The story of a cook

Chapter 383 Serving the Confinement

Serving confinement for the first time.

There are many firsts in life, and you have to experience everything. It is not easy to become a father, and you have to start with serving the confinement.

The first two days were fine. Fifth Sister was there. Fifth Sister and Lin Yan took care of the children's affairs. I was only in charge of cooking and washing diapers.Fifth Sister has never bathed a child who is not yet full moon. At that time, it was her old woman who took care of her, so she was inexperienced.

Brother Li's sister-in-law did not dare to bathe the child.

No way, go into battle by yourself.

First boil the water, then mix it with cold water to adjust it to a suitable temperature, hold the naked son with his left hand, with his small head in the palm of his hand, the child's back on his arm, and his right hand holding a bath cotton pad dipped in water and lightly Give your son a gentle bath.Not to mention, my son was very honest and enjoying himself while taking a bath.When washing the face, the hands are light. The baby's skin is too tender, and it will be unbearable if it is heavy. At the same time, it is necessary to prevent water from entering the eyes, which will cause the baby to cry uncontrollably.

Because I was afraid, I didn't dare to let go of washing my son's face the first two times. I just washed my face and it was over, for fear of getting water into my son's eyes.Only after I became proficient did I dare to wash my son's face as a whole.

Because I didn’t understand anything, I had to learn everything. The first two days were really tiring, and I couldn’t sleep well. After a short sleep, I would wake up with a jerk and immediately go to see the child.

Seeing that I am too tired, fifth sister wants me to sleep well, because she is here.

Fortunately, Lin Yan's milk is sufficient, so she doesn't need to make milk powder for her child, and it will be even more tiring to make milk powder for her child.

The eldest sister and the second sister came when the son was born on the fifth day, and brought a lot of millet and the family's stupid eggs.I also brought a small quilt, a small pillow, and a longevity lock made by the mother for the child.

The eldest sister and the second sister are very happy. In the words of the second sister, they have their own nephews this time, and they will be supported by someone when they are old.

The eldest sister said that her mother heard that Lin Yan had given birth to a fat boy, she was so happy that she couldn't come when she was too old, otherwise she would come too.Tell me to take the child back after the full moon, and the mother is anxious to see the eldest grandson.

Mother is 71 years old, can she be unhappy that she has a grandson?

After the eldest sister and second sister came, Brother Li and his family of three went back to Brother Li's house to live, and the eldest sister, second sister, and fifth sister lived in Brother Li's house.Qiuping knew that her second sister had come and took a day off to spend time with her mother at my house.

After the eldest sister and the others came, they stayed for two days and were ready to go back. There was a lot of farm work waiting to be done at home.This is the first time that the eldest sister and the second sister have traveled so far, and it is also the first time to take a long-distance bus. If it weren't for the fact that they had their own eldest nephew, they might never have come to the provincial capital.Before leaving, I bought them a lot of special products from the provincial capital, but I didn't send them to the car. I had to wait on Lin Yan at home and asked Qiuping to give them to me.

The eldest sister left me a lot of money when they left, and I said I don’t want them to stay without reason, and told me not to rush to work and take good care of Lin Yan’s confinement at home, and not to be angry with Lin Yan, because people who are confinement are angry The milk will go back, and the child will have nothing to eat by then.He told me to sleep less, to cook for Lin Yan frequently, and to cook eggs for Lin Yan every day, and told me not to drink alcohol or go out to play.

The eldest sister said that it rained only in Beipiao for two days this year, and everyone is busy farming. If they are not busy farming, they will stay and help me take care of Lin Yan's confinement. There is no delay in farming. You have to go back to farm. Call me Be sure to serve Lin Yan well.

I responded one by one.

My sisters have been too kind to my old brother, and I can't repay them.

Boil millet porridge and boiled eggs for Lin Yan every day.I can't always eat millet porridge and eggs. Sometimes I cook two-rice porridge, preserved egg and lean meat porridge, white rice and vegetable porridge, and cook for her differently.Eggs can't all be boiled, sometimes steamed chicken cakes, sometimes spread eggs, and sometimes make fried eggs with vegetables.I also gave her pig's trotters, boiled crucian carp soup, big bone soup, etc. The dishes I usually eat are also changed, trying not to repeat the same.

Cooking is not a problem for me, I am a chef, this is our old profession.The hard part is taking care of the kids.The little guy doesn't care about the day and night, as long as he is hungry, he will eat, when he is full, he will start playing, and when he is tired, he will sleep.Whether it's sleeping or playing, once you have peeing, you can start to solve it immediately, and you have to wash diapers countless times a day.At the beginning, I put diapers on for my son. After wearing them for two days, my son developed red rashes on his buttocks and kept crying. After that, he stopped wearing diapers and kept putting diapers on him.After putting on the diaper, there is no more rash, and it is much more comfortable.

