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    بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Hello everyone! It has been a while since I updated. I am well alhmduilllah. I won't say I am fully rested or recovered but I just have to learn to do so one day at time I guess? How's being a new mom so far? Like what my neighbour said: Days are long but years are short Miss her this smoll & botak. I couldn't agree more to this phrase because the days where I am longing for A to come back from work and I will drop everything to him to shower, cook or rest. To think about it again, I was selfish coz he is also very tired from work? But I needed my rest and sanity from all the crying, wailing and vomiting. Those first 2 months were crazy I tell you.  It was tough as new parents because we just don't know what she wants. The hardest was putting her to sleep at night or in the middle of the night. She has a certain way of carrying her to put her to sleep. White noise ke, doa-doa ke all no go. At first she was okay with the sound of the fan at

  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Here comes the third and final trimester. The first week was okay, I felt great and didn't really feel I have entered third trimester. I took Covid vaccine (Pfizer) at week 26 as advised by Dr Yong. Saw Dr Yong on 28 weeks , she asked me to postpone my 2nd jab because of my high heartbeat rate just to be on the safer side. Being at 7 months, my nausea and bloatedness are back, Dr Yong said it could be acid reflux coz the baby is higher and she gave me some gastric pills which really helps! I also feel very tired, breathless and wobbly az my centre of gravity is haywire. My last scan was arranged earlier to 31 weeks and have to see high-risk endocrine to see my thyroid and ECG results.  At 29 weeks , I fell at work and everyone was panicking. I didn't want to go to hospital but one of the bosses asked me too (and yeah I had to pay $100+ on my own, should have gone A&E and claim from company insurance) Alhamdulillah nothing happened and I was fit to

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Today was supposed to be my EDD day but my baby decided to come early to this world. hehe Anyways, let's recap on what happened during my first trimester. After we got our big fat positive,  I still have to go to the hospital every week for a blood test on 18 Jan, 25 Jan and 8 Feb, I skipped 1 Feb because Dr Yong said don't need it. I had to do 2 weeks of scanning until I graduated from my 1st trimester, 1 Feb and 15 Feb.  18 Jan Beta HCG: 253 Estradiol: 555 Progesterone: 41.5 25 Jan Beta HCG: 3750 Estradiol: 611 Progesterone: 36.1 I was supposed not to take a blood test anymore from 1 Feb (my first baby scan) onwards but because the nurse saw my progesterone was on the almost low side, they asked me to come down again to do a blood test on 8 Feb. 10 Feb Beta Hcg 86296 Estradiol 1412 Progesterone 49.8 And that concludes my end of CARE visit. I've graduated from CARE! Felt so much joy and at the same time, feeling sad because the nurses are so good, ca

  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Assalamualaikum everyone. How are you all doing? As we entered our 6th years anniversary, I would like to share with you my FET journey a.k.a. my IVF 1.1. Many of you were wondering, where is my latest post of my new IVF cycle? FET or frozen egg transfer was way easier for me because I don't need to do as many scans as before, no injections needed and I can just plan when I wanted to do it. Alhamdulillah my second round of transfer, which is my first frozen transfer was smooth and totally different from the first one. I have decided to use up all my frozen embryos (2 in total) that I had and tawakkal alaAllah. One was BB grade (same as my first cycle) and one was grade 2.  I prepared more this time around by eating more healthy, exercise and being active, I even went to TCM (4 out of 6 times of the package that I took). I find that this round was better because there weren't injections. Only oral tablets and only 1 scan. I really love this arrangement a

The time has come! Like finalyyyy, I got my final results and pass! Alhamdulillah!! I was supposed to graduate on June 2020 but because of my financial constraints (focusing on my new home, IUI and IVF), I decided to defer my studies 1 semester and stretched my studies from 3 modules to 2 modules per semester. I think it is a blessing in disguise as Covid-19 hit hard from Jan - August 2020, I got to finish my 3 semesters by online learning. I won't say it is easy but it really saved my time and journey to school and back. I would say, listening to lectures for 3 hours straight at home is very hard because you get distracted on whether to cook dinner, pray or just lazing around/sleep. Online exams are tougher than we anticipated during the Covid period during the Jan - Jun 2020 and when they decided to scrap the idea during the July - Dec 2020 semester and substitute with a 3rd assignment (NOOOOO!!), it was quite a bummer but of course, more time to do assignments and research. But