pembantu

It is customary in Asia Pacific that Westerners employ someone to help with cooking, cleaning and watching the kids as that gives the wife a lot more time to concentrate on language and culture study. Those helper ladies are called pembantus here.
We have two lovely ladies (two, because of accountability as they will probably sometimes watch Alia without us there) helping us and we are praying that we can be a testimony to them and have really good relationships with them.

 Alia loves them both already. Here you can see Ibu Asih carrying Alia in a baby sling, she even got her to sleep that way. 

Notice how the baby is on the left side, so that the right hand is free to give and receive things.

Doing that with your left hand is considered extremely rude, as the left hand is used for cleaning oneself after going to the loo.

I tried using it too when we went for a walk but I have to practice a lot before it is comfortable for Alia and for me. While practicing with the sling, we enjoy taking baby-carrier that we have gotten from Erlend's parents, when we go out for longer at a time