Hi,
I haven't deliver yet. My H2O level's non that good. Doc's non letting me hold back past times my EDD, which is June 1. Which means, Mr R is coming out to run across the footing past times claw or past times crook on Midweek morning. I'm inward perfect health, no blood sugar, no hypertension(instead I used to receive got hypo), no swelling, placenta's good, everything good! Just the H2O level. Sigh!!!
I'm praying difficult that he'll live similar his Lyanne Cheh-cheh who came out on her ain on the twenty-four hours I was supposed to live induced. Lyanne was huge so Dr. won't permit me past times my EDD to a greater extent than than a calendar week if I wanted natural birth. Perfect wellness every bit well. I loathe existence induced. It's super super super painful, leaving me alongside no fourth dimension to breathe inward betwixt contractions.
Well, each pregnancy, I'm ever at the brink of having non plenty amniotic fluid, in addition to this time, it's kinda actually low. So, perhaps right away y'all know why my weight increment is non that great. Still at nearly 3kg, haha! With the babe at 3.1kg now, concluding scanned on Saturday. I never receive got whatever H2O retentiveness problem, no leg swelling, or whatsoever swelling. No increment of whatever size of anything on my body. Haha, yes. Just my belly.
It's non that I don't drinkable plenty water, I don't receive got constipation problems, I simply never retain liquids inward my system. Even If I drinkable a mugful of H2O each thirty minutes, I'll become to lavatory every one-half an sixty minutes in addition to drain them all out.
Each fourth dimension after deliver, I become through confinement. For those of y'all who receive got no thought what is confinement, it's a Chinese tradition of which after delivery, the lady stays home, relaxation in addition to gets fed well, alongside lots of rules in addition to regulations to ensure a proper healing in addition to recuperation. Confinement 坐月子 is non exclusively practiced past times those from Chinese descent, but Malays, Indians in addition to another people from Asian countries. Engaging the same confinement lady, CL each time. It's non because she cooks well, but I similar her mental attitude in addition to her powerfulness to shoot upwards from slumber in addition to doze off alongside a count to 3. It makes us relieved to know that she is getting plenty relaxation that she won't driblet my babe off her arms due to sleeplessness. Good tike aid is to a greater extent than of import than food.
This fourth dimension around, every bit park I prepared a weekly card for my CL. I don't similar to eat redundant things in addition to it makes life easier for others, similar MIL who volition live doing the marketing for me. The concluding confinement (Lyanne's time), my CL made certainly mistakes that I'll brand certainly she doesn't do that this time. I translated some of recipes on my weblog inward Chinese for her. I desire some of the things cooked my way. She is the type of mortal who volition receive got inward suggestions in addition to listens to us, her employer, rather than insisting inward her ain ways. An mental attitude suitable for modern confinement.
There are few things that I volition dear to verbalize about. You mightiness disagree or express mirth nearly it alongside me, but no thing what, it's 100% my personal opinion.
1. Confinement is onetime fashioned.
- Well, depends on how y'all await at it. Why spend upwards a calendar month of relaxation? It's a calendar month where the woman nurture gets to relaxation in addition to eat good to recuperate. It should live the fourth dimension to bond alongside the baby, alongside someone else taking aid of other things for you, similar chores. Why not? I believe that if ane does non relaxation good during the 1st month, the 2d calendar month volition live a nightmare when the babe starts to wake upwards to a greater extent than in addition to throws to a greater extent than tantrums. There volition live no fourth dimension for rest, or fifty-fifty to select handgrip of character sleep, non until many months later. The showtime calendar month is a lot of sleeeeeping. So, why non slumber when the babe sleeps in addition to recollect nearly goose egg else. The best business office is sleeping throughout the night.......... character slumber for thirty days after xl weeks of twisting in addition to turning on the bed alongside a heavy belly in addition to constant bath visits. The CL won't remain alongside y'all forever, it's simply the crucial showtime month, so savour yourself.
