Chapter 222: Give me the child!
After being reminded by her, Grandma Zhang came to her senses and nodded repeatedly. She quickly wiped her hands, put her right hand into the birth canal and began to adjust the position of the fetus, while her left hand kept pushing on the outside of Shen Huitan's abdomen.
With her two hands, one inside and one outside, and with her rich experience in delivering babies, the fetus's leg, which had originally had its knee exposed, slowly retracted into the birth canal.
Seeing this, Granny Zhang showed a hint of joy: "It really works!"
She hurriedly sped up her movements and kept adjusting. When her right hand touched a smooth, hairy head, she was pleasantly surprised and slowly withdrew her hand.
She didn't even bother to wipe her hands that were covered in blood and mucus. She pressed Shen Huitan's abdomen with both hands and asked her to breathe in and out with force according to the commands she shouted.
Chen Huitan only felt that the most painful moment was the episiotomy, and there was no abdominal cramps or uterine contraction pain afterwards.
After drinking the sweet soup, she regained some strength. When she heard Grandma Zhang say, "I can see the head," she gritted her teeth and tried harder.
After exerting force again, Chen Huitan felt as if something was being squeezed out of her lower body.
She was suddenly overjoyed and asked, not caring about her weak body, "Is the baby born? Is he still alive?"
Grandma Zhang picked up the pale baby that had been in the mother's womb for half an hour and slapped it hard on the buttocks. However, the loud cry that she had imagined did not come out.
She suddenly had a bad feeling and slapped him twice more, but there was still no movement.
This child must have been suffocated in the mother's womb for too long and died...
Thinking of this, her face, which originally contained some joy, gradually turned ugly, and she didn't know how to respond.
If she could think of it, everyone else in the room could think of it too. In addition, since there was no sound of the child crying for a long time, even Chen Huitan couldn't help but start sobbing softly.
"Give me the child!" Sang Yu snatched the child from Grandma Zhang's arms. Newborns don't cry, and they are usually suffocating or having respiratory problems.
She had a little nephew who just wouldn't cry, but he was saved by the doctor later. It would be too early to give up now.
There was still some milky white vernix caseosa on the baby's face, his eyes were tightly closed, and his lips were cyanotic, indicating that there was a foreign object blocking his throat.
She first placed the baby prone on her forearm, with the head low and the hips high, and patted the back diagonally five times. Then she turned the baby over to the supine position and pressed the chest vertically with two fingers five times.
After repeating this three times, the baby started coughing, coughing up a pool of transparent liquid, and then burst into tears.
Shen Wenfu, who was standing outside the house and pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back, stopped walking when he heard the baby crying, and a bit of joy finally appeared on his expressionless face.
It's a good thing that the child cries. Sang Yu handed the child to Grandma Zhang. She had other things to do. The cut wound had not healed yet.
"Don't be too happy, and don't be too anxious to hold the baby. Keep holding the mother's limbs. I need to sew them up."
The wound from her episiotomy was not too deep, but after Grandma Zhang adjusted the fetal position and the baby was born, the wound became much deeper.
Blood was flowing out even more. She knew that only stitching the wound on the surface would only treat the symptoms and not the root cause. The internal wound would be difficult to heal and more likely to become inflamed, leading to various complications.
In order for the wound to heal quickly, it needs to be stitched at least twice, once inside and once outside, and the pain is more than just cumulative.
When she heard the baby crying, Chen Huitan cried and laughed at the same time. When she heard Sang Yu talking again, it was as if she had seen her savior, and she nodded in agreement repeatedly.
The needle and thread that had been used to thread the sheep intestine were taken out of the salt water. Sang Yu repeated that it must be pressed down before starting to sew it up.
The pain caused by the injection was not very obvious. However, as the sheep intestine passed through the skin, flesh and fat, Chen Huitan only had time to let out a scream before she fainted.
"Tan'er? Tan'er?" Wang Shun, who was holding down her right arm to prevent her from moving, was startled when he saw this and quickly stopped Sang Yu's movements: "Miss Sang, Tan'er has fainted from the pain, please stop."
"Fainted? That's good. Just keep pressing it down. I'll sew it up quickly."
When Sang Yu heard that she had fainted, he was not surprised but happy. Fainting was a good thing, as it would save him some suffering.
"It's okay, I'll finish stitching it first and then let the doctor treat it."
Even if Chen Huitan fainted, her muscles would still tremble and twitch unconsciously when the needle and thread pierced her body.
Sang Yu's hands moved faster and faster, and she became more and more skilled. The two stitches, one deep and one shallow, were so fine that if they were not sewn on a human body, she would probably be praised for her good needlework.
After tying a knot at the end and cutting off the excess goat intestine, Sang Yu breathed a sigh of relief and asked the doctor to check on Chen Huitan: "Okay, old doctor, go and see how she is doing."
The old doctor watched the whole process and when he looked at Sang Yu again, his eyes were no longer full of contempt as before, and he even had a bit of admiration in his eyes. He immediately obeyed and did as he was told.
Sang Yu picked up the needle and the knife and put them on the table. She washed her hands in salt water and felt relieved.
Although things didn't end so easily, at least she could say that she had done her best.
The fetus, which had no chance of being born alive, was delivered smoothly, and Chen Huitan was sutured. The next thing to do was to recover after the operation and prevent the wound from getting infected.
She had already thought of a solution for this. She had given Sang Xingjia the garlic juice once before, and it was time to use it now.
However, it needs to be purified further to obtain a high concentration of allicin. If conditions permit, you can also apply honey to the wound to prevent infection by using high osmotic pressure.
Combined with the internal medicine prescriptions prescribed by the doctor, and taking both internal and external measures, there shouldn't be any major problems.
"Doctor, how is Tan'er?" Wang Shun's heart sank when he saw the doctor feeling Tan'er's pulse without saying anything. Could it be that the situation is not good?
The old doctor shook his head slightly: "The delivery process was too long. Madam is a little weak in Qi and blood. She needs to take good care of herself in the future. It is best not to get pregnant again in the next year."
It turned out that everything was fine. Wang Shun breathed a sigh of relief and finally remembered his son.
Granny Zhang had already taken care of the umbilical cord and wrapped him in a small blanket. Wang Shun took the baby in his arms and took one look at him. He was disgusted: "He's so ugly."
Zeng Rong rolled her eyes at him, snatched the child away and held him in her arms. "The child hasn't grown up yet, but his eyes and eyebrows are exactly like Tan'er's. How can you say he's ugly?"
A baby had just been born in the room, and the smell of blood lingered.
Fortunately, this was a delivery room that had been prepared in advance, and the room where Chen Huitan would recuperate after giving birth was right next door. Wang Shun wrapped Chen Huitan tightly in a quilt and sent her to the next room to recuperate.
Zeng Rong took the child out to show Shen Wenfu: "Look, my husband, it's a boy."
Shen Wenfu took it and took a look, then finally laughed out loud: "Hahaha, what a rascal, he's made his mother suffer before he was even born."
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