Chapter 145 Wu Ning's Letter
I thought it was just confinement after childbirth, nothing difficult.
After reading Mrs. Liu's oral account and the letter written by Liu Dongfang, I realized that I had been overthinking it.
Liu Dongfang only finished elementary school and his cultural level was average, so there were quite a few spelling mistakes in this letter, and some places even mixed in pinyin.
Xinyi first asked about her physical condition, and then asked if everything for the child was ready.
Seeing that the two words "㱕" in the urine-catching cloth were crossed out and changed to "布", Liu Qingqing could probably imagine the words dictated by the old lady, which stumped her eldest brother.
After checking them one by one, I found that she had prepared small clothes and swaddling blankets. She didn't have diapers, but she had diaper pants.
After thinking about it, I decided to cut some out. Other families use diapers at night and cloth diapers during the day, so her family has to adjust them.
The child wears diapers during the day and his father changes his diaper when he comes back.
Seeing that she needed to prepare some menstrual belts for herself, she was a little confused.
The word "㱕" in this paragraph was rather unclear and the characters were a bit crooked. Liu Qingqing thought that it was probably because her elder brother was embarrassed to write it.
She didn't know much about the situation after giving birth, so she would ask Chen Ruyan in a few days.
I looked at my space and saw that there were not many sanitary napkins left.
Well, I have to draw some later.
I've been saving money these past few months and had forgotten about it.
The more I read on, the more melancholy I became, as it was all about what to eat and drink during the confinement period, and how to take care of the child.
I didn’t expect there would be so many troubles…
Liu Qingqing closed the letter and breathed a sigh of relief.
I've thought about confinement before, but I probably haven't experienced the pain of reality.
She originally thought that in addition to three meals a day, she would also do some washing and cleaning.
There doesn't seem to be anything to do.
Song Jinglin can easily handle this job when he comes back in the evening.
She herself just hugged the child.
Although she couldn't let Song Jinglin take a full day off to take care of her, she could go home at noon and in the evening, so she took it for granted that this would be enough.
After listening to the old lady's detailed explanation, she felt that the old lady was a very wise person.
I smiled and read the last sentence several times: "Don't worry about what's said above. Mother will help you. You just need to take care of your body. After the confinement period, mother will definitely be able to teach Xiao Song well. Mother is definitely more reliable than old Song. It's better than her not chasing me away."
She chuckled softly, and she had no plans to ask Song's mother to come over. The two of them didn't interact with each other often in Wuning. Would calling her over just to help her with the confinement or to cause trouble?
It would be a great blessing if her mother was willing to leave her home and career to come here.
I immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote a reply.
She was worried about the old lady coming alone, so she asked Liu Dongfang to ask Xu Fangqing to get the train ticket.
It would be safer to take a sleeper.
Then, when she got on the car, she called the army and asked Song Jinglin to answer the call.
He wrote another letter to Fu Meili and put the money in the bag along with the letter.
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There was nothing to clean up at home or outside, so Liu Qingqing would go out for a walk after having breakfast with Song Jinglin in the morning.
Getting familiar with the terrain is also a form of exercise.
The due date is getting closer and closer, and it would be a lie to say I'm not nervous.
A while ago, she brought a small bag of dried mushrooms to Chen Ruyan for a physical examination.
I also asked about the postpartum situation.
Only then did I know about the concept of lochia.
It’s hard to put it into words…
She had never seen such topics, and her relatives and sisters had never talked about them with her.
Chen Ruyan took the "hometown specialties" from Liu Qingqing and gave her some instructions.
This includes improving your sitting posture and exercising appropriately during this period to ensure that children do not suffer during childbirth.
She had also heard that if a woman didn't move much in the months before birth, she might not be able to give birth.
Liu Qingqing walked slowly along the bungalows in the staff quarters. She passed the newly built small building and unexpectedly found another world behind it. There were two rows of gray four-story buildings behind it.
The environment is worse than the new building in front.
At that time, the building was really not suitable for living. It was crowded, messy, and had no privacy.
When the weather was hot a while ago, the doors of the rooms in the new building were basically not closed. At most, they would hang half a curtain to block the heat.
Not to mention these old buildings.
It’s not as comfortable as their little yard.
However, buildings were a new thing after all. In the next ten or ten years, most people were striving to buy buildings. However, thirty or forty years later, everyone began to yearn for small courtyards with their own doors and windows.
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