Of all things pregnancy related the one which I fear most was really having to go through confinement. All the myths and the don'ts really place a huge block in my head; fearing it and not looking forward to it. After the birth of Baby S, my confinement starts on the 21st of January right after i reach home.
I hired a nanny from PEM, and to me their service was great! At the pre-stage, they will send a consultant to your place to brief you on all things confinement and they various packages. I paid a lot for my nanny as my confinement stretch through the Chinese New Year Period, which means no CNY food and also my nanny and I did not get to celebrate CNY too. When the consultant asked what was my requirement for the confinement I simply told him I want a modern and pro-breastfeeding confinement.
When I first met my nanny I was pleasantly surprise as she looks really young and indeed she is; she is only 48 and have 5 children of her own ranging from 13 to 25. She is nice and I guess as time goes we grow close as well. I believe this is important as she will be staying at your place for 28 days and if you do not like her, it will be a painful 28 days!
Anyway, confinement starts and to my surprise I was not that bad after all! I bathe everyday in herbal bath, had really nice confinement food, lots of help from my nanny in terms of how to care for my baby and breastfeeding tips and more importantly I enjoyed her company and even got to leave the house a bit.
I guess at the end of the day what is important is to eat well and rest well for the confinement, there are a lot of myths which are actually not true and you can actually make confinement comfortable if we make changes to past myths and do what we deems is good taking in mind that we need to be well rest and well fed!
First day home!
Breakfast
Daddy's Birthday which is 4 days from Baby S birthday!
Nanny bathing Baby S
Gifts from the ppl who visited us @ the hospital!
Lunch!
Dinner!
Lunch!
Follow up check @ TMC.
Family Photo!
After bathing! Happy baby!
Lunch!
Breakfast!
Lunch!
Me having time with baby with nanny is cleaning in the background!
Breakfast!
CNY!
Lunch!
Dinner!
Time with baby!
Family visit to celebrate Daddy's Birthday!
Lunch after Stanley got back to work!
2 Weeks old!
Lunch
Happy baby happy mummy!
Dinner
Daddy learning how to bathe baby from nanny!
Visit to the doctor again!
Lunch!
Breakfast!
Visit to the doctor! Jaundice follow up!
Daddy and baby!
Lunch!
Baby Baby
Lunch!
Dinner on days that daddy is out for company dinner!
Lunch!
Lunch!
Ah Ma visiting!
In conclusion, I am very happy with Juan Jie service and glad to say that we are still in contact through facebook! If you wanna hire her through PEM her code is #954. She is a great cook and with her help I breastfeed totally for baby S.
Miss her a lot! and we will probably hire her again in the future!
as her food is great!
and we miss her alot!
till next time! we wish her well!
