DIY Placenta Encapsulation

Hello readers! Ha, I know, the title sounds interesting, yes? 

Yup, gonna share with you guys how I encapsulated (and consume) my own placenta. Google it, many mothers have done it, for a fee, but I did it on my own - for free. Ok, hubby helped to do it actually.

I'm sharing this to show that this is do-able. For readers who want to do this after birth, you can do on your own at home too ya.

After the doctor birthed my placenta, hubby put it into the ice box, took it home, cleaned it, and put it into the freezer. No time to do it on the same day, and he only had time to do it two weeks later.

Not gonna show you how the whole thawed placenta looks like, scared you all faint, haha. But the first step is thaw the placenta, then steam it for about 20-25 minutes.

Then cut into small chunks, like below.

Set the oven to the lowest temperature, mine around 100 degrees, and 'bake' to dehydrate it, but be careful not to burn it. Make sure they turn hard (and dehydrate completely). After 5 hours baking, this is how it looks like.

Blend into powder.

Now, it looks like this.

Now, go buy some empty capsules from the pharmacy, and encapsulate them.

Benefits of placenta encapsulation: Wounds heal faster, more energetic, produce more breast milk, lessen post partum depression. How true is it? Well, I took two capsules in the morning and I stayed up all night, eyes big big. Too energetic? 

Hello World

Hello world, I'm out! 3 days earlier than my EDD - estimated due date. This is me, after they bathed me after birth.

And this is me, at my home sweet home the very next day.

And you know what, I already know how to suck my thumb right after I'm out. Don't believe? Here's my picture, hehe.

Oh, by the way, this has nothing to do with SK, but my name is Wong Sherman, ta-daa! 

Mum and dad were still very undecided about my name few months ago, but one night, they were all watching Sherman & Peabody on Astro, and Kenzie korkor suddenly said 'I love Sherman', and so, Sherman it is!

Ok bye! Shall update you guys again :)

A Break

Dear bloggers,

Just to update you guys. Will be taking a break from commenting in your blogs. I will start my annual leaves tomorrow (I still have 7 days), and then maternity leave (depending when I pop). Not very convenient typing from the phone, but I will still read your blogs from my blogroll everyday. Lagipun, stay at home everyday also nothing to do ma, kan? Can still read and surf, I just don't wana type from the phone, that's all.

Comments disabled, since this is just a simple announcement. I'll update you guys again, ya?

Okbai!

P/S: Another picture of my cute swollen feet.

Swollen Feet

Dear all,

This is a picture of my swollen feet. Mum says if they're swollen, means the time is near. I hope baby comes out a few days before his due date (anytime after 10th December). Not too early, and not late I hope. 

With Kenzie, 4-5 days earlier than his EDD (estimated due date). 

With Gavin, 3 days earlier than his EDD. 

With baby #3, I hope 3-5 days ahead too. Just not now. Please. Because the longer he stays in there, the better, I think.

So readers, please don't forget about me. Shall keep you guys updated.

Okbai!

Japanese Potato Salad

First thing my colleague said was "Looks like fried rice" when I showed him the picture yesterday. And first thing another colleague said justnow was "Nasi ayam" when he saw this photo just a few minutes ago.

LOL, it's not nasi ayam la, it's my delicious Japanese potato salad.

Pasta Zanmai serves similar stuff at RM7.90 per scoop. Crazy. I tell myself may as well learn and make my own. So I googled how to make Japanese potato salad. Looks easy, and I have all the ingredients.

Just one thing - lots of chopping to do. 

The ingredients are simple - potatoes, eggs, cucumber, carrots, red onion and Japanese mayo (Kewpie). Boil eggs and potatoes, mash them up, chop the remaining ingredients, and mix everything with Kewpie mayo.

And there, Japanese potato salad, no need to pay RM7.90 for a scoop to eat in restaurant already.

Out of topic, I bought this banana walnut muffin from the kedai runcit yesterday, the lady boss said just arrived, new product. When I took a bite, errr, banana essence got la, real bananas don't have. RM1.50 per piece. Can try though.

Ok, bye!

Tag Post

Very surprised to receive this tag/nomination from Rose, thank you. I'll give this a try, hehe.

The Rules of The Award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you with a link back to his/her blog.

2.Answer the questions given to you by the nominator.

3.Nominate (and notify) other bloggers for the award that have fewer than 500 followers.

4. Create 11 questions (or less) for your nominees.

5. Let the nominees know that they have been nominated by going to their blog and notifying them.

6. Display the Liebster Award logo on your page. List these rules on your post. 

Rose's questions are:

1. How do you spend your perfect weekend?

Ever since having two kids (and one more on the way), no more perfect weekend already. To me, perfect weekend means spending time with hubby, go makan, jalan-jalan, movies. But with kids around, can't do that anymore. I spend most of the time at home, and only go to mil's and my mum's during the weekend. Life is like a prison, not complaining, but this is the reality, unless you have maids and you marry a rich Dato's son.

