hybb,
I totally agree with niklaus903 that having a maid is more comfort than you expected. At the very first begining, my husband and I didn't want to live with a stranger and belived that maid won't treat my baby good. We wanted our parents to take care of the baby. On the other hand, we afraid that grandparents would spoil the kid and they would use old method to take care of the baby....it's hard to ask them to follow your instructions. If I ask them to take care of my baby, I can only take her home at weekends 'coz my parents live far away from me (I don't want that). Besides, you would give some money (maybe $3000) to parents for helping you to taking care of baby. So....we finally make up our mind --> hire a maid!!! I am very lucky, my friend refer her Indo maid to me. So far, she is good.....very experienced. She can remind us what we should do to deal with the problems of the baby. She's like a super helper to me...she looks after the baby, bath the baby, does housework, cooks good food......it's very worth to have a super helper with HK$3270 per month.
My maid and us get along very well. We never treat her like a maid (I mean lower class than us). We treat her like our auntie......buy what she wants to eat (she can eat and drink whatever in our house), talk to her and share our views with her, let her off on Sundays, let her watch TV and talk on her personal mobile (not too long) when she gets thing during daytime. She eats with us and watch TV with us in the evening. I believe building up a good and trustful relationship are very important (we are human-being, I want a heart-to-heart relatrionship). I like her to make friends with other maids and go out to relax during day-off. I believe having a good social life for her is very important. She leaves her family and comes oversea by her own, social supports are important to her. I like her comes home with smile and a happy mood on Sunday. Now, my maid is very important to our family.
Dear all,
For my baby, she needs a pacifier ("nin tsui") to comfort herself. Well....I really don't want that. I will distract her focus on the toy first ....but if it doesn't work, I will give her what she wants. :-(
She starts putting her fist into her mouth. How can I deal with that?