Chapter 334 - 0334: Joy of Having a Precious Son2_1
In the four months from after New Year to now, Feng Qingxue has greeted over a hundred new lives from a number of local childbirth groups with her own hands. She has also encountered various difficulties. There were those who had no heartbeat while still in the womb. There were those whose umbilical cords were wrapped around their necks and couldn’t be saved. Some were in abnormal positions, leading to difficult childbirth. Some had a great amount of bleeding that left her vexed each time.
Although the families of the infants and mothers had no complaints, knowing the risks of childbirth, Feng Qingxue still felt unbearable watching life slip away before her eyes. She felt upset about the state of the lack of doctors, shortage of medicine, and backwardness of medical knowledge.
However, everyone respected and admired her greatly because, since she started acting as a midwife, the death rates of mothers and infants have significantly decreased.
Out of nearly two hundred births she’s assisted with, aside from female infants killed by their elders after birth, only three mothers and six infants died in Feng Qingxue’s hands. The mothers died from massive bleeding that couldn’t be stopped. Feng Qingxue felt uneasy before their births and had suggested they go to the hospital instead, but they refused, so they had to bear the consequences.
To them, this was as miraculous as divine intervention. After all, when the traditional midwives delivered babies before, almost half of them died.
In addition, Feng Qingxue could also treat various injuries and illnesses, such as sprains and colds.
There were even some who, after many years of marriage without children, sought her help. After taking several traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions given by her, they got pregnant even before they finished the medicine, overjoying the whole family.
Because of these incidents, many children that Feng Qingxue personally delivered were named after her, such as Aifeng, Jingfeng, Aixue, Jingxue, Xiaoxue, Xiaoqing, and so on. Whether boys or girls, there were many with the same names.
Knowing that Feng Qingxue was about to give birth, families who were well-off started to send her eggs that they had saved up, some three to five for each family. It might not seem much from each family but with all families combined, it was a substantial number. Some even caught a hen to give. This was because they knew that the Lu family had raised a group of chicks in the spring, but they were too young to either eat or lay eggs.
Feng Qingxue told Guan Cheng and Lu Tianjun to remember this so they could return the favor in the future.