Chapter 157 Who Falls Behind

Lu's mother laughed out loud as she listened to Jiang Jiani's complaints: "That's just how twins are."

"You're still breastfeeding."

“I had a friend who also gave birth to twins.”

"She was bathing the children. After she finished bathing one, she was bathing the second one when the second one kept running away. She got angry and beat the child. Only after she finished did she realize that the child she had just bathed was the one she had beaten."

"She said the child cried so hard that day that the ceiling almost came off."

Jiang Jianni was both amused and exasperated: "I hope I won't encounter this situation in the future."

Looking the same doesn't mean having the same personality.

When the child grows up a bit, they will definitely be able to tell the difference, and it will be much easier to distinguish them then.

But if the children cause trouble and switch roles to play each other, then it becomes much more difficult.

In "The Prince and the Pauper," the prince and the beggar who looked exactly alike swapped identities and he wasn't recognized.

Similar tropes were overused after online novels began to develop.

Besides, there are so many videos of twins and triplets switching identities to amuse people.

Thinking about this, Jiang Jianni couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Let's be reasonable.

Having twins is supposed to be fun, but the thought of all the trouble they might bring makes me shudder and realize I'm getting excited too soon.

Is this what they mean by experiencing pain and pleasure at the same time?

In order to take better care of Jiang Jiani and the twins, Lu's mother sent Lu's father back home and stayed at Lu Xiangyang and Jiang Jiani's house herself.

Mr. Lu was taken aback: "Aren't you going back?"

Who said that parents should just raise their children and let them live on their own after they get married, without interfering in their children's affairs, and not be a bad mother-in-law?

Aunt Lu: "Why would I go back? To see your old face?"

"Jiani gave birth to two grandsons for our family, so I should at least take care of her until she's out of confinement, right?"

She is very fair in her dealings.

She helped take care of Tang Tian during her postpartum period, so she must also take care of Jiang Jiani during her postpartum period.

It doesn't make sense that she only takes care of one of her two daughters-in-law, who both have given birth to children.

At the very least, she will definitely have to take care of her during the postpartum period.

Besides, she's been a nurse for so many years.

While Aunt Liu certainly possesses family-inherited skills in caring for mothers and children, she also has her own more scientific nursing knowledge.

Besides, the physical damage to a woman's body is much greater when she gives birth to twins than when she has a single child. If she doesn't take good care of herself during the postpartum period, what will she do if she develops postpartum illnesses later?

You can't expect to recover from postpartum illnesses by having another child, can you?

The idea that having a second child can cause postpartum illnesses from the first is just a legend; who knows if it's true or not?

We definitely need to use scientific nursing methods.

Mr. Lu was speechless, utterly defeated by her assertive arguments: "Then, then I..."

Lu's mother: "You stay home and take care of Ping An and Ji Xiang."

"We haven't been back for almost two months, and these two little rascals probably don't even recognize us anymore."

Lu's father: "..."

All right.

The dog at home definitely needs care.

Jiang Jianni: "..."

She didn't even have a chance to speak.

However, she soon experienced the joy of being taken care of by three people.

After all, Aunt Liu was a hired hand. Even if she was capable, she was always careful and kept to her duties, not daring to overstep her bounds.

Even though Lu Xiangyang is considered one of the most considerate and thoughtful men, there are still some things he might overlook.

Jiang Jianni was having her first child and didn't know much about many things. Sometimes she would act willfully and even Aunt Liu and Lu Xiangyang couldn't control her.

For example, just half a month after giving birth, Jiang Jianni couldn't stand not having showered or washed her hair for such a long time.

It's so itchy.

Not only was my scalp itchy, but my body also felt like it was infested with lice.

no way.

Insufficient resources and experience.

Twenty years from now, when she's about to give birth, she could easily take a shower and wash her hair at home before going to the hospital to deliver the baby.

But now, without a water heater, it's impossible to shower and wash your hair every day; you have to go to a public bathhouse to shower.

She had just taken a bath at the public bathhouse three days ago.

As a result, it's been almost twenty days now, and I haven't washed my hair or taken a shower.

Even when washing her face, she would just wipe it with a wet towel, and at most wipe her neck.

At other times, they had to be covered up in thick blankets and have a square scarf wrapped around their heads.

Once, she wanted to wipe the sweat off her neck, back, and chest with a wet towel because she felt hot, but she was refused.

They say you shouldn't get your baby wet right after giving birth.

Lu Xiangyang had no experience, so he chose to listen to Yang Yuemei and Aunt Liu.

Both of them meant that postpartum women should keep warm and avoid exposure to wind and cold, so washing their hair and taking a bath are absolutely forbidden.

Before Lu's mother returned, Jiang Jianni had already cried twice because of this, and almost became depressed.

After Lu's father left, Jiang Jianni immediately brought up the topic of washing her hair and taking a bath with Lu's mother.

Lu's mother was a little surprised: "Is it not okay not to wash it?"

Jiang Jianni's eyes immediately reddened: "But my scalp is so itchy, I scratch it every day and every day, but it doesn't help."

"I can't stand the itching anymore."

While other women observe postpartum confinement, they typically observe a single confinement period, which lasts at most forty days.

But she gave birth to twins, and not only the doctor, but also Liu Sao and Yang Yuemei said she would have to have a double postpartum period.

Double confinement, that's sixty days.

The thought of possibly not being able to shower or wash her hair for sixty days was driving Jiang Jianni to the brink of collapse.

Jiang Jiani simply couldn't stand it.

In this day and age, when the weather gets cold and you can't shower and wash your hair every day, she has forced herself to change to showering and washing her hair every three days.

She felt she would go crazy if she didn't shower or wash her hair for two months.

As she spoke, she couldn't help but scratch her head again.

But once you start scratching, you feel itchy in other places and need to scratch them too, and then it just goes on and on.

Lu's mother watched helplessly as Jiang Jianni scratched her scalp almost completely.

Lu's mother: "..."

While she was washing her hands with hot water, Lu's mother said, "Let me think about it."

Jiang Jiani immediately looked at her with expectant eyes, making Lu's mother feel embarrassed to give her a perfunctory answer.

The next day, her mother went and bought a hair dryer.

Jiang Jianni: "??? Hair dryer??"

No, do you have hair dryers now?

She always felt that this era was very backward, and that some things commonly used in later generations were either too outdated or simply not available.

Like her colleague, Teacher Gao, who bought a rice cooker.

She asked around and found out that the rice cooker was terrible; it either overcooked the rice or didn't cook it properly.

Moreover, it broke down after only a few uses, and I didn't know how to fix it.

From then on, I gave up the idea of ​​buying convenient small household appliances.

Lu's mother asked in surprise, "You know? Then why haven't you bought any? Don't you young people like these little things?"

Jiang Jianni: "..."

Could she say that she looks down on the current hair coloring and perming techniques and aesthetics, so she has never been to a hair salon and doesn't know how advanced hair coloring and perming techniques have become?

Even the big waves she had at her wedding were done by herself using the most primitive methods, and after sleeping for one night, they turned back into long, straight black hair.

In addition, she preferred to let her hair air dry after washing it, thinking that this would not damage her hair, so she was unaware that hair dryers had already begun to enter ordinary households at this time.