Chapter 237 - In Labor (2/2)

“Wife, don’t be afraid! I’m here for you!!” Fang Zizhen pretended that he didn’t hear a word. He gripped his wife’s somewhat cold hand and boasted, “If I could help you birth the child instead, then I naturally wouldn’t have you do this task! Wife, does it hurt? If it hurts, you can bite on my hand. My skin is thick and I have plenty of flesh, so I’m not afraid of pain!”

With her loving husband by her side, Lady Fang completely calmed down at this time. She glared moodily at her shameless man and said, “Do you think that me biting you will get rid of my pain? You...ahhhhh…” Another contraction attacked her, and she gritted her teeth!

In between the contractions, Fang Zizhen personally fed his wife a bowl of medicinal cuisine and a few eggs stewed in brown sugar. Yu Xiaocao also had her godfather support her godmother to walk a few rounds around the room. She told them that it would help the child move into the right position.

Fang until the evening, when her water finally broke. Fang Zizhen wiped off the dense sweat that dotted his wife’s forehead and tenderly remarked, “How come this stinky youngster hasn’t come out yet? He’s causing so much trouble for my wife. In the future, just watch me slap his bottoms!”

Lady Fang, who was in the midst of gritting her teeth to endure the pain of another contraction, firmly glared at him and snarled, “If you dare to hit him, then I will hit you!!”

“Okay, okay! Quickly birth this stinky boy and then you can hit me all you want!” Fang Zizhen could feel his wife clamping down on his hand. It was obvious that his wife was in a lot of pain to grip his hand so tightly. Thinking about this made his heart hurt.

“The cervix is opening! Lady, when I tell you to push, that’s when you push ah!” Both of the midwives joyfully instructed her.

When Yu Xiaocao saw that the birth was about to happen, she hastily told Fang Zizhen, “Godfather, you should go out first! If you’re here, Godmother will only act spoiled when it hurts and won’t push as hard. It will only cause her to suffer longer!”

When Lady Fang heard this, she remarked sourly, “Act spoiled? Who are you talking about? Who will act spoiled towards him?? However, Daughter is right. If you continue to stay here, it’ll be too annoying and affect my concentration!”

Laboring was a cruel process. It was obvious that pushing a child out would only cause her to look quite fierce. She didn’t want her husband to see her in such a state, so Lady Fang had long wanted to shoo him out before that happened.

Although he felt quite reluctant to leave, when he heard that he might poorly influence his wife, Fang Zizhen slowly left the birthing chamber. In front of her master, Linglong carefully closed the doors shut.

“Ah——” As soon as Fang Zizhen left the birthing chamber, he suddenly heard a scream from inside. He almost kicked the door open and rushed back in again.

“Wife, wife, are you okay? Just tolerate it a bit more, once you finish giving birth to this child, let’s not have any more children again!” Fang Zizhen pressed himself against the crack in the door as he yelled towards the inside. The veins on his neck bulged and the expression on his face looked even more suffering than the one on his wife’s face.

“Fang Mingzhe, you shut up!!” Lady Fang suddenly lost her usual elegance and grace due to the pain ripping through her. She screamed out her rage, “If you don’t want more, this lady insists on more! I want to give birth to a dozen more just to piss you off!”

Everyone inside the room lowered their heads and muffled their laughter. This couple was truly too funny!

However, the light atmosphere within the room was quickly replaced by a more solemn one. After the cervix slowly widened, the child within the uterus still didn’t drop down into the opening. Lady Fang felt like she was slowly being crushed by a horse carriage and she could only feel one thing now——pain!

Yu Xiaocao could also tell that something wasn’t right and sternly asked the midwives, “What’s going on?!”

Neither of the midwives had any color in their faces. One of them replied with a voice that trembled, “The lady...the lady’s child doesn’t seem to be in the right position…”

“Doesn’t seem?! I don’t need such a wishy-washy answer! You need to tell me exactly what is going on! If something happens because of your delay, do you think you will be able to take on the consequences?” Although Yu Xiaocao didn’t have an imposing height and had a somewhat childish looking face, she truly seemed very intimidating at this moment.

The other midwife inhaled deeply and stated, “The lady’s child’s foot...it’s a breech birth!”

“Is there a way to fix this?” Yu Xiaocao felt panic bubble up in her heart yet managed to force herself to stay cool headed as she solemnly asked.

That midwife thought quickly and then replied, “The only thing that can be done is to push the child back into the uterus and then slowly rotate the child. However, this method might injure the lady…”

Yu Xiaocao glanced at the midwife’s thick and crude looking hands. If that woman used her hands to turn the child, then her godmother would definitely suffer an injury. She gritted her teeth and made a split second decision, “Tell me how to do it? I will go ahead!!”