2. No bathing
-Yucks!!! There's no wintertime here. It's summertime whole twelvemonth long. If crimson dates tin forcefulness out live kept at room temp inward Cathay without whatever problems, sweat keeping your crimson dates inward your cabinet. You'll see them growing fungus rattling soon. Imagine your torso growing fungus and you are carrying the babe inward your arms. Yucks!!!! The weather condition in addition to climate hither is absolutely different. My grandaunt (1903-1996) who came from Cathay told my mom to bathe, in addition to said , " You recollect this is Cathay ah?" Grandaunt said, babies inward Cathay do non bathe. So, if y'all bathe your babe daily, why won't u bathe yourself? Yucks! If y'all actually worry nearly "wind", gosh, at that spot are bathing herbs, sold for few bucks per pack at Chinese herbal shops. They don't odor weird, but smells similar herbal tea. I won't hear drinking them if they were sweetened. If tradition says no bathing, so why are at that spot postal service partum bathing herbs? For watering plants meh?
3. One shouldn't touching on unboiled water. Bathe, launder hands in addition to gargle with cooled cooked water.
-Hey!!! Which century are y'all living in? Are y'all using river water? Well water? Gosh no! It's chlorinated piping water. River H2O or good H2O may comprise nematodes, parasites, germs in addition to fifty-fifty traces human waste. So, if y'all don't boil it, chances are the injure downwards at that spot mightiness teach infected in addition to that's the concluding thing y'all ever want. But hi hey hey, nosotros are using chlorinated piping H2O now. So, do y'all recollect that is applicable now?
4. No drinking of plain water.
- Gosh. Since when manifestly H2O is bad for you? All crimson appointment teas or rice tea are infused alongside manifestly water. When they teach into your body, it all the same gets separated every bit H2O in addition to nutrients, so what's the difference?
Not plenty H2O = constipation = chances of getting haemorrhoids
5. Wrap caput in addition to vesture socks.
-Huh? In tropical Malaysia? Got to live kidding me. I don't desire to perspire in addition to demeanour my baby. That's the concluding thing I desire to do. I don't desire to odor similar a dumpster in addition to teach athlete's food.
6. Not launder pilus for a month.
-I don't actually believe this, but to console my mom, I sweat my rattling best to launder after a week. And I brand certainly I teach my mane cleaned earlier I become for my tenth twenty-four hours cheque up. I don't desire to walk into the hospital every bit a stinking bomb. (the nurses do enjoin me many are stink bombs the minute the postal service partum ladies walk inward for that checkup) It's embarassing! It's non that nosotros are inward Cathay (again!!) that the weather condition is dry out in addition to cold. It's hot in addition to humid here. And muddied pilus grows germs in addition to whatsoever.
7. Refrain from vegetables.
-As believed, vegetables are cooling, except for a few types similar KaiLan. For me, I do non believe so. I demand the fibre to teach my bowels going. I don't desire to receive got haemorrhoids simply because I didn't eat plenty vege during this month. I'm lucky to receive got a confinement lady, woman nurture in addition to woman nurture inward police that supports a salubrious dose of vegetables. But I refrain from raw vege, in addition to taro. I was told that taro volition drive itching in addition to hey, sometimes taros actually does do that, fifty-fifty if ane hasn't delivered a baby. I don't desire to live scratching hither in addition to there. Not eating taro for a calendar month won't kill me, but non eating vege for a calendar month will.
8. Consume lots of expensive herbs.
- I don't believe inward splurging on herbs. As long every bit I eat healthily alongside a balanced diet, I don't believe I receive got to downwards 38gm of Angelica (dang gui) daily. Somehow I experience herbal shops likes to say, "If y'all don't 'bou' now, onetime liao so y'all know". Cheh, who knows what volition laissez passer on off when I'm 50 or 60. Can they guarantee if I receive got 2kg of angelica throughout my confinement I'll live costless of sickness when I'm 50. That's BS to me. To them, this is the best fourth dimension to cutting your throat, bespeak y'all to purchase this in addition to purchase that, scaring y'all nearly the future. My mom said, "I never ate whatever of those, but hi await at me, I'm fine.". My mom ate a lot of dark fungus of which is believed to aid alongside expelling muddied blood from the body. No expensive herbs. Not to say that I do non swallow whatever herbs, I do, but moderately. I all the same believe I demand the extra nourishment likewise a balanced diet, but non to splurge thousands of $$ on all the futurity predictions that no ane tin forcefulness out guarantee.
