.
Comments(0)Why I Love Home Education
Posted on 09 March 2011by Mommy Lyna
I love home education! It started from the moment I gave birth to my firstborn. I knew then that all babies are geniuses, and able to learn even before they are born! So I took the chance to introduce my boy to alphabets, numbers and objects before he even knew the cartoon heroes.
Comments(0)Me, My Son And Sports Activities
Posted on 01 March 2011by Intan
It’s been nearly one year and a half but I have started playing futsal again last week! Well, it’s not exactly only futsal, but a number of other sports as well. The place where I work is having this sports carnival and I who have been sports-less for quite some time has found myself being forced to play futsal, badminton and volleyball!
Comments(0)Amber Chia’s Very First Chinese New Year With Baby Ashton
Posted on 11 February 2011by Amber Chia
This is the first year that I am celebrating Chinese New Year in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, there are many FIRSTs for me this Chinese New Year: my first Chinese New Year with my family in Kuala Lumpur (my mum and dad flew all the way here from Tawau); my first Chinese New Year with my baby, Ashton and my husband, Adrian; and also my first Chinese New Year giving Ang Pow. We had a pretty great time during Chinese New Year – this is certainly a very memorable year indeed!
Comments(0)The Ang Pow Dilemma
Posted on 08 February 2011by Mamapumpkin
Ever since I got married, I’ve had this problem every year wondering just exactly how much ang pow money to give out to family and friends. Do we follow what is perceived as the ‘market’ rate? Do we go above ‘market’ rate or do we go below? Who gets how much? And all these years, to think I got it all wrong!
Comments(0)Days of a Schooling Mom, a Mom with school going kid(s)
Posted on 25 January 2011by Mamapumpkin
When I moaned about my babies taking up all my time, they said don’t worry, soon enough they will be off to school and you can finally get your life back. Before my second child came along, T1 was a school going kid and although I treasured the time when she was at school, it didn’t make me less busy. And now that she’s in Standard One and I have T2, I am busier than ever!
Comments(0)The year of 2010 that was………
Posted on 12 January 2011by Mamapumpkin
To put it mildly, I had a bad year last year. But so did many others I know. There was just something about the year of the tiger that brought a bout of bad luck to many. Of course, my version of bad is really by my diva standards, and I do realise that more than 3 billion people actually had it worse. But this is about me. And believe me when I say it was BAD!!!
Comments(0)Season Greetings from Amber Chia
Posted on 29 December 2010by Amber Chia
I’m in Sandakan, Sabah right now, I’m not in KL, and this will be the first time I will be away from my son for so long, 2-3 days, and I miss him a lot now. Now I can feel, you know, how a mother misses her son when she is away. I did call back just now, and my mom said my son is already sleeping, about 9 something, so I couldn’t talk to him.
So you want to hear him cry and all that ?
No. I remember that when I was in Penang, my husband call my son to talk to me, even if I don’t know what he is talking about but when I turn on my speaker phone, my husband told me that he was looking around and looking for me when he hears my voice. So, unfortunately today I have a packed schedule, so when I called my parents, he has already gone to sleep. So, I miss him a lot and I’m sure he’s going to miss me as well.
Lying to your kids – Should you? Shouldn’t you? Where do you draw the line?
Posted on 16 December 2010by Mamapumpkin
Is Santa Claus real? What about the tooth fairy? Do our toys really come alive when we sleep?
Will I really go blind if I read in bed? These are all questions my 6 year old has asked me and I have lied about them all.
*GUILTY AS CHARGED*
For starters, I had 10 wonderful years believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy so why shouldn’t my kids? It was such a magical experience for me knowing that besides my own parents and family, there were people out there looking out for me - elves who could listen, fairies who were watching, and Santa, who obviously loved me in some form or other and could get me toys my parents wouldn’t!
Comments(0)Stimulating My Disable Kid’s Physical Ability
Posted on 09 December 2010by Mommy Lyna
I love to bring my kids to places they could play, learn and enhance their skills. Especially Fahry because we want him to utilize his remaining body parts. His right leg muscles show some delays compared to his left ones. It could be because he likes to use his left ones more.
So we brought him to swim and enroll in swimming class (organized by his nursery). Fahry is a good swimmer 
Not that he knows how to swim, but he’s a brave one, when we put him in water, he didn’t fret at all, instead enjoy each second of being in the pool.
Where to go during this school holiday?
Posted on 02 December 2010by Intan
The school holiday has started again!
For parents who have school going kids I guess this is the perfect time to bring your kids for vacation. And then there’s some parents like me who don’t have school going kids yet but is planning to take some time off to bring my kids somewhere while at the same time having a good excuse to stay away from work for a while. Husband and I usually reached home around 8 something at night and the kids are usually too tired during that time. Weekends and holidays are the only chances of me and husband having a bonding time with the kids!
Comments(0)Amber Chia - The Joy of Motherhood
Posted on 24 November 2010by Amber Chia
How’s life after becoming a mother ? How has it changed your life ?
I would say that after becoming a mother your life is going to have a lot of joy, like a lot of happiness in the house, e.g. this morning when I woke up the first thing I do is walk down to see my baby… and you know when I look at him I feel bliss and I feel joy, and so happy to see him around.
Inside the mind of a six year old
Posted on 19 November 2010by Mamapumpkin
As a check on my 6 year old’s sanity and state of mind, I decided to interview her recently. It’s always good to know that you’re all working on the same page as parent and child, and as a family. Perhaps you could try the same with your 6 year old and see what the outcome is. You’re bound to get some good laughs from their answers, if anything!
