(73) Preference for sons
After coming out of the hospital, Zhang Yuling went home for confinement. The child remains in the incubator in the neonatal unit.
After Zhang Yuling gave birth, her physique was weak, and she was particularly prone to sweating, and she would sweat profusely after eating a meal and drinking a glass of water. What's even more difficult is that the wound is very painful, and if you turn around, it will involve the belly, like the tip of a needle dipped in salt on the meat, and it will be painful to the bone. Therefore, in the first half month of going home, she basically lay in bed, eating and drinking in bed.
The heavy responsibility of taking care of Zhang Yuling fell on my sister. Although my sister tried her best to take advantage of Zhang Yuling, my sister still made a lot of contributions. My sister cooks and boils soup all day long, washes clothes, buys vegetables, and cooks all kinds of soup to promote lactation for Zhang Yuling.
Zhang Yuling watched her sister's busy footsteps, and couldn't help but soften. Hey, after all, it's a family, and if there is any unpleasantness in the future, you can bear it.
The mother-in-law looked at the empty space and went to play mahjong. Playing mahjong is my mother-in-law's career. If she wins, her mother-in-law will be so happy that she will close her mouth: "Ah! This one is good! Good luck, won more than a hundred! If she loses, her mother-in-law will hold her face and don't speak. Therefore, according to her mother-in-law's face, Zhang Yuling can guess whether her mother-in-law is winning or losing.
Since the child was still in the incubator, Zhang Yuling had to use a breast pump to pump out the milk and then send it to the hospital.
Due to the wound in her abdomen, as soon as she sat up, she would have pain and pain, so Zhang Yuling could only lie down. All along, it was Zhao Pang and his aunt who were using a breast pump to help her pump milk.
On this day, Zhao Pang finished his paternity leave and went to work. My sister also went grocery shopping, and only her mother-in-law and Zhang Yuling were left at home. When it was time to milk the milk, Zhang Yuling was inconvenient to get up and express the milk by herself, because she had to clean the breast pump and couldn't touch the cold water during the confinement, so she had to ask her mother-in-law for help: "Mom, help me suck the milk, and when Zhao Pang comes back, I will send it to the hospital." ”
Who knew that the mother-in-law was silent as if she hadn't heard it, and was happily watching the square dance video on her phone.
Zhang Yuling didn't know if her mother-in-law was unhappy if she didn't say anything, so she shouted loudly: "Mom, come and help me milk the milk!" ”
The mother-in-law was still silent, Zhang Yuling was a little irritable, and felt that her mother-in-law was deliberately going against herself, and her voice became louder: "Mom, I'm going to milk!" ”
But even so, her mother-in-law still didn't seem to hear it, and Zhang Yuling thought hatefully: "If you don't squeeze me, I squeeze it myself!" So, Zhang Yuling didn't care about not being able to touch cold water during the month, so she went to wash the breast pump by herself.
Zhang Yuling put the milked milk on the table deliberately, making a "bang" sound, and her mother-in-law turned her head around at this time, as if nothing had happened, and said calmly: "Xiaoling, why did you milk yourself?" Tell you not to touch the cold water, if you don't listen, your fingers will hurt when you get old, if you don't obey, don't blame me when the time comes! ”
Zhang Yuling thought to herself: "I told you to milk and you didn't milk it yourself, but I said that I didn't pay attention to recuperation!" If you don't squeeze it, forget it, and hypocritically pretend to be good to me! Suddenly, I felt as disgusting as swallowing a fly, and I held it to my heart.
She was too lazy to argue with her mother-in-law, maybe she would be labeled with a big hat such as "disobedient" and "unfilial", so a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, turned her head and walked into the room, and closed the door heavily.
You'll never wake up someone who's pretending to be asleep. If a person doesn't want to be nice to you, you can't beg for it anyway. In the world, only sincerity cannot be forced. Knowing this, Zhang Yuling felt that she had seen it.
Once, because Zhang Yuling was not milked in time, her chest swelled and ached, and it became a big hard lump, and no matter how much she sucked it, she couldn't suck it out, so her mother-in-law said with the experience of someone who came over: "Use a hot towel to compress it, people used to be like this, and the hot towel can spread the hard lump." ”
Zhao Pang took the towel and applied it vigorously, and the hard lump did not move at all as if it was nailed to his chest, and Zhao Pang could only use the strength of feeding and rub it vigorously.
Zhang Yuling endured the pain and was still struggling to persevere, she felt at this time that giving birth to a child was far from being so simple, first pregnancy, then prenatal checkup, and then giving birth, and the road to feeding the baby and raising the baby with the baby had just begun. This level after level, like upgrading to fight monsters, it seems that the road to being a mother is full of difficulties and bumps, comparable to ninety-nine eighty-one difficult.
But until half past nine in the evening, the hard lump did not disappear, but became bigger and bigger, Zhang Yuling's entire upper body was rubbed red and swollen, and her chest was like a heavy iron tool hanging from it.
Zhang Yuling felt that something was wrong, so she asked Zhao Pang to take her to the hospital. There was no one on duty in the breast department of a hospital at night, so I had to go to another big hospital farther away, there were people in the breast department, and they hurriedly hung up the emergency department, and the doctor said that they needed to use ice cubes to cool the breast, and using a hot towel would only be counterproductive.
