novelraw Chapter 260 Don't panic, I've delivered babies at home before.
Chapter 260 Don't panic, I've delivered babies at home before.
Tong Yuheng wasn't on the third floor. She didn't like being crowded with others, so she went down to the second floor by herself. There were also a few empty classrooms on this floor.
She spent the first half of the night preparing medicine in her spatial dimension, intending to make some traditional Chinese medicine to prevent infectious diseases such as conjunctivitis and dysentery. After working for a while, she got hungry and made herself some food in her spatial dimension. After eating her fill, she was about to go to sleep when she heard some noises upstairs.
Although they tried to keep their voices down, she could still sense several people walking around the room through her spatial dimension. Remembering that there was a pregnant woman upstairs who was about to give birth, she hurriedly ran upstairs.
"Xiaonan, are you going into labor? Is it painful?" Tong Yuheng asked, seeing her covered in sweat and biting her lip to keep quiet.
"It's alright, Sister Tong, I can still bear it..." Tears welled up in her eyes when she saw Tong Yuheng approaching. In reality, she was in a lot of pain, so much pain that she wanted to bang her head against the wall!
Tong Yuheng and Wang Xiaonan had a good relationship. Just then, Tong Yuheng arrived, and Wang Xiaonan, who had almost miscarried, gave her some medicine made by her grandfather to help prevent miscarriage. Later, Aunt Sun often brought food, and the two families became more acquainted.
Wang Xiaonan was also a sent-down youth, about the same age as Yu Yao. Her parents had a bad class background, so she was sent to the countryside early on. There she met a kind woman named Aunt Sun, who protected her through the most difficult year after she arrived. She married Sun Dachuan mainly because of this good mother-in-law, and also because Sun Dachuan's military status could protect her.
She got married before she was twenty and lived with her mother-in-law in the countryside after the marriage. Her mother-in-law wouldn't let her do any heavy work, so she just spent her days cutting pig feed and cooking at home to get by. Grandma Sun didn't take on any heavy work either; she fed the two chickens at home, sewed, and washed things, so she was in good health and didn't have any major health problems.
Because of their son's allowance, they lived a relatively comfortable life. However, people often tried to sow discord among Grandma Sun, saying that they had married a troublesome woman, and that she wouldn't be able to control her daughter-in-law and might not be able to support her in her old age.
Grandma Sun didn't argue with them. Knowing they weren't all bad people, she explained that each family had its own way of doing things. Her son sent money home every month, half of which went to support his wife. If his wife got sick from overwork, it would cost a lot of money to treat her, which would be too much of a loss.
Those people say these things because they can't stand that Xiaonan, a woman without a family to rely on, is living so well, and that it's because her mother-in-law is too good that her daughters-in-law have rebelled!
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law secretly laughed behind closed doors and even ate delicious food together. It infuriated them!
Wang Xiaonan miscarried her first child without her knowledge; by the time the barefoot doctor discovered the problem, it was too late. Two years later, she became pregnant again, this time being very careful, but she miscarried again before the third month.
Wang Xiaonan cried many times because of this, feeling that her health was failing and that she couldn't keep the baby, and that she had let her husband down. She even considered divorce. It was Aunt Sun who persuaded her, saying that they were still young and would have another child eventually. If she were to divorce for the sake of the child, she could wait until she was thirty before considering it.
Later, when Sun Dachuan became a deputy battalion commander, his mother asked him to arrange for his wife to join him in the army. She wanted to stay at home for two years to help her daughter take care of her child before going to join him. This was so that the young couple could have more time together.
So Wang Xiaonan especially liked her mother-in-law. Now that her parents had returned to work, they wanted to take her to a big city to find her a job, but she refused. She arrived at the residential compound just in time for a primary school teacher recruitment exam, and she passed on her first try. Since someone in the family was earning a salary, it didn't make sense to let her mother-in-law stay in the countryside, so she told a little lie.
She said she was pregnant and wanted her mother-in-law to come and take care of her, and sure enough, Aunt Sun came over happily!
She came last spring, but after several months, her daughter-in-law's belly didn't get any bigger! Only then did they realize that the young couple just wanted her to come and live with them in their old age!
Perhaps it was the arrival of the old man that brought good fortune, because Wang Xiaonan found out she was pregnant during the Spring Festival this year. Now, Grandma Sun is being very careful, afraid that this precious baby might not be able to be saved.
When Tong Yuheng arrived, Sun was already five months pregnant, but her belly didn't look very big. For some reason, she had some spotting, so she immediately took leave to protect the pregnancy. The doctors all said that this pregnancy was difficult, the mother was weak, and the child was prone to congenital deficiencies, which worried Sun a lot.
When Aunt Sun spoke with Tong Yuheng, she learned that Tong had eight younger sisters and asked if her mother was in particularly good health and if she had any good methods for maintaining her health. Aunt Sun mentioned that her maternal grandfather was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor and had a very effective pregnancy-preserving pill. Aunt Sun trusted him completely and gave her a month's supply; after taking it, she should be fine.
Later, she simply hired a car to take Wang Xiaonan to her home in Qingshi County, where her maternal grandfather examined her pulse, gave her some pills to prevent miscarriage, and also provided her with several recipes for dietary supplements. Sure enough, a month later, Wang Xiaonan's complexion became rosy, and her overall condition improved.
No longer living in constant fear, Aunt Sun was especially grateful to Tong Yuheng. When her child was about to be born, the first person she thought of was Tong Yuheng. Now, seeing her, it was as if a weight had been lifted off her shoulders, and she was no longer flustered.
"Aunt Sun, Sister Zheng, don't panic. I've delivered babies at home before. Xiaonan's baby is in the correct position, so it should go smoothly. Just listen to my instructions!"
"Okay, okay, I'll do whatever you say!" Aunt Sun quickly said, "What do you want me to do?"
"I brought a first-aid kit; I'll go prepare it in a bit. Sister Zheng, take two people upstairs, find an empty classroom, and push the tables together to make a bed. Aunt Sun, help Xiaonan walk down slowly. If it hurts too much, just say so; no one will laugh at you!"
"We'll get ready right away!" Zheng Lihong led two people downstairs to put the beds together. He Xiufang came over from another room to help get the bedding and blankets. This time, she obediently didn't say a word.
Tong Yuheng took out sanitary napkins, rubber pads, gauze, suture needles, and two high-powered flashlights from her space and went to the "temporary delivery room" that everyone had set up on the second floor.
She saw two clean mattresses on the table. She put the medical rubber mat on top of it, and then asked Grandma Sun to put a clean sheet on top of it. They didn't plan to use that sheet anymore.
Wang Xiaonan would stand up and wander around, then sit down to rest in a chair, clearly not wanting to lie on the "birthing bed." Tong Yuheng gave her two sips of spiritual spring water, and when she felt her belly contract and drop, she took off her pants and lay down on it.
Aunt Sun urged her to lie down quickly, saying there was nothing to be embarrassed about giving birth, and everyone around her was a woman. Wang Xiaonan slowly climbed onto the "delivery bed," ready to give birth. Aunt Sun, worried she might be cold, covered her with a thin blanket. She also asked if she wanted something to eat, as one of her sisters-in-law had already gone to help cook brown sugar millet and egg porridge.