Wellness & Vitality
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I miss my confinement time
So, confinement is finally over, but instead of sighing with relief, I wish it was a little longer. Let’s see why.. 1) I had a super cun confinement nanny, her name is Mandy Mandy has been in the business for only 5 years, and used to work in a restaurant. She’s totally passionate about cooking and food, and is easily satisfied when I eat up everything. She doesn’t cook in huge proportions and force me to eat though, it’s just enough. She’s really easy to get a long with, and helped me out a lot. She certainly taught me many things, from bathing the baby, to how to boil red…
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Confinement so far
I praise God that my confinement lady is a great cook. That does make a big difference whether your confinement month is a torture or a bliss. Okay, so far, I won’t say that my confinement time is like paradise, mainly because of the exhaustion and sleepless nights, which will have no end. However, I really like my CL, called Mandy. I got her through the agency, SN-nanny, and she’s from Setiawan. The first time I met her, I was surprised that she is very young. Anyways, she’s quite the modern type, although she has her own beliefs in do’s and don’ts, but she doesn’t force it on me. She…
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Things I couldn’t have lived 14 days without
For some mothers, the confinement time is traumatic and horrifying, aka imprisonment in your own room with your new baby that cries and poops non stop. Thank God for me, today being day 14 and it’s going great. I owed it a lot to a very nice confinement lady. But that’s for another post. Today, I want to talk about some of the products I bought that really helped me through the pain and the supposed torture. 1) No-Rinse Shampoo and Body Wash I bought these from Thebabyloft.com. Most women, me included, cannot go more than 2 days without washing their hair. So imagine when in confinement we are not…
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The Birth Experience
This can be pretty graphic, so read at your own risk. So by my calculations, my EDD aka Due Date for Baby Josiah was Feb 6. However, by Monday Feb 2 I was starting to get some contractions. By Wednesday, I finished all the work I can so I don’t have to go back to work on Thursday. So many people were asking me to take 2 days off before the due date. On Wednesday whole, I was timing the contractions, and it was getting pretty regular at 5-10 minutes apart, lasting at least 30 seconds. That was from early morning, then as at around midnight, it became closer and…











