Chapter 136 - Crying sounds so wonderful! (1/2)

Zhang Fan was rotated to the gynecology department. There were only two male doctors in this entire department. All other doctors were female.

The gynecology department was also looked down upon in Chasu City Hospital.

The surgical departments would claim that gynecology was an internal medicine department. The internal medicine departments would claim that gynecology was a surgical department.

There was a rotation doctor whose first rotation was in the gynecology department. He learned some sutures there. For his second rotation, he went to general surgery. The doctors in general surgery laughed at him for so long because of his problems with sewing sutures! That was just how condescension in the hospital was.

The gynecology department had its own small operating room. Most smaller surgeries would be performed here, rather than in the shared operating rooms. The smell of blood was quite heavy here. In fact, the smell of blood here was different from the regular smell of blood, as the smell of blood was far heavier.

The female doctors in gynecology were typically physically stronger than female doctors in other departments. Many of them were quite manly. This was because obstetrics required physical strength. Women with weaker bodies wouldn't be able to handle the job.

The female doctors in this department also had loud voices. Right when Zhang Fan entered the department, he heard a female doctor shouting loudly, ”Hurry, gauze!”

Gynecology and obstetrics was a department with serious responsibilities. If any medical incident occurred, it was common that there would be two lives lost, both mother's and child's. China's government was placing more and more importance on pregnant women and newborns. In most normal departments, even if the patient died, the department wouldn't need to report it to the hospital leadership unless the patient had died due to a medical incident. But, things were different in the gynecology and obstetrics department. If a pregnant woman died, that would be a major incident. Not only would the department have to report it to the hospital leadership, the hospital would also have to make a report to the Bureau of Health. In addition, the gynecology and obstetrics department often had a high rate of patient disputes.

A newborn would need to exit its mother's body and suddenly change environments. From pregnancy to childbirth, all sorts of hormones in the mother's body would be elevated. There would be too many biological changes to list. It truly could be said that mothers giving birth would need to crawl through the gates of hell in order to survive. There were far too many changes in the body as well as unpredictable occurrences.

No matter how careful the doctor was, it would still be possible for a medical incident to occur. The mother and child both dying would obviously be a tremendous shock and calamity to any family. This was why the doctors in the gynecology and obstetrics department were under tremendous pressure. After being under such pressure for too long, very few doctors in this department would have good tempers. They weren't naturally like this to begin with. This was a helpless side effect of the situation! Please understand how it is for them.

Zhang Fan was assigned to Xiao Hong, a middle-aged female attending physician. She had a thick and strong body. She also spoke, acted, and walked especially quickly. Shao Hong was currently on duty for half a year in obstetrics.

The crying sounds in pediatrics were still tolerable. At most, the children crying there would make you slightly frustrated. However, the crying and screaming in obstetrics were truly heartrending.

On Zhang Fan's very first day in gynecology and obstetrics, which was a full day shift combined with a night shift, he experienced how hard it was for mothers. Shao Hong's patient #9 was a pregnant woman who was 28 years old. She had been in labor pains for two days now, but still didn't show signs of going into labor. She was in such pain that she constantly sweated.

Her husband was all in tears from watching his wife like this. However, this pregnant woman was quite strong. Since the position of the fetus, the fetus's health, and everything else was quite good, the pregnant woman absolutely insisted on a natural childbirth.

The woman was all by herself on her bed in the delivery room. She was in such pain that she kept twisting and turning. The delivery room was a room for expectant pregnant women who were giving birth soon. Family members weren't allowed in. The doctors and nurses were all quite busy and didn't have the time to comfort her. Only a nurse would come by periodically to checkup on the women here.

Patient #9 kept gritting her teeth and moaning from the pain. Her husband brought her some food and pulled the curtain around her bed.

”Liping, how about we just do a C-section? I feel like I'm about to die myself, seeing you in so much pain. Honestly, let's just do a C-section!”

”No! I'm really fine! Naturally born babies will have a stronger sense of direction, and it's harder for them to get pneumonia. I'll definitely have a natural birth!” Although she was saying this, she was grabbing on to her husband's hand with everything she had.

”Liping!” The husband was crying soundlessly.

