Seeing the nurse wheeling the hospital bed out, Huo Tingzhou immediately stepped forward.
Jiang Si's face was still very pale at the moment, but she looked much better in spirit.
Seeing Huo Tingzhou, she gave a weak smile. "Azhou..."
"I'm here." Huo Tingzhou leaned over and held her hand.
As soon as he held it, he realized something was wrong.
"Nurse, why is my wife's hand so cold?"
"It's normal. This is how it is after giving birth."
Is it really normal?
Huo Tingzhou was still worried. "Wife, how do you feel? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?"
"I'm okay. I'm just a little tired."
After Jiang Si finished speaking, her gaze circled between the two of them.
Then she glanced at the corridor. "Where are the kids?"
"The kids are fine. They weren't sent to the nursery. Great-uncle and Uncle Zhong have already taken them back to the room."
Jiang Si was relieved now.
But because she was so tired, she didn't even have the strength to respond.
She just let out a soft "um".
Huo Tingzhou's eyes instantly welled up with tears. "Wife, you've had a hard time."
Jiang Si didn't want to tell a lie. Giving birth was really a very difficult thing.
Before this, she always thought that she would be free once the baby was born.
Until just now in the delivery room when the nurse pressed on her stomach!
She didn't know if women had their stomachs pressed after giving birth in later generations.
In this era, they really did!
Moreover, it had to be done every fifteen minutes.
It was no exaggeration to say that the first press.
Jiang Si felt so much pain that she wanted to ascend to heaven on the spot.
All the tears she didn't shed during childbirth were shed at this moment.
She finally understood why there were so many women in the delivery room shouting in pain when she went in.
It turned out that they were having their stomachs pressed after giving birth!
Fortunately, she had endured it all.
Jiang Si now felt completely relaxed, and her mood also improved a lot.
But as it turned out, sometimes you shouldn't speak too soon.
Not long after Jiang Si was settled in the ward, the little nurse who had pressed her stomach came again.
Just now, Great-uncle and Uncle Zhong had been ordered by Jiang Si to go back and catch up on sleep and come back for the afternoon shift.
Now there was only Huo Tingzhou, a male, in the room.
Originally, the little nurse was going to ask him to leave.
But Mother Huo didn't allow it.
She just wanted her son to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears what kind of suffering his wife had gone through for him!
Since the family member had agreed, the little nurse naturally didn't say much.
She first took the temperatures and blood pressures of Jiang Si and the two children.
Then she took out a thick stack of toilet paper.
Seeing this, Jiang Si's face turned pale. "Do you still have to press?"
The little nurse nodded and then showed Jiang Si a form.
After Jiang Si read it, her face turned even paler.
According to the current regulations, from 2 - 6 hours after childbirth, it had to be pressed every two hours.
From 6 - 24 hours, it had to be pressed every six hours.
After 24 hours, the nurse would press 1 to 2 times a day according to the mother's recovery situation.
It would stop when the uterus dropped below the navel.
Not only did Jiang Si find this hard to accept, but in fact, the little nurses didn't want to do this job either.
If they pressed too hard, the mother would scream in pain.
Family members who didn't understand the situation would think they were being too rough.
If they pressed too lightly, the congestion in the uterus wouldn't be drained cleanly. Later, besides being prone to gynecological diseases, it would also affect the recovery of the uterus.
The most troublesome thing was that none of the family members wanted to deal with the congestion after the stomach - pressing.
Not only did they not want to deal with it, but they also called this congestion "lochia".
They thought this thing was dirty and that they would have bad luck if they got it on them.
They didn't even think about who the mother was suffering for!
But there was nothing they could do. The hospital had its regulations.
The little nurse said, "Comrade Jiang, please bear with it. This must be pressed out."
Jiang Si had no choice but to nod in resignation.
At this time, she could only be glad that she had a natural birth.
If it had been a cesarean section, how much more painful it would have been!
Fortunately, it didn't hurt as much as before this time.
But even so, Jiang Si still broke out in a sweat after the pressing.
After seeing the nurse off, Mother Huo looked over with a face full of pity and self - blame.
"It's all my fault. Why didn't I think of boiling a decoction for promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and bringing it here? It's very effective in draining the congestion."
But it wasn't too late to think of it now.
Seeing Huo Tingzhou come in with a basin of warm water, Mother Huo said, "You stay with Sisi first. I'll go back and boil the decoction now."
"By the way, after you're done tidying up, remember to feed Sisi this yam porridge. She hasn't eaten anything for a whole night."
"Okay."
After Huo Tingzhou said that, he squatted down and took out a fine cotton cloth from the delivery bag.
After wetting it, he carefully wiped her face.
Jiang Si wasn't embarrassed at all.
They had done so many intimate things, so this was nothing.
However, she didn't want to eat anything now.
She just wanted to have a good sleep.
Holding Mother Huo's arm, Jiang Si leaned her head over.
"Mom, you've already boiled the chicken soup. Boil the decoction later. It doesn't matter if it's a bit late."
After saying that, she let out a delicate yawn. "I'm so sleepy now."
