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So many abandoned babies being offered for adoption and there are also many couples spent so much money on fertility treatment just to get a child and yet there also too many people dumping, rejecting and discarding such a precious gift that God’s give. It’s just frustrating to see such incidents.

Just a recap to what has been happening in Malaysia itself.

Many offers to adopt baby boy - By TAN SIN CHOW
PENANG: The state Welfare Department has received many offers to adopt the newborn baby found dumped in a rubbish bin at the Bukit Jambul flats here. However, department director Mahfudz Omardi said that the baby boy would only be put up for adoption only if his biological parents could not be traced. He said the department had obtained temporary custody of the newborn baby pending efforts to locate the baby’s parents.

"If a two-month search proves futile, a permanent order will then be obtained from the court to decide where the child should go," he said.

On Monday, a 35-year-old food stall worker found the infant who was placed in a plastic bag in a rubbish bin at the flats. Mahfudz also said that adoptions arranged through the department would be subjected to regular checks by its officers for the first two years. He was speaking to reporters yesterday after accompanying state Health, Welfare and Caring Society Committee chairman P.K. Subbaiyah to the Penang Hospital to check on the baby. Also present was hospital director Dr Zaininah Mohd Zain. Subbaiyah said that checks by the hospital showed that the 2.8kg baby was healthy and had not sustained any injury.

"Another blood test will be carried out to ensure that he is free of disease before we send him to the Taman Bakti Children's Home in Kepala Batas," he added.
He also described the act of dumping the baby as "inhuman."
"Please do not dump your babies, no matter what the circumstances are," he said.
"Newborns are innocent," he added.
The Star Nation 30/03/2006

Woman held after baby found buried
SUNGAI PETANI: A woman was arrested after a seven-month-old foetus was found buried under her house in Kampung Tua in Bujang, Merbok, here. The woman, aged 28, was believed to have given birth to the baby at her home at about 10pm on Tuesday.

Following her arrest yesterday, police took her to the Sungai Petani Hospital for an examination.
The woman’s uncle had lodged a report at the Merbok police station at about noon yesterday.
Kuala Muda OCPD Assistant Commissioner Law Hong Soon said investigations were ongoing.

The Star News Nation - 10/09/2006

Childless couple get baby after fertility funding- BY FARIK ZOLKEPLI
JOHOR BARU: For nine years, Shahrul Zamri Sariff and Safiah Daud tried everything to conceive a child. They never considered advanced fertility methods because of the cost until they sought the help of the Pahang-based Tunku Azizah Fertility Foundation, which agreed to partially fund them for a fertility programme. Through the procedure called Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), Safiah, 35, a primary schoolteacher, was able to conceive. She gave birth to Nadine Azizah Shahrul, a healthy 2.26kg, at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital at 4am yesterday.

"We are so happy when we got a call from the foundation offering RM6,500 for the ICSI procedure," Safiah said, adding that her 33-year-old husband, Shahrul, a fireman at a chemical company in Pasir Gudang, had called the foundation last year after hearing about it from a relative.

The foundation is a charitable organisation which funds two-thirds of the total cost of fertility treatment for married Malaysian couples. The foundation also aims to educate and improve on reproductive health and the prevention of infertility. The ICSI procedure for Safiah cost about RM15,000. Safiah’s treatment began in January and involved artificially fertilising her eggs before the embryo was placed in the uterus.

"My husband could not believe it when six weeks later, eight out of 15 eggs were fertilised," Safiah said, adding that the doctors injected three embryos into her uterus.
"We were told that I was initially expecting twins," she said, adding that she lost one of the babies when she began to bleed during the third month of pregnancy.

The couple planned to have more babies. The foundation has decided to fully fund Safiah’s treatment. In a statement yesterday, secretary Hamimah Abd Karim said the foundation would refund the amount paid by the couple. Hamimah said Nadine was the first Malay-Muslim baby born under the foundation’s sponsorship. "Out of more than 97 couples sponsored, 12 have had successful pregnancies. Nadine is the fifth baby to be born," she said.

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Authoritarian – Overly strict and bossy, believing in absolute to authority and creating children that are afraid of them and fearful of new challenges and experiences.
(LOW LOVE AND LOW LIMITS)

Permissive – Lenient without setting any limits and creating children who are spoiled and disrespectful and unable to make their own choices are more likely to run into trouble with their children’s future behavior. (HIGH LOVE AND LOW LIMITS

Authoritative – More likely successful in the long run. Parents who are authoritative set rules and limits, but explain why they are necessary and take their children’s point of view into account when making the rules. They communicate regularly with their children and encourage them to be independent. (HIGH LOVE AND HIGH LIMITS – BALANCED)

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