I wash diapers very professionally and they are very clean.After washing the diapers, take them outside to dry, and once they are dry, they are a clothesline.Every time I go out to dry the diapers of the children, the neighbors will greet me and say that I am a model husband.

It's not a model husband, no one will replace me.

At the beginning, Lin Yan and I had no experience. The child would cry when he felt uncomfortable. We didn't know what the child was uncomfortable, so we were anxious to see the child crying.Later, I found out that there are three reasons for a child to cry. The first is that he is hungry, the second is that he urinates or poops, and the third is that he is uncomfortable.

It's easy to handle when you're hungry, and you can breastfeed directly.It is enough to change the diaper after peeing or stretching, and the little butt is clean and refreshing. The little guy is comfortable and does not cause trouble.When the child is uncomfortable and starts to cry, you have to observe carefully. Sometimes it’s because the lying position is wrong, sometimes it’s a red rash somewhere on the body, and sometimes it’s uncomfortable in the stomach. At this time, pat it gently. The back is fine, and sometimes it is uncomfortable when the umbilical cord has not been withdrawn at the navel.

When my son's umbilical cord started, Lin Yan and I didn't know it and didn't pay attention. One day my son kept crying, and we searched for a long time before we found out that it was the umbilical cord that was a little red.I went out to the pharmacy to buy liquid medicine to disinfect my child. When I came out of the building, I met a fellow in the massage parlor. The fellow asked me why I was there. I told her about the redness and swelling of the child’s umbilical cord, and she told me not to buy it. Potion, it doesn’t matter, I asked me to buy medicinal alcohol cotton, take it back and burn it with a lighter, and just touch the cotton ashes left over from the burning to the child’s navel, and it will be fine in four or five days.

I went to the pharmacy to buy cotton wool, took it back, burned a piece with a lighter, and touched the cotton ash left over from the burning to my son's belly button. Not to mention, after 5 minutes, my son stopped crying and fell asleep after playing for a while.

Learned a trick.After touching my son for seven days, the umbilical cord fell off, and there was no more pain and redness.

I bathe my son twice a day, and every time I take a bath, my son is very quiet, waiting for me to wash him, and he seems to enjoy it very much.After washing, put him on the bed and let him play with his bare bottom for a while, and he was babbling there, as if he was talking about something.

Lin Yan and I started talking to him.

"Oh, after taking a shower, I feel comfortable."

"Start playing."

"It's beautiful."

"Little handsome guy is so handsome."

"---"

Words of praise are beyond words.

During the day, my son started to sleep after eating, drinking and playing, and Lin Yan slept with him while sleeping. At this time, I was on duty, washing diapers, cooking and cleaning up the housework.I will go to bed after ten o’clock in the evening, and I can sleep until two o’clock in the middle of the night. At this time, my son will wake up to breastfeed, and he has to change his diaper after breastfeeding. Otherwise, his son will protest, and his protest is loud and clear. cry.

As long as the child is served comfortably, the child will not cry very much.

The first thing Li Ge’s sister-in-law comes back from get off work every day is to come to my house to look after the child. Sometimes she will hug her son and like it for a long time. When she comes to Xiaolele, she will follow her to see the little brother. I went back to sleep.

Serving the confinement is really tiring. The main reason is that I feel that I don’t get enough sleep every day, and I can’t sleep well when I fall asleep. I wake up within two hours.

If you don't manage your family, you don't know the price of firewood and rice, and if you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents.I only really understood this sentence after having a son.

From conception to landing, from shithole to adulthood, being a parent is not easy. If a person is not filial to his parents, he will be hit with a thunderbolt every day.

Everyone also knows that Lin Yan gave birth to a big fat boy. She called me to congratulate her and asked me when I would treat her to a drink. I said that the child would be full moon.

Sister Zhao heard that I was very happy to have an older son, even happier than having a son herself, so she wanted to come and have a look right away.In May, she was a bit busy there, buying seasonal clothes for her children. She had to stock up and sell when she came back. Li Yanhua couldn't handle it all by herself, so she would come over when she was done.I said there is no rush, and I will come over to drink full moon wine when the child is full moon.Sister Zhao said that was for sure.

The mother-in-law came once when the son was [-] days old, and she was relieved to see that the grandson was well under the care of the daughter and son-in-law. The mother-in-law raised pigs at home and couldn't live in my house. She had to go back in the afternoon when she came in the morning.

