Some months back we have brought up the topic of a baby for JS. We asked her would she like to have another baby and whether she wants a meimei or a didi. She said she wants a meimei.
Weeks ago, I told her if there is a meimei, when mummy need to go hospital to deliver the baby, she would have to stay back home with didi, daddy, kakak and possibily with ah kong, ah mah and ku ma.
JS: Then..who is going to take care of me?
ME: Daddy and Kakak will.
JS: Who is going to sleep with me at night?
ME: Daddy
JS: I don’t want to have a meimei already lah. You don’t need to go hospital. (JS is too attached to me, so look said and troubled with the thought that there is a possibility that I might not be around her)
Last night before bedtime, our routine of playing in the room and story reading. Out of the sudden to brought up the topic again. And here goes our early sex education.
JS: Mummy, I want a meimei
ME: Wait for the time to come, ok?
JS: Mummy, where meimei come from huh?
ME: From mummy’s tummy. Mummy’s tummy have to grow very big, then only got meimei
JS: Why now no meimei in mummy’s tummy yet?
ME: Because we haven’t made one yet
JS: How’s meimei made?
ME: There’s the egg in mummy’s tummy, mummy and daddy have to love each other then only the egg will grow and then have a meimei
JS: Why never make now? Where’s the egg? Why mummy’s tummy not big yet? (She thought that the meimei can pop out instantly from my tummy… haha)
ME: Wait lah…not time yet (At this time..dear hubby walks in the room)
JS: Daddy, why you haven’t made meimei yet?
DH: (As smart as he always is) because you must learn how to take care of didi first. You have to love didi, share your things, don’t snatch toys from didi, don’t push and scold didi. Can you do that?
ME: Yeah… you have to love didi first.
JS: I can..
I wonder why she suddenly brought this up. But it’s also a good chance to start of with sex education as it’s not a taboo to us. I have actually bought this book called Birds, Bees & Kids. It’s a very good sex education book for young children.
For me I really wish and hope that my next pregnancy would be a baby girl. Why a girl? Because JS’s has got a lot of nice cloths that she hardly wears and is still in very good condition, what a waste to keep it aside or give away, might as well hand me down to another girl. A sister can also give JS a good companionship. At least she would have someone to talk to, go shopping with. I don’t have any sister myself, and I long for one. I envy both my SILs as they are very close, they go shopping together, they share almost everything. I envy my mother and her youngest sister, when I was young, aunty always come over to our house to chit chat with mum, they exchange opinions on cooking and fashion. I envy my cousins June and July. They are both very close to each other. That’s why I hope that I can give JS a sister to share that kind of bond.
