BEST PRENATAL VITAMINS

Prenatal vitamins intake are highly recommended to help cover any nutritional gaps in the mother's diet. Prenatal vitamins contains many vitamins and minerals such as folic acids, iron and calcium which are good for the baby to growth healthy. 

During my early pregnancy, my ONG Dr prescribed prenatal vitamins from Pharmaton. I'm having difficulties to take the vitamins as it got strong sense of tuna, which make me feel nauseous everytime i take it. Then, during my visit to the government hospital, Dr prescribed ferrous fumarate, vitamin C and folic acid. I'm still having difficulties to consume ferrous fumarate as it is big tabs shaped and got strong iron sense which I can smell it in my breath. It makes me have nausea and headaches. During next visit to the ONG Dr, i notified him the difficulties i'm facing and he prescribed me new prenatal vitamins which is from Merck Co. called Sangobion. Now this vitamin is the best! It got slight vanilla like taste and smell which make it more endurable. So, this one is for keep!

Sangobion contains...

Sangobion especially good if your Haemoglobin (Hb)level are low. My Hb levels are low which is quite a worry especially when i am pregnant now. Hb are important as the oxygen carrier. I want to make sure my precious get enough supply of oxygen to avoid any complications. During my visit to the government hospital, Dr prescribed me Ferrous fumarate which i can't take due to the strong sense. Therefore, during my second blood test, my Hb still low. The nurse inform me if my Hb still low during the third blood test, they will inject me at the buttock. Now that sound creepy! I am glad after taking only around 4 tablets of Sangobion, my Hb level increasing! It works like magic! My baby and my buttocks are safe now!Syukran.. 

Sangobion actually supply most of the vitamins and minerals needed during pregnancy except one, which is DHA. DHA are important for the brain and eyes development. Therefore, i take new developed formulated milk, ANMUM Materna which contained DHA. Now, another product for keep during pregnancy is this product, ANMUM Materna. Maybe details in next entry.

Each of the vitamins and minerals have their own benefits. I am personally think that folic acid is one of the most important vitamins during pregnancy as it helps prevent neural tube birth defect, which may affect the newborn brain and spinal cord. Apart from the vitamins, i like to take it from neutral source. From my readings, foods that contain folic acids are kiwi,papaya,asparagus, broccoli, spinach and many more. 

Knowing my foods intake not only affect my body now but affect my precious too, i decided to eat more healthy foods, pop that tablets and gulps those milks everyday. Hope we both will be in good health. 

MATERNITY CHECK UP

My pregnancy journey so far so good. No morning sickness, no headaches, no constipation, no nothing.. Fine, not entirely no nothing. I did vomiting like 3-4 times and experienced light headaches during my early pregnancy and now starting to feel backaches. But still...bearable! Thanks little one for being so good as this is mommy first experience!

Today is my 25 weeks of pregnancy. One thing for sure, i becoming a little too sensitive. I felt neglected over small reasons and crying become like best healing process ever. Well, i hope i doesn't sound creepy because through my readings, it's perfectly normal for pregnancy women. Blame the raging hormones. Well, this entry is not about weepy mom-to-be i am. It is about my maternity check up experiences.

As this is my first pregnancy experience, i am totally a dummy..But i am lucky as my elder sister & my sister in law already pregnant twice and they kept giving me useful advises based on their previous experiences. Clearly, we are all experiencing pregnancy differently. Therefore, regular check up are extremely important.  

I will listed down all my queries about pregnancy and asked my ONG Dr during the regular visit. I personally went to both health agencies, government and private. I know nowadays people tends to choose either one and mostly will go for private when money is not an issue. I grown up hearing stories about bad labor services in government. They says you are going to be like a guinea pig in the labor room as bunch of internships related staff will watch you in labor and doing the stitches. You are like their experiments. Well, what an unpleasant thing to hear. Imagine all the strangers watching you in labor. Yucks!

Thus, i decided to  giving birth in private hospital, just to be safe & put my mind at ease. Currently, my ONG visit is once a month. Somehow, during 5th month of pregnancy my mother keep asking me to register at the government hospital as she says, it is compulsory as the mid-nurse will visit me during the confinement period for regular mother and newborn check up. Now, being the obedient daughter i am, i went to the government hospital optimistically. But of course, the que are long and they have specific station for each test and you have to wait for your turn at each of the station which take time like forever just to heard your name to be called. Imagine it takes about 4 hours to complete the whole process during my first visit. After my second visit, i totally learnt that coming at 8 am is not early enough. Got to be there at 7.30 am to ensure you are on the top of the list. Well, shame on me. 

But i got to say, everything got their pros and cons. In this case for instance, i do like the consulting session with the nurse. She gave me so many tips without need to be asking. Ironically, she is also pregnant about 5 months that time. I felt like we are best friends instantly. As for the don't like part, apart from the long que and too many station to attend, i don't really prefer the ONG consultation because they only scanned once (For me so far), and there's only 1 screen for the Dr. She did turn the screen a liltle bit facing toward me, but hello...you are explaining too fast and i don't really get to see it. She goes like, ok there's the baby's head, legs, arms, backbones..well, the baby normal. And i'm like WHAT??? Which one is legs, arms or what is what..I don't see it and this is my first time i see my little precious in shaped. Plus, they don't print the images so i can't go ga-ga looking at it day and nights. Compared to the private hospital, they do ultrasound for each visit. I am not sure whether it is good and safe to do ultrasound regularly tho. Maybe the government are trying to be safe or simply because of the costs. Despite all that, my heart keep pounding so fast and i felt like so much joy remembering sees my precious already forming shaped. I felt like crying. I can't wait for my next visit to the private ONG as they got two screen (one for the Dr and the other one for me..like that's what i'm talking about babeh) which is in 4D & the explanation are more digestible.

Well, so far that's all i got about my experiences during maternity check up. I am glad the little one are growing normally in my womb. Here's the sneak peek of little precious from my previous visits : 

THERE'S RAINBOW AFTER RAIN

It's been 2-3 months after my surgery. And multiple news fill in between, thank God most of them are good news.

Recall back my previous entry, Alhamdulillah the biopsy result came out as the lumps are non-cancerous. I couldn't imagine undergoing all the cancer therapy as i'm sure, it wasn't pleasant and triple the pain & trauma i felt from my last surgery.

So, i am determine to take good care of myself especially my eating habits. Got to leave all those fats and stay with well balanced nutrients intake. But of course, i been stray from the mission during the festives lately. Got to back on track now!!

BUT....today's entry about the other good new...

 

It's all start on the early morning of July 24th, when i reliazed my period was late about a week now. Must be the side effects of the medicines. But, i stil grab the strip and do the test anyways as i'm trying to finish the strips i bought drive by my overexcitement as my period was late for about 2 weeks.

 

I’m in shock...It’s like time froze. I’m speechless. My eyes keep staring at the strip while brushing my teeth.

Is this real..??Am I really really pregnant for real? REALLY?

It took more than 5 minutes for me to get all this straight..Finally, Syukur Alhamdulillah Ya Allah... I can’t wait to share the good news with my hubby. I quickly grab the phone and send the strip image to him. I spread the new to family members during breakfast. Everyone seems shocked at first too. Then, congratulate and happy for the good news. At that moment, all pain seems disappeared. I’m too full with happiness.

Hubby and me went to ONG Doctor right away that afternoon. There, i’m officially a pregnant women. It just 4 weeks old. It’s a relieved to find out that my surgery procedure doesn’t affect the lil one surviving in my belly to get into the world.

I am now really got the meaning of like a rainbow after the rain, there’s always good thing after the pain.