Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly. (As-Saaf, 61: 4)
Our delivery of our second girl, Kawthar was fast and very comforting. Alhamdulillah. All doctors, nurses and health officers treated us as if we were part of the team. Each of them discussed with us the procedures to be performed over and over.
Our delivery of our second girl, Kawthar was fast and very comforting. Alhamdulillah. All doctors, nurses and health officers treated us as if we were part of the team. Each of them discussed with us the procedures to be performed over and over.
Back home, patients were never encouraged to ask or understand the treatment. All they had to do was grabbed the prescribed medicine, ate them to completion and hopefully got well. My caregivers here were surprised when I was not able to identify the medication that had been given to me during previous pregnancy or any other treatments that I had received prior coming abroad. Not only that, they were puzzled at how difficult it was for me as the patient to retrieve the information from Malaysia. Many paperworks were involved and the information was still not fully disclosed.
As patients, I thought we should have been more proactive to care about our treatment. We should have asked the questions. There should not be any shame if we do not understand certain terms or procedures that the doctors and nurses used. We should ask them to clarify these things to us. They were trained especially in the field, whoelse is better to ask?
And We sent not before you, [O Muhammad], except men to whom We revealed [the message], so ask the people of the message if you do not know. (al-Anbiya', 21: 7)
I thought if a patient was well informed, the patient will be able to make an educated decision and care better for him/her self. The chance of the treatment to be effective will increase because the patient now understand what happened and why he/she can or cannot do somethings.
After delivery, my spouse was asked to follow the baby while I fully got over with the anaesthetic effects. He was asked to make skin to skin contact with our baby. Then, he was asked to stay with me in the ward.
Husband participation is rising in Malaysia because of the new generation of fathers and I see this as a good thing. Husbands are now allowed in the labour room and I had an experience when a nurse from Klinik Kesihatan showed my husband how to give breastmilk to our first baby using a syringe.
Our men now have better Islamic understanding and more open minded to help their wives. Besides, children business is our business- hubands' and wives', it was never a one-man (oe woman) show and never will be.
It has been made permissible for you the night preceding fasting to go to your wives [for sexual relations]. They are clothing for you and you are clothing for them... (al-Baqarah, 2: 187)
Here there are no classes of ward. Each patient had her own ward completed with a bathroom and a sofa bed for the company. With this, there was privacy and security. Women need not worry about their 'aurah (body parts that are compulsory to cover).
I remembered when I was in the general ward when we had our first baby. During lunch time when the ward was opened to visitors, we have many men in and around the ward. Breast feeding then became a 'mission'. To feed your baby well and to cover your 'aurah at the same time. I know it would have been different in first class ward or even a second class ones. But, what if we all receive the same privacy and security regardless of our wages?
We are making progress back home to become better and I am aware that things are not going to change overnight. I am also aware that changes need overall participation. If we keep going and be steadfast about it, everything is within reach.
Husband participation is rising in Malaysia because of the new generation of fathers and I see this as a good thing. Husbands are now allowed in the labour room and I had an experience when a nurse from Klinik Kesihatan showed my husband how to give breastmilk to our first baby using a syringe.
Our men now have better Islamic understanding and more open minded to help their wives. Besides, children business is our business- hubands' and wives', it was never a one-man (oe woman) show and never will be.
It has been made permissible for you the night preceding fasting to go to your wives [for sexual relations]. They are clothing for you and you are clothing for them... (al-Baqarah, 2: 187)
Here there are no classes of ward. Each patient had her own ward completed with a bathroom and a sofa bed for the company. With this, there was privacy and security. Women need not worry about their 'aurah (body parts that are compulsory to cover).
I remembered when I was in the general ward when we had our first baby. During lunch time when the ward was opened to visitors, we have many men in and around the ward. Breast feeding then became a 'mission'. To feed your baby well and to cover your 'aurah at the same time. I know it would have been different in first class ward or even a second class ones. But, what if we all receive the same privacy and security regardless of our wages?
We are making progress back home to become better and I am aware that things are not going to change overnight. I am also aware that changes need overall participation. If we keep going and be steadfast about it, everything is within reach.
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