{"id":1038,"date":"2009-05-11T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:01:49","slug":"mothers-day-article-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/mothers-day-article-the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers day article in The Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mothers Day to all Malaysian Mummies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1039\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1039\" title=\"n_pg03izzah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/n_pg03izzah.jpg\" alt=\"Quality time: Nurul Izzah playing with Raja Nur Safiyah at their home in Bukit Segambut.\" width=\"230\" height=\"284\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quality time: Nurul Izzah playing with Raja Nur Safiyah at their home in Bukit Segambut.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Busy mum Nurul Izzah Anwar insists on breast-feeding her daughter Raja Nur Safiyah and on days when the Parliament sits, the baby joins her there to be nursed.<\/p>\n<p>Raja Nur Safiyah was only a few months old when Nurul Izzah, 29, won the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat in the March 8 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the new Member of Parliament (MP), she can breast-feed in privacy using her mother\u2019s former room at the Parliament office tower.<\/p>\n<p>A partition had been created for Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, then the Opposition Leader, to rest and pray.<\/p>\n<p>When her father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim took over from Dr Wan Azizah, Nurul Izzah continued to breast-feed behind the partition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prefer to breast-feed my daughter until she turns two,\u201d said Nurul Izzah.<\/p>\n<p>Chief administrator of Parliament building Datuk Kamaruddin Baria, when asked about a nursing room, said the administration would have to create space if Nurul Izzah requested for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now seven months into her second pregnancy, Nurul Izzah will probably be the first woman to deliver a baby as a serving MP &#8211; and she insists on breast-feeding her second child as well.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how she would cope with a newborn, a toddler and her duties as an MP, Nurul Izzah, who is still busy organising functions and activities in her constituency said: \u201cI have no answer for that. It is not an easy task for any other working mother for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nurul Izzah\u2019s husband Raja Ahamad Shahrir is working overseas and only comes home during weekends.<\/p>\n<p>She said motherhood has made her more sensitive to the plight of single mothers and the struggles of women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is tough, tiring but challenging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Original Source <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/5\/10\/nation\/3874241&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">h e r e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy mum Nurul Izzah Anwar insists on breast-feeding her daughter Raja Nur Safiyah and on days when the Parliament sits, the baby joins her there to be nursed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,51],"tags":[196,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-1038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-pressrelease","8":"tag-mothers-day","9":"tag-nurul-izzah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10492,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}