Comments(0)Middle Child Syndrome is No Joke!
Posted on 18 November 2010by Mommy Lyna
Brought Fahry to Gleneagles Intan this morning for his physiotherapy. It was a great day as Fahry had a good night’s sleep, after not sleeping well a few nights before. I’m not sure what he had been through, no cough, no flu, no fever but every 10 minutes he’d scream, even he got up and pointed to something.
It stopped as I started to play Quran recitation in our room all the way from night to dawn.
So during the session Fahry looked so energetic and happy. He played in freedom even if without instruction from the Physiotherapist.
Comments(1)Disciplining Your Child – to cane or not to cane?
Posted on 04 November 2010by Mamapumpkin
An aged old topic that has been discussed over and over in Malaysia and here I am, discussing it yet again. Why? Because I still hear of so many parents hitting their children, that’s why.
Did anyone ever say parenting was easy? No, I didn’t think so, and hitting a child (who is completely helpless) is a form of abuse. And by hitting, I also mean spanking, whacking, slapping, flicking, caning, yelling, degrading, embarrassing, threatening, shouting, screaming and basically any form of aggression and violence that is carried out that instils fear in a child.
Comments(0)Dilemma of a Working Mother
Posted on 31 October 2010by Intan
I used to envy those lucky stay at home mothers. They got to spend their time at home 24/7 with the kids, watch them grow up and best of all they don’t have to worry finding maid or babysitter to take care of their kids.
The horror stories of maid abusing children, babies not being properly taken care of at day care, and there were also stories of babysitters neglecting the kids scared the heck out of me. I’m not exactly comfortable having a maid since living with a foreigner who is also a stranger does not seem too appealing to me. I guess if I were to choose between having a maid, sending to day care or babysitter, I will choose sending to daycare – provided that the day care is legal of course and approved by the Social Welfare Department.
Comments(0)Having A Disable Child, What’s Next?
Posted on 27 October 2010by Mommy Lyna
Many parents when they knew that they were given disabled children would spend some time blaming themselves, it is OK, if this happen to you, this is normal. But dragging yourself into this for more than a little second is a disaster.
Don’t worry if you have a disabled baby, regardless of whether he or she is physically disabled, or mentally disabled. What you have to do is enjoy the moment.
Comments(1)Having a Physically Disabled Child? No Sweat.
Posted on 17 October 2010by Mommy Lyna
It was a hectic evening when I gave birth to my second lovely progeny. I was 26 weeks into my pregnancy when I bled, and it did not stop even after 2 weeks, until his birth day. My child was born at 28 weeks, premature, too soon.
It wasn’t only that, more shocking news came later when the nurse told me that my baby was abnormal. He was different than his brother, who was born as a 3.3kg healthy baby with a loud cry. My second boy cried a little, shrieking, and so soft. He was very small, only 1.19kg at birth, and has no right foot…
Comments(2)What’s the big deal about Christmas anyway?
Posted on 12 October 2010by Mamapumpkin
As far as I know, Christmas to many kids these days in Malaysia are about receiving presents. Certainly my six year old daughter! I asked her today whilst she was writing a Christmas wish list to Santa,
“Why do we celebrate Christmas, T1?”
She gave me a blank look. I repeated my question and persisted for an answer. She shrugged.
“I don’t know.”
Stressing out over fussy eaters?
Posted on 05 October 2010by Mamapumpkin
Ever since I can remember, food has always been a big love of mine. Big!!! I don’t know if it was my first love, but it certainly came very high on my priority list. It was like air! Sight and smells of food would cause me heart palpitations and my pupils would dilate. Even at five! Naturally, my first daughter took after me seeing that we used to fight over Tim Tams since she was 2 years old but nothing prepared me for my 2nd daughter, who was just not into food. What happened? She can NOT be my daughter if she does not love food! And just for the record, her father is also a food lover like her mama, so what happened?
Comments(0)Stroller vs Baby Wearing
Posted on 26 September 2010by Intan
When I was pregnant with my eldest, Husayn, I saw lots of parents bringing their babies to shopping malls by safely tucking them in their strollers. I thought it would be nice to own one too since it would be easy to put him inside the stroller while I go shopping. And so I bought one.
Comments(0)Managing hurt in children (fixing back the fragile pieces of their hearts)
Posted on 19 September 2010by Mamapumpkin
At some point in your parenting life, you will meet this hurdle that you’d need to cross and if you haven’t reached it yet, you may want to save this for future reference. But unless you and your husband are made of stone, I can assure you your child will experience being upset one day from the words and doings of things completely beyond your control, and what do you do then? Even as adults, some of us are still unable to manage hurt what more with our little darlings?
Comments(1)Pregnancy, round 2
Posted on 31 August 2010by Intan
I just gave birth to my second child recently. I named her Almira which means “princess” in Arabic and husband and I were so excited because our first one, Husayn is a boy - so having a daughter is perfect to complete our little family.
Comments(1)Nobody told me THIS about breastfeeding!!!
Posted on 30 August 2010by Mamapumpkin
Breastfeeding sure is one of the biggest decisions all new mothers make when having a baby and are then forced to re-evaluate when the going gets tough. Are you cut out to be a breastfeeding Mom? I thought I was but little did I know how difficult it was. I soon had to decide between the best nourishment for baby versus my own sanity.
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