Friday, January 22, 2010

The one with a lady we call "MAID"

Last night my kiddo was sooo active she kept climbing on the sofa, jumping, running around, jumping on both me & hubby who were busy watching tv & buat macam-macam la... So by the time we went to bed, she was like overstimulated & refused to go to sleep. By 11.30pm tu she started crying loudly and pining for Bibik. Hah, hangin jugak la I kalau dia sebok cari Bibik... One thing about my maid ni, since we hired her in June 2007, my kiddo has been used to be "gendong" inside kain batik lepas tu...Ala you know Maid2 Indon ni kan suka ikat kain batik lepas around their bodies and put the babies inside there. Actually it's easier for them to move around cos the babies are safely tucked inside.

One more thing babies will like it to stay inside the cloth cos it is warm there and they feel safe. Mat Saleh kan tiru this style & even invented new style & modern cloth and they call it babywearing. The function is exactly the same and who would have thought that the pioneer of this invention is actually indonesian! The problem is bila babies dah get used to being carried around like that and slept inside that gendong, nanti dia nak camtu je...The same goes to my kiddo. My maid memang nak tidokan dia mesti letak dalam tu, bila dah lelap dia akan kasi susu botol. Dah habis susu, baru letak atas katil. My kiddo only drinks milk from bottle kalau dah terlelap ye...Kalau dia dalam keadaan yang conscious she refuses to drink from the bottle.

Satu lagi I geli la cos bila baby duduk dalam tu kira macam dia di"cuddle" oleh maid, kan...It's like eeiii...badan maid tu...kalau ahli keluarga sendiri takpe la jugak, ini MAID...badan dia, bau dia...sebab tu la agaknya my kiddo ni is sooo attached to the maid. Ye la dari kecik dia jaga sampai sekarang.. my maid also cooks for my kiddo, her porridge, chicken soup, sacrambled eggs, noodles and so on.. so kira air tangan maid jugak lah dia merasa.

Whenever my kiddo rasa takut masa hujan ke, ada lightning & thunder ke, dia mesti cari may maid. Kalau jatuh ke, sedih ke pun cari maid. So how??? Sapa mak dia sebenarnya nih??

I remember ada satu email i received a few months ago. It was a test ke exam ke camtu la, ada sketch gambar sorang pompuan tengah cuddle baby. Question tu sounds like this: "Gambar ini menunjukkan kasih sayang seorang .........." There was a handwritten answer "Bibik". Hihi.... Budak2 zaman sekarang ni banyak mendapat attention and love from strangers called bibik and less from their own parents.. Ye la, like me & hubby pon can only spend time with our kiddo petang sampai malam je la... kalau dia tido awal or if we all balik lambat tak dapat la main2 ngan dia.

Oh ye, ada sorang relative of mine ni ada sorang baby, only a few months old. Everyday she expreses her milk to feed her baby cos she's a working mom. Kat milk bottles tu dia akan letak date and time to keep track of the milk consumption cos yang lagi lama sepatutnya akan digunakan dulu. Bila dia pegi kerja maid dia yang jaga baby. Ada beberapa kali dia terperasan la milk dia ni macam tak luak-luak pun and baby dia pun macam tak naik2 berat badan. So one day tu dia balik awal & noticed that dalam rumah dia senyap je takde bunyi. Dia pun terus bukak pintu bilik maid dia and guess what she saw..........Baby tu tengah hisap ***** maid tu...EUWWWWW!!! Geli, hokey! Maid tu pulak tengah sedapppp je tido. i'm not sure maid tu ada susu ke tak but my relative ni suspect maid ni saja letak baby tu kat situ cos baby tu akan senyap je suckling on that thing. So dia tak payah buat kerja lain... Maid tu terus di terminatekan.

Hmmm...what to do? we still rely on these maids to look after our kids, kalau tak nak gi kerja sapa yang jaga? Parents? Itu kalau parents dok dekat... Nursery? babysitter? I tak berminat la pulak my kiddo bercampur2 with other kids ni at very tender age... Cepat dapat sakit bila budak2 lain sakit... Kalau umur 5-6 tahun ok lagi. Hmmm, what to do? what to do?

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