Midwife Li and a few specially selected servants got busy, and the woman sleeping on the bed couldn't help but scream.
There are two cloth straps hanging down from the sleeping bed, and the mother can grab them with both hands and use them to exert force.
Midwife Li knelt beside her, massaging her belly and saying, "Stop screaming and save some strength. It will take a while to give birth."
Before Gongsun Yan came, the mother drank specially cooked chicken soup, so she was in good condition.
She had given birth to two babies before, so she was quite experienced. She gritted her teeth and listened to midwife Li's instructions and began to exert force.
Streams of blood gushed out from between her legs.
Gongsun Yan took one more look and couldn't help but tremble.
Midwife Li couldn't help but laugh after seeing this. While pressing the mother's belly, she said, "Did you scare me?"
"Grandma, be more attentive." Stop chatting, she looked worried.
Seeing the nervous look on Gongsun Yan's face, Li midwife smiled.
Even a woman from such a wealthy family is still afraid when faced with the pain that all women go through.
"Ms. Yan, please be at ease." Midwife Li and the servants around her didn't look too nervous.
"In the past, when farmers gave birth, they would live in a house outside, with a dustpan of grass and ashes under their bodies. How could there be such a good house to live in?"
"When a child is born, he wraps it in rags and it's ready."
"How can there be so many people serving you?"
"Yes." A servant girl in the village interrupted: "There are still people working in the fields. They feel that they are about to give birth, so they go to the side to give birth. When the grass blades brush against them, they come back to work."
In this way, they chatted leisurely, and Gongsun Yan also relaxed a little.
Seeing that Gongsun Yan refused to return to the screen, a servant moved to the table and asked her to sit down.
She couldn't drink the tea on the table, so she waited while listening to midwife Li and the servant women telling some taboo anecdotes as a way to understand the folk customs of the Han Dynasty.
In this era, it was considered unlucky for a woman to give birth, so she had to build a thatched hut in an uninhabited place in the mountains, forests, rivers and swamps outside her home to wait for delivery, and she had to stay in such a simple thatched hut until a month before she could go home.
In the North, there is also a saying that "the whole family should not go to the funeral home or the home where the baby is born", which compares a family with a funeral to a family with a baby.
Hearing this, Gongsun Yan couldn't help but look at the mother who was struggling on the bed, and then at herself.
I also heard from Midwife Li that as the saying goes, if you don’t raise a child in the first month and give birth to a child in the fifth month, the male will harm the father and the female will harm the mother.
Children born in the first and fifth months will be abandoned for adoption...
It is now May.
Gongsun Yan's face froze. Obviously, these two children who were about to be born were already full of taboos. After verifying this midwifery knowledge, they should deal with the aftermath properly.
Thinking of this, she said calmly: "These wild nonsense are all caused by the fact that women who have given birth outside the home do not receive good care. It is cold in January and scorching hot in May. It is already difficult and dangerous for women to give birth, which naturally makes it even more difficult."
Danger."
After saying this, Gongsun Yan didn't know if she could convince these women, but she felt that it was reasonable, and she decided to stop this bad habit of giving birth in a house.
As for whether the dealer is happy or not?
Unlike spring plowing, there is no room for negotiation on this point.
If you don't want to, then increase the rent.
In the face of interests, no taboos matter.
Just as I was thinking this, I suddenly heard a painful moan from the mother.
The fetal head bursts out.
Midwife Li, who had been chatting, walked around to the right side of the mother and reached out her hand.
Although he was scared, Gongsun Yan still got up and went to see whether midwife Li was operating according to her knowledge of midwifery.
This is related to her next arrangement for Midwife Li.
If the illiterate midwife Li could roughly learn it with just a few shy words and pictures from Zhou Jing, then Gongsun Yan would definitely keep her in the main house to receive enlightenment training.
Gongsun Yan turned his head slightly and watched as the fetal head came out and was pulled out by midwife Li.
When he saw the child with its umbilical cord, wrapped in blood and amniotic fluid, being held in the palm of midwife Li's hand, Gongsun Yan was frightened and suddenly felt moved in his heart.
The child was small, wrinkled, and no bigger than the palm of a hand.
Midwife Li quickly cut the umbilical cord, cleaned the child's mouth and nose, and patted the soles of her feet.
The child cried softly, like a kitten.
It's a girl.
The baby was wrapped in swaddling clothes that had been prepared in advance and should have been carried directly to the mother who was exhausted and sluggish.
But perhaps because he was looking at Gongsun Yan directly, he hugged him in front of Gongsun Yan.
Gongsun Yan only took a careful look and asked them to carry him to the mother.
His heart was filled with the joy of witnessing the birth of a new life. Gongsun Yan looked up again and saw that no one in the room, including Midwife Li, had a look of joy on their face.
The mother even started sobbing while hugging her baby.
Gongsun Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something.
Yes, this is a girl.
Midwife Li glanced at Gongsun Yan carefully. Normally, with this woman's family background, the girl she gave birth to would hardly have the chance to be wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Most families, after hearing that their newborn baby is a girl, will not soil a swaddling clothes and drown them naked.
I don’t know how this child will be arranged.
Midwife Li was just thinking when she heard Gongsun Yan say: "I didn't see it clearly just now, please bring it back to me for a look."
When the servants heard this, they looked at each other, but the mother's eyes shone with light and she hurriedly pushed her infant child over.
"Ms. Yan." The mother's eyes were still filled with tears, and she looked at Gongsun Yan with pleading eyes.
Gongsun Yan smiled at her, and in the maid's surprised eyes, he took the swaddling clothes awkwardly.
"I am destined to be with this child." She smiled and patted the child in her arms. The newborn child was really not very pretty, with white vernix still stuck to the fetal hair.
"I'll ask the steward to make a note of it later. From now on, you can come to the main house to receive one stone of rice and food every month until the child reaches the age of hair. What do you think?"
With that said, Gongsun Yan placed the swaddling clothes next to the mother again.
The mother originally thought that she could keep the baby alive, but she never expected that she would be promised one stone of rice per month.
Feeling a heat in his chest, he sat up regardless of his weak body after giving birth, held the baby in his arms and bowed to Gongsun Yan.
"Okay, have a good rest." Gongsun Yan did not avoid this gift. She knew that only by accepting it could she feel at ease.
Suddenly thinking of the boy outside the door, Gongsun Yan frowned. It seems that not only a medical system needs to be established, but also measures to encourage childbirth, and certain subsidies should be given to those who are poor and unable to raise babies.
Then there is the bad habit of killing infants and drowning daughters. How can we eradicate it from all aspects?
How to determine the appropriateness of subsidies and supervision measures to prevent people from borrowing money for money and creating inertia.
Another round of consideration and layout is needed.
After a few more words of relief, Gongsun Yan walked out of the house, full of vitality, and took a long breath.
Turning around, he saw that there were only guards at the door, but Zhou Jing was nowhere to be seen.
Just as he was about to ask, he heard a commotion break out in the west wing.
The familiar cry of the old woman made Gongsun Yan's face instantly darken.