Chapter 516: Chapter 516: Cervical Examination
Wen Wan stayed at the hospital with Shen Cheng for over an hour before leaving.
During that time, she educated Shen Cheng about the potential harms cesarean section and normal delivery can cause to both the mother and the child.
For example, the amount of bleeding during a cesarean section is several times more than during a normal delivery, the spinal anesthesia injected during the cesarean section and the possible injuries it can cause to the mother, as well as the various emergencies that could arise during the procedure.
That evening, Shen Cheng purposely took out her cellphone and opened the browser.
She typed "cesarean section pictures" into the search box.
About thirty or forty web pages came up, and nearly all of them contained images.
Shen Cheng was never a timid woman, but she had to admit that upon seeing the pictures of women lying on the operating table with their bellies being cut open by scalpel and forceps, she was frightened!
She closed the page, but the gory images kept replaying in her mind.
Just giving birth, yet why does it look like a live dissection...
That night, she suffered from insomnia.
For the following ten or so days, the quality of her sleep substantially declined.
Originally, she thought that the impact of the cesarean section images was to blame, but unexpectedly, labor started prematurely!
When she woke up in the morning, she felt a sourness and bloating in her waist. Within an hour, she had to visit the restroom five times.
Just as she lay down in bed, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen...
The pain wasn’t intense, but it was steadily increasing. Just as it became almost unbearable, the pain gradually subsided.
Recalling what Wen Wan had said earlier, her eyebrows furrowed, and she pressed the call button by the bed.
Since she was in the only special VIP ward of Bo’an Hospital, once the reception staff heard the call coming from that room, they quickly put aside their work and rushed to the ward immediately.
The doctor and nurse entered the ward, and just as they were about to inquire about Shen Cheng’s condition, her face turned pale, and a dense layer of fine sweat broke out on her forehead.
Her slender fingers tightly clutched the bedsheet, and her thin lips struggled to utter, "My stomach hurts."
"She must be going into labor. Get her on oxygen, check her blood pressure, perform an electrocardiogram, and then monitor the fetal heartbeat and examine the cervix."
The attending physician was very calm and methodical in preparing everything for this situation.
An oxygen tube was placed on Shen Cheng’s nose, followed by the doctors conducting an electrocardiogram and fetal heartbeat monitoring.
The abdominal contractions began to last longer, and the intervals between them grew shorter, happening approximately every ten minutes.
"Miss Shen, relax, spread your legs, I need to check the cervix."
As the pain in her abdomen receded slightly, Shen Cheng heard the doctor’s words.
She had researched a lot in the past few days, knew what it meant to check the cervix, and was very aware of how it was done.
Generally, during this examination, doctors would ask the woman to spread her legs, then insert their hand into the vagina to see how many centimeters the cervix has dilated...
Although Shen Cheng knew this process was inevitable, when the moment actually came, she felt...
Unable to accept it!
So, she clamped her legs tightly...
"Miss Shen, please cooperate. We don’t have time to delay any further with your current condition. If the baby isn’t delivered promptly, it could suffer from oxygen deprivation and asphyxiation."
As soon as Shen Cheng heard the doctor say the baby could be at risk of oxygen deprivation or asphyxiation, she immediately let go of her principles.
The legs that had just been tightly closed now spread open instantly.