For Charity, Not for Your Bloody Publicity

Before touching onto related post about the topic, let's have a moment of silence for the victims of #MH17 as they are coming home today to Malaysia for burials. They will always be remembered and condolences to the friends and families of those affected. I'm again deeply saddened by this as I know, in this very flight of MH17, there were a great number of kids in the flight, all just awaiting to go for holiday, not the last flight of their life. Rest in peace, poor souls.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/themalaymailnewspaper?fref=photo

Now, seriously, I believe most nowadays know about this #IceBucketChallenge but, does anyone really know what is it for and the true cause of it ? I believe not. Everyone seems to find it fun and wanting to do it for the sake of publicity, and most especially, wasting the precious drops of water.

Hey, the true hashtag of ice bucket challenge was #ALSIceBucketChallenge and what is ALS? Not much people even bothers to go look this up and let me tell you what it is for the benefit of you lazy bums out there.

The official website of ALS : http://www.alsa.org/about-als/what-is-als.html

To summarize this, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or a disease often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease"  affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. In time, ALS patients suffers from movement difficulty to total paralysis. As of current, there are no cure for this disease although there are some medicines here and there being developed to slow it down, not totally stopping it. Probably because not much people knows about it since mostly affected was those adults between 40 and 70 and with only 2 out of every 100,000 people will get the disease each year, this Ice Bucket Challenge thing started as an awareness campaign.

So, I don't need to further explain the ice bucket challege since most people knows about it. But what people don't know, is why are the celebrities doing it. People, it's not being done out of fun, it's being done to raise awareness about ALS and also to DONATE. See, you don't know bout this part now, do you?

The ice bucket challenge started in the States when this golfer guy, Chris Kennedy, a golfer from Sarasota in Florida, was nominated by a friend to it and soon his friends started doing it and the hashtag #StrikeOutALS came along together with the #ALSIceBucketChallenge . The craze started on July and by end of July, the ALS Association reported a dramatic increase in donations. Yes, DONATIONS is what it's all about.

Starting from the States, the craze went on to infect people all over the world, doing videos of them doing this. The videos usually consist of the person saying who nominated them, pours the ice water on themselves, nominates someone else to do it within 24 hours or donate $100 to ALS Association and that's it. What they FORGET was the part to DONATE.

Kudos to Charlie Sheen for doing it right and Steve-O from Jackass for saying it right.

Source: https://uk.celebrity.yahoo.com/gossip/omg/charlie-sheen-does-ice-bucket-challenge-but-with-money-instead-water-legend-122120251.html

Source: http://instagram.com/officiallysteveo

So there you go, the challenge is one thing, the donations is another thing, so people, once you've done the challenge, don't forget to educate them WHERE to donate for the ALS Association.

Kids, For Love, NOT FOR FUCKING ABUSE

It's been quite tormenting to see news of child being abused physically, mentally and sexually. It's even more tormenting to see news of newborns being dumped just down the drain like that. It kills me further to see what happens to kids in war zone.

One would always ponder, does these tormentor have no sense of humanity left in them? Does these tormentor knows the pain felt by the child ? In a human of such small size, such innocence and they have to suffer the wrath of the grown ups? You'd think that serial killers and psychopaths have no sense of what I just said, but I would say those people, those beast that harms a child, is far worse than anything. Oh wait, even a beast would fight for their child, so these are lowlifes worse than a beast. They do not feel, they are humans reanimated into life. Zombies. Dead wearing a human mask tormenting only kids (Walking Dead theme playing in background)

The worse lowlifes that I've read about, is the child very own parents doing harm to them. I definitely cannot comprehend what goes in their mind and I am loss at words to describing them. My vulgarities fail me here.

As a mother, as a human, we feel pain even when we pinch ourselves, and know that the pain is amplified double when it happens to a small child. So how can these lowlifes not know? Oh wait, they mostly don't because simply they are lowlifes.

Renting Out Daughter to Beg? Seriously? Being poor is not the reason you should use your child like this! You have hands and legs, you are not disabled are you? A family of seven, why can't you just do something simple like offering cleaning services or even sell nasi lemak on the streets to make a living ! Why push your child out to beg!

