Mohamad Azrai Arif Amli Mahfuz

D.O.B: 20/03/2003
W.A.B:3.2 kg
P.O.B:Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital

Azrai or better known as Abang is a planned baby. I planned to have another baby when Tasya was 2 years old. People said that 2 years gap is good for children, and this time I wanted a baby boy. My original plan was to have 2 kids: 1 girl and 1 boy.

Since I wanted a baby boy- I did my own research, I searched the internet, read books on how to get baby boy. I even forced my husband to get involve in this pregnancy. I was pregnant in June 2002, this time around-I do not have morning sickness but evening sickness, after 7pm-I cannot do anything. To make things worse, we are moving to our new apartment in August. And having such a wonderful husband, who only knows how to plan without execute it himself-I have to do all the packing, from the clothes, to the kitchen staff, to all others stuff. Imagine, me in my early pregnancy, have to do all the packing.

We moved to a new apartment somewhere in late August, early September. By that time I was 3 months pregnant and I got a new job in BC. So, I quit my old job in early September and I was on leave for 2 weeks before start work at BC. I still have to do all the unpacking, moving things, picked up big boxes, etc.

One day, Amli has to go to Melaka for work, I stayed at home with Tasya-this was few days after we moved. Woke up from sleep, went to the loo and to my shocked, there was a blood on my panty. I was panicked because I lost 2 of my early babies with the same sympthom. Tried to call Amli but he have not swithched on his handphone. I was really pissed off with him. I SMS him and told him that I was bleeding.

After few minutes, he called me and told me that his brother(AA) will come over and bring me to APSH to see my gynea. During that time, I got a call from BC, from my boss to be(P) informing me that there will a one week trip to UK-part of our induction week. I was like, "what if I had a miscarriage, can I still join the trip".

Finally AA came and took me to the hospital, the usual trip will take us about 1 hour but with AA , it only took us 30 minutes. You can imagine our "fun" trip :)

We saw the doctor(DM), and he did the scanning of the baby for me and Thank God, everything is ok. DM said this happened probably I was so tired and did all the hard work, and the baby is telling me to slow down. After this incident, everything went ok with the pregnancy. Azrai even "followed" me to London, and we had fun walking from FCO to the Tate Moderm Museum.

My expected due date(EDD) with Azrai was on 27/03/03, but I was so determined to have him on 20/03/2003. And I guess the power of positive thinkingreally work on him because Azrai was born on 20/03/2003 at 10:03pm on Thursday night.

I had the pain in the afternoon, went to APSH about 3 pm. Got admitted to the labour room at 4pm, DM suggested for me to take the epidural to reduce the labour pain. I was determined to have a drug free labour(after OD with Tasya-I do not want another OD baby!!). Stayed there and watched TV until about 8, when the pain was so intense, finally I asked for the gas. Around 9.30pm, DM came in to the labour room, and said that I was 8 cm dilated,and it's time for the baby pushing. At that time I was so tired and I asked for labour assistance i.e Vacuum but DM said NO. He was really against any labour assistance saying that if he uses vacuum the baby head will be long, etc. During this pain- I really don't care. I just want the pain to went away.

At 10:03pm, Azrai was born. Before he was born, Amli and I had a light argument about his name, we both agreed on the Muhamad part, but I wanted Adam Arif and Amli said he does not want Adam as it been over used by both of our family, then he said he quite like Azrai which means 'nisbah' or equilbrium in English. I wanted Arif as it means wise, and I wanted my son to be a wise man. AMli said that if we put Muhamad Azrai Arif, it will be too long for him, plus his name. But after seeing me struggling with the pain, he finally agreed on the Muhamad Azrai Arif.

Azrai is the most manja and special. He is the only one that has been admitted twice to the hospital due to various illness. He is the one is so close to me, he sleeps with me even in the middle of the night when he wakes up, he will lay down really close to me. He is the 'mat handsome'-he is so particular about his look, nothing can spoil his look. There was one time he was sick in the car, he vomitted, he was not crying because of the pain but cried because the dirt on his shirt. He kept crying "habis abang, habis abang"-looking at his t-shirt. He is so funny and very determined boy. If he said that he wants something, he will make sure that he gets it, his ways. According to chinese horoscope, he will be a rich man when he turns 36. And I think he will be successful person. I really hope that I can count on him to look after the sister and become the man of the house with Amli, so that I have 2 men that I can rely on.

BTW, Azrai has this soft toy that we called 'bunny', it's a purple rabbit(look at the photo above). He is so attached with bunny that he takes it everywhere he goes. There was one time that he went with my brother to my aunt house, he took bunny with him but when they got home my brother told me that he left bunny at my aunt place. That was at 11.30pm at night, we told my brither that he have to get bunny back, but he was so tired. So, we have no choice but to get bunny ourselves. We rather drive and get bunny than having Azrai with his tantrum!!!