Mother Huo was an experienced person. She stroked Jiang Si's little face. "If you're sleepy, go to sleep first. You can eat when you wake up. We'll take care of the kids. You can rest assured."
Jiang Si gave a soft response. "Okay."
"Go to sleep quickly." Mother Huo put the pillow in place and covered her with a thin blanket.
Jiang Si was really extremely tired. She fell asleep within a couple of minutes.
"Mom, I'll stay with her. You go outside and check on the kids."
Huo Tingzhou tidied up the room briefly and then sat down by the bed.
Mother Huo didn't argue with him. She got up and went to the outer room.
The two kids were lying side by side there.
They were sleeping soundly.
It wasn't the first time for Mother Huo to be a grandma, but she just couldn't help being excited.
In her excitement, she just remembered that she hadn't informed her in - laws and Old Huo about the birth of the kids.
But someone had to stay in the room at the moment. It was the same to inform them later.
Inside the room, Huo Tingzhou held Jiang Si's hand.
He stared at her sleeping face without blinking.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered many things.
It could be said that most of the few happy moments in his life were closely related to her.
Now, he had married the girl he had been longing for.
And now they had a son and a daughter.
One looked like her and the other looked like himself.
Apart from the word "perfect", Huo Tingzhou couldn't think of any other word to describe how he felt at the moment.
Maybe he was so lost in thought.
He didn't notice that Jiang Si had woken up at first.
It wasn't until Jiang Si waved her hand in front of his face several times that Huo Tingzhou came back to his senses.
"Wife, you're awake?"
Jiang Si pursed her lips. Of course, she was awake.
Otherwise, who was waving the hand just now?
She wasn't sure if she was hallucinating. Jiang Si glanced at the outer room.
"I just seemed to hear the baby crying."
Huo Tingzhou gave her a look that said she wasn't wrong. "The baby just wet the bed. Mom changed the diaper, and now the baby is sound asleep again."
The baby was like a little pig, grunting from time to time in its sleep.
But he didn't dare to say this.
"The babies are very cute. The daughter looks like you, and the son looks like me."
Jiang Si also thought her own children were adorable, but she hadn't really noticed who they took after.
At that time, she only got a general look at them and only knew that the children had high - bridged noses.
Huo Tingzhou asked, "Do you want something to eat?"
Jiang Si nodded. "Yes!"
Mother Huo was a good cook. Jiang Si drank two bowls of porridge in one go.
As she was eating, she suddenly remembered something.
"The babies haven't eaten anything since they were born. Aren't they hungry?"
In both this and her previous life, Jiang Si was a first - time mother. Now she was like a curious child.
Huo Tingzhou's face inexplicably turned red.
Just then, a young nurse came in for a ward round, and Jiang Si took the opportunity to ask.
The nurse glanced at the two babies sleeping soundly in the outer room.
She smiled and said, "Don't worry about them as long as they're sleeping well. Later, you need to keep an eye on them. Some babies cry when they're hungry, while others don't."
"If you see the baby opening its mouth, wriggling its body, or trying to suck its fingers when it wakes up, that means it's hungry."
So that's how it was. Jiang Si said she had learned something.
Then the nurse reminded her, "When the babies wake up later, don't rush to feed them milk powder. First, hold the baby and try to breastfeed."
In this era, people generally didn't have a high opinion of colostrum.
They thought colostrum was thick, yellow in color, and looked like pus.
Some even thought it was fetal toxin.
Even though the nurses had explained countless times, these people just wouldn't listen and would pour it out after squeezing it out!
The nurse specifically explained this.
Jiang Si knew how nutritious colostrum was even without the nurse telling her.
But the problem was, "I... I don't have any right now."
"It doesn't matter. Sucking might stimulate its production."
The nurse had been working for several years and was very experienced in this aspect.
"Anyway, try to breastfeed as often as you can. This will help stimulate milk secretion."
"Oh, and later, ask your husband to bring you a basin of hot water to apply to your breasts."
"If it still doesn't work, let your husband help you. Otherwise, if your breasts stay engorged for too long, you might easily get mastitis later..."
Now, not only was Huo Tingzhou blushing, but Jiang Si also felt a bit embarrassed.
Just then, a series of "wa - wa" cries interrupted the couple's awkward moment.
"The babies are awake."
As Huo Tingzhou stood up, he glanced at Jiang Si and said, "Judging from the cries, they must be very hungry."
Sure enough, as soon as the door opened.
The little pink bundle on the bed was crying while kicking its legs vigorously.
"Oh, my dear little ones," Mother Huo cooed as she picked up the baby.
Then the other baby also started crying "wa - wa".
Maybe scared by her brother's cries, the little girl's mouth was puckered when she cried.
Tears were streaming out like little soybeans.
Huo Tingzhou's heart instantly ached. He quickly picked up his daughter and held her in his arms.
"Be a good girl, stop crying."
But hungry babies don't listen.
They need milk.
It was no use for the father to comfort them at this time.
After crying for a long time without getting any milk, the two babies seemed to be in a competition, and soon their little faces were all red from crying.
No one knew if it was stimulated by the cries or for some other reason.
The moment she heard the two babies crying loudly, Jiang Si suddenly felt a bit of a dull pain in her chest.
