Alana's Daily Routine - 4 months old baby

Alana Soraya's Daily Routine. Welcome. Let's get to know her busy schedule.

9am:
Wake up
Change diapers
Feeding time
Tummy time / playtime

11am:
Feeding time
Nap in her rocker (45 mins - 1 hour)

12 noon:
Wake up
Bath time
Change diapers
Feeding time
Tummy time / playtime

2pm:
Feeding time
Nap - lie flat (45 mins - 1 hour)

3pm:
Wake up
Change diapers
Tummy time / playtime

5pm:
Feeding time
Nap in her rocker (45 mins - 1 hour)

6pm:
Wake up
Bath time (with wet wipes)
Change new diapers
Fresh new PJs
Feeding time
Tummy time / playtime

8pm:
Nap - lie flat (45 mins - 1 hour)

9pm:
Wake up
Change diapers
Feeding time
Relax, lie in her rocker (Turn down TV volume, dim the lights down)

11pm:
Change diapers
Feeding time
Sleep

3am:
Cooing for feeding
Feeding time
Continue to sleep

7am:
Cooing for feeding
Feeding time
Continue to sleep until 9am


Number of diapers changed per day: 6
Number of hours nap per day: 4 to 5 hours
Number of hours sleep per day: 10 hours
Number of hours for playtime: 6 hours

This has been ongoing since Alana is 3 months old. Alhamdulillah. What a punctual little baby.

A Blessing in Disguise

"Sometimes life takes you in a direction you never saw yourself going. But it turns out to be the best road you have ever taken."

I found out that I was 2-month pregnant August last year and never thought that I could survived giving birth last April. It was the most amazing yet scariest thing I have ever went through especially to give labour without my husband by my side with Covid-19 pandemic happening in the world, today, as I am typing this.

2020 is by far the scariest year, most overwhelming and shocking pandemic happens as we speak. The current death toll of Covid-19 as of today, August 28th, is 836596 deaths with currently more than 24 million confirmed cases in 213 countries. Innalillah. To victim's friends and family members, stay strong and let's do our part to stop spreading this virus.

Since my title is about blessings, I count them twice and I count it again. Alhamdulillah, despite of scary things happening around us now, I am blessed with a sweet, healthy, happy daughter. Alhamdulillah, I am beyond grateful and will never stop be thankful for I have a tiny family to be with right now.

I was taught since I was a little kid, to be thankful with what I currently have, no matter how tiny or insignificant it is to others. So never take things for granted and always make the best out of everything that you have, be thankful and be happy with it.

The obvious one to be thankful for is of course, I have more time to spend with my family. There were some few missing years with my family when I was studying for my degree that I can finally make up to. I stayed with my parents and my sister in my parents' suburb home after I gave birth to Alana, did my confinement there for three whole months. Spend time with my loved ones, plus an addition of a tiny one to our family member are the cherry on top.

After my confinement ends, we moved to our newly-renovated home (our kitchen is finally done! Yay!) along with a tiny new housemate, LOL! As a working mom, it will be hard to start working and go to the office and leaving my daughter behind, separated from her, whether at home with a babysitter or relatives or drop her off at a nursery or kindergarten. Wow, it tears me up just to think of it. But Alhamdulillah, I have not go through that yet, not now, since my company allows us to work from home. That is the second blessing. Not to be separated from my baby girl and I can spend time with her, take care of her without no help from some strangers, I can monitor her and watch her grow right in front of my eyes. I have never separated from her since day one, well I am sure it will be hard in the future since she is still exclusive , direct breastfeeding but I have faith that once I introduce food to her, she can adjusts herself to expressed breastmilk via bottles. LOL. Pray for me!

Adjusting and juggling myself as working-from-home mom took some time at first. I have to learn on how to go back and forth between laptop and early morning meetings and late night meetings and handling daily tasks and projects with breastfeeding, burping and changing diapers, bathing time and at times holding Alana in my arms while attending meetings. Its hard at first but I get the hang of it eventually. It gets easier each day. Alhamdulillah, Alana is not a fussy baby and she is very punctual in pooping and sleeping and feeding. So I can work on my time around hers.

Third blessing is when my husband gets to work only twice a week! Syukur Alhamdulillah. More time with Alana and my husband! He also gets to take care of Alana and being present to watch her grow. My work and house chores are easy now that my husband is always around to help out. He can keep Alana entertained while I am swarming with work and attending meetings. Couldn't be more happier.

Fourth is of course our financial is more secured now that transportation cost to work cuts to almost zero, house and car loans are exempted for six months due to Covid-19 as a moratorium from the government. So we have the opportunity to save and invest more, also, enough to cover our expenses especially with a baby and her things.

Last by no means least, I love our life now that we do not have to face people out there. I mean, I have always been the person who hates crowded places, be in a crowd where people never cover their mouths when they sneeze or cough, people who stands so close to me like I do not have an invisible bubble, basically, I do not like to be in a place where I don't trust the cleanliness and the people and their germs.

Now that lockdown is here, or Movement Control Order (MCO) has been introduced to us since last April, I have never felt more safe. I know the virus is still there but the fact that I can control what I do, who I meet and where I go without people hating me is the best. I am taking extra precautions to protect my family and my home and nothing is wrong with that. Better be safe than sorry.

Limited number of people to be inside a store or restaurants, sanitizers are everywhere, people wearing face mask, means, no germs from their body to be out in the air, everybody prefers to stay at home than going out and somehow decrease the road traffic and at the same time, road accidents. Social distancing is the best of all since people must stay away from each other for at least 6 feet apart. I have been doing that before this pandemic happens and I love that everybody is finally doing the same.

I may sound like a complete arse, but its true. The main blessing is, surely, Earth is healing. Rivers and oceans are so much cleaner and clearer now, flora and fauna grows rapidly, skies are clearer that you can see more stars and air quality has improved since the lockdown.

This pandemic forced businesses, flights, cars on the road, industrial activities, all human activities to shut down that causes a positive impact on environment, on air pollution, on greenhouse gas emissions all over the world. Though Covid-19 has brought chaos to lives and economies all around the world but air quality is improved and the world is finally healing.