looking back

20/8/2007, 4am : 38-weeks pregnant Umi suddenly had a leak of water in the middle of the night. Baba was woken up, and the both of them decided to go to the medical center, although Umi was not feeling any pain or contraction. Once we got into the labour room though, Umi was only about 1cm dilated, so we checked into the ward.

20/8/2007, 9am : The gynae came and checked, but still there was little progress on the dilation. Umi and Baba waited patiently in the ward, with Baba busy going back and forth to get a bath, food etc.

20/8/2007, 4pm : It was decided that it was safe to go back home to rest. The leak was a false alarm, and not the water breaking.

20/8/2007, 10pm : The contraction started coming in intervals of 10 minutes each.

21/8/2007, 12mn : Umi was having a hard time to getting some rest and sleep with the contraction coming swiftly, and we decided to head to the doctors again. However, by now we're all well prepared with all the stuff to bring along. Having the medical center just a 5-minute drive from home also helps a lot.

21/8/2007, 12.05am : At the labour room, Umi was only 3cm dilated. Needing 7 more centimeters, with each centimeter coming every hour, we knew we're gonna have a long night. Although it was good that we could spend it in the ward rather than in the labour roon. Umi couldn't get any sleep, so she asked for some injection (pethidine) that would soon make her drowsy. No epidural, though. And Baba would soon hurt his neck trying to sleep on the small little chair.

21/8/2007, 6am : Baba woke up for his morning prayer. After finishing, Umi was already in the labour room, all ready to deliver. 9 cm dilated, we still had to wait for another hour. Baba spent the time reciting verses of the Quran for her loved ones.

21/8/2007, 7.40am : After pushing and pushing, and with one last final push, a 2.5kg baby girl was born. Due to the effects of medicine, the baby was also drowsy, not crying, purple-blue in colour and could not immediately learn to breath. Luckily the doc was quick to react to the nurses' incompetencies of resuscitating the baby and switching on the oxygen tank at the same time. The doc had to cut short her job of collecting the cord blood for St*mLi*e to attend to the baby and magically make her cry of the most beautiful sound of crying. Baba gave the azan and iqamah, and here I am, baby Nadhrah Azzahra!!

a few minutes after coming out to see the world


i'm a girl!! and i'm a muslim!!


no problem in enclosed places


learning how to 'jelir lidah' so soon in the incubator


newborn mittens and diapers are too big for me


face all red (and yellow-ish)


sedapnye tido kene bungkus dulu (kalau skrg kene bungkus mesti tak bes.. tido buas sgt laa bes)


sleeping soundly in the presence of teddy bears


1 more week to my birthday!!

of names and books

love thy name

Baby names nowadays can get so... wow. I don't have a word for it. Gone are the days when our parents name us simple names, and it seems like we are outdoing each other in giving unique names to our babies.

Not so cool now : Jamilah, Rahimah, Rokiah, Hashim, Hassan, Kassim

So cool right now : Danish, Qistina, Seth, Ryan, Mikhael, Daniel

Well, all is well and fine, as long as you don't go all outrageous and name your baby Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii!!

let's learn the ABC's

I find that I love books right now. It's not the reading actually, it's the lively colourful pictures that I'm so into. And they're not exactly books, they're... magazines. Weehooo!! Less than one-year-old and my favourite magazine right now is.. Pa&Ma. What's not to like about it? It's colourful, with lots of baby pictures in it! And it's readily available cos Umi used to buy lots and lots of them. Now Umi's not reading them anymore, it's my turn to read them (and shred and drool on and tear them apart!!). Doesn't matter, put the Pa&Ma in front of me and I can get distracted for many minutes (well, not hours)...

Umi need to buy me some books. But I'm not that into hard-paged children books. Any books you can recommend?

star-struck

Pak Alang and Auntie Nia held a ceremony for cousin Aryanna Nadyne's bercukur the other day. There was a marhaban group, catered food, lots of family members and all. And my oh my, cousin Nadyne's grown so fast to about 6kg, just 1kg less than petit lil' me - who's about 8 months older than her. She looked cute in her all lavender dress and white ribbon-headband. Little did she know, at the end of the day, all her hair would be gone and all will be left is one gondol'ed head!!

Nadyne and her happy parents

But that's not the main highlight for me... hehehe. One of the guests is a celebrity and I get to meet Malaysia's most eligible bachelor in person!! Weehooo...

this picture will definitely make all the girls envy me (although I look far from being happy!!)


apparently I'm not the only baby who cries in his arms!!


I managed to get some nap, and this is me all groggy and sleepy after I just woke up, sitting with Umi and cousin Sarah (soon to be the leader of our girl power trio, Nadyne+Sarah=Nadhrah)


Umi : Nape muka I nampak tembam masa nih... isk isk..
Baba : Hey, hands off my wife!!
Nadhrah : I'm star-struck!!

You can view more pictures of the ceremony (and the celebrity) here. (I'm linking to your picasa, bole kan Nadyne? We're all waiting for your own blog...)

birthdays

My first birthday will be coming in less than a month!! Without realising it, I'm almost a one-year old baby... how time flies. Feels just like yesterday that Umi and Baba struggles to keep up with the job of new parents by cleaning up after my dark, unscented poo-poo. Fast forward 11 months later, and now they have no issues diaper-changing me, except that the poo-poo is a different yellow colour and totally smelly.

Umi and Baba is still pondering whether to hold a birthday party. Hmmmm... will I get a birthday party?? Anybody out there wanna become a party planner? Or better still, sponsor the event? Hehehehe..

In other birthday news, before the month of July ends, I would like to wish a very belated birthday to my uncle and aunties :

Tia & Che'Ah


Pak Alang


Ayah Ngah

Happy birthday to all of you, and don't forget to buy me a nice birthday present, really soon okay!!!