2. If you could be an animal for a day, what is the perfect animal for you and why?

Hmm, maybe a bird? I want to fly up high, feel the freedom and all. And go peep at whoever I want to peep at, be a stalker, haha. 

3. If there is anything you would like to change about yourself or life, what would it be and why?

Tricky question. Maybe yes. I would want to marry earlier as my dream is to "kautim" to have all kids before age 30, but I'm in my mid 30's now, and #3 baru on the way, so, not so ideal anymore, huhuhu.

Err, I don't know how to tag others, and I'm worried some people do not like to be tagged/nominated/answer questions. So whoever interested can do the same thing as I did, and my questions to them would be:

1) If you strike jackpot (not pregnant ok, I'm talking about the 4D jackpot thingy), what would you do.

2) Describe how you cook 3 meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner) with RM10. Dinner must have a soup and AT LEAST two dishes. List down the food & price.

3) Give me 5 suggestion for a baby boy's (English) name - 2 syllabus.

Ok bye !

Rant

Rant post ahead.

G's nursery is having extended Raya holidays for one whole week, from 20th til 24th July. So I had no choice but to ask for my mum's help to takecare of G for the whole week. She agreed and has no problem with that. 

She brought G out to shopping malls and restaurants alone. Ok, I don't mind that. Without the car seat. Ok, I try to "close eyes" on that too. If the shopping mall is too faraway from home, she calls a cab and bring G along, alone. Ok, that one too I won't say anything. She cannot "sit still", I understand.  

But now, I want to rant on this one. G has not poo-ed for two days. Finally yesterday night, mum reported through Whatsapp and said finally G has poo-ed. 

I replied, "Good, thank God". 

She replied, "I pumped him".

***The "pump" is enema, small "pump" filled with liquid medicine to be inserted into the anus to stimulate poo-ing.

My mood was alright the whole evening until she told me about this. He doesn't have any constipation problem, just late in poo-ing, why can't she just wait? She could feed some bananas, or give more water. Why she wanted to interfere with the pump? Oh God, please don't let her start with this pump thing, G still has 3 more days with her there. I really hate dislike it when mum behaves like she knows best and "lek mm chit" (pandai-pandai).

Hubby asked me not to argue with her in Whatsapp anymore, else if she says, "If you are so papai, then just come and pickup your son home", then die. True. I stopped the conversation, tried to forget everything and went to bed. 

Ok, I know I should be thankful as I still have my parents here with me, and I can ask for their help if there's any emergency cases, like this one. But....... having an "educated" and "modern" mum and who can't "sit still" at home, erm, stress. I prefer the nursery than mum's place. Really.

Ok bye!

My Big Bowl

Here's my big bowl of homecooked ginger & sesame oil kidney and liver soup. They say preggers cannot eat so much liver, as too much Vitamin A can harm the baby, but, I could not resist the temptation when I think of pork kidney & liver. Thus, I asked my MIL to buy me some kidney & liver from the market so that I can make my favourite bowl of ginger & sesame oil goodness.

My recipe is simple. Wash well your innards. Then ginger and garlic (optional) sauteed in sesame oil. Add water (you don't need chicken stock). Add some oyster sauce, soya sauce, that's it. Let it simmer, then off the fire. Yes, off the fire, then chuck in the kidney and liver. Make sure they don't over cook. Remove pot from the stove, the innards will continue to cook inside, don't worry.

They also say preggers cannot eat so much tuna. But I have been eating tuna sandwiches every morning for the past 3 weeks. Hmmmmm. I have been also drinking old cucumber soup, bitter gourd soup and lots of icy drinks and rock sugar too. Maybe cincai already, 3rd pregnancy ma.

Ok, time to control my diet. Bye.

Hi

Hello bloggers. 

I have not updated my blog for more than a month. I hope you guys still remember me :)

I've recently lost interest on certain things - working, cooking, baking, blogging and even eating. I just want to sleep whole day. 

It's the hormones.

Yep, I'm pregnant. This is not a planned pregnancy. It took me one week to accept that I'm pregnant - again.

I'm 11 weeks along. No, I don't have any pantang. So, yeah, I do not wait until I hit the 12th week before I announce to the world. My husband (of course), my mum and lady boss are the first few persons I told. Then to a few close colleagues. And now, you :)

So please forgive me if I don't update my blog. Really, I just don't feel like doing anything at all. I just want to sleep - all day. 

Ok, bye.

Please, I Want Somemore

Nothing, I just feel this picture really looks like the famous Oliver Twist's, "Please, I want somemore" tagline, haha.

Hubby sent this picture to me while I was driving home from work. I was stuck in the traffic jam for nearly 2 hours. He was at home, feeding the boys, and that day, they had spaghetti with bacon and mushroom sauce. 

Kz finished his food and proudly showed his dad his empty bowl (he didn't ask for more). Hubby captured that face that very moment and to me, it really looks like he wants more food, with that sad face, and licking tongue somemore, haha. 

But in reality, he already finished a big bowl of spaghetti, showed his dad the empty bowl, then happily continued watching his monster trucks in Youtube :)