Chapter 81 I Really Became a Mother

Chen Cuijuan’s method worked, and soon, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan no longer needed to drink warm water. The two babies ate and slept, slept and ate, and Shen Zhiyu looked at them with wonder. Since giving birth, she still couldn’t believe that she had actually given birth to two little humans. She was a mother now. She touched the baby’s face, gently, and still felt a strong sense of unreality. Especially since the two babies didn’t fuss after eating, she would just hold them, pat them, burp them, and they would fall asleep again.

 Shen Zhiyu wanted to play with her little ones for a while, but the two little guys just ate and slept. She couldn’t even play with them. But her happiness didn’t last long. As soon as the babies fell asleep, Chen Cuijuan came in with a cloth. Shen Zhiyu only realized now that there were more things women had to do after giving birth than before!

 She was given a belly wrap, and after that, Chen Cuijuan wrapped her belly and bottom with a cloth. Shen Zhiyu almost cried several times. Chen Cuijuan, who always felt sorry for her daughter, didn’t lighten her grip when she heard her daughter cry.

“It’s better to feel some pain now, or you’ll suffer later.” Chen Cuijuan wrapped her while saying, “You should rest, but you also need to get out of bed and move around more. Didn’t I tell you a lot of exercises before? Remember to do them. Don’t be lazy, or you’ll be the one suffering when you’re older.”

In the countryside, apart from Grandma Chen and Chen Cuijuan who had mentioned that women had to have a confinement period after giving birth and had to take care of their own bodies, other women hadn’t thought about it. They would go back to work in the fields after giving birth. Many people would gossip about Chen Cuijuan behind her back.

Chen Cuijuan was a strong-willed person. How could she bear being called a weakling? She immediately wanted to get out of bed and go to the fields to work. But Grandma Chen tied her to the bed. At that time, Chen Cuijuan didn’t understand. But after a few years, those who had gossiped about her behind her back started to suffer from headaches, backaches, urinary incontinence, bowlegs, and even organs falling out. But she was no different from before she gave birth.

She didn’t even have dysmenorrhea anymore. Only then did Chen Cuijuan realize the reason behind her mother’s actions at that time. Hearing Chen Cuijuan’s words, Shen Zhiyu immediately stopped moving. She nodded obediently. “Mom, I’ll listen to you.”

 “Who else would you listen to but your mother? Also, try to hold the babies less. And don’t hold them while standing.” Especially when the babies got older, women’s arm strength wouldn’t be as strong as men’s. But the babies would insist on being held by their mothers. What could she do? She could only tilt her pelvis forward and use her strength to hold them. When the babies got older, she would find that her bottom had become flat and her back was injured.

“Alright, it’s hot these days. Although you can’t touch cold water, you still need to wash and change clothes frequently. After washing, remember to use the things Mom gave you. They were made by your grandma specially for you.” Shen Zhiyu’s face turned red.

 Those who knew the truth knew that her grandma used to serve the female masters in a wealthy family. Those who didn’t know thought that her grandma used to do something shady. There were not only things to wash and use but also a whole set of maintenance movements and tools. There were sharpened bamboo strips that were bent after being heated with fire.

Chen Cuijuan told her to lie in bed and put them between her knees and squeeze them whenever she had nothing to do. Her grandma said it would help her recover faster after giving birth. When they were at the hospital, Chen Cuijuan and Gu Ye were both in the ward, and when the babies cried at night, Chen Cuijuan and Gu Ye would take care of them together.

But after they got home, Chen Cuijuan was worried. But as a mother-in-law, it wasn’t appropriate for her to stay in the room all the time. She could only remind Gu Ye repeatedly that Yu Yu had just given birth and was still weak, so she needed to rest more, and he had to help take care of her. This was definitely true. Gu Ye nodded.

Chen Cuijuan was confident in her son-in-law, but she didn’t dare to go back to her room to sleep at night. She moved the bamboo bed for cooling to the living room so that she could hear any noise and go in to help at any time.