Chapter 60
Su Yuming looked at Jiang Zhinian and smiled, "When you were born, I was still a resident doctor. I never thought I would have to take care of your child now."
She turned her head to look at Jiang Zhinian: "Have you done a pre-pregnancy check before?"
Jiang Zhinian was a little nervous: "No, I didn't have time... Will there be any problems?"
"Don't worry, it's not a big problem. Generally speaking, we recommend that married couples get a pre-pregnancy checkup before getting pregnant. However, it only screens for diseases that may affect the baby, such as syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, and toxoplasmosis."
Jiang Zhinian is a teacher. She had a hepatitis B test during her pre-employment physical examination. As for syphilis, HIV and the like, there is no need to worry.
She secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Doctor, what is Toxoplasma gondii?"
"Do you have any pets at home?"
Jiang Zhinian shook his head.
"Don't worry, there's usually a certain probability of this happening only in families with pets."
"There are stray cats in our school. I've fed them before. Will it have any impact?"
"It's okay. In fact, even for families with pets, the probability of infection with Toxoplasma gondii is very low. If you maintain daily hygiene, there won't be any major problems."
She asked Shi Ye a few more questions, then explained to him while writing the prescription: "You still need to do the thalassemia screening. There are a lot of tests today, and they will require a lot of blood draws. Please take care of yourself..."
"Doctor, doctor, help! My wife said her stomach hurts and something seems to be coming out."
Suddenly, the door of the room was thrown open, and a man came in, holding his pregnant wife. "My wife is 16 weeks pregnant. Doctor, please help me take a look. Thank you, thank you, emergency help."
Dr. Su quickly stood up, asked the man to help his wife onto the examination bed, and pulled the curtain again.
Jiang Zhinian stood up nervously, and Shi Ye put his arm around her shoulders: "It's okay, don't be nervous, let's go out and wait for a while."
Examination of pregnant women involves privacy, and as a doctor, he hopes to give patients a certain degree of respect.
Just as he was about to take Jiang Zhinian out, Doctor Su suddenly called out, "Shi Ye, help me get the nurse to push the transfer bed over. This patient has cervical insufficiency."
As soon as he heard the word "cervix", Shi Ye reacted. He asked Jiang Zhinian to sit here and wait for him, and he opened the door and went to the nurse's station.
"Doctor, what does cervical incompetence mean? Is there any danger? My wife..."
The man suddenly became incoherent, and the pregnant woman lying on the examination bed began to cry silently.
"Don't be nervous. It just means your cervix is a little shorter than the average pregnant woman's. As long as it's discovered in time, there's still a chance you can perform a cervical cerclage and save the baby."
When she heard that she had to undergo surgery, the pregnant woman cried even more sadly.
Su Yuming had no choice but to comfort her: "Don't cry, pregnant woman. Being emotional is not good for the baby. If you turn around, the contractions will be even stronger."
The pregnant woman stopped crying immediately after hearing this, and sobbed, covering her mouth: "Okay, doctor, I won't cry. Please save my child."
"Don't worry, we will all do our best."
The pregnant woman's husband also kept begging: "Doctor, it was really not easy for my wife to have this child. Please, you must keep the baby. I will do anything you ask me to do."
Jiang Zhinian stayed outside the curtain, gently touching her belly, and was about to cry when she heard it.
Shi Ye came back soon and the pregnant woman was pushed out of the clinic.
"I've already written the bill. You can go and pay the fee and then you can do the examination. I still have surgery to do, so I'll leave first."
Shi Ye nodded and left the clinic with Jiang Zhinian.
Along the way, Jiang Zhinian's eyes were red, like a little rabbit.
Shi Ye reached out to touch the tear marks on her face: "Why are you crying?"
Jiang Zhinian shook his head, a little embarrassed: "Shi Ye, why...why does that pregnant woman have a short cervix?"
Shi Ye looked at the tear marks on his fingers, rubbed them gently, and explained, "Don't be nervous. A short cervix is usually caused by congenital maldevelopment."
He tried to explain it to Jiang Zhinian in a simple and understandable way: "The uterus is like a small bag, and the cervix is the opening of the bag. As the pregnancy progresses and the baby grows, if the cervix is too short, the pre-term baby will fall out of the bag."
"Then, what should we do..." She heard Dr. Su talk about cerclage, but it was too abstract and she didn't understand.
"It's very simple. Just tie the bag with a piece of string. However, it will be very painful for the mother. It is best to stay in bed for the rest of the pregnancy."
Hearing that there was a solution, Jiang Zhinian breathed a sigh of relief: "I hope she can keep her child."
"It was very lucky that it was discovered in the hospital."
If it happened at home, by the time we got to the hospital, the chance for surgery would have been lost and the baby would have been miscarried.
Jiang Zhinian nodded, and suddenly thought of something: "Well, is this test on our checklist?"
"No, this is not checked during normal prenatal checkups."
After all, it is a low-probability event, especially for a pregnant woman like the one just mentioned, it is even rarer when it happens at only 16 weeks.
"It is usually done on pregnant women who have threatened miscarriage or a history of spontaneous abortion."
"Do I need to do this test?"
Shi Ye heard Jiang Zhinian's uneasiness, hugged her in his arms and comforted her, "Don't worry, you have to trust me."
Jiang Zhinian quickly said, "Of course I believe you."
"Then let's go get the necessary checks done first, and don't think too much about anything else."
Jiang Zhinian hummed softly, feeling that he seemed to be very sentimental recently.
Of course, it may also be because for the first time in her life, she realized so clearly that pregnancy and childbirth were not as simple and easy as she had imagined in the past.
Some people have a hard time getting pregnant, some people have complications during pregnancy, and some people lose their expected children for various reasons at various stages of pregnancy.
She couldn't help but reach out and touch her belly.
Shi Ye hugged her and quickly flipped through the checklist: "Let's draw blood today, and then come for an NT test at 12 weeks. I'll make an appointment for you in advance."
He took Jiang Zhinian to the blood drawing area, and it turned out that there were really a lot of people. Shi Ye looked around and wanted Jiang Zhinian to find a place to sit so as not to be squeezed.
Looking around, I found that most of the seats were occupied by fathers who came for the check-up.
One by one, they watched their wives queue up for blood tests while they sat in their seats playing games and even occupied the seats for pregnant women to rest.
I don't know what the meaning of this is.
Shi Ye took Jiang Zhinian to sit in the corridor.
"You sit here. I'll call you when we're almost there, and then you can come over."
Jiang Zhinian saw that the people queuing over there were all pregnant women, some of whom had very big bellies and were queuing on their own: "Why don't we join together? We can chat."
Shi Ye touched her head, bent down and moved closer, saying, "Sit down obediently."
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