My aunt said, "Nowadays it's different the olden days where at that spot were no supplements during pregnancy. It actually feels weak after delivery, but if y'all swallow every pill that your Dr. enjoin y'all to receive got in, the departure is 100% obvious. I know cos I was diligently popping pills for the showtime in addition to last pregnancy in addition to was lazy for the middle ii babies. Lazy to popular pills in addition to you'll endure the consequences later." True story from my big aunt who believes inward a balanced postal service partum diet.
9. Not going out for 1 month, lest y'all teach "headwind".
-Errr... I do believe this to a certainly extent.
*2 weeks after delivering Lydia, I brought her to a playground contrary my mom's identify in addition to sat on the swing. The belatedly afternoon cool breeze was blowing field I was there. Just for xv minutes. That night, I had mild headache.
*2 weeks after delivering Lyanne, I went to the balcony to hang the laundry every bit the confinement lady washed the wearing clothing earlier she slept. I never similar leaving the wearing clothing inward the machine overnight every bit it volition brand the wearing clothing actually crumpled. The dark breeze was blowing. I had mild headache that dark too.
*But for both babies, I drove to the infirmary past times myself to receive got my tenth twenty-four hours cheque upwards in addition to fifty-fifty went shopping for babe necessities. I drove my mom to the market, went to herbal shops to teach to a greater extent than dates in addition to got stared at when they knew I was inward confinement. Nothing happened, because at that spot was no air current during all those times.
So, inward my case, I believe when the breeze or the air current is there, teach into the house. Go out to run errands if y'all must exclusively during the twenty-four hours fourth dimension when it's hot. After delivery, our pores are opened in addition to tin forcefulness out live susceptible to "cold wind". It could live in addition to I'm telling y'all from my ain experience. I'm non someone that has headaches all the time. I could count the times alongside exclusively my correct fingers. So far including these 2, I had exclusively 4 headaches so far, with ii already stated here. But I receive got the fan in addition to aircond on at domicile throughout my confinement, non natural breeze :) It's indoors of Malaysia!!!
10. Drink lots of liquor, similar DOM
-No I don't.
Somehow I believe that inward China, where it is actually cold, liquor is ane way to warm the body. Just similar how Russians role Vodka every bit a torso warming aid. It's so hot here, do nosotros actually demand that much of warmth from liquor?
DOM which is the ultimate confinement liquor, haha, is hardly consumed. I don't similar the sweetness. I could exclusively complete one-half a bottle each time. With a few bottles every bit gifts each time, I had to recollect of ways to create out them later. I breastfeed, thus I don't swallow raw liquor. I role them cooked each time. And they sense of savor absolutely sweetness when the alchohol has evaporated. I know DOM is skillful for the postal service partum lady alongside all the herbs infused inward it, but too bad, I'm no drinker.
I don't similar rice vino Chicken, I don't know why, I simply don't similar it. Don't verbalize nearly crimson rice wine. Worse.
The exclusively vino I could tolerate lots of it inward the cooking is Korean ginger wine. So far, I don't experience weak right away without DOM. Sigh, don't verbalize nearly thirty years downwards the road. No ane knows. I'd rather receive got inward saffron, thyme, angelica, cinnamon inward its natural shape than to derive them infused inward DOM.
When this calendar month has passed, I'll live dorsum on my feet, in addition to hell volition begin. But I'll live glad that I rested good during the crucial times postal service delivery. I'm certainly my injure has healed good in addition to I'm good nourished to seem upwards the side past times side few months. Getting sick is no modest thing when y'all receive got a modest infant, a toddler in addition to a kid to receive got aid of. That's the concluding thing I want. So, teach on alongside confinement, but alongside some rationale. Don't live blind to follow whatever you're told. It's a skillful exercise that shouldn't live set aside in addition to live regarded every bit something of the past.
