Omugwo Chronicles -19

This is what I call a drama free Omugwo!

Hello everyone.....

So this is my omugwo story..  I had my baby 4 weeks early so my mom couldn't come immediately.  Because she was taken unawares and was still postponing the time to start preparing until I called her and said I had put to birth. So she came after 6 days..  

After I put to birth I spent 2 days in the hospital (hospital rule),  thank God we were served with delicacies a new mother needed plus my sister inlaw brought pepper soup to complement whatever I had eaten.. Hospital baths baby so it wasn't an issue.

When I was discharged, my sister inlaw came in the morning, bathe the baby, pressed my tummy, made food for me and some concoction she needed me to drink. When she leaves for work, her younger sister  spent time with me, took care of the baby and I. 

This were the 2 available as the other 3 had gone for summer vacation. I gave birth around that time and their return saw me and baby having so many gifts.. 

I don't remember buying so much baby clothes as everything was bought for me there from clothes he wore till now. He even still has some for when he is bigger. Lol. That's how much they shopped for me.

At night my sister Inlaw comes and does the same routine and goes back home by 11pm. She rocks the baby to sleep and leave after I must have gone to bed, then the younger sister stays the night with me and sleeps with the baby. Until the baby needs to be fed before she wakes me up..

When my mom came, my mom resumed her duty. Boy did she come with things. some of the things  she came with lasted over a year for us. She came with stock fish, mangala, crayfish, all those things for cooking nsala and pepper soup,onions,irish potatoes and  so many orishirishi.

She bathe the baby, bathe me. Lol. Not just pressing my tummy with hot water but baths me. Makes me sit down on very hot water mixed with dettol and a pinch of salt. She even monitored it for 30 mins before she let's me stand up. 

After which she would force feed me so that my breast milk will flow. After eating, she made me breast feed and asks me to go and sleep. She cooked morning, afternoon, night, she will make what my husband will eat and what I'll eat and for her self. Hubby was in charge of cleaning the house and we used the washing machine for laundry so she didn't need to do that. Her focus was on me and baby..  

Did I forget to mention she made sure I wore my waist cincher for at least 12hrs a day. Yeah she did. It was war when I refuse and at a point I got used to it.

 The hours I'm not on waist cincher she ties my belly with wrapper.  Thank God her effort towards my tummy paid off as at 2 months my belly was so flat one would wonder if I had a child, well except for my weight gain as I was doing exclusive breast feeding and I had to drink a lot of teas, pap and food..

At night she didn't bother me unless the baby was really hungry. After feeding she asks me to go back to bed and it would just be her and the baby. And I knew for a fact that the baby wasn't sleeping so much at night but my mom loved every moment as she loves babies. If you allow my mom, she will still birth another child. Lol

She didn't have issues with anyone while with me as my sisters in law kept visiting and we would all sit and laugh and gist. Even my husband that doesn't like anyone in his house didn't want her to leave as my mom is so friendly and nice. 

She has this warm feeling that makes people take in to her and even go as far as confiding in her. Mind you she's young o. She married at 20 and I was in my early 20s when she came for omugwo. 

When it was time to leave, we were all sad but she had to go and face her business. The one month she stayed with us was bliss.. And that one month her business suffered as she is a distributor. So if she didn't have those things to supply at the price she supplies, there would be some sort of little scarcity. As not so many people do the journey of going from the north to the east, South south and far north to get the things she sells in bags and all.

Well when she left, my sisters inlaw resumed again how they were doing it before my mum came and by the time baby was 2 months I was left alone to start with taking care of the baby alone.  They popped in from time to time but that was it..

I had an amazing omugwo. Even my hubby was looking fresh and kept thanking my mom. During pregnancy I wasn't cooking so he had to cook for us to eat or he buys take out so my mom being around and cooking like there was no tomorrow restored all the little flesh he lost while I was pregnant.  

He kept begging my mom to stay more. Lol. She was supposed to stay some Weeks but with begging she stayed one month.

Well that's my omugwo story. I had fun with my mom and sisters inlaw. My mom inlaw is late but I'm sure if she was alive she would have been the best as my sisters inlaw are the best. People think we are sisters when we go out to have fun or when we hang out together and we can so go out.

 We go from clubs, parties, weddings, beach outing, cinema, gym(oh, they made sure I lost all baby weight) , boat cruise and all sort.

*Wow,what an Interesting drama free Omugwo story..I enjoyed reading this well!