Even if medical technology is developed now, twins can rely on artificial insemination to "do" out, in the eyes of most people, twins are already relatively rare, dragon and phoenix fetus is a "special existence", and multiple births are even fewer, once someone gives birth to multiple births, it is really "painful and happy".
One might want to ask, what is it like to have multiple babies? Perhaps Chen Qiangbiao and his wife in Anhui have a lot of say, 16 years ago, they gave birth to the first quintuplets in Anhui and became the focus of society.
Although Chen Qiangbiao's family is not rich, they rely on their own efforts and the help of all walks of life to insist on raising their children by themselves.
Quintuplets
From "twins" to "quintuplets"
Chen Qiangbiao is an ordinary farmer in Donghu Village, Dashi Township, Anhui Province, who relies on fish farming for a living, and his family is very ordinary. In 2005, Chen Qiangbiao was introduced to Shi Youqin, and the two registered their marriage in 2006 and officially married.
Soon after the marriage, Shi Youqin became pregnant, about 3 months pregnant, Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin went to the town to get a "quasi-birth certificate", the local staff saw that Shi Youqin's belly was particularly large, pointed at her and said: "You don't look like you are 3 months pregnant!" ”
Upon hearing this, Shi Youqin was not happy, and immediately decided to go to the hospital to do a B ultrasound, holding a list to give himself a "correct name".
As a result, the B ultrasound showed that Shi Youqin was pregnant with twins, which made Chen Qiangbiao and his wife happy and bad - especially Shi Youqin, who herself had a twin sister, and now she is pregnant with twins, "she is particularly happy."
Shi Youqin's family
Soon, Shi Youqin's belly was getting bigger and bigger, but they all felt that since they were twins, it was normal for their stomachs to be bigger.
Chen Qiangbiao began to be a little worried, because in 2005, he farmed a large number of fish diseases and died, the loss of more than 300,000 yuan that year, not only lost the savings but also owed more than 100,000 yuan of debt, after which the husband and wife have been relying on part-time work to support the family, the income is very limited, to raise three children, it is really a little difficult.
Obstetric examination
At this point, both husband and wife began to be "afraid", because at that time, not to mention quadruplets, even if they were triplets, they had never heard of anyone getting pregnant anywhere.
However, it has been 7 months, and the two people can only "come and be safe" and wait for the arrival of the baby.
In the later stages of pregnancy, Shi Youqin's leg and foot edema was very serious, ordinary shoes could not be worn, only Chen Qiangbiao's slippers could be worn, and because the stomach was too large, Shi Youqin was also very inconvenient to walk around, and he had to support his stomach, and also produced certain symptoms of lack of oxygen.
At that time, Shi Youqin's due date was in January 2007, but by the beginning of December 2006, Shi Youqin's stomach was so large that the skin was "translucent", and Shi Youqin's breathing began to be difficult, and after the diagnosis of local experts, they decided to perform a cesarean section for Shi Youqin in advance.
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In this way, Shi Youqin was pushed into the operating room of Anqing Municipal Hospital on December 6, 2006, and the caesarean section was carried out smoothly.
The first born little guy was a daughter, followed by two boys, and the last one came out with a daughter, seeing the smooth birth of two boys, two girls and four children, Chen Qiangbiao and his relatives all put their hearts at ease.
But at this time, the doctors in the operating room found that Shi Youqin still had an "old fifth" in his belly - it turned out that Shi Youqin was actually pregnant with quintuplets, but the fifth child was squeezed in the middle, so it was never found during the prenatal examination.
5 new family members, pain and joy
Five new members were added to the family at once, which made Chen Qiangbiao a little worried while he was happy, because the conditions at home were not good, and even the money for his wife's hospitalization was pieced together, not only did the cost of the quintuplets live in the incubator not landed, but how to raise these five children in the future also became a problem.
When Chen Qiangbiao was worried, the hospital told them that because the Chen family's quintuplets were the first case in Anhui Province, the hospital decided to waive all the expenses in the period from Shi Youqin's hospitalization to the discharge of the 5 children, which was really a charcoal in the snow and solved a big problem for Chen Qiangbiao.
After the birth of the first quintuplet in Anhui, the local media have reported on it, and more and more people have paid attention to these 5 small babies.
Because Chen Qiangbiao's family is poor, many people also donate money and materials to the Chen family, hoping that the 5 babies can grow up healthily.
Media reports show that all sectors of society donated a total of more than 70,000 yuan for the quintuplets, and there is a milk powder factory that provides milk powder for the 5 children of the Chen family for free, in addition, the local government has also handled the minimum guarantee for Chen Qiangbiao, and can receive a subsidy of nearly 3,000 yuan per year.
It is said that at that time, some people still came to the door hoping to raise one of the children, but Chen Qiangbiao and his wife thought that no matter how tired they were, they could not give the children away, so they refused one by one.
The Chen family has added 5 new family members in one breath, the pressure of new parents is of course very large, ordinary people take care of 1 child are exhausted, and the hard work of taking care of 5 children is not simply "multiplied by 5" can be expressed.
