Glenn's Paradise

In Western, most of the people don't believe confinement month for a mother. But for Chinese, it is a very important period to re-built a lady body condition. If we are really take good care in this golden time of period, a lot of previous health problem will be solve automatically. Amazing right. Thus, Confinement Lady become a highly required job especially in City like Kuala Lumpur. The rates this year is RM2800 to RM3000 not including AngPow for that particular month. As this year is a very good year in Chinese belief, so most of the good CL has been fully booked. The job for a CL is basically help to take care the baby (Day & Night), bath the baby, boiled the ginger and herbs water for new mummy to take bath, cook the confinement food for new mother and help to clean up the baby and mummy clothes.

To be frank, it is not easy to let a stranger stay with you in a month time. Therefore, a lot of toleration, cooperation and patient we need to have in this period. After some discussion with hubby, we decided to DIY my first confinement with my Mother In Law together. She will take care the baby during day time. As I am planning to breastfeed my baby, so I take care the baby myself at night time. We will order the confinement food catering service so that my MIL won't be so tired. Yeah, I believe we can do it very well this time.

The main reason I don't really like a CL because most of them not encourage breastfeeding. I have already make up my mind to breastfeed my baby, therefore I am really very serious about it. I don't even accept their suggestion of pump out the milk for them to feed baby via milk bottle or mix with milk powder at night time. This will make their job easy but will make my life difficult afterwards. No way!