Welcome Back, Salmah

Meanwhile, Welcome Back, Salmah. It is good to see you looking so well, glowing and trim after your two-month absence.

How did she manage to return so slim and svelte after having a baby only 2 months ago, I enquired.

It was not difficult at all, "like the birth of my baby, it was an easy birth with no labour pains too," she said. "I tied layers of cloth around myself, tightly,and that did the trick," adding that she was also very grateful to the many Tiarans who gave her advice and moral support before the birth of her baby. "Being the very first time, I was naturally very scared, but thankfully, it was such an easy birth," she said.

She still has some diet constraints to bear in mind, like not taking spicy foods, tea, fish like kembong, chicken, prawns and crabs since she is breastfeeding. "But I can take detox tea which I buy from the Chinese sinseh shops"
Her lifestyle is different now, she adds, since it is entirely centred around baby Adam Faris, who, at 2 months (as of this writing) weighs a hefty 7 kilos, slightly more than double his weight when born. "He is chubby and long, at 59.5cm, like his father is tall."

She is very happy and life seems rather complete, with a child. But "saya ada tanggong jawab," she confided. She spends a few hundred ringgit extra a month now that there is an addition to the family. She has to pay the babysitter, buy milk and diapers every month, but Adam brings so much joy and happiness to her and her husband.

Adam is left in the care of her neighbour' s mother, from 7am - 6pm. The neighbour has a newborn about the same age as Adam too, and three other children. Salmah has to leave her baby early at the babysitter's since she has to drive her husband, Hairi, to office, which for him starts at 8.15am. After dropping him she is at Tiara way before office starts at 9am.

Welcome back to Tiara, Salmah.