Reflections of a traveller

On Monday around midnight my contractions started. I got quite excited, and started noting down the time of each contraction. I did my Isha salah and felt like it might be my last one so did as much duas as possible. I started breathing deeply through each contraction. By 2 o'clock I was quite sure this is definitely contraction and told my husband to wake up. I was too excited getting all the towels, plastic sheet, baby clothes etc out. I called my friend to come over just in case we need to rush to the hospital. My children (3 & 2 years) were sleeping quite peacefully so we didn't want to disturb them. By fajr time I was still in pain but not sign of show or water breaking! I felt quite disappointed but kept using my birth ball and read duas and deep breathing. DH didn't want to go to work but I told him it may take some time before I am in established labour so there is no point missing work. I sent my friend back and told her I will call if I need her. Around 9 in t...

Alhamdulillah our M & M March/April issue is out now! I am so glad that we have managed to do 8 issues full of very informative articles, thanks to our precious writers and contributors. May Allah swt reward each and every person who directly and indirectly helped us so much! It is with great happiness that I can tell you that Mum and Muslim is one year old alhamdulillah! It seemed a long way away a year ago, but we are still going strong and getting more readers alhamdullilah! It is also thanks in a large part to you too, who have been avid readers and/or writers mashallah. The new issue is out now with some very interesting articles. There is also a competition that we are running with a great charity, Algerian Action which I hope you can get your kids to enter. Insha-Allah we hope to get bigger and better this year. We are working on getting a new look to the website and looking further ahead, we hope to have printed copies in the coming year inshallah. All this can only be ...