Chapter 367: Solid Plan
The day progressed, and Li Dai Lu and I fell into an easy pace together.
It was one of those weird feelings like you could have sworn that you had known the other person for most of your life, and yet, this was the first ti I had really spent any ti together.
We left the house, and the biggest man, whom she finally introduced as Chen Zi Han, followed nervously behind us, almost waiting to catch her.
I will fully admit to not liking the guys when I first t them. They were abrasive assholes to , and I couldn’t see how anyone would be interested in them. But then I watched them with Li Dai Lu, and I finally understood.
They didn’t care about anyone other than her. Their entire focus was on their woman, and everyone else could go to hell as far as they were concerned.
After that mont, I thoroughly approved of them. In an ideal world, that was how it should be. So, the relationship between
and her n improved. I would completely ignore them and pretend that they were invisible, and they would do the sa to .
They were respectful about it, they didn’t interrupt our conversation or anything like that. But they only addressed
when they had dical questions, and even then, they didn’t look at .
A part of
wanted to see if my own guys would behave like that when the world went back to normal, but another part wanted to understand that it was probably not possible.
Don’t get
wrong, won shouldn’t be treated like they are invisible or disrespected in any way, but if the guy was taken, he shouldn’t be interested in interacting with any of them either.
"Ooh," groaned Li Dai Lu as she ca to an abrupt halt. We were walking in tall grass, almost about knee height, the wind gently blowing around us. The mountains were just off to our right, and the sun was starting to set.
As soon as she stopped Chen Zi Han quickly ca up to embrace her in his arms as he gently lifted her stomach to take so of the weight off of her tiny fra.
"Thank you," she sighed as she leaned against his chest, trying to control her breathing. "That one was a bitch."
I humd in agreent as I turned around to look at her. The contractions were about 10 minutes apart now, but they still weren’t consistent. While I wasn’t an OBGYN, I knew enough to know that she was now in pre-labor.
It looked like we were going to have to keep walking.
Wrapping my hair up in a bun, I gave her a few minutes to catch her breath before I looked at her. "Might as well get Hulk here to hold your hand; it looks like he needs the emotional support," I chuckled, relieved when she laughed with .
"That one was a bit worse," she said again, this ti looking at .
"It was, and it will continue to get worse until you are in active labor. That is why we are out here walking around; it will help with the pre-labor."
"Wait," growled the man, narrowing his eyes on
for a short ti before turning his attention over my right shoulder. "Are you telling
that she is in labor? We need to get her back to the house; she should be lying down."
"By all ans," I nodded, rolling my eyes. "We can bring her back and put her to bed, but that will slow down the contractions, prolong pre-labor, and potentially shift the baby inside of her. Shall we do that?"
There was a low growl behind
as Liu Yu Zeng seed to appear out of nowhere. "Want to try that statent again?" he asked as he went around
to stand on Li Dai Lu’s other side.
"Fine," I sneered. "The reason why we are out here is because walking during this part of the labor has been shown to help shift the baby to a better position, helps to keep contractions going, and even bring them closer together, which could help bring on active labor sooner. It is also used as a pain managent technique to help control the pain. But if you want to stop all that, then by all ans, go put her in bed."
Liu Yu Zeng continued to glare at . Out of all of the n, he seed to be the most unstable, and I never knew what he was going to do next. But I didn’t feel threatened by him. I knew that until the babies were born, I was practically untouchable.
"So, if we aren’t going to do that, then let’s keep walking," I smiled as I looked at Li Dai Lu and rolled my eyes. "Unless, of course, you want a second opinion?"
"And just where are we going to find that?" asked Liu Wei as he appeared behind Li Dai Lu. Great, we almost had all of the guys out here. The fourth one, Wang Chao, had to be around sowhere. Just because I couldn’t see him didn’t an anything.
"Well, I have one of the best doctors in the world back at my house; you can always grab him, too. Or, look up an OBGYN in the Yellow Pages?"
Okay, so the snark was back in full force. But it wasn’t like anyone had any offices anymore. I had no idea where to find an actual OBGYN. Hell, I didn’t even know if any of them were still alive. Technically, I only know two doctors right now,
and Bin An Sha.
"Leave her alone. Just because you don’t agree with what she is saying doesn’t an that she doesn’t know more than you," snapped Li Dai Lu, quickly putting an end to the conversation. Rubbing her belly, she looked at . "Ready?"
"I am," I assured her, turning back around so we could continue our walk away from their ho. "If the pain becos too much, let
know, and I’ll try to take so from you."
"You can do that?" she asked, pushing Liu Yu Zeng away so that she could grab my arm to walk beside .
"Honestly?" I replied. "I have no idea. But there is always a first ti for everything. For example, did you know that the chainsaw was invented in the 18th century by two Scottish doctors to help with c-sections and dissections?"
"Tell
you are joking," blinked Li Dai Lu as she stared at .
"Nope," I replied, putting an extra emphasize on the ’p’. "I kid you not. The thing that we mostly think about in the hands of lumberjacks cutting down trees was first done to help cut into a woman and remove a baby."
"You really have to wonder how many won managed to survive sothing like that," muttered Li Dai Lu as we continued slowly. A part of
was freaking out about ticks in tall grass like this, but I was trying to push it out of my head. One thing at a ti.
"Considering that the won wouldn’t be able to have any type of pain killers and the electric chainsaw wasn’t invented until almost 200 years later, I am going to assu not many."
Cocking her head to the side, she stared at . "Let’s not do that, okay?"
I nodded my head. "It was a first option, but if not using a hand chainsaw is not part of your birthing plan, then I can just use a scalpel if it cos to it. Oh, wait... Liu Wei took
before I could get any of my dical equipnt. Let’s hope that you are okay with a natural birth."
Li Dai Lu looked over her shoulder to glare at the man until he disappeared. "My birthing plan is to get the babies out of
as soon as possible. Anything on top of that is completely negotiable."
"Solid plan," I replied, nodding my head again. "A lot of won feel that they are not in control when it cos to birthing, and that scares them. Between you and I, I think that doctors just ask won for their birth plans because it gives expecting mothers sothing to do. Birthing plans rarely work out perfectly."
"What do you an?"
"Well, the idea of not having an epidural might be sothing that a woman wants when she is in full control and not in pain. However, the few births that I attended, the second the true contractions hit, they want the drug to take away the pain."
"Makes sense," nodded Li Dai Lu. "No one understands what type of pain they should expect until they are in the middle of it."
"And if they hold out for too long, then we can’t do an epidural anyways, which results in unneeded pain for the woman," I continued, resting my hand on hers. I let my magic flow through her, the twin flas no longer an issue, as they stepped aside and let my life force do what it needed to do.
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