CHAPTER 114: CHAPTER 114: WHOEVER’S CHILD, WHOEVER GETS ANXIOUS

Yun Jiao nodded, "Please, go ahead."

Aunt Huang sighed, "My granddaughter-in-law, that’s Hong Mei, perhaps the childbirth took a toll on her body a few days ago, and she hasn’t had any milk these past two days."

"I said it’s fine, we can just find a wet nurse, our family can afford to maintain a wet nurse."

"But Hong Mei is being stubborn, she doesn’t know who told her that the child will be close to whoever’s milk they drink."

"Hong Mei insists on breastfeeding herself, saying that the child she gave birth to with her own life can only be close to her. This morning, when someone carried the child over, he started bleeding but still had no milk."

"We all felt so heartbroken, not knowing what to do."

Aunt Huang considered for a moment, "What I mean is, you saved Hong Mei’s life, and Hong Mei is very grateful to you now. Can you talk to her, just say that her body is unable to breastfeed."

"Now the family doesn’t dare to hire a wet nurse, and they are taking the baby to someone else’s house for feeding once a day, the rest of the time they just feed rice soup. It’s really not a solution."

Yun Jiao thought for a while, "A few days ago, I took Sister Hong Mei’s pulse, and although her body has some deficiencies, it’s not to the extent where she can’t breastfeed."

"She just needs to replenish her qi and blood, and the milk will come."

Aunt Huang was delighted, "Really, the milk can come?"

Yun Jiao smiled, "Of course it can."

"Then please give her a prescription." Aunt Huang happily brought Yun Jiao to Hong Mei’s room.

The baby was in Hong Mei’s mother-in-law’s arms, who was feeding him rice soup with a chopstick.

Hong Mei lay in bed watching her son, her eyes filled with heartache.

Seeing Yun Jiao come in, Hong Mei’s mother-in-law looked like she saw a savior, "Doctor Gu, please persuade this child, it’s much more convenient to find a wet nurse, why insist on suffering herself."

Upon hearing her mother-in-law’s words, Hong Mei pursed her lips in displeasure.

Hong Mei’s mother-in-law, having turned to speak to Yun Jiao, almost poked the baby with the chopstick.

Hong Mei yelled out, somewhat out of control from her bed, "Mom, the baby! You almost poked the baby!"

Hong Mei’s mother-in-law glanced carelessly, "What? No, I was being careful."

Hong Mei wanted to argue but suddenly closed her mouth, tears of grievance swirling in her eyes.

Yun Jiao approached, gently patted Hong Mei’s hand, and said softly, "Let me check you, if your condition allows, I’ll prescribe something to induce milk."

Upon hearing this, Hong Mei, as if seeing salvation, hurriedly stretched out her hand, tears in her eyes full of hope looking at Yun Jiao.

Yun Jiao carefully took her pulse; Hong Mei’s physical foundation was quite good. The postpartum blood loss had caused some deficiency, but the problem was not big.

Hong Mei asked anxiously, "How is it? Can my body still breastfeed?"

Yun Jiao smiled and nodded at her.

For a moment, Hong Mei seemed to have been redeemed, with laughter mixed with tears, her expression extremely excited.

After taking her pulse, Yun Jiao wrote two prescriptions.

She pointed to one, "These three herbs, turtle shell, milk vetch, and thoroughwort, wrap them in gauze, and simmer them in carp soup, goose web soup, or pig trotter soup. Drink the soup. This is for inducing milk."

Then she pointed to the other prescription, "This one is for replenishing qi and blood, one dose a day, taken twice, morning and evening."

After writing the prescriptions, Yun Jiao took the consultation fee of two coins of silver and went back.

A few days later, Mrs. Chen returned and said to Yun Jiao, "I just ran into Aunt Huang, she thanked you again."

"She said Hong Mei’s milk came in on the second day, and now the baby is eating well."