Jason's First Year With His Nanny

Both LLM & I were almost at the peak of our careers when Jason came into our lives.

Being new parents and still very involved in our careers, we outsourced the caring of our newly born child to a nanny in Pasir Ris.

During the weekdays, we would finish our work around 8pm daily. We would then have our dinner and took a taxi to Pasir Ris to spend at least 1 hour playing with Jason. We would take a taxi back to our home in Opera Estate, reaching around mid-night.

The nanny told us that we need not visit Jason every evening but we felt that we needed to connect with him. Jason would be at the door waiting for us and then would not be so happy to see us go but he never cried.

Every Sat, we look forward to bringing Jason home. Those days, we still worked on Sat so we would have our lunch and then took a taxi to Pasir Ris to fetch him for the weekend.

However, we would find it very taxing looking after Jason being inexperienced parents and without help then; eg the cooking, nappy changing, feeding him. By Sun afternoon, we would look forward to returning him to his nanny. Typically, we would send him back to Pasir Ris after our dinner.

While we were relieved to be home without him, but we started to miss him again....! Ha..ha..ha...

And the whole vicious cycle continued for a year!