The mother-in-law said that Zhihao's daughter-in-law had a baby in July, and she came back from BJ at the end of June. She also gave birth at the Maternity and Children's Hospital in Fuzhong. At that time, she had to take care of her daughter-in-law's confinement, and the girl's confinement could not be taken care of.

I am not angry about this anymore, and I will serve myself if I can’t take care of him. Now I am familiar with how to operate it. My son cried and fussed in the first two days, but he seldom cried after that, mainly because I serve him well.

It is said that serving the confinement is a woman's job, but in fact, men can also do it, and do it better than women.

I can't help confinement, my mother is so old, I can't ask her to come to the provincial capital to serve Lin Yan, the sisters are busy farming and farming, so I can only serve.Serving my daughter-in-law's confinement and watching my son look different every day is a very happy thing and a sense of accomplishment.

I also want to invite confinement sister-in-law to come, but our conditions are not allowed and we don't have the strength.Don't pretend if you don't have strength, just do whatever you want.

The mother-in-law said that the child will go to her house after the full moon, but I can't say that, I am going back to Beipiao, and the mother is anxious to see the eldest grandson at home.The mother-in-law said that the child will stay at grandma's house for half a month after the first month of life, and go to her house first, and then return to Beipiao.I said yes, let's talk about it later.

To be honest, I feel a little awkward about having Zhihao's daughter-in-law, and I don't want to go to my mother-in-law's house.

The mother-in-law went back after lunch, and when she left, she said that the child must go to her house after the full moon, and I agreed.After my mother-in-law left, Lin Yan told me that my mother-in-law ran out of money to buy pig feed for raising pigs, and wanted to get some from my house.

I said, "You know how much money our family has. I haven't gone to work yet."

"I know what's going on in our family. Now is the time to spend money. I only gave my mother 500 yuan." Lin Yan said.

At this time, I can't make her angry. Once I make her angry, if I get angry with the milk, my son will have nothing to eat.

I smiled and asked, "Is 500 yuan not enough?"

She said: "It's not enough. I told my mother that I can receive some gift money when I buy the full moon wine, and I will get some for him at that time. I told her to take 500 yuan to buy less feed for feeding, and then I will give it to her later." " Then he said: "Now Zhiye is going to be admitted to university soon. There are many places to spend money. If he is admitted, he will have to spend a lot of money. This year's pigs are not doing well, and the pigs that my mother feeds are not doing well. Make no money."

I said, "Okay, I'll get some more when the time comes."

She asked, "Aren't you angry?"

I smiled and said, "Don't be angry, there's nothing to be angry about. Money is earned by people. If I go out and earn it, it will be over."

Since she promised her mother-in-law, I didn't say anything, there was no reason to be angry with her about it.Ever since she started taking care of the confinement child, she has a deep understanding of the difficulty of raising children. It is not easy for the mother-in-law to pull Lin Yan and the three siblings, and now she is still working hard at such an age. This is the difficulty of being a mother.Zhihao and his wife lived their own lives in BJ, regardless of their family, Zhiye went to school and had to go to college soon, and he needed a sum of money to go to college, and everything depended on his mother-in-law. We can help a little. Can't watch the old lady fall to the ground.

The main reason is that my family has no money now.

I didn’t give Lin Yan the money my eldest sister and the others gave me when they left. In my hands, I have to use the money to cover daily household expenses. If I gave it to Lin Yan, she would take it away from my mother-in-law.

It's a rough day.

Fortunately, Lin Yan has enough milk, and her son can't even eat it, so he has to squeeze out and throw away a lot every day. If Lin Yan doesn't have enough milk and has to feed her son milk powder, it will cost a fortune, and it will be a bit stretched.

After the full moon, the child hastened to find a job and had to go out to earn money to support the family.

The fifth sister called to ask about her son's situation, and told the fifth sister that her son was very good and nothing happened.The fifth sister said that the full moon asked Lin Yan to take the child to stay at the mother-in-law's house for a few days, and the child who was born on the full moon first went to the grandma's house to live well, she said.After staying at the mother-in-law's house, I will return to Beipiao, so that I can stay at home for a few more days, and my mother can also spend a few more days with my grandson.If she went back to Beipiao first, Lin Yan would not be able to stay at home for a few days in case Lin Yan missed her mother's house, and the mother would be reluctant to leave her grandson.I thought about it, so I told Lin Yan that the full moon would go to my mother-in-law's house first.

It was very lively on the day of my son's full moon, and all my friends came over.

My mother-in-law came in the morning train, and she helped me take care of Lin Yan at home with the children, and I entertained friends who came to congratulate me at the restaurant.

To be honest, I was happy to have a son and drank a lot, but not too much.

(End of this chapter)