My mum comes from the old school of thoughts.. you know those who hold strongly to superstitions, believing in old adage and have 101 traditional remedy for everything. I am not saying it's bad or anything coz as much as I am secularly educated and whatnot, I am pretty the makcik myself. What can I do? I was brought up in this kind of environment. But my problem with my mum is that she believes in these things too much. Ok this is what stifling me. I can't watch a show depicting the extraordinary, especially those concerning birth defects, without my mum pushing and shoving me to look away, saying that it will affect my birth. Then she would tell me to do this akin to wiping your ass action, in a bid to ward off evil eyes. I an grateful that she cares a lot for me, but it become so frequent, I don't know whether to be irritated or scared. One part of me is going " but isn't this all up to Allah and our choice of how to take care of ourselves during pregnancy and whatnot" but at the same time, it scared the shit out of me, should such superstitious belief runs some truth to it...coz you gotta admit, though they always have scientific names for all the defects, they are pretty wild to start with. But of course, ultimately, I just shrug the idea off and recite nauzubillah minzalik and assure myself that whatever it is, it is all up to Allah. Dialah yang maha tahu, dialah yang akan menentukan.And insyaAllah should the day comes for me to be a mother, I guess I will strive hard to have a good pregnancy and shall my lips always be full with prayers and good wishes for the baby...in fact for anyone's baby.InsyaAllah.
Talking about babies...
Isn't this the cutest thing...
got this for my friend's baby, insyaAllah going to go and see the bundle of joy soon this week. Can't wait!
Hanim