”Stop crying! Wait, the baby is coming out, he's coming out!” The pregnant woman hurriedly told her husband. She could feel a pushing sensation.

”Doctor! Hurry!” The husband stood up in such a hurry that he even spilled the food he brought all over the floor.

”What are you shouting for! Get out!” Shao Hong knew with just one look that the pregnant woman was about to get birth, so she ordered the husband out. However, patient #9's husband really didn't want to leave. He was in such pain from seeing his wife in such discomfort.

”Did you not hear me? Get out!” Shao Hong raised her voice several levels and directly pushed the patient's husband outside the delivery room.

”Use more strength! Use more strength! Hurry! Hold your breath, and push down! That's right! Just like that! You can do it! Hurry!” The nurse midwife helped the pregnant woman with the delivery. Zhang Fan stood by the side while watching and waiting to assist. He felt his heart clenching up as this was too painful to behold, with how much pain the pregnant woman was in.

The pregnant woman was in such pain that she kept shaking her head. Even so, she did her best to not move her lower body. She was no superwoman. This was simply the power of motherly love.

”Feed the patient some chocolate and a Red Bull energy drink. She's almost out of energy,” Shao Hong told Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan hurriedly opened up a can of Red Bull and fed a chocolate bar to the pregnant woman. She was no longer in as much pain for the moment. Her tears and sweat all mingled together. When she saw Zhang Fan bringing her chocolate and an energy drink, she took advantage of this lapse in pain to really eat and drink up. The combination of Red Bull and Dove chocolate was so sweet!

Some time later, the patient started hurting again. ”You can do it, push down, clench your anus, and hold your breath! Hurry, you can do it, the baby's head is showing, hurry, use more strength, hurry! If you don't use strength, the baby will lack oxygen! Hurry!” Shao Hong and the nurse midwife's voices were really loud and strict-sounding!

The pregnant woman used all of the strength she had. ”Ahhh!” It was unknown whether the pregnant woman was celebrating the end of her pain or whether it was the last of her strength. She shouted once, and successfully gave birth to her child!

Zhang Fan felt his hairs all standing up on end! He also had goosebumps all over. He helped to clear the newborn's airway, cut the umbilical cord, and slapped the baby's butt. The baby started crying! ”Wahh! Wahh! Wahh!” There was a clear crying sound! Zhang Fan felt for the first time ever that the sound of crying was so wonderful.

A child's birthday would be the mother's day of pain!

”Doctor! Is it a boy or a girl?” The patient looked towards Zhang Fan. He was about to tell her the answer, when Shao Hong interjected, ”Shut up! No matter if it's a boy or girl, it's your child! Now's not the time for you to be worrying about such things!”

Zhang Fan immediately shut up as well instead of saying anything! The patient was still waiting for her placenta to be ejected. The baby was also quite busy as well, as it was necessary to take the baby's weight, footprints, and so on. Since this had been a natural birth, the baby's head seemed like a lollipop. Zhang Fan felt that the newborn seemed really ugly!

A ray of sunlight now illuminated the delivery room! It was now daylight! The patient had successfully survived the ordeal of childbirth! She was now quietly sleeping, with her baby next to her. The father and both sets of grandparents all quietly surrounded the mother and child, without making a single sound. However, all of them had blissful smiles! Gynecology and obstetrics was just such a wondrous department. Pregnant women waiting for childbirth might not actually give birth for quite a while. But, then several might all suddenly give birth all at once. Right after successfully delivering this baby, another two expectant mothers were about to give birth. This was a night shift, so there were only three nurse midwives on duty. That wasn't enough! There was no helping it, so attending physician Shao Hong acted as a nurse midwife, while Zhang Fan acted as her nurse assistant.

”Doctor Zhang, stimulate the patient's breasts.” Zhang Fan put on light plastic gloves and averted his gaze as he kept playing with a pregnant female patient's breasts. The reason why he had to stimulate the patient's breasts was to help her produce progestins, a hormone which would be useful in expediting the baby's birth.

The patient kept shouting, resting, eating chocolate, drinking Red Bull, and then repeating this process! For women who had longer processes of childbirth, they would almost always be completely drained of energy at the end of the process.