Baby's Health
Healthy baby starts from the mother and the father. ❤ Everything that the mother does including eating, drinking, breathing, thinking and even feeling can affect the fetus (baby in womb). Well, the father is very important in baby's health too which is to always be there, protect and love your wife. The happier and healthier your wife throughout the whole pregnancy, the healthier your baby will be. Not just that. Your baby will becoming more genius too.
"Research has indicated that the choices you make while pregnant will affect the type of child that you have"
I will share my experiences and some knowledge that i've known in this post. Every pregnancy is different. So never ever compare you yourself to anyone. Just focus on yourself and your baby okay. 😊
My personal favorite Gynecologist is Dr Cheah, a very good doctor and i trusted her with my whole life. She's like a guardian angel to me. The clinic is located at Brickfield, Kl near my previous working office, Arkitek MAA in Plaza Sentral. I went there for every checkup until it's my time to pop. Dr Cheah is very detail whenever she scanned the baby. That's her specialty. She gave me advises through out my pregnancy.
Some of the advises are, try to drink fresh milk, at least once per day. Eat fruits everyday. (But not heat-y fruits like durian, rambutan, manggis, langsat, cempedak). Try grapes, banana, apple, avocado, etc. Eat healthy foods. Avoid too spicy foods. Avoid eating Maggi. Try Chinese Red Date Soup once in awhile. You can boil and drink it just like that or cook Chicken Soup with the red dates. I'm not a fan of it, but it's good for my son. Alhamdulillah syukur, my son is healthy and he's very strong. Some people mention his strength is like the Hercules in the Disney cartoon? 👼 It's a metaphor.
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| Chinese Red Date soup 👆 |
Try Chia Seed too. Maybe you can eat it with yogurt or fruits. I only ate this twice because i keep forgetting to buy this in supermarket. But you should try it. 👍
Eat Kismis and Kurma too. But remember to drink lots of water afterwards. Have a lot of rest. Alhamdulillah my pregnancy was easy breezy. I didn't have the vomiting phase. My body doesn't swallow. It might be because my husband and i eat a lot of fruits during our honeymoon. Secondly, i'm not a fan of spicy food. Basically, your body needs to work so much for the baby. Try not to burden it more with all the spices. My body did feel tired and my feet cramped too. Sometimes i got 2 days MC from doctor just for me to rest at home. 😂
The doctor taught me to do mild exercises, some movements, suitable for every trimester. I did it every morning and night. So, if you are from Kl, i recommend you to meet the doctor, at least once 😗. She's good. Try not to come late. The first appointment in the morning, the better.
I do whatever i can to protect my baby. I even try to get away from all the smokers. Just to make sure i didn't inhale that smoke. My husband will even sound anyone who smokes around us. 😂 He will say "Bang jangan rokok kat sini. Isteri saya mengandung". Just like that. He's my true hero. He just hate smokers.
During my third trimester, i did mild exercise quite often. I will walk around my office for every hour. I walk to Jalan Tar, Klcc, during Friday's break but with someone of course.
Last but not least, i recommend future new parents to book antenatal class in any medical center or hospitals, where you can learn so much in handling your baby.
Okay now. Baby's Health. If you are reading this, try to read my blog on Preparation for Newborn. I gave lots of tips and good advises for newborn too.
1. Vaccination
Vaccine your child. No excuse! I'm sharing my previous instastory ✌
If you can see, the colored columns, are the type of vaccines given by the government. The Extra Vaccines (in Lain-lain column) are taken privately. I really really recommend new parents to take the extra shots too for your baby. They are, Rota (3 shots), Pneumococcal (3 shots), Chicken Pox (1 shot), Influenza (2 shots). The cost is around RM100-RM200 plus per shot. So dear future parents, instead of buying fashion stuff, do spend it on your child's health. ❤
It's not easy, you see. You need to sacrifice just to make sure your child is safe and healthy. Every shots your child take will cause fever. Fever is very tiring for the parents too. Not to mention with all the screams and cries at night. You cannot sleep throughout the nights! I cannot even look at my son when he's taking the shots. 🙈 I'll cry at night everytime he's having fever. Hati tisu hehe. But this is important guys. Please, take vaccines. 🙇
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| When the body creates antibodies to fight the germs, it's that time when your child will usually get fever. It's okay guys. Don't worry 👌 |
2. Do You Trust Your Doctor??
If you don't have personal favorite Pediatrician (child specialist) for your baby. Try not to go to normal clinic for medical advises. If you not sure even with the Pediatrician, try to look for a second opinion from other Doctor.
