the next day
If you breastfeed your baby, you usually feed him every three or four hours. Although it is very tiring, Yang Haiyan can still rest in between. However, the ones who are really tired are the people who stare at the room, such as Qin Fang.
Early in the morning, Yang Haiyan woke up and found Qin Fang sleeping on the bed, snoring.
"Madam, are you awake?" Nanny Lian asked from outside, but her voice was very soft, for fear that the people inside might not be awake yet and would be woken up by her.
Yang Haiyan: "You are awake. Come in quietly. Don't be afraid of waking the general."
Nanny Lian came in quietly, helped Yang Haiyan brush her teeth and wash, and then brought out the tea. It was tea made with Cordyceps sinensis, which Yang Haiyan bought from the platform. Because there was no Cordyceps sinensis in this world, no one knew what it was. Yang Haiyan had asked the elders of the Qin family to make tea for them, one stick a day, so in the eyes of the Qin family, they thought it was just a herb for making tea, and they didn't know its nutritional value.
Yang Haiyan drank a cup of warm tea and had breakfast, and then Aunt Lian put away the things.
Sitting in confinement does not mean that mothers cannot stay in bed, but it is best not to stay in bed on the first day. However, it is still necessary to stay in bed for going to the toilet.
Yang Haiyan just lay on the bed, her eyes never leaving the baby, and she kept touching the baby's face. Of course, she was very, very light.
Maybe it's because the filter is too big, probably the filter that every mother has, but when she looks at the baby, she thinks the baby becomes cuter and cuter.
Since babies don't drink much milk each time, they get hungry easily. Generally speaking, formula is fed more frequently, about every two or three days, while breast milk is fed about every three or four days. Yang Haiyan is a new mother. As long as the baby makes a few "hmm" sounds, she will touch the baby's anus to see if it has urinated.
No, now the baby is humming. Not only is he humming, but he is also opening his eyes. The baby is new and his eyes are not very flexible. He opened them for a while and then started to cry again.
Yang Haiyan hurriedly spoke out to comfort the child: "Be good, baby. Mommy is here. Don't cry, don't cry..." As she spoke, she picked up the child and fed him. In fact, she didn't know whether the child was hungry or not.
Actually, it is very tiring for a mother to hold a baby, but when the mother saw the baby, she seemed to feel no more tiredness. The baby opened his mouth and began to suck milk, and his eyes, which had just opened, closed again. Yang Haiyan looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "What a baby."
"Is it time to change the diaper?" Qin Fang walked over with a hoarse voice.
The child has not peed since birth. Qin Fang heard the child's "hmm" and was worried that his wife would be too tired to change the diaper, so he just came over.
Yang Haiyan said, "No, he..." She untied his diaper and looked, "He pooped." She didn't know when he pooped, and she didn't know. Yang Haiyan was worried, "Husband, the baby pooped, the color of the poop is a little green, go ask Miss Li."
Qin Fang was startled and ran out quickly.
After a while, Miss Li came. She came to the bedside and looked at the diaper that Yang Haiyan had taken off: "Don't be nervous, Madam, it's meconium, and it usually takes two or three days or three or four days to clear it up."
Hearing what Miss Li said, Yang Haiyan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, but it doesn't stink at all."
Miss Li knew nothing about maternal and infant matters before Yang Haiyan became pregnant. She started to learn after Yang Haiyan became pregnant, because Yang Haiyan was pregnant with her first child, and as a member of the general's mansion, she valued her very much, so she learned a lot. In the past ten months, she has learned almost everything she should learn. Hearing Yang Haiyan's words, she smiled and said, "Meconium is not smelly. I'll go get some warm water and wipe the baby."
Yang Haiyan said: "Sorry for the trouble. Let my husband wipe it."
Nanny Lian said from outside: "The warm water is here." She had been paying attention to the situation inside, and the warm water was on standby twelve hours a day.
Qin Fang said: "I won't wipe it."
Yang Haiyan raised her eyebrows.
Qin Fang explained: "Although she is a girl, and a girl is still fine, there is a difference between boys and girls after all." Although he himself did not mind, he did not want to affect his daughter's reputation.
In ancient times, conflicts between daughters and fathers were taboo in many situations.
It's just... Yang Haiyan, Miss Li and Nanny Lian looked at Qin Fang in surprise. Miss Li and Nanny Lian were stunned. The lady gave birth to a son, so why did the general think it was a daughter
"General..." Nanny Lian wanted to explain.
"Mammy..." Yang Haiyan interrupted her, "Come and wipe the baby's body. The general didn't sleep all night yesterday. Let him rest for a while during the day. He will be tired at night."
Nanny Lian didn't think much about it. She said, "Why don't I come to help Madam look after the business at night so that the general can rest at night?" Although she said so, she didn't stop changing the baby's diaper and wiping his body.
Yang Haiyan said: "No need." Men must participate in the hardship of women giving birth and taking care of children. "Your general is unwilling to leave his daughter to be taken care of by others."
