
March 30th, 2003
Thank God this morning I gave birth to our second child. Again without any of my husband's family waiting for me. There was only my mother, yuk Yana my sister and my husband.
The delivery this time was amazing for me, because I had to use oxygen to help my breathing.
At exactly 05.35 am my son was born while my husband was performing the shabuh prayer. As she raised her hands in prayer, she heard the sound of crying, and she immediately ran out of the delivery room without folding her alphabet again
I was being cleaned by two nurses. The oxygen hose was still closing in my nose at the time. He stroked my head.
"Congratulations bun" he said
I smiled weakly, eager to have these eyes closed, after twenty-seven hours of pain and sleeplessness.
"Don't sleep for the next two hours huh mbak" said a nurse when he saw my eyes were getting worse
"Yes" I replied briefly.
My husband came out soon and before long had returned with a cup of coffee in his hand.
"Drink this bun let's not sleepy" he said
I chuckle. How can I possibly drink coffee, because I don't like sweet drinks. But for the sake of my health and the advice of the Midwife I obeyed.
She painstakingly scoops my mouth-water coffee. I shuddered when I drank it. This is not the first time I have ever had coffee. In the past when giving birth to Naura even bitter coffee made for me.
"The gas came out first yes, mbakannya want us to sew first" Bu Rini, our subscription midwife appeared with a smile on her face.
Andi immediately pulled out his chair and placed the coffee cup on the nightstand. I rubbed my head before it left me.
"Dibius is it buk? much
"yes it is mbak, otherwise, can scream mbaknya" replied Miss Rini and again still with a friendly smile.
The nurse who accompanied the midwife's mother deftly prepared the equipment to anesthetize and sew my former labor.
I grimaced a little when the dope pierced through my skin. Before long the midwife and her assistant had started sewing while chatting lightly with me.
"Mom's a lot?" much
"Lumayan, inside out" he replied without distracting from the seams.
"the tearing is big, ma'am?" ask me again
"yes, but ga papa mbak, the important thing is that the baby has come out, the tear can be sewn, so it can rapet again" continued with a laugh.
I laughed too at his words.
About fifteen minutes Bu Rini had finished with the stitches. Two nurses who have helped him since then are now cleaning all the used sewing equipment.
After washing my hands and looking back at my condition, Miss Rini came out of the room.
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My mother came with us back home to take care of me during my postpartum recovery.
I took the day off teaching him. I've asked permission with both of my principals to allow them to be allowed as long as I'm in recovery.
The hassles of my mother taking care of me and my two leaks so moved me. How not, while we were still sleeping, my mother woke up. Prepare warm water for me and my two children to shower, cook for us breakfast, and clean the house.
"When do we want a bun wedding?" ask Andi at breakfast this morning
"Depart, the important thing is that I am healthy first, for I can be sometime, right?, even though the sunnah is actually when the child is seven days old" I replied.
"All right, mother, father" he replied again
After finishing breakfast, Andi said goodbye to work. Before leaving kissed the cheeks of his two hearts and stroke my head.
People say, every child brings sustenance. Since I was pregnant Mikail, we have been able to buy land and have started to make the foundation. And my husband, he rose to the post of head of a branch.
As the head of the branch, the bustle is increasing. The hours of returning are getting late in the afternoon and sometimes even at night.
"You don't know nengokin, you're Ndah?" asked my mother as we sat down this afternoon.
"Busiest mom, right now my father-in-law already has a truck again, for loading oil palm, so he could be busy" I said
"The time of Naura was the same, they were not nengokin even when the wedding they did not stay overnight, not until two hours had gone home"
"It's buk, it's not important. What matters to me is my mother, my father and my brothers" I replied, hugging his shoulder
"However, Ndah, why are they so rich" my mother continued
I'm silent, I won't tell you how they treated me. I don't want to add to the burden of my mind. I just want my mom to know that I'm okay with my in-laws and brother-in-law.
"Didn't your husband tell his parents that you were born?" my mother asked back
"Mom" answered me.
Actually I lied. Long before I wanted to give birth, Andi had already said that when I gave birth, she would not tell her parents anymore. She was already disappointed with the treatment of her parents when I first gave birth to Naura.
"Later, when you want to be born, we do not need to tell my father's mother yes bun" he said at the time
"Why then?" much
"For what reason, later on they will also not come" he replied
"It's up to you, which is important when I'm the father's birth is beside me" I said.
Andi nodded her head while smiling.
"Later don't be naughty if you want to be born, pity your mother" he said while stroking my stomach.
As understood, the moment that the baby in my stomach kicked that made Andi flabbergasted in shock mixed happily.
"Mother also had a daughter-in-law, when Diana was about to give birth and your sister Angga told her, mother and father immediately came and waited until it was over. Even the mother took care of it for two weeks with her mother" continued my mother who made me stutter from my daydream.
"Mother is indeed the best deh's father-in-law" I always laugh
"It's not the best or what Ndah is, but the mother has responsibilities as well as her mother, Diana was giving birth to the mother's granddaughter, the successor of your father, was duly as a mother and as a woman, she said, I care and love him" my mother explained
I nodded.
"If my in-laws were rich" I said in my heart.
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