Chapter 242: I Can't Feed You
After the beginning of winter, Wen Wan found that she seemed to have no milk.
Dandan is less than half a year old. Although he is not completely dependent on milk now and can eat quite well, he still needs to be fed every morning, noon and night like a ritual. If he wakes up in the middle of the night, he still needs to be held and fed. He may not be able to eat many bites, but he must be fed.
However, now that she hadn't eaten for most of the day, her chest no longer felt swollen, and she couldn't suck the balls out, so she just bit them with her upper teeth, and the pain made her almost scream.
Then Dandan started crying.
Wen Wan didn't care about herself. She stuffed him into the car first, mixed malted milk for him, then closed the door and went to the back of the office to check it herself.
She hadn't felt any milk engorgement recently, but because she was busy, she still ate her eggs from time to time and didn't pay much attention to it. Now it's gone completely, and she can't squeeze it out. She doesn't know what to do. Should she just let it go, which would save her the trouble of weaning later, or should she go see a doctor?
She was in a daze until noon when school was over. Lu Dongping went to the cafeteria to get some food and brought it over. She ate a little first, and then started feeding Dandan after it was no longer so hot.
Dandan is usually very well-behaved. We have been in a regular routine after staying at school for such a long time. Normally, she doesn't make a fuss. But today, she didn't get to eat milk and was unhappy. She didn't sleep for the first half of the day. She just sat there and started to pout while thinking. She was so pitiful.
But he was still very well behaved when it came to eating.
Wen Wan had to attend classes and take care of the children, and she was even thinner than before she gave birth. Dandan also needed to eat, so Lu Dongping picked out the food prepared in the cafeteria for lunch every day. However, the child was fed so well that he looked as plump as a white bun, but his wife didn't eat it.
Wen Wan fed Dandan while saying to him, "Dongping, I have no milk."
Lu Dongping was stunned for a moment holding the lunch box, then said, "If there's no food, then there's no food. He can eat a lot now. Add some rice porridge and malted milk, and he won't suffer any loss." After saying that, he thought for a moment and added, "It's better to go back. If he doesn't bully you, you can take care of yourself. You eat so little every day, it's not enough for him."
Wen Wan had been agonizing all morning, but after hearing what he said, she calmed down. "He hasn't been able to eat much since the beginning, but he seems particularly uncomfortable without it. He's been whimpering all morning, with tears in his eyes. It's so painful to see me. I even said that if it really doesn't work, I'll take a day off tomorrow to go to the county hospital to see if I can produce milk again."
"Don't!" Lu Dongping didn't even bother eating. He looked at her, chopsticks in hand, and said, "I'll go to the clinic and ask the doctor if weaning will have any effect on the body. If it doesn't, that's fine. He's just addicted, just like smokers. He'll be fine in a couple of days."
The weather is getting colder and the child is getting older. Lu Dongping even thinks that it is a good thing that the child has stopped breastfeeding. If the child does not need to be breastfed, he does not have to take him to school. It will soon be the ninth lunar month and it will get colder and colder.
When the family is free, it is best to leave the children at home, so that the wife can also relax a little.
After being comforted by him, Wen Wan calmed down. Dandan kept humming for the rest of the day. Lu Dongping was free, so he took the child to the armed forces department.
Wen Wan got out of school at around four o'clock. After school, she didn't rush to correct homework or prepare lessons. Instead, she went to the Armed Forces Department to pick up her child. When she got there, she saw Dandan sleeping in the car, his little face rosy and his hands warm. She found a chair at the door, took out the collected homework from her pocket, and lay on the chair to start correcting it.
No matter in life or work, she will do it very seriously.
In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. She is not used to reading by kerosene lamp, so she tries to finish her work before dark, otherwise she will hardly be able to read by the time she gets home.
When Lin Chenghai came in from the outside of the courtyard pushing his bicycle, he saw her squatting next to the armed forces department, looking very serious.
After parking the car, I walked to the door and greeted, "Teacher Wen, are you grading homework? Why don't you come in? It's warmer inside."
As she spoke, she glanced inside. Lu Dongping had gone out for something, and the child was inside. No wonder she was waiting outside. If Lu Dongping was there, he would never let her squat outside in the cold.
Wen Wan stood up, her legs a little numb from squatting. After moving a bit, she said, "Thank you, Minister Lin. I'll be fine here." This was the armed forces office, and it was good enough to have the child inside. It would be embarrassing if she went in there. If anyone found out, they might have to write a letter to report her.
She was reported for taking care of a child at school, and people said that she was just wasting time and could not teach the students well.
Lin Chenghai didn't say much. They wouldn't stay in the office most of the time. It would be empty anyway. Whether it was the armed forces department or the school, they were all serving the people. There was nothing wrong with using the space.
He knew that Wen Wan had been reported for taking care of the child last time, and she was very careful now, so he didn't say anything more.
Lu Dongping went to do militia training. His child fell asleep in the office, so he didn't stay outside for long. As the scheduled time was almost up, he hurried back.
