Po Ge Lai

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"Po ge lai" is a Chinese term, meaning eating healthy foods within a month after giving birth. And those "healthy foods" are black chicken, pigeon, duck, fish, egg and tortoise (not sure if that turtle thing is called a tortoise or what). Fried foods would be fried using sesame oil. The egg will be fried with ginger. The black chicken too and the duck would be fried in ginger.

The woman under "po gel lai" needs rest, would take care of the baby but would also sleep or just rest as much as possible to regain strength.

No cold water, should drink the "o tso sem" a herbal drink.

I just finish "po ge lai" but there's a twist on mine...

I underwent cesarean operation on October 26, 2012. When I go home with my baby, I take care of her even during night time.
I go back selling items on November 3, 2012.
I chilled and got high fever. I just took medicines. I need to take care of my baby.
My mother-in-law do help a little on taking care of the baby. And she's the one who give the baby a bath. But after lunch, she went to mahjong until about 8:00 pm.
I am still eating "po ge lai" food! It's overdue. They want me to eat those food since there are still some left on the refrigerator. I still eat eggs fried with sesame oil. We got lots of bottles of sesame oils, given by friends.
I move and pack items I sell. Although I know I shouldn't be doing all these. But I have to.
I shouldn't touch cold water and shouldn't take a bath for a month. I had took my bath after 21 days of giving birth. I had touched cold water sometimes. But washing hands with cold water, sometimes my hands hurts and I know it's because of the cold water.
I got sick after my first bath!
I still drink water warm and not too warm.
After I went home from the hospital, everything seems normal. Only with the additional task of taking care of the baby, and eating healthy foods, and not taking a bath!
When still at the hospital, I had iced tea and coke, both cold! I just want to drink to satisfy myself. But I didn't drink the whole cup.

"We" concentrated on the food I eat, especially now that my 2nd baby is breastfed. About my strength, my mother-in-law and everyone else tells me to sleep if the baby is sleeping. But what about my online shop.

There are lots of my mother-in-law's friends who thought that it's been more than a month after I gave birth because they see me taking care of the baby, or using the computer, or packing and carrying things. I gave birth cesarean section. I know I need more rest but we're not that rich to hire a yaya, and me not earning money. I work to earn money, unlike some other mothers who doesn't want to leave work because they are so happy with they work they don't like to stop and take care of their baby.