LOVE IS A WOUND

Chapter 49. Childbirths

This morning as usual before leaving for work, the man would take his time for breakfast. Usually Love will take the time to cook for her husband. Make breakfast and dinner, he who must cook for Rangga.

Rangga only saw Triana preparing breakfast. It was with wonder that the man approached the friend of Love.

"Tri, where's the love?" rangga asked, he did not see the whereabouts of his wife.

"So to the park, Mas," Triana replied.

Without answering Triana's words, Rangga walked towards the park. Looks like Love is walking back and forth. Rangga approached his wife.

"Darling, early morning tumben in the park?" ask Rangga. He hugged his waist and kissed his wife's cheek.

"Mas, from dawn I felt my hips hurt. Like the signs of childbirth that doctors say," said Love.

"Then we go straight to the hospital" said Rangga panicked.

She invites Love into the house and changes her clothes. Rangga also picked up a bag containing baby clothes. All have been prepared for love.

After everything is ready, Love tells Triana. She can follow later to the hospital if it is certain that Love will give birth.

This is the day that Love and her husband Rqngga look forward to. The day she gave birth to their first child. However, suddenly, on the day of labor that was considered normal, their family had to face major problems.

“Mas Rangga, I feel scared. What if I cannot give birth normally?” ask Love with a trembling voice.

"Don't think too much about having a normal birth but how safe you and our baby are. Normal or cesarean is the same," said Rangga trying to give encouragement.

Arriving at the hospital, Love went straight into the delivery room. The doctor and midwife help the baby, go in and do the examination. A while later, the Doctor and the midwife went out to see Rangga. The man hurriedly approached the doctor.

"How's my wife doing, Doc? What will be the lahiran?" ask Rangga to worry.

"Really, Sir. Father's wife has currently opened four." The doctor replied.

"Open, opening is what, Doc?" ask Rangga.

"Opening is the process of opening the cervix or cervix per centimeter (cm) as the baby's birth canal during labor or delivery." The doctor tried to explain.

"How much and how long is that opening, Doc?. Will the pain increase?"

"Opening starts from 1 to 10. At this time my wife has opened 4. Active phase or start of opening from 3–10 cm, normally lasts 1 hour/addition of opening. The process of giving birth most quickly takes less than 3 hours starting from the first opening to birth.The more frequent contractions are usually only intermittent half to an hour. For example, if you have contractions at 11 pm, then half an hour later or no later than 12 pm you have contractions again."

"That means my wife's gonna be out for about how many hours, Doc?" ask Rangga again.

"According to estimates, between the next 5 to 6 hours, the wife of the Father will give birth. However, it could have been faster or longer the process."

"What to do in order for a quick opening up to a 10th opening, Doc?" Rangga asked back.

"Much can be done. Like walking, light exercise and squatting. One way to speed up the opening of labor that is widely known is by squatting. Squats or squats are believed to speed up the opening of labor while strengthening the muscles around it," replied the doctor graciously.

"Why should you squat, Doc?" ask Rangga. The doctor smiled in response to Rangga who asked a lot.

"It's okay. Squatting can open the pelvic muscles by 10 percent. By often squatting ahead of labor, the leg muscles will be better prepared when pushing the baby out."

"Thank you, Doc," said Rangga.

"Mother can accompany mother now. Husband accompanies the wife to give birth is an important thing to do. In addition to making the wife more calm, the existence of the husband can make the wife more ready in the face of labor. Thus, the process becomes smoother and the baby can be born healthy.When it feels afraid and difficult to face labor, the baby can be born healthy, the presence of the husband can relieve the complaints of the wife by massaging her or help the wife get a comfortable position while lying in bed."

"Alright, Doc," replied Rangga.

Rangga went into the delivery room, where Love was lying down. He kissed his wife's forehead.

"Darling, what's sick?" ask Rangga slowly.

"Everything. The whole body feels sore, especially the waist and hips," replied Love.

"Let me massage. The doctor said that squatting can speed up the birth process." Rangga massaged his back to the hips Love gives a sense of comfort for his wife.

Love woke up from her sleep and got out of bed with the help of Rangga. He did what the doctor ordered. Walk around in the maternity room and also squat.

Nick and Mama are out of town so they can't keep up. They think Love will give birth one more week as expected, it turns out faster.

While holding her waist, Love grimaced with pain. Rangga helped his wife do all that.

After 4 hours, Love feels a stronger contraction. Rangga called the doctor to do an examination.

After the examination, the Doctor said the opening of the birth canal was complete and Love was ready for normal birth.

Love is asked to sleep. His hand gripped Rangga's hand to ask for strength.

"Mas, I'm sorry if I'm wrong. Pray for me smoothly," said Love.

"You're not wrong, I'm sure I wish her birth well."

"Mom, are you ready?" ask Doctor.

"Ready,Dok!" reply Love.

"Later mom can take a deep breath and throw it slowly, after that mom pushed. There are some things you can't do. First shout loudly, it hurts when pushing, but do not scream too loudly.if yelling should not be done excessively to high-pitched alias shrill. This is because if the mother screams uncontrollably can make the mother tired and lose control while pushing. The two closed their eyes. This is to avoid the eye getting pressure so that the blood vessels in the eye rupture. Third raise the hips. Mother certainly does not want to tear the perineum wider so it requires more stitches during childbirth, right? In that case, remember not to lift the buttocks or coconut milk when straining. Now you're ready?" ask the doctor again after explaining.

"Ready Doc!"

"Later on the count of three then mom pushed. I'm going to start. One, two, three" said the doctor.

On the count of three, Love pushes to get the baby out. Rangga who saw the efforts of his wife, could not help but cry. He felt the pain his wife was suffering from at this moment. Several times trying, then finally the baby's head out followed by the cry of the baby. Rangga immediately made a prostration of gratitude.

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