Chapter 109
At 16 weeks, Shi Ye accompanied Jiang Zhinian to the hospital for a prenatal check-up. After measuring their weight and blood pressure as usual, the two of them went to the door of the clinic and waited for their number to be called.
"There are so many people..." They had arrived very early, but they didn't expect there would still be so many people.
Shi Ye found a seat for her to sit down, and he stood beside her, leaning against her, not trying to grab the few seats reserved for pregnant women.
"You need to be patient when visiting an obstetrician." As the pregnancy progresses, routine checkups are required every time you visit the hospital, such as listening to the fetal heart rate and measuring uterine height, which takes longer than regular outpatient visits.
Jiang Zhinian took Shi Ye's hand and asked, "Is the patient with preeclampsia you mentioned last time getting better?"
"There's no danger for now."
But she still refused to terminate the pregnancy. The obstetrics department had no choice but to give her an ultimatum: the pregnancy could be kept until 32 weeks at most. If the disease attacked again, the pregnancy would have to be terminated immediately. Otherwise, it would likely cause ischemic brain damage and problems such as cardiopulmonary insufficiency.
Jiang Zhinian sometimes felt sad when she listened to Shi Ye talking about these real pregnancy-related cases that happened around him.
"Mom, I'm a little hungry."
"Would you like some brown sugar boiled eggs?"
Across from me sat a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law was carrying a lot of bags and was enjoying taking care of her pregnant daughter-in-law. Because she was afraid that the prenatal check-up would take a long time, she even brought her some food, but... brown sugar?
Shi Ye also glanced over there, and he frowned at the first glance.
The woman in labor was really overweight. I don’t know if she was that fat before she got pregnant or if she gained weight after she got pregnant. She almost took up two places.
Generally speaking, the blood sugar level of pregnant women who are overweight like this is not very healthy.
Jiang Zhinian pulled Shi Ye's fingers and whispered, "Isn't it good for her to drink brown sugar water like this?"
"Well, you want to remind her?"
As a pregnant woman herself, Jiang Zhinian has a natural empathy for the people around her: "Is it convenient?"
In fact, it was not very convenient. Shi Ye looked around, patted Jiang Zhinian's arm, asked her to wait here, and walked to the front desk to find the obstetrics nurse.
Soon, the obstetrics nurse walked up to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and asked, "Is this brown sugar water?"
The mother-in-law was stunned for a moment: "Oh, yes, brown sugar and egg water, cooked at home."
"Pregnant women should not drink so much brown sugar water during pregnancy. It affects blood sugar. Don't drink it in the future."
The mother-in-law was a little anxious: "Why can't I drink it? This is the most nutritious. In our countryside, which family doesn't drink this when giving birth? Which young wife drinks this and gives birth to a plump baby?"
The nurse didn't expect to be refuted, so she had to explain, "Brown sugar water doesn't really have much nutrition; it's just sugar. Your daughter-in-law's blood sugar is probably high. If you keep giving her this, she might develop gestational diabetes. By then, the baby will be fat, but your daughter-in-law will suffer."
If high blood sugar levels during pregnancy are not properly controlled, it may lead to macrosomia, which generally refers to a baby weighing 8 kilograms at birth.
In recent years, the medical community has recommended that mothers keep their babies' weight below 7 jin to reduce risks.
In addition to causing excessive damage to the mother during delivery, macrosomia will also have problems such as hypoglycemia and jaundice after birth. In the long run, there are also risks of adolescent obesity and type 2 diabetes.
The mother-in-law probably felt a little embarrassed and said stubbornly, "Every family wants their child to be white and plump. The heavier the better. Giving birth to a child that looks like a kitten is unhealthy. When I gave birth to my son, he weighed 10 kilograms and he was born without any hesitation. Isn't he doing well now? How can he be so delicate that he won't even let me drink brown sugar water?"
The nurse also felt helpless. She spread her hands towards Shi Ye, said "If you don't want to listen, forget it" and turned away.
Jiang Zhinian also felt a little sorry. She didn't expect this result.
"Not everyone in this world listens to advice, especially the elderly who have lived most of their lives according to their own understanding. It is difficult for them to change their established ideas."
Jiang Zhinian glanced at the pregnant woman opposite. She had obviously heard what the nurse said, and her hand holding the brown sugar water was a little hesitant.
But the mother-in-law, perhaps driven by a desire to prove herself right, kept urging her daughter-in-law, "Drink it now! Don't listen to her nonsense! Brown sugar water is good stuff! When I gave birth to Dadong, I only had it after I gave birth. You're not getting it right now. You're so lucky."
The daughter-in-law looked at the thermos in her hand in embarrassment, and after hesitation, she picked it up and drank it.
"Drink it up, yes, don't leave any leftovers, it's a waste."
Jiang Zhinian moved his body uneasily, wanting to speak to her. Suddenly, the cup in the pregnant woman's hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and her eyelids fluttered and she fell to the side.
Her mother-in-law was startled and hugged her in her arms and was about to pinch her philtrum.
Shi Ye walked over quickly, pushed her hand away, took out the flashlight he carried with him from his pocket, lifted the pregnant woman's eyelids, and performed a pupil light examination.
The nurse who hadn't left far away also rushed over when she heard the noise. Shi Ye said calmly, "The pupils react slowly to light. Considering that the patient fell into a coma just after drinking a glass of brown sugar water, the possibility of gestational diabetes cannot be ruled out."
He lowered his head and scanned the pregnant woman's abdomen. The gestational age was still young, so it was probably not time for a sugar screening.
The nurse nodded: "I understand. I will tell other doctors."
The nurse quickly pushed the referral bed over. Shi Ye lent a hand, and several people worked together to carry the pregnant woman to the bed.
The mother-in-law was so frightened that she stood there in a daze: "How could this happen? I hope nothing happened. I just drank some brown sugar water, how could I faint? Did you make a mistake?..."
Until now, she still refuses to admit that she did anything wrong.
The nurse didn't say any more and pushed the pregnant woman to the emergency room. My mother-in-law stood there for a while, then stumbled and followed.
Jiang Zhinian held Shi Ye's hand: "Shi Ye, she will be okay..."
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be a big problem." As long as her mother-in-law doesn't feed her brown sugar water anymore.
In fact, many of the older generation’s concepts about pregnancy are problematic, and some of them have not been proven, either because the sample base is too small, there is survivor bias, or they are products of a specific era.
For example, when you are pregnant, you should eat more and eat as much as you want. This was the theory when food was scarce in the past. At that time, no matter how much pregnant women ate, the food would be dry and there would be no problem.
But now, in the era of overnutrition, eating too much can easily cause problems. Therefore, medicine will begin to advise pregnant women to eat small meals frequently and eat in a refined manner. This is the principle.
After this farce, Jiang Zhinian soon heard her name on the call machine.
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