At 6:06 am on November 9, 1962, a little boy weighing 6.2 jin was born.
After the baby slipped out of the birth canal, Zhang Weifang felt a heart-wrenching pain, and then she fell asleep.
An hour later, Zhang Weifang woke up again. The pain in her lower body was still intense, and her whole body felt soft, sore, and weak.
The three-person ward was already full of people at this time, and the noisy noise woke up the very tired Zhang Weifang.
After she woke up, it took her a long time to remember that she was giving birth. Zhang Weifang looked around and found that her mother was holding the child.
"Mom." Zhang Weifang called softly.
Zhang Qiaona saw the girl wake up and quickly carried the child to the bedside:
"Oh, Weifang, you're awake. Look, it's a boy who looks a lot like you."
Zhang Weifang turned her head and glanced at her cradle son. His skin was rosy, his hair was long and black, and his profile looked very much like hers.
He was sleeping with his eyes closed, and a trace of red blood could be seen at the ends of his hair. The doctor probably just cleaned it up roughly because the weather was too cold and he didn't give the child a full bath.
Looking at her son, Zhang Weifang felt an indescribable softness in her heart. At this moment, she truly felt like a mother.
"Mom, put the child on my bed and you can take a rest."
Zhang Qiaona hadn't slept all night and was almost unable to bear it.
Li Hongru went to the cafeteria to buy food. Giving birth was tiring, so he bought some egg rice soup and two bowls of hot noodle soup.
Zhang Weifang was very tired, so she drank some rice soup and went to sleep. Zhang Qiao Na ate and went home to rest. Li Hongru stayed in the hospital alone to take care of his wife and children.
The ward was cold and noisy, and Zhang Weifang couldn't sleep well. The toilet was outside, so she had to go out if she wanted to use it.
Fortunately, Zhang Weifang brought the folding space in advance. She asked Li Hongru to pull the curtain beside the bed. She went to the toilet quickly, washed her face and brushed her teeth before she felt comfortable.
At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Weifang's mother-in-law and sister-in-law came to see her. They only knew that she had given birth when Aunt Wang told them the news.
Looking at her newborn grandson, Ma Shulan was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.
"Weifang, you've worked so hard. The child is well taken care of and plump."
Li Hongqin also praised the child and said that the child was good-looking.
People in that era did not have enough to eat, so the babies born were relatively small. 5 kilograms was considered very big. I didn’t expect this little guy to weigh more than 6 kilograms.
Moreover, the skin on her body and face was smooth, not wrinkled. Zhang Weifang thought it was because she ate well during pregnancy.
At this moment, the little guy on the bed suddenly opened his eyes. His big, bright black eyes were dazed for a moment, and then he started crying.
Hearing the child crying, Zhang Weifang was very anxious:
"Mom, is the child hungry?"
"Yes, do you have milk powder? Feed me first."
"Yes, I'll make the milk powder."
Li Hongru has practiced the movements of making milk powder at home several times, and now he can do it naturally without feeling unfamiliar at all.
He first sterilized the bottle with hot water before adding warm water into it. The warm water came from his own thermos at home and was the perfect temperature for making milk powder for his baby.
Not knowing how much milk powder to add for the first time, Li Hongru simply added two spoonfuls and mixed it with water, making it exactly 40 ml.
He put the bottle into his son's mouth, and the little guy tried twice and then started sucking it "gulp gulp".
Before long, the little guy had finished all 40 ml of milk powder.
Li Hongru asked with some doubt:
"Mom, is my son not full?"
"I'm full, I'm full. A newborn baby can't eat too much. Wait until the meconium is excreted before eating."
After Ma Shulan finished speaking, she held her grandson in her arms and patted his burp, while teaching her son:
"Third brother, remember, pat your child every time he finishes feeding."
After drinking the milk, the child continued to sleep, and Zhang Weifang also fell asleep in a daze.
Around noon, the pregnant woman in the next bed suddenly cried out:
"Mom, mom, my stomach hurts."
"Wait, I'll go find a doctor."
After a period of chaos, the pregnant woman next door was pushed into the delivery room and the ward became quiet again.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Qiaona came to the hospital with a thermos containing chicken soup she had made.
Zhang Weifang felt very hungry only when she smelled the chicken soup. She drank a bowl of soup and ate two chicken legs before she felt full.
During the morning, the little guy woke up twice and passed a lot of meconium before going back to sleep.
Ma Shulan and Li Hongqin have already gone back. There is a lot of work to do at home, and the in-laws are there, so Ma Shulan plans to come back to serve her daughter-in-law in ten days.
Zhang Weifang did not comment on this, but Li Hongru was a little unhappy. When his eldest and second sister-in-law were in confinement, his mother took care of them for a whole month, but why was his wife not available when it was his turn?
After Zhang Qiaona arrived, she asked Li Hongru to go back and rest and asked him to come back tomorrow morning to pick up Zhang Weifang from the hospital.
The hospital environment was too noisy. Zhang Weifang originally wanted to go back today, but the doctor asked her to observe for a while longer, so she could only stay there for one night.
There are no beds in the ward for the person accompanying the patient, so the person accompanying the patient can only sit and rest.
Zhang Weifang was afraid that her mother would be tired, so she asked Li Hongru to bring over the folding bed that had been prepared long ago, and also brought bedding, so that her mother wouldn't get frozen in such a cold weather.
Newborn babies have very good sleep quality and can sleep for 3-4 hours each time.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the woman in the next bed came back and gave birth to a son. After she came back, her mother-in-law and husband held the child tightly and no one took care of the woman in labor.
The child only remembered to look for the mother when she was hungry, but she had just given birth and had no milk. The mother-in-law of the mother-in-law was anxious.
"Oh, my eldest grandson is hungry. What should I do if your mother has no milk?"
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman with gray hair came directly to Zhang Weifang with the child in her arms.
"I saw you have some milk powder at home. Can you lend some to my eldest grandson?"
Before Zhang Weifang could say anything, Zhang Qiaona drove him away:
"What is this? Who doesn't prepare milk powder when giving birth? My child doesn't have enough to eat. Let's go."
Zhang Weifang stared at Zhang Qiao Na. It was the first time she saw her mother so powerful.
Zhang Qiaona turned around and instructed Zhang Weifang:
"Weifang, you need to be more thoughtful when you're away from home. We don't even know her, so how can we lend her milk powder? Besides, milk powder is so expensive, it's not even enough for my grandson."
"Mom, I understand."
In the end, the man in the next bed had to go to the cafeteria to buy some rice soup for their child.
Fortunately, the child is very sensible and will stop crying as long as he is full.
Zhang Weifang didn't sleep at all that night. She was worried that someone would steal her child at night and was so scared that she couldn't close her eyes.
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