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DATO. SITINURHALIZA INSTAGRAM PHOTOS
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LONG AWAITED: Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin showing her baby bump.
BUNDLE OF JOY:( Left) Husband Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa and Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin with their little princess Siti Aafiyah Khalid.

Perseverance brought Siti her Child

Renowned songstress celebrates motherhood after 12 years of IVF
GRATEFUL... The presence of Siti Aafiyah Khalid after 12 years of wait was described as a moment of gratefulness and joy.
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Although earlier in 2015, Siti suffered a miscarriage two months into her pregnancy, she persevered and continued with her fertility treatment – succeeding only in the fifth.

THE LONG and windy road to pregnancy finally paid off for Malaysia’ s number one songstress, Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin and her husband Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa.

The couple first announced to eager fans and family members October last year that they were to receive a baby after 12 years of wait. Today, Siti is a proud mother of six month old Siti Aafiyah Khalid.
CAREER
Siti made her first debut when she was only 16 after she won a popular local singing competition show‘ Bintang HMI’ in 1995.‘ Jerat Percintaan’ was her first debut single, and it sold a total of 800,000 units in Malaysia alone.
Siti has also recorded and sung in multiple languages including Malaysian, Javanese, English, Mandarin, Arabic, Urdu and Japanese. To date, she has garnered more than 200 local and international awards.
Throughout her career, Siti has numerous other achievements such as performing during the closing ceremony of 1998 Commonwealth Games in front of Queen Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince Philip. Seven years later, she performed a solo concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, while being backed by the London Symphony Orchestra. She was the first Southeast Asian singer to do so.
MOTHERHOOD
Yet, apart from the numerous accolades she has received, she described the feeling of being a mother to one filled with gratitude and joy – a moment that she had been waiting for all this while.
“ I feel blessed to be able to hold Aafiyah,” said Siti who later expressed that both mother and child are healthy.
HER JOURNEY TO CONCEPTION
Siti resorted to IVF treatment into her second year of marriage after failing to conceive.
“ My husband fully supported my decision,” she said when asked whether Datuk Khalid was all for the treatment.
Although earlier in 2015, Siti suffered a miscarriage two months into her pregnancy, she persevered and continued with her fertility treatment- succeeding only in the fifth.
“ On the last cycle, I did the IVF on the sixth month and a month later, I was pregnant,” she reminisces.
Siti admits that the process required both mental strength and patience, as she herself had to make umpteen sacrifices to ensure that it was a success.
“ There are numerous processes that we must go through- from the egg maturity through to the transfer into the womb. This takes a certain amount of time,” she explained.
“ After the transfer, I was advised to lay