There is an old saying in China: "Many children and many blessings." In particular, some elderly people think that if there are more children in the family, there will be more blessings.
The appearance of twins in ordinary people is already a rare thing, and if there is a dragon and phoenix fetus, it is not to mention how rare it is. What is even rarer than the dragon and phoenix fetus is the multiple births, and if there are multiple births, it will inevitably attract the attention of the public.
A couple in Anhui gave birth to quintuplets, and as soon as the quintuplets were born, they attracted the attention of many people. It's okay for a family to raise one or two children, but with five children at once, it's even harder to support them.
It was once suggested that the couple give their children to someone else to raise them as a way to reduce the burden. But the couple did not do this, but have always insisted on raising their children on their own, and now that the children are 16 years old, how is life now?
Chen Qiangbiao's hometown is in Donghu Village, Dashi Township, Anhui Province, and his family is generally an authentic farmer, who usually makes a living by raising fish.
In 2005, the matchmaker introduced Shi Youqin to Chen Qiangbiao, and after a period of time together, the two felt that they were more suitable for each other, so they registered as husband and wife in 2006.
The couple got along very well after marriage, the married life was very sweet, and soon after, Shi Youqin found out that she was pregnant, and the husband and wife were very happy and looking forward to their first child.
The first time the couple noticed something strange was an incident three months later. At that time, Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin went to the relevant institutions in the town to get a birth permit, and a sentence from the staff suddenly caught their attention.
At that time, when the staff was applying for a birth permit for them, they observed that Shi Youqin's belly was much larger than the belly of a pregnant woman who was generally three months pregnant, so he said to the couple: "This belly does not look like a three-month belly." ”
It was such a sentence that made Shi Youqin feel insulted, and she was married and pregnant with dignity, what to do when this word came out that made her and her husband appear to be stubborn.
Shi Youqin, who was quite angry, immediately decided to go to the hospital to shoot a B ultrasound to prove it to himself. Unexpectedly, it was such a fortuitous event that the couple learned that they had a pair of twins, which made them both very happy.
Especially Shi Youqin, she and her sister are twins, and now that she is pregnant with a pair of twins, don't mention how happy she is.
Immersed in joy, the two have been carefully waiting for the birth of the child, afraid of any mistakes. But Chen Qiangbiao found that his wife Shi Youqin's belly still seemed to be much larger than that of pregnant women who were usually pregnant with twins.
Until Shi Youqin was seven months pregnant, when Chen Qiangbiao took Shi Youqin to the county hospital for examination, the doctor checked that Shi Youqin was pregnant with triplets.
Chen Qiangbiao, who knew the news, did not have the joy of the beginning at this moment, and his face was more sad.
Because something happened to Chen Qiangbiao's fish pond at that time, the fish in the pond died, and he not only lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but also owed more than 100,000 debts. In order to make ends meet, the couple also works outside the home.
Triplets are a heavy burden for this small family that has just been established.
What I didn't expect was that the things that made Chen Qiangbiao worried were still behind. He had just told his relatives the news, and when he returned to the doctor's office, the doctor told her that Shi Youqin was pregnant with a quadruplet.
In addition to the amazement of the two, even the doctors in the hospital were very shocked, although they had seen many pregnant women, but quadruplets like this were rare in the whole hospital.
Chen Qiangbiao was really worried, and whether the four children were born or not was a problem.
But Shi Youqin was already seven months pregnant, three months before the due date, and the couple had no other way but to wait patiently for the birth of the child.
Shi Youqin, who was pregnant with quadruplets, was naturally more guilty than other pregnant women. Her belly was huge, her movements were very inconvenient, she walked very slowly at every step, and she had to carry her stomach hard.
The unusually large belly made Shi Youqin's whole person look particularly bloated, her calves and feet had a very serious edema because of pregnancy, and she could no longer wear her own shoes, and could only wear extra-large slippers, and even Shi Youqin also had a serious hypoxia situation.
Time slowly passed back, and Shi Youqin's situation became more and more serious. By the beginning of December 2006, she began to have difficulty breathing, and her stomach was getting bigger and bigger, and at this time, she was still more than a month away from her due date.
After diagnosis, the doctor realized that Shi Youqin's condition was very serious and required immediate caesarean section surgery.
After arrangement, Shi Youqin was pushed into the operating room for surgery on December 6. The doctors carefully operated on Shi Youqin, first removing a girl, then two boys, and finally a girl.
Chen Qiangbiao and a group of relatives watched the four children being born safely, and their hanging hearts finally let go.
However, when the doctor took out the fourth child, they found a child, and they were also very surprised, it turned out that Shi Youqin was pregnant with quintuplets, not quadruplets. It's just that the child has been sandwiched in the middle and hasn't been checked out.
