In the afternoon, Cheng Jianyong, Qi Xiangrong and others came to visit, and Cheng Bin also came with them.
Cheng Bin peeked at his two younger brothers in the cradle and felt a little disappointed.
Lu Junan said every day that his aunt must be pregnant with a girl, which made Cheng Bin a little excited, but in the end, she had two younger brothers.
Cheng Jianyong and others were very happy for Lu Lin. In their opinion, since the first child was two sons, there would be no pressure on having children in the future.
Several people had a lively time in the ward before going back. Before leaving, Cheng Jianyong specifically told Jiang Manyue that it was not convenient for him to visit her because Liu Xuemei had not yet finished her confinement. He would come to her home to see Jiang Manyue after she finished her confinement.
Jiang Manyue smiled and nodded, then asked a few more questions about Liu Xuemei's situation before letting Lu Lin send Cheng Jianyong out.
After a few days, Jiang Manyue was discharged from the hospital.
It was such a hot day and she had to stay at home to recuperate after giving birth. She couldn't even use a fan or a handkerchief. Li Guifen also asked her to cover herself up well to avoid catching a cold, but it made her very hot.
The two children were wrapped tightly every day. Jiang Manyue couldn't bear it and tried to undress them and change them into breathable clothes, but was stopped by Li Guifen again.
"How can a child this young wear such thin clothes? It would be troublesome if he catches a cold."
Jiang Manyue couldn't help but retort, "Mom, look at the two children, they are sweating, they are hot!"
Li Guifen insisted, "It's better to be a little warm than to be cold."
As she spoke, Li Guifen looked at Jiang Manyue and said, "Manyue, you are wearing too little. During the confinement period, you must not be exposed to the wind. If you wear so little, you will get sick. It will be very painful when you are old!"
Jiang Manyue widened her eyes. She was wearing long sleeves, was that not enough?
Li Guifen advised her earnestly, "If a woman doesn't take good care of herself during the confinement period, she will suffer for the rest of her life. Be patient during the confinement period so that you can have an easier life in the future. Otherwise, when you are old, you will be in pain all over."
Jiang Manyue couldn't stand it anymore. It was so hot that she would sweat even if she wore a short-sleeved shirt. She felt that wearing a long-sleeved shirt was not enough. Why didn't she just die of the heat?
"I'm hot, and my child is hot too. I don't want to cover myself up anymore. If I keep covering myself up, both my child and I will get heatstroke!"
Jiang Manyue untied the baby's swaddling clothes and refused to let her mother-in-law tie them again. She even fanned herself with her hands.
Li Guifen couldn't do anything about her, so she went to find Lu Lin and asked him to persuade his wife.
But unexpectedly, Lu Lin stood on Jiang Manyue's side.
"Mom, it's as hot as a furnace today. You've suffocated Man Yue and the child like that. I feel hot just looking at them. What's wrong with the child wearing less clothes? You don't even give them a fan. I saw they had heat rash when I was wiping them yesterday."
Lu Lin couldn't stand seeing his wife and children covering themselves up like it was winter. Especially when he saw the children had prickly heat, he felt very distressed and didn't take his mother's words to heart.
Li Guifen was almost mad at him. What did he, a rough man, know? The child was just born and was very vulnerable. If he caught a cold, the child might die.
"Mom, it's summertime, and you're still worried they'll catch a cold? It takes a cold to catch a cold, right? You can roast an egg outside, so where's the cold?"
Li Guifen was speechless after being confronted by her son. She could only watch as her son and daughter-in-law put thin clothes on her grandson and let him lie in the cradle and play by himself.
Jiang Manyue hasn't changed into long sleeves yet. She also knows that she shouldn't be exposed to the wind during confinement. She can tolerate wearing long sleeves, but what she can't tolerate is that her mother-in-law asked her to cover herself more warmly. If she covered herself more warmly, she would really get heatstroke and have to go to the hospital.
Two days passed like this, and Liu Xuemei, who had just finished her confinement, came to the Lu family to see Jiang Manyue, holding Zhuangzhuang, who was already one month old.
Zhuangzhuang was also wearing quite a lot of clothes. Liu Xuemei complained to Jiang Manyue with a bitter look on her face.
It turned out that her aunt was just like Li Guifen. During the confinement period, she wanted to wrap her up into a ball and almost covered her with a quilt.
Zhuangzhuang was the same. He was sweating all day long and had prickly heat. He cried every day because of the itchiness. Her aunt also didn't allow her to wear less clothes for Zhuangzhuang, saying that he would catch a cold if he didn't wear enough.
When Jiang Manyue heard this, it was like meeting a relative. She also told her mother-in-law how she and the child had to be kept well-protected.
"You said it's so hot, the child is getting heat rash and sweating all day long, and you still ask the child to cover himself up, won't he get hurt?"
"And me, it's hot enough in the house even with long sleeves on, and my mother-in-law told me to wear more, saying I can't catch a cold during confinement. But I have to be cool, but this room is as hot as a furnace, there's no cool breeze at all."
Liu Xuemei sighed as she listened. "You're better off. I have a scar on my stomach that hurts when I sweat. It almost got infected and inflamed. It was so hard to get through the confinement period. I'm never going to have another baby again."
Jiang Manyue curled her lips and said, "I don't want to have a baby either, but I want a daughter. I thought I would have at least one daughter this time, but it turned out to be two boys."
Liu Xuemei had no choice but to comfort her, "This child is all fate, don't think too much, just let nature take its course."
Jiang Manyue nodded, and the two continued to talk about other things until the child was hungry and needed to be fed, then Liu Xuemei went back.
Two days later, Lu Lin had to go out on business for a few days, and Jiang Manyue had to take care of the child alone at night.
Jiang Manyue is not fully breastfed. The two children can eat a lot, and breast milk is not enough, so they basically drink milk powder at night.
Lu Lin remembered that Jiang Manyue should not overwork during her confinement period, so he was the one who made the milk and took care of the diaper at night. Now that he was on a business trip, all the burdens fell on Jiang Manyue.
Jiang Manyue had been taking care of the two children for two days and was extremely exhausted. She hardly slept at night. The two children were making a lot of noise one after another, and she had to stay alert and look after them during the day. She was almost unable to hold on any longer.
Li Guifen suggested that she take care of the child so that Jiang Manyue could have an easier time.
Jiang Manyue was indeed too tired, so she thought of letting her mother-in-law take care of one child and she would take care of the other, so that neither of them would be too tired.
After obtaining Jiang Manyue's consent, Li Guifen took the older Junhe to her room. She would take care of him at night and send him to Jiang Manyue during the day.
Everything was fine for the first two days, but on the third night, Jiang Manyue was feeding her little son who woke up hungry at night, when she saw Li Guifen rushing into her room hurriedly holding Junhe.
"Man Yue, Jun He has a fever. It's so severe, it's burning so badly. What should we do?"
Jiang Manyue was startled and quickly reached out to touch him, but was shocked by the temperature of his forehead.
Junhe's body temperature was very high, hot to the touch, and he didn't cry or make a fuss. It was very likely that he had fainted from the fever.
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