Chapter 2 About Squatting Toilets
Shin Shin squatted down on the toilet with confidence, God, from opening her eyes in the morning to now, she has been revolving around the child, and now she can finally start doing her own thing. In the three months since the birth of the child, Shin Shin's life has changed dramatically. She can no longer sleep comfortably until dawn as before, and she no longer has time to take care of her appearance, even when the children are not making trouble when she eats, and she can't even go to the bathroom if she wants to. Sleep has become Shin Shin's first need most of the time. My husband Mu Nan's job is three shifts, and I am most afraid of not sleeping well at night. Xinxin felt sorry for him, so she insisted on taking care of the child alone at night. Children usually wake up every two hours at night, and when they wake up, they need to feed and change diapers. My mother-in-law didn't let me use diapers, and Shin Shin agreed. Although many people are using it, and the advertisement also promises that diapers are safe and comfortable, after all, they are wrapped in a layer of plastic on the outside, which is not breathable, and the child is definitely not as comfortable as a diaper, so Xinxin is willing to work hard and get up again and again at night to change the child's diaper. It's very tiring, and if you catch up with the child at night, Shin Shin almost can't sleep all night.
Fortunately, Shin Shin's unit management is relatively loose, and the child can be delayed until six months before going to work, so although he is tired at night, Shin Shin can at least sleep a little more during the day. However, this one is more flexible after sleeping for a while. Because she has to take care of the child, the advice given by the mother-in-law is "If the child sleeps, you sleep too." "But people are not machines, and they can enter the state by turning on the switch. When the child wakes up, Xinxin's reaction is still relatively sensitive, and she can basically wake up from her sleep immediately, although many times it is a very painful process. But after the child falls asleep, Shin Shin does not always fall asleep. Looking at the panda-eyed Xinxin, Mu Nan's solution was: when Xinxin was too sleepy, let her mother-in-law help take care of the child, so that she could sleep a little longer. On the first day, Shin Shin slept for an hour, and everyone was happy; The next day, Xinxin somehow slept for two hours, and her mother-in-law was not very happy; On the third day, after Xinxin slept for half an hour, her mother-in-law put the child next to her and went outside to do housework by herself. After a while, the child started crying, and the mother-in-law shouted to the child outside: "Wait a while, grandma will come and hug you when she is done." Five minutes later, the mother-in-law came in after finishing the work at hand, and the child was already in Shin Shin's arms, and Shin Shin naturally woke up. The mother-in-law smiled and said, "Ah, you're up." Haven't I come to hold the baby? Xinxin looked at her mother-in-law speechlessly, knowing that in the future, the daily make-up sleep time would not exceed half an hour.
The mother-in-law was very happy with the result. She thinks that Xinxin is a mother, and since she doesn't have to go to work at home, and rarely does other housework, just washes her own clothes, and sometimes washes the children's clothes and diapers, then she should watch the children more by herself. Back then, in the village, I was alone with four children, and I had to go to the field to earn work, and Xinxin was much happier in comparison. Although Shin Shin already felt very tired and tired, her mother-in-law decided that it was because Shin Shin lacked exercise, and now was a good time to exercise her.
In a word, the time for parents-in-law to help watch the children is limited after all, and when the elderly are watching the children, Xinxin has to wash, go to the toilet, eat, and when everything is done and want to rest for a while, the mother-in-law is often waiting to do some other housework, so she says: "Baby, find your mother." He pulled Shin Shin back to the bed. Therefore, Shin Shin always accelerates when dealing with her own affairs every day, especially in the morning. And the first thing, thunder can't shake is squatting on the toilet.
Shin Shin has a good work and rest habits. But the birth of a child disrupted all that. Originally, Shin Shin got up at half past six every day, went to the bathroom, washed, drank water, ate breakfast at 7:10, and cleaned up and went to work at 7:35. After having a child, the habit can be maintained well in the first month because of the confinement nanny. In the second month, the mother-in-law went into battle, and the situation was different. Shin Shin wakes up every day and can't do anything but guard the children, wait for her mother-in-law to go to the toilet, wash up, finish eating, and sometimes even wait for the old lady to finish washing the dishes before she can change shifts to do her own thing. Xinxin is thin-skinned and always embarrassed to say anything, she thinks that after all, her mother-in-law is an old man, so she can't directly ask her mother-in-law not to eat first, let herself eat first. But sometimes the mother-in-law went directly into the kitchen with the bowl after eating, and when Xinxin heard the sound, the mother-in-law had already brushed the bowl. Xinxin had the heart to tell her not to brush it first, let herself start the meal first, but shouting through the living room, the mother-in-law often can't hear it, and then it is louder, and it seems to be a temper, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has some contradictions after the birth of the child, and Xinxin doesn't want to make it unpleasant for these little things, so she has to persuade herself to endure it. For the first few days, I felt hungry and growled, but then I gradually got used to it.
Even if you change shifts, you can't eat breakfast right away. My mother-in-law is used to being thrifty, so there is only one steamed bun, a bowl of millet porridge, and a handful of green vegetables on the breakfast table. And by the time Shin Shin went to eat, it had already cooled down. So Shin Shin had to reheat it by herself. This kind of meal is obviously too light for Xinxin, who is still breastfeeding. So Shin Shin often asks the old lady to add a dish to herself, such as the chopped green onion egg she just ordered. Although my mother-in-law never said anything about this, she was very unimpressed. Because Shin Shin was delivered by caesarean section, the milk was not good, so it was only enough for half of the child's meal, and the other half had to be supported by milk powder. During the confinement, my mother-in-law used to be very keen to bring out Xinxin's milk, and at that time, cooking for Xinxin was the business of the confinement sister-in-law, but my mother-in-law took the trouble to stay by the side every day, trying to add a little more meat and eggs. But a month later, the improvement was not great. The mother-in-law was a little slack. Especially later, after the mother-in-law fed the child milk powder a few times, she found that it was really a pleasure: holding the child in her arms and watching him eat the bottle from her own hands, as if even the child's milk could be taken care of by herself. She felt as if she had surpassed Shin Shin's status as a mother and became the closest person to her child, which was a wonderful feeling. Even the name of the baby bottle seems to have been given specifically for himself, which is very similar to the grandmother in his hometown. This made the mother-in-law even feel that she didn't need to be fed by Xinxin, as long as the milk powder was good.
Xinxin has feelings for this, although Mu Nan always says that she is sensitive, but in fact, Mu Nan also feels this change in her mother, and her mother-in-law is always keen to feed her children as much milk powder as possible every day, completely ignoring the fact that Xinxin still has milk. And Shin Shin's breakfast gradually thinned out with her mother-in-law's growing enthusiasm for milk powder.
But in fact, relatively speaking, breakfast is still the most comfortable meal for Shin Shin. Because children are most willing to play with others in the morning, the mother-in-law will stay by the bedside and basically hold on until Shin Shin finishes breakfast and then gets up. At noon and evening, the mother-in-law's spirit is not as good as in the morning, and the children are often not so easy to coax. She either hurriedly picked up two bites and got up, or simply put down the bowl and coaxed the child first, and when the child came back, the meal was already cold. The most annoying thing is that the Chinese food made by my mother-in-law is always noodles, and when Xinxin comes back to eat, it will be difficult to swallow even if it is hot. In such a situation, Shin Shin's old routine is gone, and even the most ingrained habit of squatting on the toilet in the morning is now close to disorder. Often when Shin Shin has time to squat, there is no longer a bowel movement.