Diminishing supply & Rebound

Pic: My BM production, so far @ 3pm, office.

 

Last 2 weeks, I was experiencing diminishing milk supply. Arrrggghhhh! Tensinya!!

 

Qifah is almost 9 month now. Daily supply to babysitter is 4 bottles of 3.5 oz, at the max is 5 bottles (total 17.5 oz). Normally 1st pumping session I can get 7-8 oz, subsequent 2 sessions normally I'll get 3-4 oz each session. So should be just nice for Qifah's daily supply.

 

But since last week, every session I can only get 4 oz the max. There are times when the output level is marginal (0.5-1 oz). Pumped for the whole 20 minutes but yet no let-down reflex. I've tried my normal way of milk-boosting: Horlick + oat, kismis, lots of plain water. But I can't seem to solve the puzzle. There have been a number of times I've to 'steal' from the frozen EBM (and now I don't replenish the frozen EBM anymore). Ohhhhhhhhh... what is happening to me? Or it is time to send my Spectra for servicing? Aiya, service agent kat KL some more... Lecehnya...

 

Should I try other milk booster already? Hmmmm... Hopefully the milk flow will return abundant as before, pray to Allah...

 

Then I came across 2 very relevant articles at Suraya's blog Inspiraluna. Immediately, I modified my pumping timetable during working hour, increased from 2x daily (ehem, memang tak cukup ler 2x je...) to 4x. Alhamdulillah, managed to gather 10-12 oz at office. And I'll top it off with one more session at home.

 

Alhamdulillah... looks like mamaqifah's BM supply is back on track again. On normal working days, the 4x pumping session is normally adhered to. But when it comes to weekend and out-of-office days, I tend to 'break the rules' :P. Aiyaaa... cannot like this laaa mamaqifah.. susah payah adjust your body to increase production, now nak ngelat2 pulak... well, some times circumstances reaaaallly not permissible lah...

 

 

 

 

 

Poketku kopak lagi!

Arini aku baru je sign 1 cek, untuk dibayar pada LHDN. Tension betol!

Dalam 1 bulan lepas aku terima 'surat cinta' daripada LHDN. Dia cakap akunye tax tak cukup bayar, kena tambah lagi RM700+ sebab interest on housing loan aku tak menepati criteria dedutible expenses. Ini adalah kerana, umah BDO aku tu dibeli pada tahun 2008. Whereas, interest on housing loan yang boleh ditolak hanya untuk umah yang dibeli pada Mac 2009 hingga Dis 2010, dihadkan kepada RM10k setahun, boleh ditolak daripada tahun taksiran 2009 - 2011 (3 tahun).

Eiiiiiii...aku tak puas hati betol...kerajaan nak galakkan rakyat beli umah, tolonglah bagi incentive yang munasabah sikit. Ni ko hadkan pada 3 tahun tu je, ada makna ke? Dahla rakyat Malaysia ni kebanyakkannya berpendapatan sederhana rendah, housing loan instalment (yang di dalamnya portion loan interest adalah tinggi pada awal loan tenure) boleh tahan pulak tingginya, sebab harga umah sekarang dah melambung2 tinggi. Alangkan umah dengan tanah bersaiz 20x70 pun dah payah nak jumpa yang below RM200K, kat area bando la... kalau kat kg. pinang sebatang ke agaknya masih boleh didapati lagi. Tapi, orang2 yang kerja makan gaji kat opis ni, rata2 duduk kat bando, kalau nak soh dok kat area luar bando, belanja minyak kereta pulak yang melambung (minyak pula dah semi-liberalise, terapung2 ikut harga dunia dan belanja minyak juga tak boleh ditolak untuk kira cukai yang perlu dibayar OK?). Dah la gaji cukup2 makan, akhir tahun tengok belanja2 besor ni tak boleh claim as deductible expenses, kena bayo selepuk lagi, bagaikan sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga, keringggggggggggggg je member wehhhh!

Oleh yang demikian, adalah harapan kami warga Malaysia berpendapatan sederhana rendah ni agar kerajaan dapat berfikir dalam keadaan kami. Bukan semua orang boleh duduk umah sponsored, naik keta sponsored, minyak keta sponsored, segala2nya sponsored. Kitorang pun dah naik muak dengar skrip 'kenaikan harga barang tidak akan membebankan rakyat' etc3. Memetik kata2 daripada Dr MAZA, jangan pikir pemimpin rakyat yang turun padang dukung2 usap2 kepala anak kecil tu dah dikira mendekati rakyat, that's very superficial OK! Cuba secara sejujur2nya, korang hidup macam kitorang ni hidup, tengok boleh survive sampai baper hari.

Sekian luahan hati seorang middle-income-working-mom-yang-poketnya-kopak-arini.