Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 63 I don't know if I can survive
Then a grandmother in her sixties came in, carrying a small medicine box on her shoulder.

"Grandma Wang, please come and see my daughter-in-law." When the eldest aunt saw the midwife grabbing a life-saving straw, she almost knelt down in front of her and said, "Just save her life, and it doesn't matter if you don't have the child."

She knew how dangerous it was for a woman to give birth. Her eldest daughter died in that way a few years ago. The family chose to save the younger one, and as a result, two lives were lost.

Granny Wang hummed, rolled up her sleeves and went to lift the mattress covering the woman in labor.

Shen Zhao saw that there was black on Granny Wang's fingers, which seemed not very clean, but he went straight to check her cervix.

My cousin’s wife screamed in pain and struggled.

Granny Wang turned to her aunt and said, "The cervix hasn't fully dilated yet, but the amniotic fluid has broken. It won't be easy to save the baby."

My aunt burst into tears and begged, "Please think of a way. She is only in her twenties."

Granny Wang sighed, "She's too weak, her contractions are so weak, she can't even see the baby's head. How can we save the baby?"

The eldest aunt suddenly understood, and she threw herself in front of her daughter-in-law, crying, "Child, this is all my fault. It's not that your mother didn't feed you well, it's just that I was afraid that you wouldn't have a smooth delivery."

"Wuwuwuwu. Try harder and give birth to the baby. Then your mother will never scold you again. We have plenty at home. Eat as much as you want."

Wu's tears immediately flowed down and she choked with sobs and was unable to speak.

Shen Zhao hesitated for a long time, and finally peeled off a small labor-inducing pill and held it in his palm, and fed it to his cousin's wife while feeding her water.

Then she went to the kitchen to fetch hot water for the midwife to wash her hands.

Seeing that her cousin's wife was in a low mood, she placed the baby's blankets and clothes she brought next to her head and said, "Don't be afraid, sister-in-law. You will give birth to the baby. Look how soft these blankets and clothes are. When you give birth to the baby, use them for him."

There was light in Mrs. Wu's dim eyes again, and she reached out and held the little clothes in her arms.

After more than half an hour, her stomach became tighter and tighter and she screamed in pain.

After checking, the midwife exclaimed in surprise, "It's open! The cervix is eight fingers dilated and she can give birth! Quick! Help her up!"

Shen Zhao immediately stopped him: "Don't stand up, you will hurt your sister-in-law."

She pulled a mattress and stuffed it under her cousin's back, raising her upper body: "Give birth like this."

The midwife glared at her in dissatisfaction: "What do you know, little sister-in-law? I have been delivering babies for half my life, and I have never seen a birth like this!"

You've seen it now. Shen Zhao complained in his heart, but he couldn't argue with the midwife, so he said softly: "Grandma, my sister-in-law is weak, what if she faints while standing?"

The midwife rolled her eyes at Shen Zhao and then shouted at the aunt, "What do you say? Are you going to follow the wishes of this unmarried sister-in-law?"

The eldest aunt nodded frantically: "My niece is very lucky, please help my daughter-in-law deliver the baby according to her wishes. Don't worry, when my daughter-in-law gives birth to the baby safely, I will give you a piece of flowered cloth to make clothes."

When the midwife heard about the delivery of cloth, her face immediately looked much better.

She opened her dark little medicine box and prepared to deliver the baby.

Shen Zhao took advantage of this opportunity, ran back to his home and brought back his medicine box.

There is disinfectant and clean gauze in here. It is better to use these to bandage the baby's umbilical cord than the soda brought by the midwife.

When I returned to my cousin's house again, the midwife had already gone out to pick up the baby. When the baby was completely out, he was blue all over and was limp and motionless.

"Ouch! What a pity, it's a guy with a penis."

The midwife held the baby's legs and patted them several times. Seeing that there was no sound, she put the baby aside and busied herself with cleaning the mother's uterine cavity.

Anyway, the host said to save the eldest first. Even if this child is rescued, he will become a fool, so there is no need to waste effort.

When the aunt saw the baby's legs, she burst into tears. Shen Zhao pushed her away, recalling the first aid measures for mothers and babies that he had seen, and quickly massaged the baby's heart, cleaned his mouth, and blew air into his mouth.

The midwife said unhappily, "Stop making such a fuss and just let him go."

Shen Zhao ignored her and continued to pinch the child's heart, pat his lungs, and give him air.

After a few minutes, the baby finally responded and let out a faint cry.

The midwife was shocked and looked at Shen Zhao in disbelief.

She took out a thread from the medicine box to tie the umbilical cord, then took out a pair of sharp little scissors to cut the umbilical cord, and then used a very thin wooden stick to apply medicine to the broken part of the umbilical cord, and then covered it with a piece of snow-white gauze.

Shen Zhao took out another roll of gauze and gently wrapped the square piece of gauze around the little baby's waist.

I put a diaper on the baby, wrapped it in a soft blanket, and put it in my sister-in-law's arms: "Feed him later, don't choke him."

This was all she could do. As for what would happen to the child in the future, she really didn't know what to do.

Mrs. Wu nodded, hugged the child tightly, and tears kept flowing down.

She looked up at her cousin and thanked him sincerely, "Thank you, Zhao. When the baby grows up, I will let him take care of you in your old age."

Shen Zhao laughed: "Okay, I'm just afraid my cousin won't be willing to let me go."

Mrs. Wu smiled with tears in her eyes and said nothing more.

After the midwife had finished packing, the aunt gave her the piece of flowered cloth given to her by her sister-in-law.

She also made chicken soup noodles herself and asked her midwife, sister-in-law and niece to eat them before going back.

Shen Zhao and A'niang didn't eat it. They carried the medicine box back home and spread it directly on the kang.

"Has my cousin's wife given birth?" Shen Heng asked while making a fire and steaming rice.

Shen Zhao: "It's born, mother and child are safe." In fact, he was not sure whether the child could survive.

"That's good." Shen Heng was still worried that his cousin's wife and her child were in danger, because his eldest brother said that the child was silent after returning from his cousin's house.

Coupled with the younger sister's constant running back and forth, Zhaodi and Yingdi were both scared.

"Auntie, should I go home?" The two little kids sat quietly in the warm house, some of them reluctant to leave.

Shen Zhao waved his hand: "You just stay here for one night, and go back to see your mother and brother tomorrow."

The two little kids suddenly became happy and nodded quickly: "Okay."

Zhang Shanyue glanced at her cousins, worried that they might have lice that could be passed on to her own daughter. She said to her son, "Go to the kitchen and boil some hot water. I'll give them a bath in this room."

I don’t know how long the two children haven’t taken a bath. Their necks and wrists are all black. It would be strange if they didn’t have lice on their bodies.

My bed is covered with a new quilt at home, so if it gets lice, there is no way to get rid of it.

Shen Heng also knew what his mother meant, agreed, and ran to the kitchen to light the big stove.

Since the soy milk had not yet been boiled, he quickly boiled a large pot of hot water, brought a large wooden basin, and placed it on the floor of the wing room: "Do you want to eat first or take a bath first?"

"Let's eat first." Zhang Shanyue said.

The rice and porridge were just steamed, so the family had a quick bite. After the two sons went to the main room to sleep, she gave the little one a good wash and removed the lice.

(End of this chapter)