I haven't deliver yet. My H2O level's non that good. Doc's non letting me hold back past times my EDD, which is June 1. Which means, Mr R is coming out to run across the footing past times claw or past times crook on Midweek morning. I'm inward perfect health, no blood sugar, no hypertension(instead I used to receive got hypo), no swelling, placenta's good, everything good! Just the H2O level. Sigh!!!
I'm praying difficult that he'll live similar his Lyanne Cheh-cheh who came out on her ain on the twenty-four hours I was supposed to live induced. Lyanne was huge so Dr. won't permit me past times my EDD to a greater extent than than a calendar week if I wanted natural birth. Perfect wellness every bit well. I loathe existence induced. It's super super super painful, leaving me alongside no fourth dimension to breathe inward betwixt contractions.
Well, each pregnancy, I'm ever at the brink of having non plenty amniotic fluid, in addition to this time, it's kinda actually low. So, perhaps right away y'all know why my weight increment is non that great. Still at nearly 3kg, haha! With the babe at 3.1kg now, concluding scanned on Saturday. I never receive got whatever H2O retentiveness problem, no leg swelling, or whatsoever swelling. No increment of whatever size of anything on my body. Haha, yes. Just my belly.
It's non that I don't drinkable plenty water, I don't receive got constipation problems, I simply never retain liquids inward my system. Even If I drinkable a mugful of H2O each thirty minutes, I'll become to lavatory every one-half an sixty minutes in addition to drain them all out.
Each fourth dimension after deliver, I become through confinement. For those of y'all who receive got no thought what is confinement, it's a Chinese tradition of which after delivery, the lady stays home, relaxation in addition to gets fed well, alongside lots of rules in addition to regulations to ensure a proper healing in addition to recuperation. Confinement 坐月子 is non exclusively practiced past times those from Chinese descent, but Malays, Indians in addition to another people from Asian countries. Engaging the same confinement lady, CL each time. It's non because she cooks well, but I similar her mental attitude in addition to her powerfulness to shoot upwards from slumber in addition to doze off alongside a count to 3. It makes us relieved to know that she is getting plenty relaxation that she won't driblet my babe off her arms due to sleeplessness. Good tike aid is to a greater extent than of import than food.
This fourth dimension around, every bit park I prepared a weekly card for my CL. I don't similar to eat redundant things in addition to it makes life easier for others, similar MIL who volition live doing the marketing for me. The concluding confinement (Lyanne's time), my CL made certainly mistakes that I'll brand certainly she doesn't do that this time. I translated some of recipes on my weblog inward Chinese for her. I desire some of the things cooked my way. She is the type of mortal who volition receive got inward suggestions in addition to listens to us, her employer, rather than insisting inward her ain ways. An mental attitude suitable for modern confinement.
There are few things that I volition dear to verbalize about. You mightiness disagree or express mirth nearly it alongside me, but no thing what, it's 100% my personal opinion.
1. Confinement is onetime fashioned.
- Well, depends on how y'all await at it. Why spend upwards a calendar month of relaxation? It's a calendar month where the woman nurture gets to relaxation in addition to eat good to recuperate. It should live the fourth dimension to bond alongside the baby, alongside someone else taking aid of other things for you, similar chores. Why not? I believe that if ane does non relaxation good during the 1st month, the 2d calendar month volition live a nightmare when the babe starts to wake upwards to a greater extent than in addition to throws to a greater extent than tantrums. There volition live no fourth dimension for rest, or fifty-fifty to select handgrip of character sleep, non until many months later. The showtime calendar month is a lot of sleeeeeping. So, why non slumber when the babe sleeps in addition to recollect nearly goose egg else. The best business office is sleeping throughout the night.......... character slumber for thirty days after xl weeks of twisting in addition to turning on the bed alongside a heavy belly in addition to constant bath visits. The CL won't remain alongside y'all forever, it's simply the crucial showtime month, so savour yourself.
