Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 261 - 258: Midwife Lin Steps In

"Let me ask you, how is her fetal position? Can you tell by touch? Do you have a grasp on it?" Lin Wanwan asked the midwife beside her.

The midwife slapped her thigh and said, "Madam, the baby is in the breech position, feet down. I can’t correct it no matter what I do. This is really difficult. If we delay any longer, even if the baby comes out it will be too late, and the mother will be tormented to death."

Lin Wanwan heard the midwife’s judgment and felt her heart skip a beat, but she couldn’t show any panic on her face.

In the bed, Lin Juhua also heard the midwife’s words and her breathing quickened several notches.

Lin Wanwan turned and reprimanded the midwife: "What nonsense are you talking? With me here, it’s nothing major. I will adjust the fetal position and ensure the safety of both mother and child."

Lin Juhua, her eyes wide open from pain, stared blankly at Lin Wanwan and cried out, "Wanwan, my dear cousin, thank you for coming to save me. I may not make it, but please save my child. Don’t let him suffocate inside me. Look, he’s not even moving."

Lin Wanwan gripped her hand, giving her strength, and said, "Juhua, don’t cry, don’t say such dispiriting things and waste your energy. I’m here, everything will be alright."

Heaven knows, Lin Wanwan had only learned a bit about emergency childbirth from watching barefoot doctor clinical videos. She wasn’t as confident as her words suggested. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

But at this moment, she was the only one available; she had to go for it!

Barefoot doctors traveled the world relying on boldness and attentiveness.

Lin Wanwan took a deep breath, then once more reached her hand into Lin Juhua’s birth canal, enduring the horror to feel inside, seemingly touching a little foot.

Lin Wanwan didn’t even dare to change her breath, continuing to gently yet firmly push. Perhaps the deity of fate was on her side, and she managed to successfully push that little foot back in.

Then Lin Wanwan immediately instructed Hua Nong, "Go decoct the medicine; the pack of herbs is on top of the medical box."

"Understood." Hua Nong, who had been anxiously standing by unable to help, finally had something to do and sighed with relief. Staying inside any longer, she might faint.

Childbirth was truly terrifying.

Lin Wanwan supported Lin Juhua’s shoulder and said, "Juhua, listen to me. Turn over now, bottom up, on the bed, maintain a head-down, buttocks-up position. Come, move with me."

Lin Wanwan’s strength was immense; she lifted the weak and limp Lin Juhua in one go.

Because she was so determined and forceful, Lin Juhua now put her full trust in her, enduring waves of intense pain as she turned over, her arms bent at the elbows, thighs and buttocks adjusted by Lin Wanwan into a right-angle position.

The midwife watched Lin Wanwan’s action, eyes full of amazement. She stepped forward to feel Lin Juhua’s suspended belly, sensing the fetus’s movements.

It wasn’t clear how much time passed before there was a big fetal movement inside Lin Juhua’s belly, and the midwife exclaimed joyfully, "It’s turned, it’s turned, it really has turned!"

Lin Wanwan helped Lin Juhua to lie back down, pulled over a white cotton cloth she had brought, spread it under Lin Juhua, and smiled at her, "See, you can do it. Now, take a deep breath, and then push as if you’re having a bowel movement, on my hand, don’t be afraid, follow my command and push."

Lin Juhua, exhausted from the pain, was unable to speak, but her survival instinct drove her to follow Lin Wanwan’s orders to breathe and exert force.

Lin Wanwan glanced below and said to Lin Juhua, "Put in more effort, I can already see the baby’s hair, he’ll be out soon."

In reality, there was no sign of the fetus yet from below; Lin Wanwan was just trying to comfort her.

The room gradually darkened, and the baby’s head still did not appear.

Lin Wanwan took off her blood-stained gloves, pulled out silver needles, and planned to perform acupuncture on Lin Juhua. If they were to wait around any longer, Lin Wanwan herself wouldn’t be able to take it.

Acupoint diagrams were memorized by Lin Wanwan when she studied medicine with Old Sun, though not proficiently. If only Chen Liang were here, it would be perfect. Unfortunately, Little Creek Town was too far from here and there was no telling when he would arrive.

Although Lin Wanwan firmly believed that with Xiao Chong around, Chen Liang would definitely come, the exact timing was uncertain.

She could only force herself to do it.

Lin Wanwan punctured Lin Juhua’s Hegu, Sanyinjiao, and Taichong acupoints with strong stimulating techniques, withdrawing nothing, leaving the needles in.

Just as she finished the acupuncture, Hua Nong came in with a bowl of medicine, and Lin Wanwan stood up, making space.

Lin Juhua looked at Lin Wanwan pleadingly, "Cousin, cousin, don’t leave. Only with you here can I muster the courage to endure."

At this point, Lin Juhua had completely regarded Lin Wanwan as her lifesaving deity.

"Alright, I won’t leave." Lin Wanwan took the medicine bowl from Hua Nong’s hands and supported Lin Juhua to drink the medicine.

Lin Juhua held her breath and drank the herbal medicine in one go.

This formula was Cai Songting’s remedy for difficult labor, using 30 grams of honey-fried astragalus, 18 grams of angelica, 9 grams of poria, 18 grams of codonopsis pilosula, 15 grams of vinegar-prepared tortoise shell, 9 grams of wine-fried white peony root, 9 grams of Sichuan lovage, and 15 grams of wolfberry.

Among them, codonopsis and astragalus replenished vital energy, angelica, white peony root, and Sichuan lovage invigorated blood, while tortoise shell moistened the fetus and induced labor, all perfectly addressing Lin Juhua’s current condition.

As the sky darkened further, Hua Nong lit several large candles, which were exquisite candles Lin Wanwan had bought in modern times, housed in glass cups, placed all at the foot of the bed to illuminate.

The midwife looked at the candlelight in the glass bottles, quietly expressing amazement at the luxury!

The delivery continued, but the amniotic fluid remained unbroken. Lin Wanwan reached into the birth canal and manually ruptured the membrane with a splash. Some greenish amniotic fluid flowed out—clearly, the child had already excreted inside.

Lin Wanwan replaced the messy white cloth with a new one and persistently guided Lin Juhua in the rhythm of pushing.

After another stick of incense’s worth of time, the dark hair top of the baby finally appeared, and both Lin Wanwan and the midwife rejoiced. The former quickly instructed Lin Juhua, "Very good, maintain this rhythm, keep that feeling of passing a stool, and push again."

A moment later, a fluffy head emerged. Lin Wanwan caught it with both hands and immediately said, "Now don’t exert any more force, relax, don’t do anything, leave it to us."

Lin Juhua let out a breath, the labor pains subsided, and as she lay on the bed, her whole body felt indescribably relaxed.

The baby’s shoulders were also gently pulled out by Lin Wanwan; she then entrusted the subsequent tasks to the midwife, who was quite experienced.

At this moment, Lin Wanwan felt a bit like she was floating, stepping away from the birth bed like an old lady would, eventually plopping down on the floor, her back and waist aching terribly.

The danger hadn’t actually passed; Lin Juhua’s delivery had been so difficult that they still needed to observe her condition for another two hours postpartum.

So Lin Wanwan couldn’t completely relax yet. After a while, she heard a cat-like crying sound from behind her, indicating that the child who had been suffocated for so long was crying.

Lin Wanwan turned her head to look at the baby in the midwife’s arms and broke into a smile, realizing she had personally welcomed a new life into the world; it was absolutely incredible.