Mummy or Maid?

Though I wanted to babywear since last time, I actually do not know the proper way to do it yet. *embarassed*


Anyway, so I went to a mum&baby shop where I could test and try it out and decide what I want. But then I actually prefered designs of the slings from other online sources, so I contemplated. Ended up going to the shop so I could physically test it out and at least get some proper guide, and had to settle for some ready available designs. Hmmmm wat to do...

OVer the wekend, we went to Pavillion with the whole family including mum and dad. And so I carried AIR2 in the sling while AIR1 was in the stroller. Mum went into a shoe shop and I decided not to follow, so we waited outside. Not too long after, a maid with a stroller and a child and some shopping stood outside the shop too. And it struck me - if not for Dad waiting with me (hub went off with AIR1 first), I'd look just like her - a maid, slinging a baby (that's what alot of Indonesians do with a sarong, anyway), waiting for the Madam shopping in the store. Unlike shopping complexes like One Utama, Mutiara Damansara area and Mid Valley, the babywearing community in Pavillion I guess is limited to the maids ;p

And I wasn't really into shopping so I more or less 'accompanied' mum walking into and through all the shops, and mum being Chinese, is very fair, and people wouldn't ever think we're related. So I guess I was bibik for the day....slinging baby and walking behind mum most of the time! :)

BabyWearing

Gosh its been ages since I logged on to bloghop and to blog. Sorry folks, unstable b/band connection and was quite busy after my confinement :)

I'm a firm believer of babywearing but never got to practise it with AIR1. That was because he never liked it, esp the sling, which I was very fond of. He felt claustrophobic, I guess and kinda warm, perhaps. And Alvina (AIR2), being the princess she is, likes to be cuddled, held and carried until she dozes off. Sometimes after dozing off, upon putting her down, she'll awake, and the process starts again. So the solution to it - babywear her! And now, as I'm writing this, she's in the sling fast asleep. I not only have my two hands free, I can go anywhere and do anything now, without every few minutes having to stop what I do because she whined or cried.

Hey I even breastfed on the go! Yup, as I was walking/shopping, I was b/feeding her, I didn't have to stop and sit or look for the babyroom to nurse her at all. :) Mum was surprised when I was nursing her while we were having lunch the other day.