"Aunt Qin, I'm sorry for keeping this secret from you for so long. I couldn't help it. I was afraid you wouldn't rent me a house."
Aunt Qin shook her head and sighed: "Oh, I'm so troublesome. I still want to introduce you to my nephew."
"ah?"
"My eldest nephew works in Shenzhen. He is doing well at work, but he has not yet started a family at the age of 35. I talked to him on the phone a few days ago, and he said he would come back and visit some time. Alas, I am really busy.
, and I won’t ask you what you mean in advance.”
Qiao Xinwei looked at her aunt awkwardly, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Aunt Qin took her hand and asked her to sit down and said, "You should have told me earlier so that I could help you??"
Qiao Xinwei looked at her aunt in surprise, her heart was moved and filled with warmth.
"Xinwei, I usually see you alone, and no one comes to your place. You live alone with a big belly, and your family doesn't know about it? Where is your husband?"
No one had asked about her husband for a long time, and now that she was suddenly asked about it, her heart still ached with pain.
"What about your mother's family?"
Seeing her lowering her head in embarrassment, Aunt Qin couldn't bear to continue asking, "You must have some difficulties. If you don't want to talk about it, just don't. Let me ask you, do you plan to give birth to the child here alone?"
Qiao Xinwei nodded.
"Oh, then you really think of giving birth too easily. After giving birth, you have to confine yourself and take care of the child. You definitely can't do it alone. Besides, when a woman gives birth to a child, she just goes to the hell gate. Don't be afraid.
Ten thousand means just in case, you'd better inform your family, even your friends."
Qiao Xinwei still lowered her head and said nothing. If someone could tell her, she would not hide here incognito. She didn't want Jing Shang and Yang Jiajia to have conflicts because of her, and she didn't want her mother to be in such an embarrassment in the Jing family because of her.
Her friends Arnold and Xiaozhi, she didn't want to take the risk in case Jiang Hao was recruited.
"You kid, why are you so stubborn?" Aunt Qin said worriedly, "I have never seen any woman as pregnant as you. Every day, your belly is getting bigger, and you will be even more awkward.
It’s convenient, it will be difficult for you to go to the hospital alone.”
Qiao Xinwei had no choice but to say: "I have thought about all this. It is also close to the hospital. If you want to give birth, you can go there in time. I will hire a nanny during the confinement period, and I will take care of it myself after the confinement period."
"When is the due date?"
"End of October."
Aunt Qin was silent for a while and said: "How about this, my child, you can come to my place for dinner after work, and I will cook you something nutritious. Look at you, you are still so thin after this month, how can you
It works. If you don’t think about yourself, you have to think about your children.”
Qiao Xinwei lowered her head, tears welling up in her eyes.
"I can introduce you to a good confinement nanny. She also took care of my daughter-in-law when she was in confinement. She is very good. She is in our community. I will talk to her tomorrow and let her tell her about October and November.
All empty."
"Thank you, Aunt Qin, thank you??" I thought that Aunt Qin would not rent a house to her if she knew she was pregnant, but she didn't expect that Aunt Qin not only did not do this, but also helped so much. She was really ashamed.
"Well, I don't know what you have experienced before. If you don't want to talk about it, don't talk about it. You can live here peacefully. If you need anything, just call me. I'll be right across the street."
Qiao Xinwei nodded, tears streaming down her face, "Thank you, thank you." She really didn't know what to say. There were still many good people in this world.
In the hot summer, the electricity supply is tight, and the old community often suffers from power outages, which makes it even more difficult for her to sleep well. When she can't sleep, the most common thing she does is to lie half on the bed, put her hands gently on her stomach,
Quietly waiting for the baby's response.
She had a big belly in the third trimester of pregnancy, which made her back and back sore. She was sore when sitting and lying down. Sometimes she tossed and turned all night and couldn't fall asleep. Sometimes she was lucky enough to fall asleep early, but woke up in the middle of the night.
Then I can only keep my eyes open until dawn.
In the dead of night, she would cry silently, maybe because the time was not long enough. Thinking of her mother and Jiang Hao still made her heartache.
However, these long ten months of suffering were nothing. Giving birth was a painful process that frightened her.
The amniotic fluid broke in the middle of the night, and water-like liquid flowed out from below. She couldn't stop it, and her legs were shaking with fear.
Aunt Qin has been paying more attention to the movement at the opposite door these days. As soon as she heard Xinwei's cry for help, she rushed over.
Hospital, obstetric emergency room, the doctor asked: "Where is your maternal health booklet?"
"No."
"Aren't you going to do prenatal check-ups?"
"No."
"What about your birth certificate?"
"No."
"Where is your husband, and where are your family members?"
"No."
The doctor was dumbfounded. This woman was too courageous. "Your situation does not meet the acceptance conditions of our hospital."
Qiao Xinwei thought she could bear it, but the increasingly severe labor pains were really unbearable. She held the doctor's hand and said, "Doctor, I am responsible for all the consequences. I can bear it."