The thing is, some Doctors might give your baby the wrong medicine. As you know, Pharmacist is the one who studied and do researches like crazy about medicines and they are the one who creates the medicines.
The problem is, some Doctors are too shy to ask opinions from the Pharmacist. The point i want to say is, my son got the wrong medicines about 3-4 times from various Doctors.
The first time is from Pediatrician in KPJ Damansara where we got the wrong cream (fungus cream) for his heavy rash on his chest. Until then, we found the best treatment, from the dermatology and allergy specialist, Dr Saadiah Sulaiman, KPJ Damansara. Dr Saadiah knows exactly the moment she sees it, it's not fungus. So if your baby is having heavy rash, just go to Skin Specialist okay 😗 Don't waste time and money seeing a nonspecialist about skin. In the end, they will just give you a normal hydrating cream and charge you about rm60.
The second time is when my son having fever. This Pediatrician in Wangsa Kl, gave antibiotics for my son, having 37-38 degrees Celsius. And there comes my 'mother instinct' telling me this is not right. So we went to Dr Cheah again, and she told us, don't give antibiotics to baby (for mild fever case).
The third case is when my son got diarrhea (cirit birit) and fever. This General Doctor from Mediviron in Nilai, gave us a dangerous medicine for babies (Kaolin). Which is when i checked back to my sister (taking pharmacist), she confirmed it with her Lecturer too. And yeap, the Doctor should not prescribe those medicine to my son and especially he's having fever at that time. The medicine is not for children under 6 years old! I already gave it to my son twice! He's only 2 years old. My mistakes.
The fourth case is myself. Some doctors prescribe medicines for me which is not for breastfeeding mothers. 🙏 Dear Doctors, do you know how hard it is for me to keep up with breastfeeding. Just don't simply give medicines like that.
All i can conclude is, always ask for a second opinion from other Doctor and check back the prescribed medicines with a Pharmacist.
3. Smoke
Take your baby away from smokers and smokes. I don't care if it is your husband or father. Just be firm and put your baby away from them. For the non smoker husbands, if you have to work with smokers, make sure when you come back home, the first thing to do is take bath and wash your face with soap. I know you miss your wife and baby, but if you kiss them first before bath, they could get fever or even worst, Death by Pneumonia. Do you want your baby to go to Emergency Room? Be alert okay 😗
4. Reflux and GERD
The obvious sign is when your baby keep vomiting back the milk he/she just drank. The first thing to do is Google about it. Then you can see Doctor too.
GERD baby's stomach will have an opening, so the milk will go up all the time. The thing that can heal this is Time. Usually will heal when the baby is 6 months old. I went to 3 different doctors, just to make sure it is alright. Yes, all three doctors doesn't give a single medicine, only gave me so much advises.
Some of it are, baby needs to sleep with 45 degree angle, or more. Sleep in rocking bounce or other safe gears you can think of.
You see my dear fellow friends. Having a baby is no joke at all. You have to Pray for your baby's health and also you could never sleep peacefully until your baby is older.
Alhamdulillah, my son is fully recovered from Reflux when he's 6 months old. But before that every single feed he vomits back. Can you imagine how hard my old days were? 😂 Every 2-3 hours of everyday multiply by 180 days.
Even until now, i still wake up in the middle of the night just to check my 2 years old baby is breathing.
5. Breastfeeding
So much to elaborate about this topic. But of course, you all know the benefits of it to your baby right. Try as much as you can to breastfeed. Not just that, you will need support especially from your husband. But as much as support that you received from other people, trust me, Nobody will understand what you have to go through except the breastfeeding mothers. They don't understand the pain and the struggle to produce milk. And they will never be.
Some of the struggles are swollen breast (bengkak susu), hungry all the time (imagine you just had a big meal, after one breastfeed, you will feel hungry like in the fasting month aka bulan puasa), nipple pain (from baby bites), 1-2 hours breastfeed long wait before they fall asleep, baby will get hungrier faster because breast milk digest faster than formula milk, breastfeed baby will get stomachache if you eat the wrong food (be careful with what you eat) and so much more i couldn't describe.
Big tip to produce more is drink lots of fresh milk. ✌
The best advice i can give to you is be patience. Know that all breastfeeding mothers go through the same struggle with you. 💕 I'm going through all that too, and i'm supporting you. Trust me, when you know your baby's antibody is stronger, and they are more smarter because you breastfeed them, you will be very very happy. ❤
Even after you try so much, the milk suddenly stop. Please be calm and don't be sad okay. Just give formula milk. As long as your baby is healthy. It is what matters most.
I think that's all from me. That's the most i can think for now. If something will ever cross my mind, i'll update this blog again.
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