Zhang Yuling and Zhao Pang tossed until eleven o'clock in the evening before returning home. Zhao Pang has eaten since he got off work, and he began to draw hot water and twist a towel to warm the compress, and his hands were already sore, soft and weak.
Zhang Yuling is even more miserable, much more uncomfortable than constipation. I could only hold my chest, and I didn't even dare to breathe, my chest was swollen as if it was about to explode.
As soon as she got home, Zhang Yuling said to her mother-in-law with a cold face: "The doctor said that a cold compress is not a hot compress, and a hot compress will only backfire. ”
"No, we used to apply hot compresses", the mother-in-law said suspiciously, and defended herself, "What the doctor said may not be all right, each has its own way, I have a good heart anyway, I only said it when you see the discomfort of your milk pain, you don't believe it." ”
Zhang Yuling looked at Zhao Pang on the side, Zhao Pang's face was very bad, he was tired and didn't want to say a word, he had to go to work tomorrow. Forget it, the bad night caused conflicts again, so I had to go back to my room to rest.
It's finally time to be discharged from the hospital, Zhang Yuling and Zhao Pang are looking forward to this pink baby bump coming home, but they haven't hugged it yet.
Before the confinement was out, Zhang Yuling was inconvenient to go out, so Zhao Pang and his aunt went to the hospital. Zhang Yuling no longer has to be milked, which will save a lot of trouble. So he washed his body repeatedly with hot water, and fed the child cleanly, just like the sacrifice of the ancient emperor, and solemnly welcomed the child's home.
The child was brought back, and Zhang Yuling stretched out her hands to hold them in her arms, regardless of the pain in her abdomen. She was a new mother and didn't know how to hold her. The baby is very well-behaved and very small, not as chubby as in the pictures of babies I have seen. The baby is too thin, the skin is an undeveloped red, the little fingers are weak and boneless, and the calves are thin like bamboo poles. She inadvertently felt a heartache, and her maternal love was stimulated by the little meat ball in front of her, which was less than four catties.
The child's skin was a little yellow, the doctor said that there was jaundice, and he needed to bask in the sun and drink more hot water, and the mother-in-law held the child in the sun at the gate of the yard.
Zhang Yuling took the mixed hot water, ready to feed the child water to drink, Zhang Yuling just approached, and heard her mother-in-law chatting with Aunt Sun next door.
Aunt Sun said: "You are so blessed! I hugged my grandson at a young age, and I was happy to retire! Your Zhao family Tianding has been imported, you can't help but wake up laughing in your dreams! ”
The mother-in-law turned her back to Zhang Yuling and didn't see her, but said, "What blessing?!" Gave birth to a money-losing goods! Do you know? It cost 50,000 yuan to have a baby! Exactly fifty thousand! The mother-in-law stretched out a hand and spread her fingers, emphasizing that there were as many as 50,000.
Aunt Sun saw Zhang Yuling come out, and smiled awkwardly: "You can't say that, my daughter is also a treasure, and now I need a house to raise a boy, a car, and a bride price, and the pressure is too great!" - Oh, I still have something to do, so I'm going to get busy first. Aunt Sun ran away, she didn't want to participate in this mother-in-law's good show.
When Zhang Yuling heard her mother-in-law's words, her face turned green with anger, and she walked up to her mother-in-law.
When the mother-in-law saw it, she was startled, and hurriedly patted her chest: "Oh, are you a cat?" How to walk silently! ”
Zhang Yuling couldn't hold back any longer, stretched out her hand to take the child, and said sarcastically: "It's okay if you don't recognize this child, I can also let her not call you grandma in the future!" Don't forget, you yourself are a woman, you say she is a money-loser, but what about yourself? ”
When the mother-in-law heard this, her face turned red and white for a while, and she was so choked by Zhang Yuling's words that she couldn't speak, so she only opened her mouth and didn't say anything.
Zhang Yuling had already returned to the room with the child in her arms. As soon as I returned to the room, I closed the door, and I couldn't help wiping my tears - my mother-in-law didn't treat herself as a family at all, and blamed herself for spending too much money on hospitalization, is it my own wish this time?! I'm dying! The child is so pitiful, no one is distressed, born prematurely, and is disgusted by her mother-in-law! Zhang Yuling felt that her life was miserable when she thought about this. She is not a sentimental person, she has a strong personality and can tolerate the slander and blows of others, but she does not allow others to accuse her weak, innocent baby daughter, who is her weakness.
It's fine if you just say that "girls are money-losers", but the mother-in-law doesn't just say it verbally, but also does it.
Zhang Yuling was rubbing the child's diaper in the bathroom, and the child suddenly "Wow... Wow...", Zhang Yuling's hands were foamy, so she called out to her mother-in-law on the side: "Mom, help me hold the child!" ”
But the mother-in-law didn't move, still sitting on the sofa and eating melon seeds, staring at the TV.
Zhang Yuling was angry: "Mom! Hold the baby! ”
The mother-in-law still did not move, as if she was angry.
Zhao Pang couldn't watch it from the side, walked over to pick up the child, and also criticized the mother-in-law: "Mom, why don't you hug the child when you ask you to hold it!" ”
When the mother-in-law saw that her son was criticizing herself, she flattened her mouth and reluctantly took the child in Zhao Pang's hands.
Who is this his own granddaughter? It's like a stranger!
Since then, when Zhang Yuling sees other grandmothers loving her granddaughter, she always can't help but be jealous, why didn't my daughter have a good grandmother!
Author's Note:
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