2. No bathing
-Yucks!!! There's no wintertime here. It's summertime whole twelvemonth long. If crimson dates tin forcefulness out live kept at room temp inward Cathay without whatever problems, sweat keeping your crimson dates inward your cabinet. You'll see them growing fungus rattling soon. Imagine your torso growing fungus and you are carrying the babe inward your arms. Yucks!!!! The weather condition in addition to climate hither is absolutely different. My grandaunt (1903-1996) who came from Cathay told my mom to bathe, in addition to said , " You recollect this is Cathay ah?" Grandaunt said, babies inward Cathay do non bathe. So, if y'all bathe your babe daily, why won't u bathe yourself? Yucks! If y'all actually worry nearly "wind", gosh, at that spot are bathing herbs, sold for few bucks per pack at Chinese herbal shops. They don't odor weird, but smells similar herbal tea. I won't hear drinking them if they were sweetened. If tradition says no bathing, so why are at that spot postal service partum bathing herbs? For watering plants meh?
3. One shouldn't touching on unboiled water. Bathe, launder hands in addition to gargle with cooled cooked water.
-Hey!!! Which century are y'all living in? Are y'all using river water? Well water? Gosh no! It's chlorinated piping water. River H2O or good H2O may comprise nematodes, parasites, germs in addition to fifty-fifty traces human waste. So, if y'all don't boil it, chances are the injure downwards at that spot mightiness teach infected in addition to that's the concluding thing y'all ever want. But hi hey hey, nosotros are using chlorinated piping H2O now. So, do y'all recollect that is applicable now?
4. No drinking of plain water.
- Gosh. Since when manifestly H2O is bad for you? All crimson appointment teas or rice tea are infused alongside manifestly water. When they teach into your body, it all the same gets separated every bit H2O in addition to nutrients, so what's the difference?
Not plenty H2O = constipation = chances of getting haemorrhoids
5. Wrap caput in addition to vesture socks.
-Huh? In tropical Malaysia? Got to live kidding me. I don't desire to perspire in addition to demeanour my baby. That's the concluding thing I desire to do. I don't desire to odor similar a dumpster in addition to teach athlete's food.
6. Not launder pilus for a month.
-I don't actually believe this, but to console my mom, I sweat my rattling best to launder after a week. And I brand certainly I teach my mane cleaned earlier I become for my tenth twenty-four hours cheque up. I don't desire to walk into the hospital every bit a stinking bomb. (the nurses do enjoin me many are stink bombs the minute the postal service partum ladies walk inward for that checkup) It's embarassing! It's non that nosotros are inward Cathay (again!!) that the weather condition is dry out in addition to cold. It's hot in addition to humid here. And muddied pilus grows germs in addition to whatsoever.
7. Refrain from vegetables.
-As believed, vegetables are cooling, except for a few types similar KaiLan. For me, I do non believe so. I demand the fibre to teach my bowels going. I don't desire to receive got haemorrhoids simply because I didn't eat plenty vege during this month. I'm lucky to receive got a confinement lady, woman nurture in addition to woman nurture inward police that supports a salubrious dose of vegetables. But I refrain from raw vege, in addition to taro. I was told that taro volition drive itching in addition to hey, sometimes taros actually does do that, fifty-fifty if ane hasn't delivered a baby. I don't desire to live scratching hither in addition to there. Not eating taro for a calendar month won't kill me, but non eating vege for a calendar month will.
8. Consume lots of expensive herbs.
- I don't believe inward splurging on herbs. As long every bit I eat healthily alongside a balanced diet, I don't believe I receive got to downwards 38gm of Angelica (dang gui) daily. Somehow I experience herbal shops likes to say, "If y'all don't 'bou' now, onetime liao so y'all know". Cheh, who knows what volition laissez passer on off when I'm 50 or 60. Can they guarantee if I receive got 2kg of angelica throughout my confinement I'll live costless of sickness when I'm 50. That's BS to me. To them, this is the best fourth dimension to cutting your throat, bespeak y'all to purchase this in addition to purchase that, scaring y'all nearly the future. My mom said, "I never ate whatever of those, but hi await at me, I'm fine.". My mom ate a lot of dark fungus of which is believed to aid alongside expelling muddied blood from the body. No expensive herbs. Not to say that I do non swallow whatever herbs, I do, but moderately. I all the same believe I demand the extra nourishment likewise a balanced diet, but non to splurge thousands of $$ on all the futurity predictions that no ane tin forcefulness out guarantee.