Chen Qiangbiao said that when the children first came home, they had to be fed milk every 2 hours, and the family was so busy that even grandparents came together to help take care of the children.
Because the 5 children looked similar and it was easy to feed "repeat", Chen Qiangbiao could only feed one, and tied a strip of cloth on his arm.
Once, Chen Qiangbiao was too tired to take care of the child, forgot to tie a cloth strip for the child, and later found out that he fed the third elder twice, while the fifth was always hungry.
What is more annoying is that as long as one of the 5 children cries, the other 4 will follow the commotion, and soon the 5 children will cry together, leaving Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin busy, not knowing who to coax first.
In the first year of the child's birth, Chen Qiangbiao and his wife basically spent time in the rush to take care of 5 children, but as the children grew up day by day, taking care of them also began to become more "relaxed", and Chen Qiangbiao and his wife also began to feel the "5 times the love" of the 5 children.
In the 2008 Lantern Festival, Chen Qiangbiao fell asleep tired when he was origami airplanes for the children, the eldest and second saw this situation, they learned from their mother's appearance, dragged a small quilt to cover their father, the third and fourth elders also came to help, only the fifth was the most naughty, ran to lie on the quilt.
However, the 4 older brothers and sisters still tried to drag the quilt that "carried" the fifth old man to cover the father, and then they also climbed on Chen Qiangbiao's body and patted his body, as if learning to let the father sleep better.
Raising 5 children is hard but also happy, but only Chen Qiangbiao and his wife can understand it.
Reading should be divided into 5 classes to prevent copying homework
In 2009, in order to allow the children to receive a better education, Chen Qiangbiao and his wife went to an anqing urban area to rent a house, Chen Qiangbiao worked at a nearby construction site, and Shi Youqin went to work at a housekeeping company.
In 2013, the quintuplets were 7 years old, and when they reached the age of elementary school, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Qiangbiao enrolled their children in the nearby Anqing Park Primary School, and the five children were enrolled in 4 classes.
In the process of children's growth, the love of all walks of life has never been absent, especially the medical staff of the pediatric department of Anqing Municipal Hospital, who have been paying attention to the growth of children.
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After the outbreak of the "melamine" incident in 2008, medical staff deliberately invited the children to the hospital and examined them free of charge.
After they entered primary school, Anqing Municipal Hospital also organized them to conduct free medical examinations, and asked the director of ophthalmology to conduct vision examinations for them, teach them the health knowledge of rational use of the eyes, and finally, the hospital also prepared some common medicines for the children.
In 2019, the quintuplets successfully entered junior high school, and they were once again divided into different classes, and this time the 5 children were assigned to different classes.
Chen Qiangbiao said that in fact, he specifically asked the school to arrange it this way, because since he was a child, these 5 children were particularly naughty when they were together, and once they were separated, they were very well-behaved, so whenever the children were divided, he would ask the school to divide them into different classes to reduce the trouble for the classmates and teachers in the same class.
Moreover, this prevents children from "copying homework" with each other and allows children to make more friends in different classes.
Only in this way, it has become a difficult thing to hold a parent-teacher conference, generally schools hold parent-teacher conferences on the same day, 5 children in 5 classes, who should go to participate in the parent-teacher conference?
Chen Qiangbiao said that since primary school, the husband and wife have participated in the parents' meeting who choose one child each time, and the other children will find time to communicate with the teacher alone after the meeting.
In the Chen family, there are many such "rotating" things, such as washing dishes at home, wiping the table, drying clothes and other simple housework, all of which are taken turns by children, and the children also have a "schedule" for themselves, who is the turn to work, and other brothers and sisters will urge him to hurry up and do housework.
Now, the quintuplets are about to enter high school, and Chen Qiangbiao is also worried about this.
Because when the children were just born, there were still many caring people who donated to them, but as the children got bigger and bigger, the donations gradually became less, and the income of Chen Qiangbiao and his wife has not been significantly improved, and the family burden is getting heavier and heavier.
During the children's nine-year compulsory education, the cost of education is still relatively small, and when the children go to high school, or even after going to college, the required costs will become higher and higher, which makes Chen Qiangbiao feel "under pressure", and can only continue to earn money outside desperately, hoping to save a little more money for the future of the child.
Of course, Chen Qiangbiao has always stressed that children have been helped by all walks of life since birth, they are very grateful for this, and they are also working hard to cultivate children's self-care and self-reliance, hoping that children can study well and return to society when they grow up.
Resources
People's Daily Overseas Edition, "Family with Quintuplets (My Family's Story)"
Phoenix Network, "Raising Quintuplets Makes People Happy and Worrying"
Xin'an Evening News, "Anhui's first quintuplet is 10 years old"
Anhui Business Daily, "Quintuplets are divided into 5 classes"
Anhui Market News, "Giving Birth to Quintuplets, Exhausting Three Generations"