Actually, Chen Rou also really wanted to know the baby's gender.
As the pregnancy progresses, expectant mothers will wonder whether the baby is a boy or a girl, so they can prepare clothes, name, and room decorations to welcome the baby's arrival.
At six months, during a comprehensive check-up, the doctor asked Chen Rou, "Do you want to find out the baby's gender?"
Chen Rou naturally replied, "Okay."
He added, "It looks like it should be easy, right?"
The doctor boasted, "It's really simple. I'll print it out right now, and you can see for yourself."
But the worst thing a person can do is to speak too confidently. And right now, we don't have 4D ultrasound like we will in the future, only simple 3D ultrasound. And the baby's umbilical cord is right between the legs, blocking it.
The doctor had Chen Rou change positions and tried again, but found it still didn't work.
Because Chen Rou was pregnant with a posterior fetal position, the baby was sleeping face down in her mother's belly with its back turned.
This was good for Chen Rou, because as long as the baby didn't change position, it would be a very standard vaginal delivery position, and she wouldn't even need to consider a cesarean section. But it's already difficult to determine the gender, and the little one was still clinging to the umbilical cord, which made the doctor feel awkward. Okay, let Chen Rou adjust her position again and try again.
But after all that fuss, Nie Zhao discovered that his wife had been in the ultrasound room for 40 minutes and still hadn't come out.
Under normal circumstances, an ultrasound scan for a pregnant woman will not take more than 5 minutes.
Boss Nie couldn't wait any longer and barged in, but he was also very polite, knocking on the door first before asking, "Doctor?"
He immediately asked, "Is there something wrong with my wife?"
The doctor struggled for a while without success and was quite embarrassed. He quickly helped Chen Rou up and said, "How about we try again tomorrow?"
Chen Rou is also a stubborn person; if her son doesn't want her to watch, she insists on watching anyway.
She asked, "Will the baby's umbilical cord loosen tomorrow, and then I'll be able to see it?"
The doctor didn't dare to give a guarantee, but said, "It should be okay."
As is well known, the air conditioning in Hong Kong is always blasting. If you turn it off, it's too hot and unbearable. However, lying naked under the air conditioning for 5 minutes is a completely different experience from lying naked for 40 minutes.
Chen Rou also catches a cold; she sneezes as soon as she sits up.
She didn't really care, but for someone like Nie Zhao, there was no room for error. He was furious: "I don't know why, but my wife has a cold. Doctor, you'd better give me an explanation."
The doctor's attempt to flatter backfired; she said, "Sorry, we just wanted to determine the sex of the fetus."
Nie Zhao assumed it was something the doctor wanted to see and said, "As long as you are healthy, gender doesn't matter."
The doctor quickly handed over the newly printed ultrasound report: "The anomaly scan results show that the baby is very healthy."
Chen Rou sneezed again. Nie Zhao had already helped her put on her clothes and wrapped them around her again, saying, "Don't check her gender anymore."
After helping his wife out, he whispered to Secretary An, "Tell Dean Wu to have a different doctor in the ultrasound room next time."
But then he added, "Go talk to Mingde about Plan B, talk to them more, and if that doesn't work, transfer the production team over there."
He has a professional midwifery team, brought in from London, who specialize in delivering babies for the royal family. However, he doesn't own large, complete birthing equipment himself, so they perform the surgeries at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital.
But Boss Nie spent a lot of money, all he wanted was zero errors.
If there's a mistake in the ultrasound room, he not only needs to change doctors, but also immediately goes to Plan B whenever he feels something is wrong.
After this incident, Nie Zhao refused to allow any further investigation into the sex of the fetus.
In any case, all the necessary items for the baby were prepared, one set for the girl and one set for the boy.
In their new home on the mountaintop, both the boy's and girl's rooms were already furnished.
Just wait patiently; the fruit will ripen naturally, and the doctor will announce the gender when the baby is born.
And so it went, until the baby was eight months old, Chen Rou still didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl.
Since she is pregnant, it is inevitable that she will have discussions about this with others.
Is she carrying a boy or a girl?
And the questions she heard most often were whether she preferred boys or girls, and what she wanted.
By the way, because Nie Jiajun performed well in mainland China, Boss Nie asked Wade to find a professor from the School of Information Science at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (STU) across the ocean, and also gave the school a donation. Nie Jiajun then went to study for a master's degree. Nie Han, who was supposed to accompany Chen Rou during her pregnancy, heard that the lavender fields in Colorado were particularly beautiful, so she went to see her younger brother and went with her.
Chen Rou was already eight months pregnant and was about to give birth when she decided to come back.
Of course, on the phone, she also asked, "Xia Niang, do you want a boy or a girl? Why aren't you curious about the baby's gender and don't you want to know beforehand? Why?"
Chen Rou was too lazy to explain the question, and only asked Nie Han: "How is Jiajun learning? Is he keeping up?"
Nie Han said, "Of course, and he has many senior classmates here. You remember Yu Guangxu from Mr. Yu's family, right? He is here and studied the same major. But Jiajun and I even tried to catch him, but he was elusive and we never met him."
The Information Science program at Nanjing University of Science and Technology is exceptionally strong because of its specialized focus on researching novel materials. As is well known, new materials are the guiding force in the ever-evolving field of science and technology.
Nie Zhao personally helped Nie Jiajun choose that major, which shows he had high hopes for him.
However, he should have known that Yu Buxu was at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, so why did he still send Jiajun there?
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