Chen Qiangbiao suddenly had five children, and it was false to say that he was unhappy, but he was happy with his infinite sorrow.
He and his wife's family were not rich, and later the fish pond on which he depended for survival also had one accident after another, and the family had no savings.
Now that his wife's hospital expenses are borrowed from relatives, there is no extra money to solve the current dilemma.
Five premature babies need to be put in an incubator, and he can't get the money out of it, let alone the money to raise the children later.
However, the pentaplies of Chen Qiangbiao and his wife are rare in the country, and they are the first case in Anhui Province and the local area, which has long attracted the attention of many people.
The hospital waived all the costs for their two sons, which made the big stone in Chen Qiangbiao's heart a little lower.
And due to the rarity of the incident, the local media has reported many times, and many people are very concerned about the five newborn children, and have donated money and materials to the children, hoping that the children's future life will not be too difficult.
In the end, Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin received a total of more than 70,000 yuan in public donations, which gave them great help. The situation of their family has been reported by many media, and the local government and some mother and baby manufacturers have noticed their family. First of all, the government has applied for a low-income household for this family, they can get a subsidy of 3,000 yuan per year, and a manufacturer also provides milk powder for five children for free.
But that kind of help is not enough for raising five children. Considering the specific situation of Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin's husband and wife, some people also specifically found Chen Qiangbiao, hoping to raise a child.
Chen Qiangbiao thought about it for a long time, but finally refused. Although raising these five children is very stressful, these are his flesh and blood, and they really have no way to give up any one.
After the birth of the quintuplets, Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin began their hard and happy life as new parents.
Five children have just been born, and they need to be watched at all times, and there can be no mistakes. The husband and wife still have their own jobs, and they can't see it at all, so they have to invite their parents and four people to watch the five children together.
Even four adults looking after five children is not easy. These children are waiting to be fed, but Shi Youqin's milk can't satisfy the five children at all, so he has to let them eat milk powder from a very young age.
Feeding milk powder is also a big problem, children are waiting to be fed, almost two or three hours to eat milk powder, each feeding round after the next round and then start again, there is no chance to stop.
Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin took care of their children growing up in such a busy mess. The process of raising children is not only hard.
As children grow up, they also learn to care for their parents. Looking at Chen Qiangbiao, who accompanied them and appeared to be tired and lying on the sofa to rest, they would intimately cover their father with a quilt and not let him get cold. They will also take the initiative to learn to do housework, and the five children will divide their work to do housework to reduce the burden on their parents.
A family of seven spent a spring, summer, autumn and winter in such hardship and happiness.
In addition to satisfying the lives of five children, Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin also attach great importance to the children's education.
In 2009, considering that the children were old enough to enter kindergarten, the couple rented a house in the city to let the children go to school nearby, and the two found jobs in the city to support the family.
In 2013, the quintuplets were 7 years old and had entered elementary school by this time. Chen Qiangbiao also specifically asked the school to separate the five children, and the last five children were divided into four classes.
He did this because in the process of raising children, he found that five children were very noisy together, and when they were alone, they were very well-behaved, so in order not to cause trouble for teachers and classmates, he asked to separate the five people.
In 2019, the quintuplets successfully entered the junior high school, or according to Chen Qiangbiao's request, the five children are in different classes.
Chen Qiangbiao feels that this is a good thing, not only so that children can know more different friends, but also can effectively prevent children from copying each other's homework in a class.
Now that the quintuplets are about to enter high school, the thought of this Chen Qiangbiao worries from time to time.
Three years of high school time passed in a flash, although at this time the children can still enjoy twelve years of compulsory education, but five children go to college together, that is, for their couple, the pressure is very large.
Now Chen Qiangbiao and Shi Youqin and his wife had to seize all the time to make money and prepare for the future.
Over the years, Chen Qiangbiao's family has been helped by all parties outside, but with the passage of time, the public's attention to quintuplets has dissipated a lot compared with when quintuplets were born, and the help in recent years has become less and less.
Chen Qiangbiao has always been very grateful for the help of people from all walks of life, and has also continuously taught his five children to be grateful to the society, to study diligently and diligently, and to have the ability to support themselves and repay the society in the future.
Although the life of this family of seven is not very rich, it is still happy. And the five children grew up well and were very considerate of their parents.
As for Chen Qiangbiao's concerns, the society is still paying continuous attention to such a family and giving some help. And the five children are basically adults in college, on the one hand, they can complete their studies through student loans, and on the other hand, they can also support themselves through work-study.
All difficulties will be solved with the concerted efforts and unity of the family.
Resources:
"Family with Quintuplets"
"Raising quintuplets makes people happy and worrying"