Couples in rural areas of Henan have quintuplets 17 years: every day is like a war, tired and happy-

In China's traditional concept, the more children, the more complete the family and the happier the life.

However, this statement is also based on the premise of having children one by one.

For pregnant women with multiple births, having more children is not necessarily a good thing.

The probability of premature death of multiple births is 16 times that of normal infants.

Pregnant women who are pregnant with more than three babies will face great risks when giving birth, not only the risk of fetal death, but also the life of the pregnant woman.

In Micun Town, xinmi city, Henan Province, a rural woman named Zhang Xiaomin became pregnant with quintuplets and became a famous news figure for a time.

The survival rate of quintuplets is extremely low. From ancient times to the present, there are only dozens of cases of quintuplets' survival recorded in the world.

This puts Zhang Xiaomin at great risk of fertility.

However, she insisted on not giving up any children, and finally succeeded in giving birth to five children, adding another case of quintuplets all surviving in the medical history of China.

Now, it has been 17 years since Zhang Xiaomin gave birth to quintuplets.

/kloc-What kind of life did Zhang Xiaomin live with her husband Li Canjun in 0/7 years, and how did they grow up with quintuplets?

On a dark and windy night, in a mine in Henan Province, the sound of work rang all night, and the miners were still working hard underground.

Among them, 46-year-old Li Canjun worked very hard.

He is a well-known hardworking man in Shili Baxiang, and his mining work is well known. He has worked in the mine for more than 20 years and is an old-timer of many miners.

But even so, Li Canjun came to the mine early every day.

Other miners take a few days off every month, but Li Canjun works overtime almost all year round.

Underground work is divided into day and night. I don't know how long it took, but dawn appeared on the horizon.

Li Canjun also came out of the mine mouth, shook off a whole body of dust, relied on the rising sun to dispel the fatigue of the night, and rode a motorcycle on the 20-kilometer road home.

Back home, Li Canjun's wife Zhang Xiaomin happened to be doing housework.

Seeing her husband come back, she quickly wiped her hands, took off her dusty coat for Li Canjun, and set about cooking for Li Canjun, so that her husband could finish his meal and go to bed quickly.

Day and night upside down, working for more than ten hours every day, this is Li Canjun's daily life.

Many people can't last a few days for such a tense and tiring job, but Li Canjun has persisted for 17 years.

The reason why I work so hard is naturally because Li Canjun's family has six children to support.

1998, Li Canjun, who was just in his early twenties, met Zhang Xiaomin, talked about love for a year, and then decided to get married.

Life after marriage was very satisfactory. At 200 1, Li canjun and Zhang Xiaomin gave birth to a daughter.

The family is happy, and after a while, the two want a second child.

Unexpectedly, it was the idea of having a second child that made Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin bear a heavy burden, and in the following 17 years, they enjoyed happiness that others could not.

In 2004, Zhang Xiaomin successfully conceived her second child.

However, the performance of this second child is very strange, which makes Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin a little overwhelmed.

Ordinary pregnant women in the first two months of pregnancy, generally can not see the identity of pregnant women from the appearance, only to about four months before pregnancy.

However, in the first month of pregnancy, Zhang Xiaomin's stomach grew at an alarming rate.

When she was pregnant for two months, Zhang Xiaomin's stomach got bigger, and her reaction was particularly strong. She always can't eat and vomits every day.

Li Canjun doesn't know what to do. People around him also said that they had never seen such an abnormal pregnancy reaction. Everyone suggested that Zhang Xiaomin go to the hospital.

So, accompanied by Li Canjun, Zhang Xiaomin went to the county hospital for inspection.

The results of the inspection surprised two people.

At first, the doctor judged that it might be twins, but after checking the medical equipment, the doctor said it was quadruplets.

Zhang Xiaomin has four children in her belly!

This frightened the young couple. Originally, they just wanted to have a second child, but they didn't expect to have four at once, and they were both happy and worried.

Happily, rural China has always adhered to the traditional concept of having more children. The more children there are, the happier the couple will be.

Worryingly, four children plus the expenses of the eldest daughter and one * * * five children are likely to make Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin untenable.

In this regard, the doctors in the hospital also expressed the hope that Zhang Xiaomin could have abortion surgery.

Because once a pregnant woman is pregnant, her physical function will be much worse than before, and her nutrition will be divided into a large part by the children in her belly.

