A new schedule for a new semester

Bismillah.

Tomorrow will be an exciting but challenging day!!  The past three weeks into work was not really challenging to find time to pump milk because my students were still on their semester break.  So that meant flexible adjustable time for me to pump. Now that the  semester is starting again, classes will be starting again!!! So it's no longer flexible hours... now it's pumping according to my class timetable.

I have 18 credit hours of teaching each week. For us lecturers, that's quite a lot of hours because it doesn't include hours needed for clerical work etc... So for each day most of my breaks between classes I'm privileged to only about 1-2 hours... That is the time I have to eat, solat, prepare for classes... And now to pump milk!

Hopefully everything will go smoothly.
Oh ALLAH.. ALLAHumma yassir wala tu 'assir ya ALLAH... May YOU ease everything for me.  Indeed I'm doing all this for the sake of my dear son YOU bestowed to me to take care of in the most decent manner possible.

Rule of Thumb in handling expressed breast milk (EBM)

This took me weeks to remember! Tapi demi anak..for the sake of my dear son, I FORCED myself to memorize it. Phewh~

It's not easy to pump our precious milk isn't it? So don't let it go to waste just because of our own ignorance!

Sakit belakang2 nak pump tengah malam lah, in between office hours lah...

 Sooooo, have to remember how long can our milk stay on the sofa before we chill it... Or perhaps how many days can we have the caregiver keep the same bottle of milk chilled before it goes bad.

Remember,  this is THE RULE OF THUMB! I once gave my son Umar 3 bottles of milk which I had thawed two days before, since he stayed home that day not going to the babysitter.  The next day my poor boy had diarrhea.... The poor thing! Sniff~ I promised myself after that that I would be more alert on the RULE OF THUMB.

Number your milk bottles!

Once we start working we tend to get all confused on how to have our baby's caregiver or pengasuh or babysitter (or whatever you may call them)

 After a week sending my son Umar to his babysitter, my sister taught me to number bottles passed to her everyday...

Here, my sister Azhani shared this Diagram of how to handle EBM. really useful...

You are a breastfeeding mom, I am a breastfeeding mom

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone!

As the title stated above, YES, this blog will be about My journey as a breastfeeding Career Mom.  I am a new mom and I am basically just learning as I go.  I find how significant it is for moms to share so that others can learn... So i'd like to do my part and share what I have learnt so we can share any common experienc!  Yes!!

Introducing myself, my career is lecturing students in Universiti malaysia Kelantan.  I just became a mom as of 7 November 2014.  I put my son in priority of everything! Yes, I want everything to be the best for him.  Nevertheless, I know I have to contribute to the Ummah also thus I decided I have to be A BREASTFEEDING CAREER MOM! :)

I am sure many of us moms have made that decision....

So let's share!!! :)