Eating melons

Chapter 356 Parasite

To be honest, after hearing these words, everyone present felt their throats itchy and dry.

They really didn't expect that there are so many things involved in a woman's pregnancy, so much harm, and so much danger.

Liu Jiaojiao asked doubtfully, "Giving birth is so dangerous, why has no one ever told us?

Also, there are so many types of people who can't have a natural birth, so why are there so few people who choose a C-section?"

Wu Mei nodded, "Yes! Yes! Why are there so many dangers that we haven't heard of? This is the first time I've heard of these things today. I've never heard of them before."

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi both found it a little funny to hear such an innocent question.

"Look around, how many women nowadays spend more than 40 days in confinement after giving birth? No, forget about 40 days, how many women spend more than 30 days in confinement, and how many women don't work during that time?

Not to mention taking good care of your body in all aspects after giving birth, how many people can have meat every day within those 30 days?

Also, how many people can now give birth in the hospital instead of at home.

They can't even guarantee basic nutrition, and they can't even go to the hospital to give birth. Do you think they have the money to choose a caesarean section?

A caesarean section is a relatively large operation, so the price is definitely not cheap.

And don’t they know that childbirth is dangerous? Look at how many women died from childbirth complications. They know it very well and are usually gambling.

Not to mention other places, just in the Red Star Brigade, I dare say that within the past ten years, there will be no less than ten people, and on average one or two will die from childbirth complications every year.

Just in this Red Star Brigade, where conditions are already above average, people die in childbirth almost every year. What about other places? It will be even more.”

After hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao fell silent. She knew that what Wei Wei said was true.

As the big slackers at work, they often hang out with some old people and children.

Of course, they had heard of children whose mothers had passed away, dying during childbirth. They knew several such children.

"So it's not that it doesn't exist, it's just that it hasn't spread. As for why it hasn't spread, why haven't you heard about it? As people who have experienced it, do they have a chance to speak out?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao were stunned again. It was true that those who knew this were already gone, and they might not even know the specific reason for their death when they were gone.

You may even feel that you are unlucky and that the child will die after you give birth to it.

They have no idea that they can actually live a good life.

"As for why it's not being popularized, look at those people. I'm not saying absolutely, but a large number of men had their wives die during childbirth. What did they do?

Do they care whether they will find another one right away? They only care whether they can continue to have sons, so do they care about women's fertility issues?

As for women, do you think that knowing that childbirth has such great risks and so many harms, do you still want to have children?"

After hearing this, the room fell silent again. Not to mention Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao, even Xiao Xuemu, Yu Xi and Li Zhibin felt that if they put themselves in their shoes, they would not have children.

Is this called giving birth? This is torture!

Wei Wei looked at Li Zhibin with a half-smile, "Do you still think having ten children in ten years is a blessing?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhibin quickly shook his head. The speed was no slower than the speed at which Wei Wei and Jiang Qi shook their heads just now, and was even faster.

"No wonder you said it was a curse. It totally is a curse! It's truly a horror story."

“In fact, this is not only a horror story for girls, it is also similar for men.

Do you really think that having ten children in ten years, all ten of them being sons, is a good thing?

You can afford it because your family is rich and you have the ability.

But if you look across the country, with so many people, how many have a family like yours? It’s probably less than one percent, right?

Most people's families are very ordinary. Let me give you some numbers.

There are two people earning money in a family, a male head of household and a female head of household. The male head's salary is fifty-one months and the female head's salary is thirty-one months.

A dual-income family, isn't this considered relatively good, upper-middle-class? "

Li Zhibin nodded, "Yes."

Although his family is well off, he is not a fool and naturally knows what the situation is like outside.

"That's eighty yuan a month, nine hundred and sixty yuan a year. Even if you don't eat or drink for ten years, you won't make ten thousand yuan.

But do you think you can save 10,000 yuan in these ten years? Absolutely not. If your family is large, you might not even be able to save 5,000 yuan. If you really have ten children, even saving 3,000 or 4,000 yuan would be a problem.

After all, you need to eat, drink, use things, and wear things. If there are elderly people in the family, there are pensions. If you get sick, the money will definitely not be a small amount.

When the children grow up, they have to go to school, and the tuition is not a small amount, after all, there are ten children.

When children grow up, the expenses will be greater, and there will be elderly parents and young children to take care of. You all know how difficult it is for an ordinary person to find a job nowadays. This is a big problem.

Not to mention anything else, just the betrothal money, just turn it around three times and choose one you want, and it will count as one hundred, and the betrothal money will count as one hundred.

One is two hundred yuan, ten is two thousand yuan. This is the fixed price, and this is still the lowest price.

Let's not talk about moving to the countryside. If we don't move to the countryside, we need to consider housing. We can't have so many people living in those few small houses! I wonder which girl would be interested in your house.

There are not so many houses to be allocated to you, so you cannot be partial when buying a house.

According to traditional thinking, nine houses must be prepared for the eldest son and the others.

Do you think this can crush a family? Can it bring down an upper-middle-class family?

Not only that, but raising a child isn't just about giving money; you need companionship, care, and equal treatment. Can you manage ten of them?"

After listening to Wei Wei, the room fell into deathly silence again. They couldn't afford to support a child. Not to mention an ordinary family, even a family like theirs would feel the burden.

Especially Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin, they are both aware of how messed up they are. The thought of having ten sons like them in the future makes their scalps tingle.

He could have lived to be a hundred years old, but because his ten sons lived to be fifty, he himself had a long life.

To be honest, they had never thought about this issue before.

Except for Wu Mei, the other four families had very good conditions and there was no possibility of not being able to support them, so they never thought about this situation.

Wu Mei didn't think there was anything wrong with this, because the idea that having many children means more blessings has always been what she has been taught.

Now after listening to Wei Wei’s analysis, I feel suffocated just thinking about that scene.

After hearing Wei Wei's calculation, Liu Jiaojiao couldn't help but sigh when she thought about how she was still asking her parents for money.

"Oh my God, no wonder you just said that a child is a parasite to the mother, that's absolutely true!

I've been a parasite in my mother's belly since I was little, and even after I was born, I still clung to my parents and sucked their blood. I only just realized now that I'm a parasite."

Seeing Liu Jiaojiao's deep understanding of self-reflection, Wei Wei was very pleased. "Yes, that's right."