Why it never ends

Chapter 890 Brave

Xu Ruyi had never gone through this process. Perhaps because of this reason, she felt that she was always in an inexplicable panic, and her whole heart was just hanging, hanging... unable to let go.

When a person was punching a stamp in front of the counter to pay money, she couldn't help but ask: "When did this procedure start? I remember that there was no such requirement when I was young?"

"I don't know where to go," the young man behind the window replied. "It seems that it was first implemented in the third district. It took a long time for it to spread to us."

Xu Ruyi frowned slightly, "Isn't it cruel to force pregnant women to listen to this before surgery?"

"Don't hit her if you think it's cruel," the young man glanced at her, "You're willing to hit such a big child, why are you afraid of watching?"

Xu Ruyi's face immediately burned up, but she could not refute, as if she was doing something unspeakable and bad, so she deserved to be humiliated and punished by others.

After a while, the man slapped the order on the marble table.

"Go over there and hand in the receipt."

Xu Ruyi didn't like the young man's contemptuous attitude very much, but she still subconsciously said thank you when taking the order. This blurted out thank you made her feel embarrassed and angry for a moment, but that moment had passed and she could pursue nothing further.

When Xu Ruyi came back, Ding Xueyang saw his mother's embarrassment at a glance.

She got up from her seat, "Did it go well?"

"It went well." Xu Ruyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "Come on, let's go upstairs."

……

In the quiet and dark small room, the doctor applied cold gel on Ding Xueyang's belly, and then used the probe wand of the B-ultrasound machine to continuously press different positions on Ding Xueyang's abdomen.

Neither Ding Xueyang nor Xu Ruyi spoke. From the moment the screen turned on, tears welled up in their eyes.

For the first time in his life, Ding Xueyang saw the appearance of the fetus before giving birth - a round head, a slightly curved spine, curled limbs... The fetus that was nearly thirty weeks old already had a complete body.

"Look," the doctor whispered, "the baby is eating his hand again."

The outline of the black and white figure on the screen was blurry. Only when Ding Xueyang recognized the child's hands and head did he suddenly turn away.

"Little guy, you're quite naughty," the doctor said with a smile, "You touch it and you hide it."

Ding Xueyang stared at the screen intently.

The "fetal heartbeat listening process" at the Maternal and Child Center is much more detailed than that at Huimin Hospital. The doctors here not only ask pregnant women to listen to the fetal heartbeat, but also display the child's development in detail.

Ding Xueyang couldn't stop crying. Whenever the picture on the screen changed, she could immediately feel the shaking in her belly.

Facing the screen, the doctor measured the child's head circumference, tibia... and showed the two people his healthy fingers and toes. Then, the doctor cut the picture to the chest to let them see the blood circulation path in the small heart.

The little heart is beating vigorously.

The doctor turned on a certain device, and the familiar heartbeat sounded again.

"A very healthy baby," the doctor also looked at the screen. "All indicators are well balanced and developing very well."

The 90-minute introduction and presentation lasted as long as a whole winter. When the doctor announced that everything was over, Ding Xueyang and Xu Ruyi felt like they were worlds apart.

After leaving the B-ultrasound room, the doctor took out a twenty-page confirmation letter and placed it in front of Ding Xueyang.

"Think about it again, okay," the doctor said. "When you think about it clearly, sign it and get an injection tomorrow morning, and then have an operation depending on the situation." After that, the doctor got up and left.

The office became extremely quiet.

Ding Xueyang put his hand on his stomach again.

From the moment she started crying, the fetal movements became frequent.

After a while, she took her right hand away from her abdomen and tremblingly wrote her name in the lower right corner of each confirmation sheet.

Throughout the process, her left hand was tightly held with her mother's.

……

That night, Ding Xueyang was sent to the waiting ward.

There was already a woman lying in the room. She had just completed the induction of labor and was resting at the moment. Beside her, her mother was peeling an apple slowly.

Seeing Ding Xueyang come in, several people greeted him silently, and everyone's eyes showed traces of crying.

Xu Ruyi helped her daughter make the bed and helped Ding Xueyang lie down.

After a while, the husband of the woman in the next bed came back. He whispered to the woman and told her that the doctor had seen and discussed it. The placenta and umbilical cord were all good, but the fetus had stopped for some reason and no reason could be found. .

The woman half-opened her eyes, tightened her mouth, and asked the man, "Have you brought some clothes for the child?" The man said that he took it with him and wore one piece. There were several others lying nearby so that the child could change them.

The woman began to cry again, and her mother helped her wipe away her tears. The woman began to talk about the baby she saw right after the operation. It was white and clean, exactly like the baby she had imagined. The mother said yes. She also said hello to the children in her heart today, asking the children to remember their mother and come back to their home in two years.

The man pulled up a chair and sat down, choking and saying, "Don't talk anymore. What's the use of talking about it now? It's sad to talk about it anymore."

After a moment of silence, the mother on the bed looked at Xu Ruyi and asked if they had prepared anything for the operation.

Xu Ruyi picked up the list the nurse gave her not long ago and said that she was going to the hospital supermarket to do shopping. After the two sides chatted for a while, Xu Ruyi learned that there were many pregnant women coming for induction surgery in the past few days. One child had hemivertebrae, one had enlarged ventricles, hydrocephalus, and one had cleft lip and palate. The family hesitated. After more than two weeks, I finally decided to "get rid of" the child.

"Why did your family take the baby?" the mother over there asked, "What's wrong with the baby?"

Xu Ruyi's throat was tight and she couldn't speak.

At night, another patient who was ready for induction of labor was sent. It had been a full day since she got the injection, but the baby in her belly was still moving. The mother held her belly and shed tears all the time.

Xu Ruyi immediately ran to the nurse station and asked if there were any wards available today. The nurse checked the records and said that there happened to be a ward that had just been vacated tonight.

Not long after, Xu Ruyi asked for help and took Ding Xueyang to another ward to rest.

In the quiet room, Xu Ruyi turned off the light and sat next to her daughter, patting her back gently like she did when she was a child. Neither of them spoke, and they remained silent for a long time.

This night, none of them could sleep. I don't know how long it took, but Ding Xueyang stretched out his hand towards Xu Ruyi. Xu Ruyi quickly caught it, holding his two hands tightly together in the darkness.

"Mom, do you think I'm particularly cruel?"

Xu Ruyi shook her head gently, "...Mom thinks you are very brave."