Chapter 328 Becoming a Father at the First Time 3

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This uplifting sound and loud cry, like the sound of heaven, is the most beautiful music in the world in the spring.

This cry ended Xu Dan's painful torture in the delivery room; this cry made the relatives who were anxiously waiting outside the delivery room laugh; this cry broke the quiet of the summer morning on the streets of Hushan Town; this cry ushered in a new rising sun from the east!

This cry announced the croaking of a little life, this cry marked the beginning of a small life, and this cry also opened the prelude to a new life as a father in spring.

Spring stood outside the delivery room for dozens of seconds, standing aside with a smile on her face, Xu Huo pulled Spring's arm, holding some cotton blankets and cotton diapers for newborns in her hands. Spring who came back to his senses smiled, pushed the door and entered the delivery room, and Xu Huo followed in.

In the delivery room, the newborn has been cleaned and the doctor is weighing and measuring the baby's length. On the delivery bed, the weak and powerless Xu Dan lay there tiredly, with a happy smile on his pale and sweaty face, and his soft eyes full of maternal love stayed on the little life that had just landed.

Spring ran to the side of the delivery bed in a few steps, peeled off a piece of chocolate, and handed it to Xu Dan's mouth, Xu Dan smiled softly, opened his mouth and took the sweet chocolate into his mouth.

On the other side of the crib, the doctor, nurse and Xu Huo were busy wrapping the baby with a blanket that was wiping his body, and Spring came over with a smile.

"Congratulations, it's a son!" the female doctor smiled and teased Spring, "This time it's beautiful, isn't it? The birth time is seven o'clock in the morning, which is a very auspicious hour, hehe." ”

Spring thanked the doctors and nurses and set her eyes on the little life lying on the crib.

At this moment, the newborn child had stopped crying and was lying quietly on his back in the crib. His lower body and abdomen were wrapped in a blanket, his limbs were exposed outside the blanket, his hands and feet were curled up as if he was very afraid, his small hands were clenched tightly, his thick black hair was wet on his black scalp, his eyes were closed, his eyelids seemed to be a little puffy, his nose was flattened, he looked a little funny, his face was blue, the skin on his body was immature red and bloody, and the skin was densely covered with cyan veins, and in spring he could even see the front fontanelle beating with the pulse above his heavenly spirit cover. In short, the newborn child in front of him can only be described in two words, that is, "black and ugly". However, Spring still saw his own appearance as a child in him, and in Spring's impression, he had a photo of himself when he was a child and was almost exactly the same as the child in front of him. This fragile baby lying in the crib is also a constant reminder of spring, from today on, from this moment on, he must take on the responsibility of being a father.

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Xu Dan's second sister and the little nurse helped Xu Dan clean up after giving birth, and followed the doctor to the office in the spring to handle the procedures for the birth of the child.

The procedure is actually very simple, that is, to pay the fee and handle the birth certificate, the fee is paid 400 yuan, the birth certificate needs to be filled in the child's name, the spring has just thought of a "spring" name, which not only describes the beautiful and lovely meaning of the newborn, but also symbolizes that the life of the newborn is as full of vitality and hope as the rising sun, and at the same time implicitly coincides with the time point of the child's birth. The female doctor who delivered the baby was very satisfied with the name given to the child in the spring, and praised the spring so well that the spring was a little embarrassed. In ten minutes, the doctor completed all these procedures, and after repeatedly thanking the doctor, he withdrew from the doctor's office.

In the spring, Xu Huo had already gone to the street to make a public phone and ask the driver of the factory to drive the car to the town health center. So, a few people cleaned up, Xu Huo held the child, supported Xu Dan in the spring, and the driver took the luggage, left the health center, and set foot on the road back to Shimengouzi Village.

According to the customs of the Toyama area, after the birth of a child, the daughter-in-law has to let the mother-in-law serve the confinement at the mother-in-law's house, also known as "confinement".

In fact, the custom of "confinement" can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty's "Internal Rules of Rites", called "Yuenei", which has a history of more than 2,000 years and is a ritual and behavior that women must do after giving birth.

Modern medicine believes that the reproductive system, endocrine system, digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system, urinary system, nervous system and other major changes have taken place in postpartum women, and all systems need to be adjusted and restored. Therefore, from the perspective of sociology and medicine, "confinement" is a critical period to help mothers smoothly pass through the physical and psychological transitions of life.

Moreover, according to the customs of the Hushan area, there are still many particularities in "confinement", such as: Pregnant women are not allowed to get out of bed for three days, are not allowed to go out of the house for less than a month, and are not allowed to go out on the streets, and are only allowed to eat, drink, and Lazar indoors; during the confinement period, it is forbidden for pregnant women to talk too much, for fear of becoming tongue disease; it is forbidden for pregnant women to work for fear of becoming ill from labor if they work too much; it is forbidden for pregnant women to wash their hands with cold water for fear of damaging their joints; at the same time, it is forbidden for the birth to enter the mother's room, and the birth is afraid of "stepping on the birth" when entering the room In the maternity room, even the members of the family are generally not allowed to enter, only the mother, mother-in-law, husband and other people who take care of the mother are allowed to enter, and even the father and father-in-law of the mother are not allowed to see each other until the mother is full-term, and so on.

I didn't understand these in the spring, and I didn't have time to serve Xu Dan for "confinement", so I could only send Xu Dan back to my hometown Shimengouzi Village.

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From the town health center to Shimengouzi Village more than ten miles of mountain road, the driver walked for nearly half an hour, although the mountain road is uneven, but the driver drove carefully, sitting in the car did not feel the bumps at all. The driver was afraid that the car would bump badly and hurt Xu Dan's body that he had just given birth, and he was also afraid of frightening the newborn child.

The car stopped steadily at the door of Spring's house, Xu Dan's second sister got out of the car first with the child, and Spring supported Xu Dan in the back.

"Uncle, aunt, I'm here to send you a baby grandson..." As soon as Xu Huo stepped into the courtyard gate, he shouted to Chun Shuli and Zhang Xiuli, who were having breakfast in the hall.

Chun Shuli and his wife, who were having breakfast, hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks and greeted them out of the hall.

Zhang Xiuli stretched out her hand and hugged the child from Xu Huo's hand, smiling happily; facing the baby grandson who fell from the sky, Chun Shuli cried with joy, and kept lifting the corners of his clothes to wipe the moist corners of his eyes.

After settling Xu Dan and the child, Xu Huo and the driver said goodbye, and in the spring, because the work of the school had not been arranged, and he had not had time to ask the principal Zhao Zhiqiang for leave, so he also followed the car back to Hushan Middle School. I agreed with Xu Dan when I left in the spring that I would rush home to take care of Xu Dan before lunch.