Chapter 261 Giving Birth to a Child in the Countryside 1

Who is Xiuying? She is Jin Cuihua's sister-in-law, and her full name is Niu Xiuying.

Jin Cuihua's husband is the eldest, Xiuying's husband is the fifth, and they have the best relationship among the three sisters-in-law. As soon as she heard that Xiuying was about to give birth, she was the first to run to Feng Qingxue.

There was only one midwife in their production team. Although she was very skilled, the mortality rate of midwifery was extremely high.

Even so, everyone still looked for her, because there were too few people doing this job, and it was a job for the untouchables in the old days.

Now the midwife is old, and her midwifery is not very stable. Sometimes she can't be found. Many women give birth at home. If there are older female elders in the family, they rely on their own experience in childbirth to deliver babies for the younger generation.

Life or death depends on God's will.

This is Niu Xiuying's third child. The first child, a girl, survived, and the second child, a son, did not survive. In total, they lived for less than ten days.

Feng Qingxue hurried over with Jin Cuihua, and as they walked, she asked Lu Tianjun to run home and bring over a medicine box with a red cross on it and two thermoses filled with hot water from home that she had put in her closet.

The medicine box was given to her by Doctor Guo before she left the military hospital.

Since she was devoted to studying medicine, she couldn't be without a profession, so Doctor Guo and several nurses who had taught her in the hospital pieced together a set of medicine and put it in the medicine box.

"And our new toilet, bring it too!"

Guan Cheng stood up suddenly, "Tianjun and I will go together!"

The two had long legs and fast feet. Not long after Feng Qingxue arrived in front of Niu Xiuying, the two children came quickly with the medicine box on their backs, the thermos and the toilet in their hands, panting and sweating.

Niu Xiuying was lying on the ground, crying out in pain, with a layer of corn stalks under her. The strong laborers of the production team avoided her from a distance, and only a few middle-aged and elderly women surrounded her and cheered her up.

Such crude conditions for delivery made Feng Qingxue sigh, it was too unhygienic.

It was too late to tell them to pay attention to hygiene now. Feng Qingxue rolled up her sleeves and walked forward. On the way, she had heard Jin Cuihua talk about Niu Xiuying's situation. Now her main task was to check the fetal position, open the medicine box, use the simple stethoscope of this era to listen to the fetal heartbeat, and disinfect the scissors and towels. She was very busy.

The scissors were disinfected with alcohol.

The bottle contained alcohol, which was prepared by her own space, and it was claimed to be white wine.

The clean towel that had been boiled in boiling water before was soaked in hot water poured into the toilet. Feng Qingxue also washed her hands and asked the woman who was helping to pour out the dirty water in the bucket, and then pour some hot water in to cool it down.

There was no way, the conditions were so crude, she could only do this.

Niu Xiuying had experience in delivery. After about an hour, the birth canal was opened ten fingers. Without suspense, she successfully gave birth to a child, and it was still a boy, which made her mother-in-law who was watching in front of her very happy.

The birth process is very important, and postpartum care is also very important.

Feng Qingxue didn't mind the dirtiness, and carefully cut the umbilical cord of the child, poured hot water into the toilet and mixed it with cold water to make warm water, washed it clean, and wrapped it with old clothes that Jin Cuihua asked her son to run home to bring. After Niu Xiuying expelled the placenta, she found that everything was normal and there was no sign of bleeding. She said to Niu Xiuying, who was lying on the haystack panting, "Take good care of yourself at home, and go back to work after the confinement. Don't take yourself lightly." She also told her and Jin Cuihua some knowledge of postpartum hygiene.

"Thank you, big sister!" Niu Xiuying looked at her newborn son with her head tilted, very happy.