Those of my generation grew up watching the sitcom “Friends” throughout our teens and twenties. My sister and I, in particular, never tire of this series, just ask my husband. Sometimes we watch for fun, when we do not have anything to watch, when we feel down, etc, we will just put on a couple of episodes of “Friends”. In fact, when I used to travel for work to different places like Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, etc, I can almost always count on satellite TV showing reruns of “Friends” to help me de-stress and feel less homesick. Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous as I am not even America, but it does make me feel less homesick!
One of the things my family tease me about is to nickname me “Monica”. They think that I am almost as anal retentive as Monica when it comes to tidiness and cleanliness, even more so after the baby came. But I want to be very clear, that taking care of a baby is as far away from being tidy and clean as you can get. Having a baby means you have all manners of dried food stuck to the high chair, splattered all over the floor, and hanging off the walls. Having a baby means you have to always deal with bodily fluids, like pee, poop and puke. All I can say, is that I have been pooped on, puked on and peed on. In fact, just the other night, all of those things happened to me, just within seconds of each other.
On this Tuesday night, I had already put Xuan to sleep. 2 hours later, around 1am when H and I were creeping into our room, she started to fuss. I tried to calm her and help her to fall back asleep, but she kept crying out in her sleep. Some instinct told me to check her diaper and true enough, she had done a massive poop. So off we went to change her diaper, except that the poor girl really wanted to sleep, and she staged a major protest at having her diaper changed. She kept crying and crying as I was wrestling with cleaning her bottom. H was holding her down, and then I heard him say “uh huh” and when I looked up, Xuan had cried so much that she puked all over her own face!
As she was lying down, the puke ran down her face into her neck and some went into her nose! Poor baby! I immediately propped her up, as the puke in her nose and down her throat was making her gag. As I sat her up, she puked all over the changing mat. Being a rather fastidious baby, she was horrified by the smell and she kept fussing with the puke on the sleeve on her pajamas. She was so freaked out by the experience that she kept crying and crying, and I knew I had to pick her up to calm her down, so I picked her up, unclean bottom, puke and all. She was still crying and gagging while I carried her. Then she puked all over me...and peed on me. After a while, she calmed down, and then H had to clean the changing mat and her pajamas. I had to bathe Xuan and take a bath myself. It was a while before everyone settled down and went back to sleep. What a long night.
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