Taking care of children is not an easy task, especially for a mother like me who skips pregnancy and goes straight to the next level. Fortunately, before I got married to Feng, I took a few lessons on taking care of babies in a marriage class, so at this time I met
, and you won’t be in a hurry.
Newborn babies spend most of their time sleeping, apart from eating. My baby wakes up every hour or so to nurse, but since he started taking mine, he refused to suck the nurse's milk, so I couldn't sleep at all.
When it was dark, I would be woken up by his cries, and I would get up to feed him. After being tossed by him a few times, I got used to him waking up, and I would wake up with him, and sleep with him when he slept.
I spent two days like this. After sleeping for two days after I exhausted all my energy during childbirth, I suddenly felt full of energy.
In the first few days, I had not recovered my physical strength, so even though I was sweating, I couldn't take care of it. But today, I see that the hair on my head is all tied up in knots, and my body still smells sour, and I can't.
I ignored it. Looking at my baby, the situation was similar to mine, so I asked Xiaodie to prepare water so that we could take a hot bath.
But unlike modern times, the ancients were very particular during confinement. They couldn't blow the wind or touch the water... Anyway, there are a lot of truths. But now there are many taboos that have been proven by doctors to be unscientific, so as long as you take proper care, you can still take a bath.
I talked to Xiaodie for a long time, but Xiaodie's head was still shaking like a rattle. I had no choice but to be Tang Monk again: "Little Butterfly, don't be so stubborn..."
Xiaodie corrected: "Miss, my name is not Xiaodie, my name is Xiaodie, and a dish is a dish for dishes, not a butterfly for butterflies."
"I don't care whether you are a dish or a butterfly. Anyway, I call you little butterfly. From now on you will be a little butterfly, not a dish. I said, and then I put my body under Xiaodie's nose,"
Xiaodie, smell it and see if I smell bad."
"No~" Xiaodie frowned, opened her eyes and told lies.
I rolled my eyes at her and said, "Look at you, you're frowning so much that you're about to break a steel bar, and you still dare to say it's not there. You smell it, it really stinks!"
I deliberately got under her nose again, Xiaodie frowned but did not avoid it, pretended to sniff, and then said against her will: "No way~"
"Nonsense! I smelled it myself, and you still said you didn't. You...are clearly bullying me as a patient and refusing to listen to me! 55555~~~~" I saw that Xiaodie was unwilling to compromise, so she immediately used her trump card.
, covering his face and pretending to cry.
"I didn't!!!" Xiaodie immediately shouted that she was wronged. I didn't care whether she was wronged or not. Anyway, I just wanted to take a shower, so I gave her a sad look and told her that she was bullying me because I was a pregnant woman and I couldn't fight her.
She. She trembled when I stared at her with sad eyes, and she could only say helplessly: "It does smell a little bit bad, but only a little bit. Miss, just bear with it, and do whatever you want after the confinement period."
Wash as you please, I will never stop you!"
After the confinement period!!! By then, I will not be itchy to death, but I will also be smelly!!
"Xiaodie, after the confinement period, you and I have already died before that day..." I wiped my tears and pretended to cry.
"Ah?" Xiaodie was surprised, "Miss, it's not that serious..."
"Yes, it's that serious!" I said solemnly, "You see, my body has already smelled like this in just a few days. If it takes a few more days, I will probably be covered with flies and mosquitoes, and the flies will produce eggs on my body.
The eggs will hatch into adult worms, and then I will be covered with worms..." Before I could scare Xiaodie, I was first frightened by my imagination and got goosebumps. Then I suppressed my nausea and said, "The worms are chewing holes in my body.
Settling down a family, then starting a family and starting a business, then breeding offspring, passing on from one generation to the next, and in the end, I died of a puncture in my intestines. No, maybe, I couldn’t wait until that day, because I couldn’t bear it, and committed suicide..."
"Miss, please stop talking! I just promise you!" Xiaodie couldn't help but ran to the side and held on to the door frame to retching. "Ugh!!! Ugh!!!"
After vomiting the sour water, Xiaodie held back her nausea and said: "Miss, even if the slave agrees, the prince will not agree. If the prince finds out about this, I'm afraid he will blame the slave for making the decision secretly. When the time comes... Is the slave responsible?
Get up!" Xiaodie showed fear.
