On Cloth Diapers

Salaam,

Alhamdulillah, I entered the 24th week of pregnancy yesterday, which means I have around 16 weeks to go. And the school holiday has just started too. Just a perfect time to sit down with DH and list down items that we must get before the lil peanut pops out. At least that's what I thought. I have tonnes of exam papers to mark and other school-related work as well. Officers from the Inspectorates' Department will be visiting the school and conduct an intensive inspection (yikes!) during the first week of July. More work I guess but I must not complain. Been teaching for 5 years and this is actually the very first visit from the Dept ever since I joined the school. Consider myself lucky.

Back to the topic, I've been so caught up with the thoughts of cloth diapers that I can't stop browsing about them online. Listed down the best cloth diapers found on Babble and several others and ended up with different reviews on each diaper. Luckily a friend posted a very good advice on the FB CD group wall, which calmed me down a bit. According to her, who has been CD-ing her daughter for almost a year, regardless of the brands, all CDs do leak at night sometimes (I'm quite worried about night CD-ig actually). And another good news is that she's been using Autumnz, a malaysian brand, which is quite cheap and affordable and easily available here. At least I don't have to worry about ordering some from eBay (though you can actually find some good bargain there).

Apart from shopping for baby's stuff, DH and I have been planning to rearrange the furniture in the bedroom and make some space for the baby's nursery. Since that room is already creamy white in color we have no intention to repaint it with a new one. It's neutral enough :D

Browsing babble also gave me an idea on how else I can document this special moment. I decided to take a picture of me at least once a week, get it printed and write something at the back of the photo (or if I feel so malas I will just label it with the week number :p). I only started this yesterday. Just a nice timing as the bump has started to show in the picture unlike previous shots. InsyaAllah I will share some decent ones here (if there is any). The one I took yesterday was me lying on the couch holding my bump. The baju was okay, the pose was alright but I wasn't covering my head, so it is strictly for personal view only. Apart from that, I'm also using BabyBump apps on my phone to record my pregnancy. I actually bought an islamic pregnancy diary from an online shopper when I just found out that I was carrying this lil one. The diary is quite good but again I'm just too lazy to write down anything so it ended up sitting on the shelf and has started collecting dust. I hope I will be able to fight off this laziness and continue writing here in the near future.

And I seriously have no idea on how to end this post nicely hehe. And I'm not really sure if there is any reader out there but it's okay it doesn't really matter. Again, this blog is merely a way for me to let out my thoughts, not to be heard or read but just to make more empty space in my head for more thoughts :)

Till my next post, I pray for the little one inside me to keep growing healthily and safely. Amin Ya Rabb.