Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 118

Qin Rou’s belly was getting bigger. She couldn’t see her toes when she looked down, and life was getting more troublesome. She had taken a complete vacation and didn’t go to work. She did some simple exercises in the yard every day.

After a few months of pregnancy, her relationship with Lu Yan had gotten better. It seemed that they had become the kind of couple who didn’t care much about keeping face in front of each other. She used to pay more attention to her image in front of him, for fear that he would see her in an embarrassed state. But now she was not afraid, but believed in him wholeheartedly.

This tall man gave her a very sufficient sense of security. Although he couldn’t always be by her side, he did his best to give her and the child the most adequate company, and made her look forward to the birth of the babies.

Qin Rou felt that she really liked and loved him. Born in a divorced family, Qin Rou originally thought that she did not have the ability to fall in love with someone, and would not lead a normal and happy family life in the future.

But she was really lucky. Although she had transmigrated to that difficult era, she met Lu Yan and they formed a sweet little family. This little family was about to have babies.

Qin Rou didn’t go to check the genders. She felt that this kind of thing should not be known until the childrens were born, which was more ceremonial.

Anyway, at that time, children’s clothes were the same for boys and girls, so they could prepare two kinds of clothes.

Being a pregnant woman was also very hard. In the later stage, there was edema, cramping, and frequent urination. It was difficult to turn over, the stomach was too big, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep. Although most of the time she was very happy to be taken care of by the people around her. At that time, Qin Rou couldn’t help but lose her temper, and she sometimes took it out on Lu Yan.

Lu Yan was very considerate of her. He allowed her to vent her emotions.

So once she lost her temper, she couldn’t help but blame herself. Brother Lu, who insisted that silence was golden, would never be silent at this time, and would become a cutie, talking non-stop to comfort her, although sometimes his comfort was like rubbing salt on a wound.

——”You’re uncomfortable with this too?”

——”Tell me, what do you want to hear from Brother Lu?”

——”You want to eat Pipi shrimp again?”

He was really urging her to beat him.

But Qin Rou still liked the salt brought back by this man who came back from the sea.

“I really want to unload this package!” (deliver the babies)

The time entered July 1972. Qin Rou was looking forward to unloading the goods every day.

Twins were prone to premature birth. Maybe when these two little kids see that the weather was good, they would wish to come out of their mother’s belly to see it.

The weather wasn’t good at the moment. The sun was very hot during the day. Affected by the typhoon, it often rained but it came and went suddenly. Some people brought raincoats and umbrellas, and some people didn’t care. Once it rained, it also dried up after a while.

Lu Yan was also extremely nervous these days. He was afraid that he would not be able to accompany his wife when the time came.

Qin Rou didn’t care about that matter. It didn’t matter if Lu Yan couldn’t accompany her to give birth, as long as she could see him as soon as she opened her eyes after the delivery.

Qin Rou was even more worried about the pain of giving birth. She was still quite afraid of it. What if the childrens were still not out after being in labor for a long time?

The husband and wife were both nervous, and perhaps the childrens also heard their father’s expectations. In the evening when Lu Yan came home, he supported his wife for a walk in the family courtyard. While the two laughed and talked, Qin Rou started having labor pains.

Lu Yan was extremely nervous. Together with his parents and the health team, they rushed her to the base hospital.

“Wife, wife, don’t be afraid.” 

The pain became more frequent, the tears forced out by the pain couldn’t stop flowing, and the vision in front of her became blurred. Qin Rou was not afraid, but rather Brother Lu’s voice was shaking.

Lu Yan looked at the wife in front of him distressingly. Seeing her little face turning pale with pain, full of tears, the panic in his heart couldn’t be receded.

The labor pain eased, and the nervous Qin Rou was rather amused when she saw Lu Yan, who was even more nervous.

“Don’t laugh, save your energy.”

…

Lu Yan originally wanted to accompany his wife to give birth in the delivery room, but he was too nervous. His voice was trembling, he talked a lot, which easily affected the doctor, so the nurses kicked him out.

At about eleven o’clock in the evening, Qin Rou gave birth to two children successively under the command of the doctor and nurses.

The doctor cut the umbilical cord of the children and showed one of them to Qin Rou. Qin Rou saw a bright red “little monkey”. If she didn’t pay attention, she wouldn’t have noticed that his voice was very loud.

She gave birth to two boys, identical twins, who looked alike and were equally ugly.

They were two wrinkled ugly red childrens.