Zhang Xiaomin's physical condition itself is average. If she forcibly gives birth to quadruplets, it may pose a threat to her life, or it may leave sequelae in the production process.

What's more, having quadruplets at the same time has the probability of premature death.

Early abortion is not only beneficial to Zhang Xiaomin's health, but also to the survival of children.

After listening to the doctor's advice, Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin are in a dilemma.

Every child in Zhang Xiaomin's belly is the fruit of their love. It is difficult to abandon any one, but not abandoning them will bring risks to Zhang Xiaomin and the children.

After much deliberation, Li Canjun couldn't make up his mind, but Zhang Xiaomin made the final decision-life!

Zhang Xiaomin felt that no matter which child he abandoned, when these surviving children grew up, he had no face to face them.

What's more, Zhang Xiaomin was pregnant for three or four months when she made this decision, and the baby in her belly was already very big.

Even if one or two children die because of abortion, the remaining children may be in danger.

In this way, Zhang Xiaomin and Li Canjun went home, with four children in their bellies, and began to raise babies.

In a blink of an eye, Zhang Xiaomin was 30 weeks pregnant.

During these 30 weeks, Zhang Xiaomin's stomach has grown at an alarming rate.

Later, the neighbors said that Zhang Xiaomin's stomach seemed to burst, which was terrible.

Such a belly also brought a lot of inconvenience to Zhang Xiaomin's life. Cooking is difficult, and she can't go to the toilet alone. She must have family to help her.

One night when she was 3 1 week pregnant, Zhang Xiaomin suddenly felt unwell.

After waking up from sleep, I found my lower body abnormal. I immediately contacted the hospital and sent it to Henan Maternal and Child Health Hospital for treatment.

Zhang Xiaomin was very scared all the way, fearing that her children would lose their lives.

Unexpectedly, after arriving at the hospital, the doctor made a simple judgment and thought that the amniotic fluid had been broken, which was a precursor to the upcoming delivery.

Generally speaking, ordinary pregnant women will not give birth before 40 weeks of pregnancy, so Zhang Xiaomin thinks that she is having an abortion, not giving birth.

Knowing that she was going to have a baby, Zhang Xiaomin's initial fear turned into joy, but at the same time she was worried.

-I have been pregnant for a quarter less than other pregnant women, and I still have four children in my stomach. Can these children really live healthily?

But in an emergency, Zhang Xiaomin has no time to worry.

She was pushed into the operating room for caesarean section.

In 2004,165438+1October 2 1 was the date when Zhang Xiaomin's baby was born.

She still remembers the busy but warm scene.

According to Zhang Xiaomin's memory, doctors and nurses thought she was pregnant with quadruplets, both during the initial examination and when she entered the operating room for caesarean section.

As a result, four children were born one after another, and many people thought the operation was over successfully.

Unexpectedly, when everyone was happily welcoming the arrival of four new lives, the doctor found that Zhang Xiaomin had another child in her belly.

This immediately made the medical staff present tighten their strings and once again devoted themselves to the delivery of the fifth child.

Finally, Zhang Xiaomin gave birth to quintuplets, one more than the quadruplets originally expected by the doctor, which surprised everyone present.

But at this time, it is not the time to rest assured, because Zhang Xiaomin's pregnancy time is only 3 1 week, which is premature.

There are five more children in the belly, and each child shares the nutrition from Zhang Xiaomin.

Therefore, the weight of these five children is between 1 kg and 1.5 kg, belonging to very light premature infants.

In contrast, the average full-term baby should weigh more than 3 kg.

It is conceivable that Zhang Xiaomin's quintuplets are in far worse physical condition than other babies.

Shortly after the birth of five children, Li Canjun outside the operating room received a notice that the children were critically ill.

All five children were in critical condition and were sent to intensive care unit for treatment.

This made Li Canjun very worried and brought a lot of economic pressure to this family.

Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin think that it is enough to bring thousands of dollars to have children.

These thousands of dollars are also a bad economic situation, so you can take out a large part of your savings.

But after giving birth to quintuplets, the cost of saving five children and taking care of Zhang Xiaomin added up to 65,438+10,000, which Li Canjun could not bear.

But my wife and children are still in the hospital, so I can't help it.

Li Canjun began to borrow money from relatives and friends, and borrowed 70,000 to 80,000 before and after, just to pay for the expenses needed by the hospital.

