Today marks the last day of my confinement since I last gave birth to Reyes on 09th May 2012. Finally... after tonight, I am going to have a good bath 1st thing tomorrow morning.
This confinement is very different from my previous one, despite the fact that I'm having the same Confinement Aunty. During my 1st confinement, we were not staying with dear parents, hence the Confinement Aunty had lots of freedom on handling Kaden and taking care of me. Our parents would only visit us regularly. During these visits, my MIL would occasionally expressed her dislikes over the fact that Kaden drank his milk too slowly and the Confinement Aunty did not warm up the milk. However, all the displeasure ended during the last day of my confinement when Confinement Aunty went home.
For my 2nd confinement, as I'm now staying with my in-laws, before dear and I engage the same Confinement Aunty , we actually consulted my-laws if it will be alright to engage the same Confinement Aunty. With their blessing, we went ahead for the booking. I thought I can have a good rest during my one month of confinement but sigh... That's when all the ultimate troubles began...
Barely 9 days into my confinement, my in-laws barged into our room, with my FIL very angry and pissed off and my MIL super upset, with tears almost flowing down her eyes... They had a long list of things about the Confinement Aunty that they disliked...
Here's some of the complaints...
(1) Confinement Aunty was mistreating my little Reyes i.e. feeding him to much milk and pinching Reyes till his face was filled with red little dots whenever he emerged from bathing...
(2) Confinement Aunty always locked herself & Reyes in the room, with Reyes crying out loudly but denying their entrance into the room... In fact, my FIL commented that the Confinement Aunty was resting more than me who had just given birth
(3) Confinement Aunty pushed all her duties of taking care of mine and Reyes' laundry to my maid. In fact, my maid claimed that the Confinement Aunty even asked her to wash her clothes
(4) Confinement Aunty is very unhygienic i.e. did not use baby liquid detergent to wash the milk bottles
The list actually went on and on and on, till it came to a point that Dear and I decided that to prevent further conflict between the Confinement Aunty and my in-laws, as well as not to make the relationship between ourselves and the parents... We decided to request the Agency to take back the Confinement Aunty.
The agency offered a choice, either to exchange a new Confinement Aunty or just terminating the services totally. After talking to my mum, I decided to just do the confinement myself... What I was afraid of is with a new Confinement Aunty, history might repeats itself...
In the end, on the 10th day, I continued with my confinement without a Confinement Aunty. Luckily, my mum and my MIL helped me out for the rest of the 3 weeks. My mum actually cooked my confinement meals for me, bathed little Reyes and came over at night to help me look after Reyes, so that I could have a good night sleep. My MIL would helped me to cook my soup and made my red dates drink. I, myself would look after Reyes in the day.
With the combined power of the 3 Mummies, finally we reached the last day of my confinement. Tonight. I will be taking care of Reyes myself... **cross fingers and cross toes**
Hope all things will turn out well =D
On a last note, I really like to thank both side of parents for helping me out with this confinement... of course, not forgetting all the 3 Daddies who went marketing, who became driver etc etc... Will be giving all a treat sometimes next week to 慰劳 everybody =D
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