This is totally unbearable. Students forced to perform oral sex? Why in the first fucking place you made a knowledge institution to teach !!! To garner monies and have free sexual fun? These institutions, kindies, nurseries, they are supposed to be a heaven, a play place for the kids to learn and grow, not your fucking money making night clubs. You fucking pedophile should be bloody stoned to death or tied to pole with rats chewing your balls off. Yes, this is a torture sentence of the Middle Ages. Lots of lowlifes made these kind of place and in the end, either they could not care enough for the children sent in, or they just have to beat the kids senseless just for simple things. AGAIN, WHY MAKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Newborns being dumped in toilet or just left to die moments after coming out. These... (grips knuckles and cracking 'em) I don't know why these horny sluts can't just get a fucking pack of condom which costs bloody RM3++ from 7-Eleven and use it. Instead, they just have to get fucking pregnant, and give birth and dump the babies leaving them to die. Hey, even if they have given birth and can't afford to raise the baby, can't they bloody fucking put them at orphanage? WHY THE FUCKING MENTALITY OF LEAVING THEM TO DIE? DAMN SLUTS. What have these poor souls done to you? You yourself chose to have unprotected sex and get pregnant, nobody fucking forced you. Even if you are fucking forced onto or raped, godforbids, don't be an asshole and kill the poor soul, give them away or fucking abort before they fully developed into a fetus.

Vulgarities are not even enough for me to curse at these lowlifes and I need more than simple curses at these people. Speaking of torture sentence of the Middle Ages, some of it could be relived to use for these lowlifes.

Unfortunately enough, cases like these happens often all over the world and not much of people tend to report them for fear of something bites them back in the end. People, please, there are tons of NGO for you to turn to if you ever come across cases of child abuse or whatsnot. You've even got the government counterpart Talian Nur from Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development to assist. Appealing to them or the political parties may help in whatever ways people need. Hell, please, USE MR.GOOGLE FORGODSAKES. STOP CHILD ABUSE.

Let me share a dream I once had, it wasn't a pleasant one. I dreamt my baby was taken from me violently, kidnapped I'd say. I can't be sure because I don't remember the details, just vivid details and the feelings but why I say kidnapped? Because I remember the frantic, anxious, sad, angry, nervous, worried sick feeling in the gut. The next thing I remember is that I went berserk in midst of trying to find her and the world gone red. Meaning? I will stop at nothing and it will cost you your dear life slowly and painfully that you'd wish it's Satan himself instead of me coming at you for taking my baby away from me or causing harm to her.

My Breastfeeding Journey (Part 3)

This time, this is definitely gonna be the part that most parent dislike the most, but definitely no way of avoiding this. I mean, everybody does this no matter the age. POOP. Yes, everybody dislikes this part, same goes to me. But you still gotta clean up that mess your kids made. 

Normally people would think that it naturally stinks. But believe me, breastfed babies stools smell differently. Not badly stinky smelly type, but more like stinging maybe like sickly sweet smell. That's how I would describe it. Most parents would not be sure how it would look like or smell like or even how many times a baby would poop a day or within a week. Questions like that arises all the time because, this is definitely how you'd monitor your babies health.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheBreastfeedingAdvocatesNetwork/

This picture above says it all. Follow the guides and it will tell you perfectly how a baby roughly should be although most people would say, different babies different thing. More or less true that. But, generally, it should follow as per the picture. This way you do not need to worry if they are well fed or not. 

Another part related to poop is that, most mothers raise their concerns that when their babies reach 2 months and above, some babies just don't poop for more than 3-4 days. Now, reverted from my pediatrician, some babies just don't poop for up to 7 days. But once over the 7th day, you better bring the baby to go check up. I mean, you don't want to get bloated belly and not knowing what's going on inside. Bad stuff.

Again, different babies different thing. Once a mother even shared that her baby did not poop near to a month, either you send the baby to check up or some would revert that if the baby is fully breastfed, they can even go up to 40 days no poop. So long the baby is healthy, good appetite, clear urine, no fatigue or temperature, then all is good. You'd be worrying for no pooping, but some mothers worry bout pooping almost every feeding, THAT is normal too. 

Poop colors may change from time to time due to mommies diet, for instance, that greenish poop could be from moderate to heavy fruits and vegetables intake or more foremilk than hindmilk. Differences in poop color, you may refer to this useful bunch of information here: Diaper Decoder. There's nothing to be worried about usually when it comes to poop and pee. 

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheBreastfeedingAdvocatesNetwork

This wonderful network really shared a tremendous lot of information that a breastfeeding mother would need and thanks to this great bunch of mothers inside, even with bumps here and there, I manage to breastfeed my baby girl up to 8 months now heading to my second milestone which is the BIG 1 year old. Yay to me !

Of course, as the baby grows, their intakes consist of solids and let's not forget the scariest part, teething. These two condition do affect the stools. For instance, intakes of solid, depending on the diets, babies MAY or MAY NOT poop that often and their stools gradually loses that sickly sweet smell to just plain nasty smell but not as bad as fully solid like your own poop smell. REALLY.  The color may also change to be a little blackish, or brownish maybe. When it comes to teething, it would be stickier and looks ... seedy but not seedy. There might even be slightly hard stools. This is where the parents would have to remember that each time you feed your babies with solid, you'd have to feed them equal amount of water. Of course the mother would have to drink more water as well. 

So you see, there is no way one can really avoid doing this part of the job when you're a parent!