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Preface
In 2009, a hospital in Hefei ushered in a very special "patient", who was in her 60s but asked the doctor to do IVF for her.
The doctor knew that the risk was not something that an old lady in her 60s could bear, but she could not withstand the old lady's persistent request, and finally operated on her, fortunately she gave birth to twin daughters safely.
What is the reason why she still insists on IVF at such an advanced age? How is she living with her daughters after 13 years?
Accidentally became a lonely old man
The 60-year-old mother is Sheng Hailin, her family is a very traditional military family, and the family actively responded to the call of the country, advocating late marriage and late childbearing at that time.
So Sheng Hailin began to think about finding a partner after work, when Sheng Hailin met her current husband Wu Jingzhou by chance, and the two finally came together.
When it came time to get pregnant and give birth, Sheng Hailin was nearly 30 years old, and when she gave birth, she was much more dangerous than her younger mother.
But in the end, their daughter Tingting was born safely, and Sheng Hailin and his wife were particularly doting on this child who was snatched from the hands of death, and they wanted to give their daughter the best for everything.
The couple has been full of poetry since childhood, and their graduation work is also a national unit, so they naturally want their daughter to be better than the two of them, Tingting is also very competitive, and she has become a People's Liberation Army like her father.
Tingting, who has reached marriageable age, has found someone in the army to spend her life with, and looking at her son-in-law's talent, Sheng Hailin and his wife are not to mention how happy.
Since her daughter got married, Sheng Hailin has been urging her daughter and son-in-law to give birth to a child as soon as possible, saying that she wants to hug her grandson.
But as the saying goes, "I don't know which comes first, the accident or tomorrow".
In 2009, her daughter Tingting and her son-in-law went back to the man's house for the New Year, and the two who came home were really tired, so they simply cleaned up and went to sleep, and the in-laws gave some of the gifts they bought to their relatives.
Unexpectedly, the gas leaked at home, and the doors and windows were closed, so Tingting and her husband died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and when their in-laws came home, the two had already lost their breath.
Sheng Hailin knew that her daughter died after gas poisoning, and she couldn't accept the news for a while, and she had mental problems.
After that, her series of operations made her husband Wu Jingzhou afraid, and he had no choice but to support her absurd decision.
IVF
Sheng Hailin also regretted her daughter's death very much, regretting that she did not stop her daughter from going to her in-laws' house for the New Year, Sheng Hailin couldn't sleep all night in regret and pain.
Such a sad mood has been permeating for a long time, so long that Sheng Hailin frequently has suicidal tendencies, and feels that her life is not interesting, it is better to walk with her daughter and be a companion on Huangquan Road.
After this idea came up, Sheng Hailin began to become abnormal, and her husband Wu Jingzhou found that his wife was wrong.
Every day after that, Wu Jingzhou kept an eye on Sheng Hailin, for fear that she would do something stupid, and Sheng Hailin, who was depressed all day, finally changed her mind because of the persuasion of a monk.
When the monk saw Sheng Hailin, she said that her current approach made her daughter feel uneasy, and only if the couple were well, her daughter could leave with peace of mind.
Sheng Hailin felt that what the monk said was very correct, she and her husband must live well, and they couldn't let their daughter go and worry about their old couple.
But Sheng Hailin still felt that she had to find a spiritual sustenance, otherwise she would still be cranky every day, so Sheng Hailin thought of adopting a child.
But due to her age, she did not meet the adoption standards of the welfare home, and her relatives and friends around her also felt that Sheng Hailin was stunned and did not dare to raise her child at all.
However, Sheng Hailin, who had no choice, grabbed the last straw that saved her life, that is, to do IVF, since she couldn't raise other people's children, she would give birth to herself.
As a medical worker, of course she knows how risky this operation is, but Sheng Hailin can't control it so much, so she can only give it a go.
At her age, no hospital dares to do IVF surgery on her, and she thinks that she is already at an age where she should enjoy her old age, and she still has to have a child?
Sheng Hailin, who really had no choice, could only go to her original place of work to find a colleague, and no one did this operation for Sheng Hailin, but Sheng Hailin went to the hospital every day to beg her former colleagues.
She grinded hard with the doctor every day, and repeatedly assured that she would bear all the consequences, and the doctor finally agreed to operate on her.
The advent of the child
Because Sheng Hailin is relatively old and her physical fitness is not very good, the doctor put all the cultured embryos into her body, thinking that it would be good to survive one, but she didn't expect two to survive.
The doctor wanted to ask her permission to remove an embryo, but Sheng Hailin was unwilling, thinking that since two of them were alive, it must be providence.
Sheng Hailin, who is nearly 60 years old, suffered a lot of pregnancy in order to give birth to a child, but fortunately, her two children were finally born safely.
It's just that Sheng Hailin couldn't give enough nutrition to the two children during pregnancy, so the child was immediately sent to the insulation room after birth to observe the child's vital signs.
Sheng Hailin's high surgery fees, coupled with the high cost of the child in the insulation room, overwhelmed the old couple, and the pension money they had saved for a lifetime bottomed out.
In order to maintain the family's expenses, Sheng Hailin travels more than 200 days a year and gives lectures all over the country.
Sheng Hailin has indeed earned a lot of money in the past few years, and when the days were just on the right track, Wu Jingzhou, who was taking care of the two babies at home, suddenly suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, Sheng Hailin put down her career and hurried home.
When she returned home, she could only run from the hospital to the house, and her husband and children could not be left behind, although she was already busy spinning like a spinning top, God still took her husband's life.
Sheng Hailin was left alone to fight alone, and she didn't have time to be sad at all, because taking care of her two children was not a simple matter.
She secretly swore that she must live well, otherwise what would her two daughters do!
Today's Sheng Hailin is over 70 years old, but her two daughters are still in elementary school, their lives have just begun, I don't know how many years Sheng Hailin can accompany them?
Sheng Hailin, who has worked hard all her life, said in an interview that if she was given another chance, she would never have children again.
Sheng Hailin's words showed how many grievances, at that time, she insisted on going her own way, and her wife had to work hard to take care of the child when she reached the age of enjoying her old age, and she didn't know how long she could accompany the child.
She also knew that the children had done nothing wrong, but they had to endure more because of what they had to do.
Epilogue:
Sheng Hailin already regretted her choice, but there was no turning back from the bow, so she could only continue to move forward with her daughters.
The editor can only wish the three of them a little longer with each other here, after all, only the three of them are left in this world!
Reference Sources:
[1] CCTV program "The Baby is Coming"
[2] CCTV-13 News Channel "Face to Face" 20140209 Sheng Hailin: Rebirth after losing independence
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