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Chapter 166: Two or Three Things About Having a Baby
"Miss Xiaoyue, how can you not be able to support them? I heard you say that the minimum wage for everyone here is over 2,000 yuan, and rice only costs two yuan per catty. Even if one person earns the minimum wage, he can buy 1,000 catties of rice and support his family."

Tang Wentao is now in charge of a local government and is more concerned about people's livelihood issues, so he has paid attention to modern living standards. At that time, he also wondered how happy it would be if everyone lived in modern times?
Wang Yue was shocked by this point of view. The living standard can be calculated by rice, which means that having food to eat is happiness. It seems necessary to let them understand the real modern living standard.

"That's definitely not how it works. Let me tell you how much it costs to have a baby here! It'll shock you."

"How much does it cost to have a baby? At most, you can hire a good midwife, which will cost some money. Then there is the money spent on nutritional supplements for the mother." Tang Wentao has the most say in this.

"Then you are wrong. Let me tell you! First of all, if you are pregnant, go to the hospital for a check-up."

"Don't you already know you're pregnant? Why are you still going to the hospital?" Tang Wentao asked.

"We need to check whether the embryo is in the uterine bed or in other parts of the body. If it is in other parts of the body, it is very dangerous. Once it is confirmed to be an ectopic pregnancy, surgery must be performed immediately, otherwise the life of the mother will be in danger." Wang Yue said.

"What was it like? Two years ago, I had a sister-in-law from the same clan. Two or three months after her marriage, she suddenly had blood from her lower body. It was a lot of blood. When the doctor came, she was already dead. The doctor said that she had a miscarriage. Does this count as the ectopic pregnancy you mentioned?" Tang Wentao knew the whole thing. Now that cousin hasn't remarried!

"That's about it. If it's just a simple miscarriage, it won't be that dangerous, so you must go for a prenatal checkup after you become pregnant."

"Miss Xiaoyue, is any ectopic pregnancy dangerous?" Tang Wentao asked.

"Yeah! I've never heard of anyone surviving an ectopic pregnancy without surgery."

"Then the doctors here can't find out?"

"They didn't have the equipment, so there was definitely no way to check. Maybe an experienced doctor could have discovered it, but he could only guess and couldn't be sure. And he couldn't stop the bleeding in time, so the mother had no choice but to die."

Tang Wentao felt a chill down his spine after hearing what Wang Yue said: "So that means my wife is on the verge of death every time she's pregnant?"

"That's fine."

"Then can my wife come to you for a checkup next time she gets pregnant?"

"Sure!" Wang Yue agreed to prenatal check-ups so that if there are any problems, they can stop the loss in time.

"Is this the only prenatal checkup?" Tang Wentao asked.

"How is that possible? It takes several times. I haven't given birth yet, so I'm not sure how many times it is, but I know that one time is to check the development of the baby's limbs and organs. If there is a problem, induction of labor is required."

"This is very important!" Tang Wentao himself has lived for more than 20 years. He knows that some families secretly drown their impaired children and tell others that the babies were stillborn. Although it is cruel, there is nothing that can be done. If there is a prenatal checkup, the labor can be induced in time, and there is no need to give birth.

"Another time is to check for Down syndrome screening. Some children may be healthy but have mental problems, commonly known as idiots. This can also be detected in the womb."

"Can this be checked too?" Whether in a rich or poor family, there are always a few fools. It is never a good thing to have such a person in the family.

"Basically, they can be checked. Of course, there are some that cannot be checked, but not many." "It's good that they can be checked. Are there any more?"

"There are also pre-delivery examinations to see if the baby is big enough to be born, whether the umbilical cord is wrapped around the neck, whether the fetus is in an abnormal position, or whether there is low amniotic fluid. These can cause difficult labor."

"All of these are possible. What will you do if you find out?" Tang Wentao is the father of three children. He has heard these knowledge from the midwife. If any of these things happen, there could be two deaths.

"Caesarean section! As long as the mother doesn't have any disease, there's basically no danger and the baby can be delivered smoothly by cesarean section."

"How to do a cesarean section? Do you make an incision on the stomach?" That's what it sounded like.

"Yes! It will just be more painful than a normal birth, and it will last two days longer."

“It just hurts a little, right? Even a grown man like me can’t stand this knife.” Tang Wentao’s face turned pale.

Even the few young men who were listening to the fun nearby had frightened expressions on their faces.

"You need to take anesthesia, but it's not as painful as you think. One of my colleagues had a caesarean section and later told us that it was a partial anesthesia and she was conscious. While the doctor was operating on her, she was bragging to the anesthesiologist, and the doctor showed her the baby after cutting it out."

"It hurts, but it's bearable."

"That's great. Can we also learn this knowledge? It's really useful." Tang Wentao now wanted to bring this technology back to them.

"We didn't arrange for you to study medicine this time, but there will definitely be arrangements for you later. Now our top priority is to increase your productivity."

"Miss Xiaoyue, why does it cost money to give birth to a child?" Wu Qingping and a few other people who were listening to the fun were not satisfied yet and asked Wang Yue to continue.

Tang Wentao was also very curious about how modern people live.

"Miss Xiaoyue, just tell me!"

"Let's continue with our previous topic, the issue of spending money. I heard from my colleague that her child's prenatal checkup cost almost 10,000 yuan. This was the amount spent before the child was born, not even counting the food she ate."

"The hospitalization cost for giving birth was almost 20,000 yuan, half of which was reimbursed by medical insurance, and I still spent 10,000 yuan myself."

"The next thing is diapers. Wu Qingping knows that they are indeed very convenient, but they cost more than 100 yuan per pack, and one pack can only be used for a few days. In addition, some people don't have milk. We don't have a wet nurse here, so if there is no milk, the children will be fed with milk powder. Milk powder usually costs about 200 yuan per bucket, and several buckets are needed every month. Calculated this way, milk powder and diapers alone cost 2,000 to 3,000 yuan every month. Not to mention that some people buy better milk powder, the cost is unacceptable."

"You may say that I have my own milk and don't need formula, but I still need to use formula when I wean my child off at one year old, and by then the child is older and eats more."

"This doesn't even include the cost of a child getting sick. If a child gets sick, it costs hundreds of dollars to go to the hospital. In a larger city, a common cold costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if the child is hospitalized, the cost is even higher. Do you think there are any children who don't get sick? You can't save this money at all."

"Oh my God! I will go bankrupt if I have a child!" Tang Wentao is an official and is very sensitive to numbers. He was shocked by this string of numbers.