Being a confinement lady

It has been a month since my last post. Wow! I have been really really busy.

My sis have just given birth to a baby boy last month. Well, what have that got to do with me being busy? My sis did her confinement at my mum's place. Since I have nothing much to do, I decided to go back to mum;s place and help her up. So there I was back home, helping my mum with simple chores - boiling water, hanging and folding clothes, cut veges etc...Then...mum injured her arm. How? She went to the market alone, and bought so many things - chicken, pork rib, pork leg, pig's kidney, pig's stomach, fruits etc (too heavy for her to handle). Then on that day, she need to 'treat' the chicken, pork (and parts) before cooking or storing in the fridge. That is too much for her to handle...she start to feel the pain, but the pain is bearable. The next day, she went to chinese sinseh for a massage. At night, about 9pm, her arm started to hurt so bad that tears start rolling down. She is in such pain that I insisted on sending her to the hospital. She was x-rayed, given a jab at her butt, took some medicine and was given a appointment to meet the specialist 2 weeks later.

So mum is not able to work. Me, have to take over all the cooking for the whole family, plus cooking for my sis (confinement dishes). I have never worked so much in my life. Now I know how tiring it can be to be fulltime housewife :P

Besides, I need to help take care of baby, so that my sis can get some rest to recover. I have learned quite a lot.

There is something that need to remember on handling newborn. Remember to wake baby up every 1-2 hours for feeding, even though baby is sleeping. Must wake them up no matter what - undress them, tickle, whatever.

Sis made a mistake by allowing baby to sleep 6 hours without feeding, ended up, baby's system does not work well and ended up with jaundice.

Baby's full moon was 10 days ago. Then only I have got a breather....and finally now have the time to sit and write. But then again, during the past 1 month, i have been baking almost everyday. But I too lazy to snap any photos. Hopefully I will take somemore photos and start posting again :)