2. Weak life

The rain was still falling unhurriedly, and Grandma Tiedan'er put a rain cloth on her head, hugged Shiwa tightly, and said, "You see that it doesn't rain this autumn, but it will never end today." ”

Tie Dan'er smiled and responded.

About a bag of cigarettes arrived at the door of the midwife, Grandma Tie Dan'er sat in the car and did not move, Tie Dan'er took a pack of brown sugar and strode into the midwife's house.

Place the sugar on a fuchsia crate.

The sheep change family was having breakfast, a bowl of millet porridge and Huang Cancan's nest head, and Tie Dan'er remembered that he was also hungry when he saw the food.

Yang Chang saw Tie Dan'er Da hurriedly let him sit on the edge of the kang, took a nest head and handed it over, and said, "My wife is going to give birth, haven't you eaten yet?" Tie Dan'er took the head of the nest and gobbled it up while politely inviting Yang Chang's mother to go.

Yang Chang's mother sat on the edge of the kang, jumped off the ground without saying a word, put on a piece of clothing, and followed Tie Dan'er out.

The Mongolian Plateau is vast and sparsely populated, and there is only one midwife in ten villages and eight miles. The sheep changing mother is also on call, no matter day or night, no matter how windy or rainy.

Yang Chang's mother is not a doctor, but she is older, in her 60s. used to deliver cattle and sheep and other livestock, and later the local baby also came to her.

This person is bold and careful, most of them can be done, and when he encounters a difficult birth, he must protect the adult and sacrifice the child. She will dismember the child in ** and then clear the uterus with her hands and remove the placenta. In the Mongolian Plateau, where there is a shortage of medical treatment, many lives have been saved, although it cannot catch up with today's medical treatment, leaving such and such problems, but as long as they save their lives, it is also the greatest hope of people at that time.

She has her own unique means of dealing with some situations during childbirth.

At that time, if the child wants to give birth, he can just give birth, and without this, of course, there will be the next one. In poor and backward rural and pastoral areas, children are similar to lambs and calves, and many of them die young, but each family still has several children. At that time, there was no "family planning" policy. There is no good way to give birth control, the sun rises and the sun sets, and many children are created after the long night when there is nothing to do.

Therefore, everyone who gave birth to dolls in ten miles and eight villages invited her, and she was also relieved.

The sheep changed mother climbed into the donkey cart, and the iron egg grandmother moved to the wheel of the car and beckoned the sheep to change the mother: "You always run hard." ”

The sheep changed her mother and stretched out her head under the rain cloth to look at Shiwa and said: "This fat boy, it's okay? Look at the white and chubby! Enough milk, right? Look at your two big jars! This kid must have no shortage of food, blessed!"

Grandma Tie Dan'er looked up at Tie Dan'er embarrassedly and said, "Enough to eat." ”

The tenth baby was also delivered by a sheep changing mother, but the tenth baby was already the tenth child, so there were no accidents and stuck, and it fell to the ground in less than ten minutes and cried.

People say that it's better than the last trip to the thatched hut to.

Tie Dan'er turned around and beckoned to the sheep to change his mother: "You sit down." And he drove the donkey cart as fast as he could.

After a while, Zi Kung Fu returned to the gate of his house. Seeing the second baby squatting at the gate, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong with your sister-in-law?"

"It's raw!"

"Raw?" the three people in the car said the same sentence in unison.

Tie Dan'er didn't care to greet the midwife and grandmother and rushed to the door.

He saw Tie Dan'er's tired appearance, and saw Li Er's wife next door playing with a child who didn't seem to have much vitality.

Grandma Tiedaner put the ten babies on the kang to look at the newborn baby.

The sheep changed to the mother is a three-inch golden lotus, twisting and pinching the last to enter the door.

They all saw a small, dying child like a cat, all bruised and with a layer of white frost attached to his skin.

The sheep changed mother without saying a word, grabbed the child's two legs with her hands, lifted it up with her head down, and then used two fingers to pump the soles of the child's feet.

"Wow-" After five or six strokes from the sheep mother, the child finally broke out into a not very loud cry.

Next door, Li's second wife cast an admiring look at Yang Chang's mother: "I've been doing it for a long time, and I haven't cried." It's really time for you to come back! This child has a great life, and he must be blessed. ”

A smile of relief appeared on Tie Dan'er's tired face.