I rolled my eyes at her and said, "If you don't tell me, if I don't tell you, how will the prince know about this? Besides, even if he knows, you and I will naturally have a way to prevent him from punishing you. If he doesn't, I will bear the blame."
"For this reason, I don't believe Xiaodie will disagree, but Xiaodie still said in a very embarrassed tone: "Miss, this is not what I mean, I just..."
"Okay! That's it, don't talk nonsense." I waved my hand to interrupt her, "Go and get ready. By the way, I'll also prepare the little prince's. I'll also wash it for him to prevent him from getting dirty and smelly.
Oh, by the way, the water for bathing should be boiled water, not cold water. Also, it’s best to add some old ginger and boil it, so you don’t have to worry about me catching a cold.” The book recommends that mothers use this method.
Method: Taking a bath can prevent moisture from invading the body and causing the body to catch cold.
"My slave, I obey." Xiaodie was helpless and embarrassed, but she couldn't resist me, so she had to go down and prepare.
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When the hot water reached the temperature suitable for human body bathing, I got into the bucket and washed myself thoroughly. Then I put on the purple floral floor-length dress Xiaodie prepared for me, and then wiped the maid dry for me.
With my long hair rolled back casually, I rolled up my sleeves and prepared to bathe the little one.
The little guy's water was placed in a small wooden basin. I tested the water temperature with the inner wall of my wrist. It was neither cold nor hot, and it was just right.
Although Xiaodie and the other maids were rushing to bathe the little guy, I felt that since I had given him a son for nothing, of course I had to do it myself in order to make him like me.
At my insistence, I rolled up my skirt and squatted next to the tub with my naked little guy in my arms. I put his little body on my knees. I first covered his little body with a thin quilt, and then held him up with one hand.
He wet his little head with a towel in one hand, wetted his hair, and washed his hair first.
The little guy was lying on my lap, looking at me with his beady black eyes as I gently rubbed his hair, with a look of enjoyment on his face, obediently letting me do what I wanted. After the milk stains were softened, I rinsed them with water until they were clean.
Dry him gently with a dry towel.
After drying his hair, Xiaodie had replaced it with a basin of clean warm water. I tested the water temperature again, then took off the thin quilt covering his body, dipped it in some water, and patted his chest gently to let him adapt.
Water temperature. After completing this step, I held his butt with one hand, let his whole body lean on my arm, and then gently lowered him into the water.
The moment he first entered the water, the temperature of the water made the little guy clench his fists, his little face tensed up, and then he grinned and trembled. It was so cute.
After splashing in the water for a few times, the little guy adapted to the water temperature. His hands and feet began to kick disobediently, and his body was so slippery that I could hardly hold it. Seeing this, Xiaodie quickly squatted down to help me hold on.
The little guy seemed to like the water very much. He was splashing around in the water, and his funny look made us laugh. Seeing us laughing, the little guy also giggled, and the laughter filled the room.
At this time, the door was gently pushed open, and a man came in quietly. He seemed to be infected by the laughter in the room, with a smile on his face, but after seeing everything in the room, he became furious and roared: "What are you doing?
?”
Everyone in the room was startled by him. My hand slipped. If I hadn't grabbed it in time, the little guy would have fallen into the water and choked.
"See you, Your Majesty!"
"Wow!"
The maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, and the little guy was so frightened that he cried loudly. I took him out of the water, quickly asked Xiaodie to wrap him in cloth tightly, then held him in my arms and coaxed softly: "Baby,
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid!”
Looking back, I scolded the culprit who caused all this: "Who are you? You have nothing to do and you come to me to scare people! Go! Close the door! Don't let the baby catch a cold!"
The man obviously didn't see me looking so fierce, and was frightened by me. He turned around in a hurry, closed the door, and then turned to me and said flatteringly: "Xue'er, the door is closed!"
"Humph!" I gave him a cold look, turned around with the baby in my arms, walked to the bed behind the gauze curtain, and placed the little guy on it.
"Miss, here you go!" The other maids were kneeling, only Xiaodie cautiously brought the prepared clothes and a box of things.
I took the box and asked, "What is this?"
"Powder!" Xiaodie said, and then seeing that I didn't understand very well, she explained: "It's for the little prince to apply on his body."
After hearing what she said, I immediately understood that this stuff has the same function as baby powder. It is applied to the child's folds to keep him dry and prevent eczema.