Mothering Corner

I didn’t have confinement lady for both babies. MIL helped with the cooking, and washing for my first baby and then my maid came along for the second baby. I was all alone with the newborn babies, struggling with baby care, breastfeeding, post natal baby fat, baby blues, and hubby not being around. I was amazed that I didn’t get post natal depression since those 30 days were nightmares to me!

But most of my friends told me that there is one thing they missed about confinement—- the nice Chinese confinement food. I have to agree that some of the food is great, but I can’t take alcohol and ginger, so I missed out lots of dishes. However, MIL was great. She cooked black pepper salmon for me, and I love it! She stopped cooking that after confinement. Oh boy, I really miss that dish!