How does the novel describe the process of a woman giving birth?

Women’s childbirth may be difficult or not, and prepartum labor pains may be severe or not. Look at the relevant descriptions in several literary works.

1. It doesn’t hurt very much

In Chen Zhongshi’s “White Deer Plain”, in the view of Wu Xiancao, Bai Jiaxuan’s seventh wife, “giving birth to a child is like peeing and peeing” There’s no need to panic, just pull off your pants and urinate when you can’t hold back your poop, but it’s just a little more troublesome than pooping and peeing.”

It is true that it is very easy for Wu Xiancao to give birth to a child by herself——

A year after her marriage, a sharp cry of a baby came from the bed in this small wing. Xiancao enjoyed the meticulous service of her mother-in-law Bai Zhao with a clear conscience.

After a full month of confinement, when she jumped off the kang, her face was radiant, her two plump breasts stood out, and she was completely an attractive young woman.

This kind of delivery is really like playing.

2. Normal pain

In Lu Yao's "The Ordinary World", the birth of Sun Shaoan's wife He Xiulian was not as simple as Wu Xiancao, but she had prepartum labor pains. Fortunately, the pain was relatively normal and the delivery went smoothly.

However, there was an interesting "joke" in the middle -

After Shaoan ran home in one breath, he saw his Xiulian rolling on the kang sweating profusely shouting. He immediately asked his mother to prepare things and rush to Shigejie Hospital!

Xiulian lay on the kang and moaned, and asked her husband: "Is it a male doctor or a female doctor who delivers babies in the hospital?" Shaoan was so angry that he didn't know how to answer his wife's stupid question. Ask questions.

"If a male doctor delivers the baby, I won't go! I'll let mom give it at home... Ouch..."

"Ha! You are simply..." Shaoan He turned pale and shouted.

At the commune hospital, the doctor completed the examination and took Xiulian into the delivery room on a trolley. Xiulian calmed down when she saw that the doctor was a woman.

After that, Xiulian successfully gave birth to a baby boy.

3. Abnormal pain

In Xiao Hong's "The Field of Life and Death", the process of giving birth to a rural woman is described, which is horrifying to read——

A naked woman, like a fish, she crawls there.

But a sinful child cannot be born. When the night passes and the rooster crows outside, the woman suddenly turns gray and yellow in pain, and the whole family cannot settle down. They began to prepare burial clothes for her and searched around for clothes in the terrifying candlelight. The whole family was in a commotion about the shadow of death.

A naked woman cannot crawl at all, and she cannot fight for life or death for the last moment. It's getting daylight. Terror is like a zombie, stretching straight into the house.

She could no longer sit still, she was tortured, and the midwife took off her wet top.

If there is a hole around the suffering woman, she will jump into it! If there is poison around her, she will swallow it. She hates everything and the window sill will be kicked over by her.

She is willing to break her legs, just like entering a steamer and her whole body will be torn apart by the heat!

...The child here was miscarried, and the child died at that time! The servant dragged the mother to stand up, and immediately the baby fell on the kang, making a sound like something being thrown on the kang. The woman lay in the bloody light, soaking in the blood with her body.

This is the scariest passage I have ever read about a woman’s childbirth process. It shocks people not only in the senses, but also in the soul.