Chapter XVIII
"Ah......h
The pain, the sharp pain of tearing, was like a high-speed spinning drill stirring and pounding in the stomach.
Another labor pain hit, although it was only a few minutes, it had already made Xiaoqi sweat profusely. She gasped for breath with her mouth wide open, sweat sticking her hair to her face, blurring her vision.
She couldn't remember how long she had been in the delivery bed, or how many labor pains she had experienced, all she knew was that they were getting more frequent and longer.
She breathed deeply, closed her eyes, and gathered strength to resist the next onslaught.
In a daze, she felt that someone was patting her arm.
"Don't sleep, hold on a little longer, you've opened seven fingers, and you're about to win." The doctor cheered her up.
She struggled to open her eyes, and the pain was so severe that she felt like she couldn't exert any more strength.
"Labor pains are a necessary process for giving birth, be stronger, women have gone through the pain of giving birth, and they are not afraid of any pain." The doctor smiled and cheered her up.
"Ah......h
Another burst of pain struck, and there was a rush of Venus jumping in front of him, and Xiao Qi clung to the edge of the bed on both sides, desperately resisting.
"Don't hold your breath, inhale, inhale, inhale big, okay, okay, that's all."
Inhale, inhale, inhale......
Like a wind-up machine, Xiaoqi mechanically inhaled.
Eventually, the pain was gone, and she collapsed on the delivery bed as if she had been stripped of her skeleton.
"Okay, it's all open, get ready, the child may come out at any time."
The doctors and midwives gathered around her nervously preparing, while she herself was limp and confused, forgetting where she was, her consciousness as if it had withdrawn from her body, drifting dazedly in the air.
Suddenly, her body was hit by the severe pain and screamed, it hurt, it hurt, it hurt endlessly, why don't you stop, stop it!
Her consciousness was wrapped in the whirlwind brought by the severe pain and spun rapidly in the air, spinning, spinning, and in the middle of it, she saw her mother calling anxiously in front of her, and she reached out to pull it, but it was too fast to reach it. A tall figure greeted her, quickly passing her, but did not even look back. Turning, kept turning, dizzy, couldn't open my eyes, a faint voice seemed to be calling: "Mom, Mom......"
Xiaoqi struggled to open her eyes to find it, the voice continued, and it got higher and higher, and she struggled desperately, using the last of her strength to rush in the direction where the sound came from.
"Wow, wow......"
"Alright, come out."
An excited voice rang in my ears.
"It's out, it's out......" Xiaoqi muttered weakly.
"Well, the child was born, it's a boy, don't worry, I'll show you in a while."
"Born, it's a boy, a boy."
Xiaoqi mechanically repeated the doctor's words.
Suddenly, her eyes widened and she turned her head from side to side like crazy.
"Child, child, what about my child?"
"Don't move, don't move, be careful of falling."
The doctor and the midwife didn't know what was going on and rushed over to hold her.
"What about my child?" She grabbed the doctor's arm and asked nervously.
"Don't worry, the child is fine, we'll take care of it and show you, don't worry, lie down and rest first, and I'll bring it to you right away."
The doctor and the midwife helped her to lie down on a bed, and when she saw a midwife dressing her newborn baby, her eyes were immediately sucked in, and she watched intently.
The doctor took the neatly dressed newborn, walked back to Xiaoqi with a smile on his face, and carefully placed the infant baby in her arms.
"Come, let mom see, mom is in a hurry. Look at us, cute isn't it cute. The big fat boy who is eight pounds and three taels has made your mother suffer a big sin. The doctor looked at Xiaoqi's slender body and chubby baby, and said with emotion.
Xiaoqi looked at the baby lying in the crook of his arm, and a huge sense of happiness instantly swept through his body. She looked at the doctor gratefully and said heartily, "Thank you!" ”
The doctor smiled heartily, this moment is the happiest moment for every mother, looking at the cute baby, no matter how big the sin is, it is worth it. She gently patted Xiaoqi on the shoulder, and turned to leave this happy moment to their mother and son.
Xiao Qi looked at the baby in his arms stupidly, his fingers trembling and caressing his soft fluffy hair and red face, and his heart hurt like a cone.
Almighty God, let time stop and let this moment be eternal!
It was as if ten thousand steel knives were cutting her heart, and the coming separation crushed her heart.
A year ago, in the face of her dying mother, she once begged God like this, as long as she could save her mother's life, she would be willing to let her go to the eighteenth layer of hell.
Why? Why is it that when it is time to fulfill the promise, the heart hurts so much, and the pain is a little numb?
Did God bring me into this world to torture me like this? The price of keeping the mother is that you have to give up your own son. Could it be that this is my fate, destined to be separated from flesh and bones, destined to cramp and rip bones, to tear a heart apart, to drip blood forever, and never to be restored.
She gazed greedily at this little face, her faint eyebrows seemed to be absent, her eyes were slightly closed into a slender slit, her pointed and straight little nose was closed one by one, and her ruddy little mouth was naughtily upturned, and she snorted a few times from time to time contentedly. A bean-sized drop of water "horn" dripped on the baby's red little face, she quickly reached out to wipe it, and it was a drop, two drops, three drops, she wiped it, how to wipe it can't be wiped out, she suddenly hugged the baby tightly in her arms, attached her face to the pink little face, kissed, kissed, and suddenly felt that she didn't want to let go of him.
"Son, my son, mom is sorry for you, sorry for you."
"Come, give me the baby first, and send the mother back to the ward to rest. Newborns need to be vaccinated and we'll send them back to the ward when everything is done. Come on, baby, let's be separated from mom for a while, we still have a lot of things to do. ”
The doctor reached out to take the baby from the mother's arms.
"Wait."
Xiaoqi suddenly shouted.
She held the child tightly with one hand, and with the other hand, she took off the necklace engraved with the letter "M" from her neck and hung it on the child's swaddling clothes with difficulty.
The doctor looked at Xiang Lian in surprise, but didn't say anything, and took the child from Xiaoqi's hands.
Xiaoqi watched blankly as her son gradually walked out of her sight.
Goodbye, son. Forget about me and live happily ever after. I will bless you forever somewhere in the world.