No matter whether her boyfriend is happy or not, Wu Lixuan can only continue, "She says she doesnât know if thereâll be any accidents when her mom, at this age, gives birth."
"High-risk pregnancies usually present risks during the second and third trimesters. And thereâs also the fear of giving birth to a deformed child," Xie Wanying said.
"In that case, what will happen in the end?" Wu Lixuan asked her childhood friend, who is a doctor.
The worst outcome is death. Xie Wanying would never casually predict a patientâs outcome. In clinical settings, nothing is certain because there are too many sudden situations. From the attitudes of the obstetricians today, itâs clear that thereâs a consensus on the risks of Mother Yaxiâs pregnancy.
"Her mom is very confident in herself."
Mother Yaxi is successful in her career, destined to be a very strong-willed woman, and is confident that she can win this battle.
"She wants to ask the doctor what she can do for her mom," Wu Lixuan asked.
"She should just take care of her own responsibilities and not keep asking you. Are you a doctor?" Yin Fengchun finally interjected to stop the conversation, not wanting these two innocent and kind-hearted girls to take the fall for someone else later.
In his eyes, this family was nothing good, swaying like a bunch of parasitic dodders, all tough on the outside but hollow within. If they fall into a quagmire, itâs their own doing; they shouldnât drag others down with them, clearly nothing good can come from it.
Xie Wanying definitely doesnât want her childhood friend to get involved any further, so she tells her friend, "Li Xuan, in the future, if she has any questions, she should directly ask a doctor. You wonât be able to explain it to her clearly because youâre not a doctor."
Yin Fengchun grunted: Fortunately, his girlfriendâs best friend has some principles and knows when to stop.
"Alright, Yingying. Iâll bring you a late-night snack tonight." After saying this, Wu Lixuan hung up first and went to help her boyfriend cook.
After finishing the call with her childhood friend, Xie Wanying tidied up and went back to meet with Student Geng to head to the delivery room.
The delivery room is a place seemingly without a sense of time. Whether itâs crowded depends entirely on how many little angels are coming into the world today. So, even now at six in the evening, the area outside the delivery room is still packed, with groups of family members of the mothers crowding the corridors and doorways until thereâs no room left to move. Faces full of anxiety all face the two tightly closed doors of the delivery room.
Every so often, the door would open, and a medical staff member would squeeze through the crack to call a family member over for a talk: Is anyone here for so-and-so?
Some family members are so nervous that it takes several calls from the medical staff for them to realize itâs directed at them, and they snap back to reality, rushing over and surrounding the staff, all talking at once:
Howâs my wife?
Howâs my daughter-in-law?
Howâs my daughter?
Has the baby been delivered?
This is one type, while another type turns completely blank-headed when called, approaching with a clueless look, not comprehending what theyâve heard even after the staff member explains. If only one family member is like this, the others can compensate; the staffâs worst fear is having several family members all staring back blankly, as if three-year-olds, asking: What did you say, sir?
Moreover, before the medical staff finishes speaking, some family members start arguing amongst themselves.
The vulnerability to medical disputes is particularly evident here. The atmosphere outside the delivery room is much tenser than that outside a regular operating room. One reason is that a regular operating room involves one life. Here, itâs one mother, two lives, or even more. Another reason is that the doctors in the delivery room frequently need the family to make decisions during labor. Unlike regular surgeries, where what the doctor says pre-op is mostly how it will go, itâs rare for doctors to come out halfway during a regular operation to ask family members to decide.