My first trimester

Alhamdulillah ya Allah for giving me the chance to really experience the joy and happiness of being pregnant. It was seriously unexpected even though we were really hoping and wishing for it to be true. Alhamdulillah Allah Maha Kuasa. My journey of becoming a mother has been tested as early as the 6th week. The episodes of vomitting, nauseous and headaches did only stop when I reached my 5th month of pregnancy. Nevertheless I did not have the urge to complain whatsoever as I am now full time housewife so I just enjoyed my rest at home without having to worry about other things. I vomited almost everyday especially when it came to brushing teeth. Average daily I vomited twice or thrice. I could not tolerate some food like nasi padang and nasi ayam penyet. Milk and dairy products are a definite NO. I did not have the strength to cook at all. Sorry husband. most of the times husband called for delivery. FYI it is easy here as all the restaurants offer for delivery services and not only restricted to fast food chains. other than that, I had ginger biscuits and choc chip cookies from marks n spencer, lemon biscuits from Julie's with a cup of Horlicks/ oat drinks. Although I did not really have the appetite to eat, but I kept ( my husband too) reminding myself to eat for the sake of the little one which is growing in my womb. Other than food intolerance, one thing weird occurred to me is my allergy towards something wangi including my husband's body spray, perfume, air fresheners and also detergents! How terrible is that? I used to be someone yg very sangat suka all those wangi2 things but I ended up covering my nose while hugging my hubby before he went to work and also when bibik came to clean up our place. Apart from that, I guess I was doing just fine. The experience was indeed memorable and thank you Allah things are back to normal now. Alhamdulillah I managed to pass the first trimester and we celebrated it by going back to KL. yeay for that!

My second pregnancy

Here I am jotting down something regarding my second pregnancy. Remember I lost my first at 8 weeks in January 2013. Though it was devastated but I know there is always a blessing in disguise for everything that has happened. Furthermore at that time we were so occupied with packing up stuff and preparing for our move to Jakarta. And I just cannot imagine coping with nausea while packing up my super banyak stuff. Allah knows better I believe.  So back to the sort, I officially arrived Jakarta middle of March where that was the second cycle period of mine came after I miscarried. according to my gynae, I should have waited at least one cycle before trying to conceive again. There I was thinking this would be a great chance to try again. Who knows this is the rizq of Jakarta baby ( we were secretly hoping for this, of course). So, my new life went on as usual. My daily routine goes -bangun tido- breakfast- watching tv- lunch- watching tv- husband is back- dinner- watching tv- bedtime. Oh and of course prayers in between. April came, it was my birthday month, and seriously I was hoping for miracle to happen that month. Few days before my menses is due, I secretly went to Guardian to buy the UPT testkit and tested. It was negative of course. but I just did not know why I was just feeling it. I just felt that I had it inside. one of the similar things occurred to me with previous pregnancy was that I had this, when I peed, I felt incomplete mcm something yg x puas mcm tu la. so I thought maybe this is the sign. On 4th of April, a day before my actual due date. I tested again.  Peed and waited. Checked. VERY Faint line appeared. Subhanallah. Beyond words. Whatsapped the pic to my hubby and asked if he could see anything because being very faint I somehow thought it could be my imagination because of wanting it so bad I could be seeing things right. he said " mcm ade faint line". Yes! That's good news but if course I was not in hurry to jump into conclusion. Anxious and could not wait to retest after a few days. Three days later, 7th of April to be precise, and it was Sunday, I did the test again and Alhamdulillah it was a bright line this time around, I am pregnant and most importantly I was due for my birthday celebration in a week time and I told my husband that Allah has given me my early birthday present- I am pregnant on my 29th birthday! Alhamdulillah syukur ya Allah. Below are the pics of the stick. Above was taken on 4th April while the other one was on 7th of April.

Babymoon!

Alhamdulillah thank you to Allah for the rizq and thanks to hubby for granting my wish to have a mini babymoon for the both of us. Since I didn't fancy traveling on a plane at this stage of pregnancy, we decided to go somewhere nice but near to us. I guess Mandarin Oriental Jakarta was without doubt a perfect choice for us. We loved everything there! We booked a superior room that was so huge- we were surprised by the size of the of room. ( see pic below) We opted for Urban Escape package that comes with several privileges including breakfast for two pax, transfer to Grand Indonesia/ PlazaIndonesia(unlimited), free Internet, one hour massage for one ( I asked husband to hv this), and USD 25 credit for F&B. I must say that we had a wonderful stay there. The staff were friendly and helpful, the service was good and definitely we enjoyed the shopping trip to GI as well! Definitely we would live to come back! ( with the baby of course, InsyaAllah)

Syukur ya Allah