My aunt said, "Nowadays it's different the olden days where at that spot were no supplements during pregnancy. It actually feels weak after delivery, but if y'all swallow every pill that your Dr. enjoin y'all to receive got in, the departure is 100% obvious. I know cos I was diligently popping pills for the showtime in addition to last pregnancy in addition to was lazy for the middle ii babies. Lazy to popular pills in addition to you'll endure the consequences later." True story from my big aunt who believes inward a balanced postal service partum diet.
9. Not going out for 1 month, lest y'all teach "headwind".
-Errr... I do believe this to a certainly extent.
*2 weeks after delivering Lydia, I brought her to a playground contrary my mom's identify in addition to sat on the swing. The belatedly afternoon cool breeze was blowing field I was there. Just for xv minutes. That night, I had mild headache.
*2 weeks after delivering Lyanne, I went to the balcony to hang the laundry every bit the confinement lady washed the wearing clothing earlier she slept. I never similar leaving the wearing clothing inward the machine overnight every bit it volition brand the wearing clothing actually crumpled. The dark breeze was blowing. I had mild headache that dark too.
*But for both babies, I drove to the infirmary past times myself to receive got my tenth twenty-four hours cheque upwards in addition to fifty-fifty went shopping for babe necessities. I drove my mom to the market, went to herbal shops to teach to a greater extent than dates in addition to got stared at when they knew I was inward confinement. Nothing happened, because at that spot was no air current during all those times.
So, inward my case, I believe when the breeze or the air current is there, teach into the house. Go out to run errands if y'all must exclusively during the twenty-four hours fourth dimension when it's hot. After delivery, our pores are opened in addition to tin forcefulness out live susceptible to "cold wind". It could live in addition to I'm telling y'all from my ain experience. I'm non someone that has headaches all the time. I could count the times alongside exclusively my correct fingers. So far including these 2, I had exclusively 4 headaches so far, with ii already stated here. But I receive got the fan in addition to aircond on at domicile throughout my confinement, non natural breeze :) It's indoors of Malaysia!!!
10. Drink lots of liquor, similar DOM
-No I don't.
Somehow I believe that inward China, where it is actually cold, liquor is ane way to warm the body. Just similar how Russians role Vodka every bit a torso warming aid. It's so hot here, do nosotros actually demand that much of warmth from liquor?
DOM which is the ultimate confinement liquor, haha, is hardly consumed. I don't similar the sweetness. I could exclusively complete one-half a bottle each time. With a few bottles every bit gifts each time, I had to recollect of ways to create out them later. I breastfeed, thus I don't swallow raw liquor. I role them cooked each time. And they sense of savor absolutely sweetness when the alchohol has evaporated. I know DOM is skillful for the postal service partum lady alongside all the herbs infused inward it, but too bad, I'm no drinker.
I don't similar rice vino Chicken, I don't know why, I simply don't similar it. Don't verbalize nearly crimson rice wine. Worse.
The exclusively vino I could tolerate lots of it inward the cooking is Korean ginger wine. So far, I don't experience weak right away without DOM. Sigh, don't verbalize nearly thirty years downwards the road. No ane knows. I'd rather receive got inward saffron, thyme, angelica, cinnamon inward its natural shape than to derive them infused inward DOM.
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When this calendar month has passed, I'll live dorsum on my feet, in addition to hell volition begin. But I'll live glad that I rested good during the crucial times postal service delivery. I'm certainly my injure has healed good in addition to I'm good nourished to seem upwards the side past times side few months. Getting sick is no modest thing when y'all receive got a modest infant, a toddler in addition to a kid to receive got aid of. That's the concluding thing I want. So, teach on alongside confinement, but alongside some rationale. Don't live blind to follow whatever you're told. It's a skillful exercise that shouldn't live set aside in addition to live regarded every bit something of the past.
I won't live MIA for a month. Confinement postings coming upwards when I've delivered in addition to am feeling much better.
See y'all inward my side past times side postal service alongside pictures of Mr. R.
Haha, I similar the way Elin calls him.
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