"A C-section? What do you mean by a direct C-section?" the elder aunt asked, taken aback. "Don't we lack the medical resources?"
The doctor didn't hesitate to explain in front of Qiao Lian, "The cervix is now dilated to four centimeters. I just checked, and the baby is indeed huge; it's going to be a difficult delivery. The longer we wait, the more dangerous it becomes. Once the oxygen runs out inside, the child will be at risk. If we perform the C-section without anesthesia, we can take the baby out first."
Qiao Lian's mother stood up and asked, "And afterward? Will you stitch her back up with needles?"
The doctor nodded. "We don't have any medicine right now. If she can withstand it, she'll get through; if not, that's it. It depends on whether she can bear the pain of surgery without anesthesia. Some can't and pass away. However, our hospital's childbirth mortality rate isn't high—only about forty percent." That means, on average, four out of ten pregnant women die.