The sheep changed her mother and said: "This doll was born bruised, I am afraid that it will interfere with the door in the future, so I will call it Wufang." ”

Tie Dan'er nodded vigorously, "No way, no way." ”

The sheep changed mother and said: "This doll is not enough for a month, it may be difficult to raise, you also have to open some." ”

Tie Dan'er's mother burst into tears, and her heart was full of remorse and self-blame! It was her own recklessness that she had harmed this child, how much she liked this daughter! She was willing to work a hundredfold and a thousand times harder to feed this child--she secretly made up her mind.

Grandma Tiedan'er hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter, it's a good doll, it's okay." You close your eyes and rest for a while. ”

Tie Dan'er took the straw paper and brown sugar that the Erwa Gang brought back and put them on the pot table.

Tie Dan'er's grandmother picked up the warm pot and wanted to make a bowl of brown sugar water for Tie Dan'er's mother to drink, but there was no hot water in the warm pot.

When the second baby saw it, she hurriedly went back to the next door to get the boiling water that her wife had just boiled, and Tie Dan'er made a bowl of brown sugar water for Yang Chang's mother and Li's second wife.

So she simply sat down on the stove and lit a fire to boil water. Pulling the two bellows vigorously, the dry cow dung was whirring and blazing, and the water was boiling in a short time.

The sheep changed mother with a large basin to catch the boiling water, put a piece of new cloth in it, scalded it, and began to slowly clean the mother and child of Tiedan.

Tie Dan'er's mother was lying on a pile of grass and wood ashes, which were lined with straw paper, and a trace of blood soaked into the grass paper and seeped into the grass and wood ashes.

The child's eyes were closed, and there was not much breath, and it was placed next to Tie Dan'er's mother's head.

From time to time, Tiedan'er put her hand next to the child's nose to detect the child's breathing, and she was very worried that the child would be out of breath in the blink of an eye.

Tie Dan'er's grandmother was busy boiling another pot of millet porridge, adding brown sugar to Tie Dan'er's mother, and giving milk first.

The surface of the millet porridge is covered with a layer of something similar to cream, which is fragrant.

Yang Chang's mother also drank a bowl, but when she saw that there was only a pound of sugar, she refused to add sugar.

Grandma Tie Dan'er heated up a little leftover dough for Tie Dan'er to eat. I sat down on the kang and fed my newborn granddaughter.

A child the size of a kitten doesn't have any strength at all, not even the strength to hold **. Looking at the weak child, Grandma Tie Dan'er was worried.

Grandma Tiedaner gently stuffed ** into the child's small mouth, squeezed a little milk into her mouth, the child seemed to taste the sweetness, and actually began to suck.

Grandma Tiedan'er turned her head happily to look at her daughter: "Don't worry, she still knows how to suck milk, she must be easy to raise!"

It's a pity that the child is so weak that she only takes a few puffs and stops to rest for a while, but she always pouts and doesn't let go. Grandma Tiedan's heart blossomed with joy - this child must be able to live!

Look at the child's body: only the size of a man's shoes, ribs clearly visible, squirming up and down with her breathing. The arms and legs are not as thick as the thumbs of adults, although the bruises on the whole body are much better, but it looks so chilling, what a weak little life!

Occasionally her eyes ploughed open a small slit, and suddenly closed tightly, and she could not stand the sudden bright light. Although it was still cloudy, the brightness was many times stronger than when she was in her mother's womb.

Looking closely, the child's facial features are still marked, with a small nose and a small mouth

With her grandmother's ** in her mouth, she actually fell asleep, breathing evenly and calmly, and infinite pity and love rose in her grandmother's heart.

The ten babies on one side seemed to sleep very sweetly, and the voices of the group did not wake him up.

Grandma Tie Dan'er also drank a bowl of millet porridge to cushion the bottom.

The donkey cart has not been returned to the team, and the sheep change mother to see that the children and adults are safe, so they asked Tie Dan'er to send them home.

One by one, the others dispersed.

Grandma Tiedan'er took out a small piece of red cloth that had been prepared and tied it with a red rope and hung it on the right side of the top of the door frame. In this way, it is taboo to tell people that this is a "moon room".

Then Tie Dan'er's grandmother took out a few cotton balls to help her girl stuff her ears, and took out any masks, hats, gloves, etc. and prepared them.

Confinement is not sloppy at all! You must neither blow the wind nor get cold, let alone be frightened. You can't brush your teeth, wash your hair, take a shower, and you can only wipe your face with a soft, warm and humid towel. You can't go out during the confinement period, even if you are at home, you have to be fully armed: hats, gloves, earplugs, etc.