Aunt Qin was also worried, "Doctor Zhang, she is renting at my place. It's not easy for her to have a baby. She is alone until now. You see, her amniotic fluid has broken. If your hospital doesn't accept her, then why don't you just
Tell her to die?"
Qiao Xinwei could no longer bear the pain. She cried and begged: "Doctor, please, please save my child??"
The doctor took a look and found that the amniotic fluid was almost drained and the cervix was dilated. If she didn't deliver the baby, something might really happen. She said, "Mother, listen carefully. I will send you to the delivery room now, but your amniotic fluid is no longer there."
If it’s too much, we don’t know what the fetal position is. If the vaginal delivery doesn’t happen within half an hour, we can only have a caesarean section. Do you agree?”
"Agree, agree." Now she agreed no matter what the doctor said, it was too painful.
Soon, she was pushed into the delivery room. There were other mothers in the delivery room who were crying in pain. Their families were guarding the door. Their babies had the expectation and love of the whole family before they were born.
The midwife was busy all the time, and when she was strapped on the fetal heart monitor, she heard the baby's fetal heart for the first time with her own ears. It made a sound like a small train, beating strongly and violently.
At that moment, she felt that she was an extremely unfit mother and very selfish.
Baby, you must be safe and sound, and your mother will give you all her love.
"The cervix is fully dilated, the fetal position is normal, and the biparietal neck is 9.0. It meets the conditions for natural delivery."
Qiao Xinwei vaguely heard the doctors talking. The midwife came over and patted her face and said, "Mother, please be more awake. When labor pains come, give birth as hard as you can. Over time, the baby will be deprived of oxygen and it will be dangerous. Do you understand?"
Qiao Xinwei nodded, there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as the child could be born safely and smoothly, there was nothing to be afraid of, and the pain would not kill him.
After a period of earth-shattering pain, she suddenly felt an emptiness in her stomach and the baby slipped out. At that moment, she suddenly felt comfortable and the pain was gone.
The midwife put the baby on her belly. She raised her head and looked at the baby. She thought it was incredible that the small, slimy, wrinkled puppy-like thing was actually her baby.
The child didn't cry. She was scared to death. Why didn't the child cry?
The midwife used a tool to suck the child's mouth. Suddenly, loud cries rang in her ears, and she could feel the fleshy thing on her belly kicking and moving around.
When the child cries, she cries too.
The doctor came over and picked up the child and asked her: "Look for yourself, is it a boy or a girl?"
Qiao Xinwei wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. What she saw was not the child's face, but the child's underside. She weakly said: "Boy."
There was a small bed next to the delivery bed. The doctor took the child to the small bed and did some cleaning, just ten centimeters away from her. She looked sideways at the child, who had round eyes open and did not blink.
He seemed to be looking at her too.
"Thank you, thank you??"
The sky outside the window is getting brighter, and the sky in the east is white, and a new day has begun again.
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Jiang Hao, who was lying on the bed, suddenly sat up from the bed. He looked around and saw that the room was empty and there was nothing going on.
He had a sweet dream, dreaming that he was holding a little baby in the park and basking in the sun. Then Qiao Xinwei came over and picked up the baby and said that he wanted to go home to feed the baby. He said yes. Then the scene changed, and the little baby grew up.
While running, he said, "Daddy, come after me, daddy, come after me."
As soon as he ran away, he woke up, but the childish voice echoed in his ears for a long time. He wanted to continue sleeping and dream about that dream, but he had no sleep at all.
He took his cell phone from the bedside table and kept the last photo Qiao Xinwei sent him. If the child had not been aborted, he might have become a father by this time.
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Under the care of her confinement sister-in-law and Aunt Qin, Qiao Xinwei did a good job in confinement. The baby was white and fat. Compared with the wrinkled little old man when he was born, he is much cuter now.
The baby was born at the break of dawn, and Qiao Xinwei named him Qiao Zaixi, following her surname. Zaixi was quite well-behaved, and would sleep well after eating and drinking enough. He also grew up quickly, and he looked the same every day.
Aunt Qin also likes Zai Xi very much and often comes to hold her child.
When you have a child, time seems to fly very fast. In the blink of an eye, winter is here again. When the wind blows, the fallen leaves on the ground in the courtyard of the community make a rustling sound.
Qiao Xinwei took out her cell phone, found her grandmother's phone number and dialed it.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is unavailable."
Empty number? She was surprised. She remembered correctly. This was her grandmother's number. I had called it before. She called it again, but it was still the same, "I'm sorry, the number you dialed is unavailable."
Qiao Xinwei felt a little panicked. She didn't have her uncle's number. Since her mother remarried, she had rarely contacted people on her parents' side. She didn't have the numbers of her relatives on her grandmother's side, not even a single one.
Why is grandma's mobile phone number empty?! Maybe the phone was stolen, or maybe grandma didn't continue to pay bills when she couldn't use the phone.
At this moment, she could only make unreasonable guesses.