Wen Wan waved to him and packed up her things.
"Are you done?"
Lu Dongping said: "It's over, I'll pack up and we can go back."
As he spoke, he glanced at her, reached out and squeezed her hand to warm it, and then said nothing more. He went into the house and briefly reported to Lin Chenghai, then wrapped the child up, tied it to his back with a strap, and went out.
After leaving the compound and passing the fork in the road, Lu Dongping said, "Wanwan, if you're out of milk, you can leave the child at home and let mom help take care of him. The weather is getting colder, and it's really annoying to dig him out of the quilt so early to join us."
Wen Wan was stunned for a moment: "I'll take care of him for two more days. He just ran out of milk. If I don't take care of him, he will cry to death. I won't feel at ease in school either."
Lu Dongping always believed what she said, and never showed any bad temper in front of her. After she said that, Lu Dongping stopped talking about it.
The house is already heated up in the evening, otherwise it would be so cold that it would be unbearable to sit still.
Dandan woke up halfway and urinated on himself.
When she got home, Wen Wan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Zhang Hongying took the child and changed his diaper and pants.
Wen Wan went into the house, got a basin, filled it with hot water, and helped Dandan wash his face and hands. She also took off his coat and changed him.
Zhang Hongying was overwhelmed. "You slept right after dinner, and now you're changing and washing yourself. Why don't you take a break? You've been busy at school all day. Take a break."
Wen Wan couldn't stand the slightest bit of dirt. Her family was considered clean, and Zhang Hongying kept the house very neat, but sometimes she still felt a little overwhelmed. She couldn't control what others did, but her own child had to be as clean as possible, otherwise she couldn't even hold him.
"Okay, okay, it will be done soon." He wiped himself and then wrung out the water with the towel and poured it out.
Zhang Hongying sat by the fire, holding Dandan in her arms, and said, "What child doesn't roll around in the mud? He's little now and can't walk yet, but you can still clean up for him. When he can run around, you'll be exhausted. It's because conditions are better now and you have a job, so you have time to be particular. But if you were working in the team, you'd be so busy that you couldn't even eat. How could you have time to care about whether the child was dirty? You just needed to be able to feed him."
Wen Wan disagreed with her words but did not refute her. She walked into the house and sat down and said, "Don't you have time? Even if you don't have time, you can squeeze it out. It's too dirty to hold it in your arms."
Zhang Hongying didn't know what to say: "I don't mean anything else. I just want you to take a break if you can. Other people's bodies will gain weight after giving birth, but you look at yourself. You are so thin and you still have to feed the baby. If you don't pay attention, you won't be able to bear it." Although her daughter-in-law was pregnant and the first baby was a boy, she also hoped that she could take care of herself so that she could have more children. The family would be more lively with more children. At her age, who doesn't want a prosperous family?
Wen Wan was still thinking about how to talk about the withdrawal of milk when Zhang Hongying mentioned breastfeeding. The kitchen was full of her family members, so there was nothing to be shy about when it came to feeding the child. She simply said, "I can't feed him anymore. He hasn't been eating much lately, and today he's completely withdrawn."
Zhang Hongying was stunned for a moment, opening her mouth to say something but nothing came out. She didn't say another word until she finished her meal and returned to her room.
Wen Wan could sense that she was unhappy, but she didn't understand why she was so angry. She didn't want to have no milk. The child was her own, how could she not feel pain?
Probably because he didn't drink milk, Dandan had an unusually good appetite for dinner at night and didn't sleep after dinner. Lu Donglin held him in his arms, and he stepped on his uncle's knees and kicked hard. He had been lying in the car all day, and now he was extremely happy that someone was taking him out to play like this.
Lu Dongping and others boiled the water in the cauldron, added a basin of water, washed the wet pants and diaper coveralls, and hung them outside to hang.
Zhang Hongying was talking to him outside: "You're unhappy again. The sun only comes out every three to five days, and it won't dry even after washing. If you peed, just put the drying basket on the fire and dry it. But if you wash it and hang it here, it won't dry no matter how long you wait."
Other families have three or five children, but none of them are as naughty as my one. They all keep wearing and using the clothes after they peed on them. Cloth is so rare, how can there be so many clothes and diapers to change? Wash them all the time, and the cloth will be ripped before the child grows up.
The daughter-in-law is poor and picky, and the son is also worried about her.
Lu Dongping said, "I didn't ask you to wash it, why are you worrying about it?"
If you urinate without washing it and just dry it, how can you use it when it's hard? The smell of urine can suffocate people. It's strange that Wen Wan is willing to do that.
Wen Wan was washing her face and feet in the kitchen. She heard what Zhang Hongying said, but she didn't say anything. She was holding back her anger. She had been holding it in for too long and felt like she was no longer herself.
Lu Mingjiang coughed and said, "Your mother has a big mouth. When she's free, she just keeps nagging. Just ignore her and do whatever she wants."
She smiled gently, but the smile did not reach her eyes at all.
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