Preparing for one-month confinement
Posted by Becky on May 12th, 2006
Few days ago I hired an ah-yi. Yesterday she came to work for 5 hours and did a pretty good job cleaning. She’ll start to work full-time for us from Tuesday, 12 hours a day, Monday through Saturday. I hope she can cook well too. Praise the Lord we can hire ah-yis here. These days, I am physically exhausted just being a human being. A pregnant human being.
I also ordered the one-month confinement food already, after asking a few friends about it. After delivery, they will send me special food everyday for a month. It’s not cheap at all, but hopefully it’ll be healthy. Certainly convenient. I’m not so sure about the other rules of one-month confinement such as not washing hair for a month. I don’t know how that’s possible but a lot of admirable women have successfully done it throughout centuries.
My parents left Shanghai for America on Wednesday for a holiday and to attend my brother’s graduation. (They never made such efforts for my graduations.) They will return next weekend. I’m not sure if they will be back in time when Logan makes his debut. I don’t understand this decision and don’t feel cared about by this decision at all, but Chinese parents are Chinese parents and what else can I say?! I’m getting my own experience in becoming a parent now. God knows that that must be a tough job and a very humbling experience. It must be the toughest to be God, coz He’s not just our Father; He’s also our friend, our protector, our doctor, our nurse, our teacher, and everything else. With all the bad things that we do, He still loves us so much. It’s good to know that God is always with me, even if my parents weren’t. Praise God for creating Logan! What a great blessing!!!
It’s nice that it’s quiet and I can relax at home. I miss John all the time when he’s not with me. I love our Sunday mornings especially. We just kind of stay in bed, sometimes chat about anything, sometimes just enjoy the tranquil morning thinking about Logan before we go to church. Life always seems the most perfect on Sunday mornings.
Enough of me. I’m going to rub my belly and talk and read to Logan again now. Do some bonding. ^_^ John often talks to him in secret codes, as if he had some kind of secret with his son. What a weirdo! He enjoys talking to his boy in English with an Italian accent too. I enjoy it the most when he sings in Italian to Logan. It’s funny having a huge boy on my side and a little boy in my belly. I love it! ^_^