Last Saturday Night

Hello, dear read.cash friend, how are you all?

How is your Monday doing? I hope it's all great because mine is good.

For today's blog, I will be sharing about my Palaling, she will be turning 5 this December but she's not weaned yet, at least. When she was young, she breastfeeds on me but since I get back to work sooner than I should, we aided her with formula milk.

When I got pregnant with my third child, I tried to wean her but she still needs my comfort by breastfeeding. Though the elders say that I should stop her from breastfeeding because it's not good for the baby in my tummy; I did not listen to them. Instead, I researched about it and found out that it was okay.

When I gave birth to Czak, Laling helped me to be relieved from so much milk that my body produced. But since I stayed at the birthing home for two days, all the colostrum was taken by my son, and that's the most important.

Now Czak will be turning 3 this November and he still breastfeeds on me, sometimes the two kids will take turns but mostly, they share one breast for both of them especially when both of them want to go to sleep already.

It seems impossible, sometimes it feels like both of the, are draining me. But I was thankful that as they grew bigger, they rely mostly on feeding from the bottle and only find comfort in me.

Some say that I should wean both of them already, giving them milk from the milk bottle is truly expensive; in fact, most of our income goes to the milk and other children's needs but my husband and I still think that we should not, The kids are growing and they are picky eaters too. if we don't supply them with milk, they might become malnourished.

Our eldest daughter, Aelie is still drinking milk, though we tried to teach her to drink from the glass, she begs me that she will drink from the feeding bottle because even when she is full she will never get satisfied without drinking from it and I suppose that the younger kids feel the same way too so no, not yet, we will not yet wean them all.

One more thing, my husband and I had an average height and we wanted our kids to be a little taller than us even if it means that we will be literally looking up to them when they reach puberty. There are lots of food supplements that can support growth but I think milk is better than those because that only focus on improving height whereas milk provides nutrients for the benefit of the whole body, not just height but health, immunity, and brain.

And ohm because I and my husband is a coffee lover, as well as our parents, the kids learned to drink coffee too. We sometimes give them, especially when Laling gets too picky on food and wants coffee as her soup and viand. I allow her some time but with only minimal coffee. I feel it is better this way than if she will only eat rice alone. I hope her picky eating will not worsen as she grows up.

Thsi will be all for today, I'll see you around