There are still more than 30 thousand expenses left. Li Canjun had to discuss with the relevant person in charge of the hospital, made a debit note, and slowly returned it later.

Fortunately, after a period of treatment, Zhang Xiaomin and the quintuplets gradually recovered to health, and the mother and child were safe.

This has also become a rare case in the history of China and even the world in which all quintuplets survived.

Soon, Zhang Xiaomin and five children were discharged from the hospital, and the big stone that Li Canjun had been hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

However, what awaits Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin next is a busy life.

Of the quintuplets born in Zhang Xiaomin, the first four are girls and the last one is a boy. The couple named their five children as follows:

Boss Li Ke, second Li Zhan, third Li Ning, fourth Chang Li and fifth Yan Li.

The children have been taken home, and how to raise them has become a big problem for Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin.

At first, when they got home, the couple couldn't tell which of the five children was who.

After all, the children all look alike and are quintuplets. Only the fifth child, Yan Li, is easy to tell because he is a boy.

On the first day of returning home, Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin didn't sleep a wink for a day and a night.

I am busy with the problem of children's eating and excretion from morning till night.

Because there are too many children and Zhang Xiaomin doesn't have enough breast milk, Li Canjun can only buy milk powder for them to drink.

Because the children are too young, they have to be fed every few hours, which makes Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin busy these days.

Sometimes after feeding a child, I turn my head and find five children mixed together. I wonder which child just fed it.

There are often embarrassing situations in which some children are fed milk twice and some children are hungry and crying.

The situation of excretion is similar. Children are too young to express when they want to excrete, but only cry.

The five children cried at different times and for different reasons, which led to frequent misjudgments by Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin.

Take away the children who don't want to go to the toilet, and leave the children who really want to go to the toilet in bed to pee their pants.

Later, for convenience, Li Canjun put a corresponding sign on each child's head to alleviate such confusion.

"Just like fighting every day. I'm exhausted. I always feel that I don't have enough sleep. At night 10, I cleaned up and fell asleep. "

After a while, Zhang Xiaomin and his family have been able to take care of their five children easily.

Li Canjun hurried to the mine and began to work for more than ten hours every day, because the expenses at home were unbearable.

The baby is growing up, eating 8 meals a day and consuming a bag of milk powder almost every day.

Li Canjun can't afford imported milk powder, so he can only buy domestic milk powder.

But even domestic milk powder costs 1500 yuan a month, which is only the cost of food rations to keep children alive.

When the children grow up, the children's clothing expenses, tuition fees and miscellaneous expenses in life are enough to make this family living on Li Canjun feel great pressure.

So Li Canjun had to work day and night, often working more than ten nights a month.

Li Canjun is willing to do the hard work that ordinary miners can't sustain, so he comes home unkempt every day.

He often works overtime at night and makes up sleep during the day, which makes it difficult for him to have a good interaction with the children.

However, no matter how hard and tired, every time Li Canjun sees the lovely faces and bright eyes of his five children and eldest daughter, he feels that he has the motivation and responsibility to make money.

Zhang Xiaomin once thought about going out to work to support her family, but there were so many children at home that her elderly parents really couldn't take care of her.

The family can only live on Li Canjun's monthly income of more than 4,000 yuan.

4,000 yuan to support the husband and wife, plus six children, so that the couple have to be careful.

When children are a little older, they can eat ordinary food. The consumption of rice, noodles, oil and vegetables at home is unprecedented.

The couple often go to the wholesale market and buy several cabbages every time. In this way, the unit price is reduced and the expenses are reduced.

In terms of clothes, couples may not buy new clothes for years.

If the old clothes are worn out, mend them and continue to wear them.

When buying new clothes for children, they also go to the wholesale market and buy five pieces at a time when they see the right clothes.

Many wholesalers think that they are businessmen who wholesale children's clothes, but in fact, because they have quintuplets at home, they will get a discount when they buy five clothes at a time.

In this intensive life, Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin lived 17 years.

Although the family has never been rich and foreign debts have always existed, the family has supported each other step by step, which is also considered happiness.

Li Canjun said that his greatest wish is to let all six children go to college. Don't let your children go to school because they are poor because of their poor financial situation.

So far, the children's performance is worthy of Li Canjun's efforts, and they are all moving forward bravely towards Li Canjun's wishes.

When the quintuplets were two years old, they learned to call their parents almost at the same time, which made the couple who had been busy for more than two years feel very gratified.