Nanny Lian: “…” Madam is deceiving the general.
Qin Fang said: "No need, I'll take care of it."
What Yang Haiyan said was the truth. Firstly, Qin Fang was worried about leaving his daughter to someone else to take care of her. Secondly, his wife had just given birth to a child and he was taking care of her. Thirdly, even if he couldn't do that, he was happy to live in the same room with his wife.
But he did want to catch up on some sleep in a while: "I'm going to wash up and catch up on some sleep. You guys take care of my wife during the day."
Aunt Lian: “Yes.”
After Qin was released, Nanny Lian put the baby, whose butt had been wiped, whose diapers had been changed, and who had eaten and fallen asleep, away, and said to Yang Haiyan, "Madam, the general didn't even know that you had given birth to a son."
Miss Li looked at Yang Haiyan.
Yang Haiyan said: "You don't have to tell him, I want to see when he will find out."
Nanny Lian responded with a smile, but Miss Li felt that Madam was still quite childish.
Grandma Qin and Mother Qin came over together. They didn't dare to come too early for fear of disturbing Yang Haiyan and her son, but when it was almost time, they came over.
Yang Haiyan was in high spirits. Noticing them coming, she asked Aunt Lian to invite them in.
After Grandma Qin and Mother Qin came in, they first asked about Yang Haiyan's health. They were relieved only when they saw that she was fine.
Yang Haiyan knew that they were here to see the child, so she said, "Grandma, mother, do you want to hold him? He just ate and had meconium. Nothing can wake him up now."
Seeing the child just fell asleep after eating, Grandma Qin said: "Don't hold him anymore. The child has just eaten. Don't disturb him." Although she said so, her eyes were still looking at the baby who was sleeping peacefully, "The child looks like you, Yanyan." So cute.
Yang Haiyan said: "The eyes look like my husband's. I was hungry just now, and he opened his eyes while crying."
Mother Qin said: "The child is yours, and he looks like both the father and the mother." No matter whose child is, you can always find some features of the father and the mother in his facial features.
The two of them looked at the child for a while and then left. They knew Yang Haiyan was tired, so they didn't bother her too much. After all, they lived together and there would be plenty of time to look after the child in the future.
When they returned to Liuxin Courtyard, Grandma Qin saw Grandpa Qin walking around in the yard, so she asked, "Old man, what are you doing?"
As soon as Grandpa Qin saw Grandma Qin coming back, he hurried over and asked, "Did you see the child? How was it?" It's not that Grandpa Qin didn't care about Yang Haiyan's grandson's wife. How could such a wise old man only care about his great-grandson and not his grandson's wife? It's just that even if there is a generation gap, there is a difference between men and women, so he didn't ask.
Grandma Qin said: "Yes, Afang's wife is in good spirits. When we went there, the baby had just fallen asleep and seemed to be doing well."
Hearing him say that, Grandpa Qin felt relieved. Speaking of which, he wanted to see his great-grandson, but it was his grandson's wife's yard after all, and it was not easy for an old man like him to go there. "By the way, I haven't thought of a name for the baby for the past few days."
Speaking of names, Grandma Qin warned: "Don't name a baby that has a dog or a cow."
Grandpa Qin said: "How could that be? Our child is the son of the general's mansion, so I naturally wouldn't give him such a name." If he gave the child such a name, the child would be laughed at by others when he went out in the future. Grandpa Qin felt that he was not that stupid.
Grandma Qin: "What are you going to name your baby?"
Grandpa Qin thought for a moment and said, "The child's name is Qin Linyang, why not name him Sun?"
Grandma Qin thought for a moment and said, "This name is too good, too high. It's better to give the child a humbler name. If it's too high, what if the child can't handle it..."
There is a saying in the countryside that a child's name should not be too high. If the name is too high, the child will be taken away. The name "Tian Yang" is a bit high.
Grandpa Qin is a grown man and doesn't know much about this, but Grandma Qin is a Buddhist and believes in Taoism, so she doesn't agree with the name Grandpa Qin gave. But Grandpa Qin agreed with her because he didn't want his great-grandson to get into trouble: "Then... what cheap name should I give him?"
Grandma Qin thought for a moment and said, "That's called..."
"Wait..." Grandpa Qin interrupted her, "I was the one who named the baby, you can't take it away. I understand, you did it on purpose."
Grandma Qin pouted and said, "I didn't do that on purpose. It's obvious that you don't know how to name a child, so you asked me. Old man, what's wrong with me just wanting to name my great-grandson?"
Grandpa Qin insisted: "No, then wait until Afang's wife gives birth to the first child and then let you choose a name."
Grandma Qin snorted: "Then you should give it a nice name."
Grandpa Qin was not convinced: "Didn't you say you wanted to give it a cheap name? Wasn't that what I was thinking about?"
Grandma Qin: "Then you should hurry up. The child has already been born, and you, as a great-grandfather, haven't even thought of a name yet. Is that reasonable of you?"
The couple, who had loved each other for a lifetime, quarreled over the name of their baby.