.:Simply Funtasy:.

Pregnancy, labor, and delivery, then what next? Confinement, of course. Confinement, which literally translates to "sitting the month", has become a deeply ingrained tradition in Chinese society. Women are advised to stay indoors for recovery from the trauma of birth and feeding the newborn.  There's a lot of do's and don't during this confinement period, and my gosh, the traditional ones are too damn strict. You cannot touch the water. You cannot blow cold wind. You cannot bathe nor wash your hair. Thankfully, the tradition has been improvised according to the advancement of technology and society lah, so not so miserable anymore, but I still do follow some of the rules, eg, I didn't wash my hair until the 20th day and I wore a long sarong throughout my confinement. When we found out that we're pregnant, the next big thing was confinement. There were few options to choose from at the time: my mom coming to our place, I go back to KB, I go to Sing's pl

 DOB: 26th Feb 2021, boy, 3.41 kg, 57 cm. On 19th Feb, a week before labor, I had an appointment with my ob-gyn. There was still no sign of labor, and my amniotic fluid was still sufficient, so he asked me to come back on 28th (my estimated due date was on 1st March) to check on me and the baby again and discuss the labor options. On 24th, I had an appointment at KK. The nurse checked on me and said "anytime now, be prepared."  On 25th morning, I noticed some light spotting when I went to the toilet but no pain whatsoever. I called my ob-gyn assistant to ask if the doctor was available today. We discussed and decided to pack up and go straight to the hospital.  P/S: This was the decision both of us are still a little regret making even until now. Not in a bad way lah. After reading some posts on the mommies' group, we realized that we should have waited for a day or two or even go to KK or the government hospital first. Maybe my labor would be a little easy (and less expe

 Who knew a long-winded person like me would be so lazy to update my blogs haha. I thought it's because of my dull and boring life, but then there were several occasions that were quite interesting to write about, so no excuse for that.  I blame it on my translation and editor job lah. Because the job is to translate/edit novels and stories, so I had enough quota and burnt enough brain cells for the assignments that I don't have the time and effort left to update my own stuff. Plus, I don't earn much money through blogging anyway, why waste the time here lol. Anyway, I do miss blogging a lot, because, as the first sentence stated, I'm damn long-winded lah, so here's my first post after, let's see, Sept 2020! I predict it's gonna be such a long-winded post so I spare you the pain by doing another post for the labor and delivery experience. (Does anyone care? lol) Well, 2020 was quite eventful in general with Covid, lockdown (Malaysia calls it MCO Movement Con