Today is August 12. Eighteen more days before I can have my freedom back. I’m really counting the days, not being used to having someone control my life. I’m not even allowed to switch the computer on and you all know how torturous that is for me! I can’t even check if I have advertising offers and need my friends to sms me to inform me that they’ve booked offers for me. Bless your hearts, my dear friends. You are truly gems and I thank you with all my heart.

According to CCM, the computer will give me a headache but I’ve been secretly on my laptop late at night in my bedroom and no headache has come because of me using the laptop. Of course, I can’t do this every night because I am too darn tired by the time it is 8pm. C’mon! My body is immune to the dangers of a computer. I can be on it 14 hours and STILL not get any ailments.

Then I complained to the Hubs that I get this pounding headache every time I breastfeed but it disappears soon after. I looked it up and apparently sometimes, the surge in oxytocin causes that headache in some women. I happen to be one of those women. The CCM has to add that she has never heard of such a thing and that I must be really weak. Yes, I am the weak one that doesn’t have enough milk and has slow milk let down. Actually, I DO have enough milk (we’re getting a poop or several poops after every feed and lots of wet nappies, plus she’s gaining weight) and my let down is fine (it comes within seconds) but sometimes, the baby latches on slow because of her tiny mouth and this is mistaken for faults of my body. My baby, sometimes she latches on at first bite, sometimes it takes a bit longer. I assumed that was normal….especially with someone who has such a small mouth.

Coincidentally, the Hubs bumped into my Doctor at the supermarket last night so told her about my breastfeeding headaches. She said, “Oh, that’s very normal.” She feels that it may go away once my body gets adjusted to breastfeeding, otherwise, take some painkillers and get some rest.

My maid of honour wanted to visit me tomorrow and asked what goodies I wanted her to bring. Cake? Chocolate? Name it! I told her I wasn’t allowed visitors till the baby was at least 2 weeks old and I wasn’t allowed any goodies AT ALL and I wasn’t even allowed to use the computer, upon strict instructions of the CCM. The reaction from someone who’s had two confinement ladies in her life?

“Oh My God!! That’s not a confinement lady. That’s a confinement monster!!!”

Hence the name, Chinese Confinement Monster…….

OK. To be fair, she has been cooking me some wonderful food on the table that has really served me well as I have good milk, thick and creamy…..I owe it to the food that she’s cooked for me, except that on week 2, she now makes my helper do the same cooking and of course, it doesn’t quite turn out the same! In fact, Filipinos seem to like their fish and chicken super fried and super dry! Yuck!

See? Even T2 shares my sentiments…..

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