What is even more gratifying is that the eldest daughter, who was born three years earlier than the quintuplets, has learned to help Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin take care of their five younger brothers and sisters, although she is less than six years old.

With the growth of age, all six children have their own development.

The eldest daughter 18 years old was admitted to Xinxiang Medical College, becoming the first child among the six brothers and sisters to be admitted to the university, which also made a good start for Li Canjun's wish.

The remaining quintuplets performed well in primary and junior high schools.

Among them, the fourth child, Chang Li, is the best student. Every day when he comes home, he will concentrate on his studies and work very hard.

Li Ke, the eldest, Li Ning, the third, and Yan Li, the youngest son, also won many school awards.

Only Li Zhan, the second child, is too playful and energetic, but he can still keep up with the progress of school.

Since primary school, Li Canjun bought a tricycle to facilitate five children to go to school.

Every morning, Li Canjun goes to work in the mine after breakfast, and Zhang Xiaomin drives a tricycle to school with five children.

After school, children will be sent home by tricycle, which has aroused the envy of many villagers.

On weekdays, children are very sensible. As long as they are at home after school, they will take turns to help their mother with housework, washing dishes, sweeping the floor, washing clothes and so on.

Just like being on duty at school, arrange who should do housework every day according to the weekly schedule.

Children have watched Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin scrimp and save for their schooling since childhood, and they have always kept this in mind. They never ask their parents to buy them anything.

Sometimes if they are given some pocket money, they will save it and buy gifts for Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin during festivals.

Zhang Xiaomin has been trying to do housework for more than ten years. With the growth of children, it is always very touching to watch children take the initiative to help themselves reduce the burden of life and let themselves do less housework.

When Zhang Xiaomin came home with five children, someone in the village told Li Canjun that they could send one or two children out for adoption. Otherwise, the family can't afford to support five children, and everyone's life will be very poor.

Send one or two out, and they will live with rich people, perhaps happier than staying at home.

These suggestions were rejected by Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin.

Many years later, the eldest daughter was admitted to the university, and the spectacular five children on the tricycle made the villagers feel extremely ashamed to give their children to others.

Also let Zhang Xiaomin and Li Canjun feel a little terror:

If the husband and wife had listened to the villagers, perhaps the economic conditions would have been better, but the happy family had long since separated.

On the afternoon of February 6th, 20021,President Yue Jianhua of Zhengzhou Zhongkang Hospital visited Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin's home again, and after a lapse of 17 years, revealed the recent living conditions of this family.

The daily life of Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin is not much different from before. Li Canjun will work in the mine and spend more than 4,000 yuan a month to support his family's consumption.

On the other hand, Zhang Xiaomin spends less time taking care of his children when they grow up, and has more time for himself.

She chose to farm, and Zhang Xiaomin was in charge of three acres of farmland at home. Spring planting and autumn harvest can also bring some income and subsidize families.

After learning about the financial situation of Li Canjun and Zhang Xiaomin, the relevant departments applied for subsistence allowances for their family.

You can get 1500 yuan every month, which greatly relieves the family's economic pressure.

In addition, good people in the society also provide daily necessities for their families from time to time.

After the birth of quintuplets, Dean Yue Jianhua comes to Zhang Xiaomin and Li Canjun's home every year to pay a return visit to the life of quintuplets.

Every time I come, I will give every child a red envelope from 500 yuan. Yue Jianhua has been close to the children since 17.

In 2022, the eldest daughter was in the third grade of Xinxiang Medical College, and her academic performance was very good, and she was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Yue Jianhua also admired her, saying that her eldest daughter could help her find a suitable job in the hospital after graduation.

Among the quintuplets, except Li Zhan, the second child, all the other four have already entered high school, and their academic performance is very good. The testimonials were plastered all over the walls of the house.

Li Zhan, the second child, suffers from congenital heart disease and has been in poor health.

Six years ago, she accidentally hurt her head on the school playground and spent 30,000 to 40,000 yuan in hospital.

Fortunately, there were no sequelae, but some research was delayed.

It is not impossible for her to finish junior high school on time, enter high school and finally enter university.

Li Canjun is very satisfied with his current living conditions. Although the work is still very tiring, the children are growing better than he expected.

He believes that he can work for another two years. When his children are admitted to college and find a good job after graduation, even if he has completed his task, his future life will be endless family happiness.

Every time I think of it, Li Canjun's mouth will smile, which is the expectation and yearning for a better life.