I HATE confinement. I think it is definitely the worse part of the whole pregnancy/parenting thing. I see people breezing through their confinement period and I wonder how they made it. While I love being pregnant, I hate confiment to the core.
For one, I am now one smelly dirty woman. Yes, I get to bathe once a day which is more than most women get during confinement but it is just not enough in our weather especially when you are always in a "warm enough" room for baby. Plus, the water is some sort of herb boiled water. It is a blackish colour and smells awful but at least is not sticky. I am soooo gonna bathe 3 times a day after confinement. Its hard to even stick to the once a week shampoo now. Wish I can wash hair more often but for the sake of my future health, better endure if I can.
Secondly, I am sooooo sick of confinement food. Its always the same food and flavor and it always comes in huge huge portions which you are expected to finish. My goodness, I am eating for 2 people even though the other one is sleeping beside me instead of inside me. No cold drinks, no tea, no cold anything..........and in this hot weather.......
Thirdly, I am forever feeding or pumping out milk. Because I need to establish a steady supply of breastmilk for baby and because he refuses to latch on. It is feeding time then 1 hour later, pumping time, then 1 hour later, feeding time and so on......and the milk actually gets kinda messy during pumping time as it sometimes leak all over the place and dries sticky. Latching on is still best. For my second baby, I will teach him to latch on as soon as possible.
That comes to the fourth point, between feeding and pumping, I am highly sleep deprived. Yes, most days, I look like a zombie. Really gotta start training my maid to feed baby.
Oh well, gotta go..........baby duties await me once more.
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