Chapter 931 Auntie is not a stepmother (6)
That night, a fierce quarrel was heard in Aunt Zhou's house. Cao Shichu, who lived more than ten households away, heard it. She thought that by now the whole Taohua Village probably knew that Liu Daquan had contracted a serious disease outside.
"If a man doesn't love himself, he's like a rotten vegetable leaf." Cao Shichu sighed as he lay leisurely on a hammock in his yard.
Cao Shichu treated almost all the women who had given birth in Taohua Village and became the most respected and loved person among the women in the village. Whenever he passed by someone's door, people would give him a handful of vegetables and one or two eggs.
"Madam Shi! Madam Shi! Come quickly, Daniu's wife is having a difficult delivery and has lost a lot of blood. She's about to die. Please go and check on her quickly..." Cao Shichu was processing the herbs he had picked in the yard when he heard anxious shouts coming from outside the door.
When Cao Shichu heard this, she quickly stood up. The lady outside the door had already run in. As soon as she saw her, she hurriedly repeated what she had said.
"I'll be there right away." Cao Shichu trotted into the house to get his medicine box, then followed the old lady to Daniu's house.
When they arrived at Daniu's house, an anxious middle-aged woman came up to him and pulled him inside, saying to him, "My sister-in-law has been giving birth for almost a day, but the baby is still not out. My mother refused to hire a midwife to save money. It was not until Daniu's wife was dying and I scolded her that she asked you to come and take a look at my sister-in-law..."
As soon as Cao Shichu entered the room, she smelled a strong smell of blood. She looked into the room and saw a woman with a bulging belly lying on the bed, motionless. She hurried over and found that her face was pale, she was sweating all over, and her eyes were out of focus. She quickly opened the medicine box, picked up the silver needle and quickly gave the woman a few injections. Only then did the woman regain some energy.
"Save...save the child..." The woman was extremely weak, but she still looked at Cao Shichu eagerly. Cao Shichu said to her calmly, "I will try my best, but you have to try too."
"Madam Shi, what should we do now? She is still bleeding..." the pregnant woman's mother-in-law asked Cao Shichu in panic.
Cao Shichu took a pill from the medicine box and stuffed it into the woman's mouth. He then began to give her acupuncture to stop the bleeding. After the bleeding finally stopped, he began to check her and the fetus' condition.
She pressed the woman's belly and found that the baby was in a transverse position. No wonder the baby could not be born. To make matters worse, the woman was too young, it was her first child, and the birth canal was narrow. Without external help, the two would basically die.
"The fetus is in the wrong position. I have to adjust it to the head position so that it can be delivered naturally." Cao Shichu said this, and then he pressed his hands on the woman's abdomen, looked at her and said, "It will be painful, just bear with it."
As soon as she finished speaking, she began to feel around for the fetus' head and feet with her hands, then held him down and began to slowly turn him to correct the fetus' body position.
The woman in labor screamed in pain, but because her previous struggles had exhausted her energy, she only moaned weakly a few times no matter how painful it was.
The mother-in-law and sister-in-law who were in labor nearby looked at Cao Shichu's actions, anxious and panicked. They wanted to help, but they didn't know how to help, so they could only stand by and worry.
"Mrs. Shi, is this okay?" Sister Daniu swallowed and asked.
"This is called external version, a technique midwives often use to change a fetal position that is not conducive to delivery into a fetal position that can deliver smoothly. Experienced midwives know how to do it. I used to help my mother-in-law and saw her do it." Cao Shichu answered while moving slowly.
Finally, she managed to correct the fetus' position and she was sweating.
"Okay, you can keep pushing this time." Cao Shichu said to the woman in labor. She smiled bitterly and said, "I, I don't have the strength..."
"Is there any sugar at home? Make her a bowl of sugar water." Cao Shichu said to Sister Danniu.
"Yes, yes!" Sister Da Niu went out to make sugar water without saying a word.
After drinking the sugar water, the woman finally regained some strength and began to push hard to give birth to the baby.
But she was in labor for too long and the birth canal was too small, so she couldn't be born. Her mother-in-law was so anxious that she asked, "Why can't you give birth? Didn't you say that the fetal position has been corrected?"
Cao Shichu ignored her and checked the mother's condition. Seeing that they couldn't delay any longer, he said to her, "Your birth canal is too small, the fetus is too big, and you have no strength. You don't know when you can give birth by yourself. If you delay too long, the baby may suffocate and die in the womb. If you want, I can use scissors to cut an opening in your birth canal, so that the delivery will be much smoother and faster. After the birth, I will sew up the wound for you. After the wound heals, your body will be no different from before. Are you willing to choose this method?"
"I, I do..." The woman in labor was tortured to the point of almost losing her life. At this moment, she only wanted to give birth to the baby to end this torture. She no longer had the mind to worry about her future life. As long as she could give birth to the baby right now, she would do anything.
Cao Shichu then took out a pair of surgical scissors from the medicine box. The woman's mother-in-law, who was standing nearby, naturally heard what Cao Shichu said. When she saw that she was going to use this method, she immediately objected: "No! How can you use scissors to cut... there! If you damage it, how can she give birth to a child for my son in the future?!"
"Mom! If I don't cut it now, how will my sister-in-law have a future?!" Fortunately, Daniu's sister was sensible. She immediately grabbed her mother and tried her best to persuade her.
Cao Shichu only cared about the mother's own wishes. If the mother agreed to this method, she would naturally do it. Therefore, he cut open the mother's birth canal very neatly. Blood immediately spurted out again. Cao Shichu wiped her with gauze, and then began to press her belly to assist her delivery.
Sure enough, the fetus soon slid out of the birth canal. The mother who was standing by immediately picked up the child excitedly and shouted, "My eldest grandson is finally out! It's really a big fat grandson..."
Then he went outside to announce the good news, leaving Da Niu sister to ask Cao Shichu awkwardly: "Madam Shi, what should I do now?"
"Boil some water and clean the body of the woman in labor." Cao Shichu ordered. She was now going to suture the woman's wound. Fortunately, the wound was not big and the opening was smooth, so she had sutured it in a short while.
The woman lost a lot of blood. Although Cao Shichu had stopped the bleeding temporarily, she didn't know if she would start bleeding again. Therefore, Cao Shichu had to stay and observe for half an hour to make sure that the woman would not bleed again before leaving.
Fortunately, the woman's luck was not that bad. Cao Shichu's medical skills were reliable and the bleeding did not occur again. The woman's family sent her home with many thanks.
(End of this chapter)
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